A History of Russia

Abstract

A History of Russia , now in its tenth edition, provides a comprehensive history of this vast and fascinating land. As many historians have shown, nations must be “imagined” and their traditions “invented” in our collective consciousness. This book applies this idea to the area of land we know as “Russia”—a name not used in state documents before the late fifteenth century. The history of a nation, this book argues, is a story of the connections of a given present to a past that people identify as their own. How historians construct a nation's continuities—and how other nations have told their histories of origin and continuity—are interpretive arguments rather than natural facts. In thinking about history, as the chapters in this book argue, we need to seek connections through time and also see the conflicting directions and multiple possibilities in play.

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