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    A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
    A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
    A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
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    A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

    Written by Mark Galeotti

    Narrated by Mark Galeotti

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    A Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch

    "Terrific - and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book."     -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads
     
    Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's fascinating history to illuminate its future.
     
    A country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity, Russia has mythologized its past to unite its people and to signal strength to outsiders. Mark Galeotti takes us behind the myths to the heart of the Russian story:
    • the formation of a nation through its early legends including Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great
    • the rise and fall of the Romanovs, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, Chernobyl and the Soviet Union
    • the arrival of an obscure politician named Vladimir Putin.
    A Short History of Russia explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, 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 try to influence their future. In turn, this self-invented history has come to affect not just their constant nation-building project but also their relations with the world.

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Audio
    Release dateJul 7, 2020
    ISBN9781488208843
    A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
    Author

    Mark Galeotti

    Mark Galeotti is a scholar of Russian security affairs with a career spanning academia, government service and business, a prolific author and frequent media commentator. He heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy and is an Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies as well as holding fellowships with RUSI, the Council on Geostrategy and the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a Visiting Professor at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is the author of over 25 books including A Short History of Russia (Penguin, 2021) and The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (Yale University Press, 2022).

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      The author completely ignores NATO’s efforts to undermine Russia after the fall of the Soviet union.