
Russia’s Lost Empire
Review of Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2017)
… are especially important given current events in former Soviet republics, especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: … Plokhy examines the origins of Russian imperialism and nationalism from the emergence of Kievan Rus in the ninth … fully aligned with the Russian state: during the Soviet Union’s reign as a superpower. Apart from the years spanning …