When we think of Russian history, we tend to know about individual events, leaders and phenomena: the War and Peace of 1812; Peter the Great, Lenin and Stalin; and the Russian Revolution.
It is difficult to get a sense of the shape of the history of 'Mother Russia' from such a disjointed and unconnected. approach. With Russia, there is always more than meets the eye.
It is difficult to get a sense of the shape of the history of 'Mother Russia' from such a disjointed and unconnected. approach. With Russia, there is always more than meets the eye.
In this ground-breaking book Peter Frankopan looks at the history of Russia in a very different way, providing a context for things we think we know about and revealing new ideas, people, places and themes that are either neglected or unknown in mainstream history.
Leviathan: Russia and The Making of the Modern World, which draws on a wide corpus of original sources in a wide range of European and non-European languages, will provide a major re-assessment of Russian history, but also that of its neighbours and rivals. It will change the way we look at the past, and in doing so, will change how we understand the world around us.
Leviathan: Russia and The Making of the Modern World, which draws on a wide corpus of original sources in a wide range of European and non-European languages, will provide a major re-assessment of Russian history, but also that of its neighbours and rivals. It will change the way we look at the past, and in doing so, will change how we understand the world around us.
Leviathan: Russia and The Making of the Modern World will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK, and by Knopf in the USA.
(Now not before 2025)
(Now not before 2025)