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Jul 7, 2020 · A Short History of Russia explores the history of this fascinating, extraordinary, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia, and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and ...
Apr 1, 2020 · A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin. Mark Galeotti. 3.88. 3,435 ratings395 reviews. Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to illuminate its future.
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Jul 7, 2020 · A Short History of Russia explores the history of this fascinating, extraordinary, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia, and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and ...
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- Primitive Conditions and Races
- Slavonic Religious and Political Systems
- Rurik and His Descendants
- Russians Conversion—Greek and Latin Christianity
- Principalities—Expansion Northward
- German Invasion—Mongol Invasion
- Under Mongol Yoke
- Russia Becomes Muscovite
- Passing of Byzantium—Mongol Yoke Broken
- Grand Prince Becomes Tsar
The topography of a country is to some extent a prophecy of its future.Had there been no Mississippi coursing for three thousand miles throughthe North American Continent, no Ohio and Missouri bisecting it fromeast to west, no great inland seas indenting and watering it, nofertile prairies stretching across its vast areas, how different wouldhave b...
In speaking of this eastern half of Europe as Russia, we have beenborrowing from the future. At the time we have been considering therewas no Russia. The world into which Christ came contained no Russia.The Roman Empire rose and fell, and still there was no Russia. Spain,Italy, France, and England were taking on a new form of life throughthe infusi...
The Russian Slavs were an agricultural, not a warlike, people. Theyfought bravely, but naked to the waist, and with no idea of militaryorganization, so were of course no match for the Turks, well skilled inthe arts of war, nor for the armed bands of Scandinavian merchants, whomade their territory a highway by which to reach the Greek provinces.All ...
So the scattered clans of the Slav race were roughly drawn togetherinto something resembling a nation by the strong arm of theScandinavian. But the course of national progress is never a straightone. Nature understands better than we the value of retardinginfluences, which prevent the too rapid fusing of crude elements. Thiswork of retardation was ...
When Vladimir died, in 1015, the partition of his dominions amongnumerous heirs inaugurated the destructive system of Appanages. Thecountry was converted into a group of principalities ruled by Princesof the same blood, of which the Principality of Kief was chief, and itsruler Grand Prince. Kief, the "Mother of Cities," was the heart ofRussia, and ...
The Principality of Novgorod had from a remote antiquity been thepolitical center of Northern, as was Kief of Southern Russia. It wasthe Novgorodians who invited the Norse Princes to come and rule theland; and it was the Novgorodians who were their least submissivesubjects. When one of the Grand Princes proposed to send his son, whomthey did not wa...
Amid the wreck of principalities there was one state remaining erect.Novgorod was defended by its remoteness and its uninviting climate.The Mongols had not thought it worth while to attempt the reduction ofthe warlike state, so the stalwart Republic stood alone amid thegeneral ruin. All the rest were under the Tatar yoke. Of Princesthere were none....
The tumultuous forces in Russia, never at rest, were preparing torevolve about a new center. Whether this would be in the East or Westwas long in doubt, and only decided after a prolonged struggle.Western Russia grouped itself about the state of the Lithuanians on theBaltic, and Eastern Russia about that of Muscovy. The Lithuanians had never been C...
Something else had been taking place during these two centuries:something which involved the future, not alone of Russia, but of allEurope. In 1250, just ten years before Daniel established the line ofPrinces in Moscow, a little band of marauding Turks were encamped upona plain in Asia Minor. They were led by an adventurer named Etrogruhl.For some ...
Vasili, who succeeded Ivan III. in 1505, continued his work on the samelines of absorption and consolidation by unmerciful means. Pskof,—thesister republic to Novgorod the Great,—which had guarded its libertieswith the same passionate devotion, was obliged to submit. The bellwhich had always summoned their Vetché, and which symbolized theirliberty,...
Jul 7, 2020 · A Short History of Russia explores the history of this fascinating, extraordinary, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from...
In this essential whistle-stop tour of the world's most complex nation, Mark Galeotti takes us behind the myths to the heart of the Russian story: from the formation of a nation to its early...
Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History begins with the origins of the first Slavic state, and continues to the present-day tensions...
