{"product_id":"how-russia-got-big-a-territorial-history-9781350284005","title":"How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Russia Got Big\u003c\/i\u003e accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W. Werth recounts the construction of the world's largest country-from Muscovy and the Russian Empire through the USSR to today's Russian Federation-as well as its territorial retrenchment and even collapse on several occasions. Integrating geography, diplomacy, war, and imperial politics, the book ranges across three continents and recounts diverse interactions with neighboring polities and peoples. Werth likewise contemplates different ways of conceptualizing territorial possession and related understandings of sovereignty, authority, and belonging. The result, illustrated with 29 original maps, is a grand story from a bird's-eye view that reveals deeper rhythms to Russia's territorial history involving alternations of enlargement and crisis-ones that continue in our own day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul W. Werth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Russian Shorts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.23w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350284005","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45011338756233,"sku":"9781350284005","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_656e1620-de79-4a70-9b79-1cd0066087b8.jpg?v=1764743900","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/how-russia-got-big-a-territorial-history-9781350284005","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}