How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History (Russian Shorts)

by Paul W. Werth

How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.
Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, the book recounts the construction of the world's largest country in the form of the Russian Empire and the USSR, as well as its collapse and territorial restriction on two separate occasions. Integrating topics of geography, diplomacy, migration, and environment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350284017
• ISBN13: 9781350284012
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.1"