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Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831

John P. LeDonne
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      At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government fromMoscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman andPersian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather than viewing Russia as peripheral to European Great Power politics, LeDonne makes a powerful case for Russia as an expansionist, militaristic, and authoritarian regime that challenged the great states and empires of its time.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John P. LeDonne EAN: 9780195161007 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 553 g HEIGHT: 243 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-01-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

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      Russia, Historical states, empires, territories and regions, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, European history, Colonialism and imperialism

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      John P. LeDonne is a Senior Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917 (OUP, 1997), Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700-1825 (OUP, 1991), and Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762-1796.
      At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government fromMoscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman andPersian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather than viewing Russia as peripheral to European Great Power politics, LeDonne makes a powerful case for Russia as an expansionist, militaristic, and authoritarian regime that challenged the great states and empires of its time.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John P. LeDonne EAN: 9780195161007 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 553 g HEIGHT: 243 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-01-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 165 cm SPINE:

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      Russia, Historical states, empires, territories and regions, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, European history, Colonialism and imperialism

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      John P. LeDonne is a Senior Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917 (OUP, 1997), Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700-1825 (OUP, 1991), and Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762-1796.

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