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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine - only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history. Spanning over 500 years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin exploited existing forms of identity, warfare, and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest.
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- Andrews music library
- 17-03-22
Interesting but hard work
Understanding the Russian leadership psyche is very hard work, putin is a nationalist and autocrat, fits nicely into the story of Russian leaders. Unfortunately he belongs in the 19th century.
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- Jonathan Murphy
- 03-04-24
Excellent survey of the creation of the Russian national mythology
This is a major survey of the construction of Russian by a leading Ukrainian American scholar. The book focuses particularly on
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- Joy Manne
- 03-03-23
So much help in understanding thsi Ukraine war
this is a thorough and insightful study of Russia's history of considering itself a Kingdom and an Empire. The Russians are stuck in an identity crisis. Who are they if they are not a great power, if they are not an Empire - and without Ukraine they cannot be an Empire. Russia's love of and need for autocratic goverment was strong, and risked breaking down - hence the stiff Putin with his limited vision goes for more repression, Stalin style, rather than easing up and giving Russians the chance to learn choice and democracy. So sad, and it's killing Ukrainians, and Russians,and destroying a country - and to whose benefit. Not even Putin's, that pitiable, miserable thug. What a fate the Russians have, czars and would be czars.
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- Marcin
- 20-09-22
informative.
Thoroughly fascinated by the story, I learned a lot of things.
One thing that bothered me as a Polish speaker with a decent grasp of Russian and Ukrainian, is the lack of experience of the person reading the book within the field of Slavic phonetics. it resulted in many names being mangled.
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