Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian masses and sought to fire ... In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin to ...

This is the first synthesizing study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. It covers major writers including Pushkin, Tolstoy and Lermontov, but ...

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim ...

What’s more, the empire started through violence and depended on force. Emperors could only survive if their people believed they could outgun anyone and everyone else. If an army grew ...

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The USSR? The Russian Empire?” the department’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on X. “Oh, I got it! As the Kievan Rus. For ...

Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

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Russian opposition leaders often present themselves as champions of freedom and democracy, and are often embraced as such by ...

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Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...