Review of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution, by Willard Sunderland (Cornell University Press, 2014).
… ties with (or just annex) former imperial domains, from Crimea to Kazakhstan. Many scholars have analyzed the … work. It is not, however, a biography, but rather a microhistory that uses Ungern’s life as a lens through which to … the way he neatly summarizes critical moments in Russian history, from the conquest of Siberia to the Civil War, …