The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia

by Alexander Chubarov

Release Date: 15 March, 2001

Edition: Paperback

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A Key to 300 Years of Russian History

The book seams to me a real treasure for teaching Russian History of XVIII - XX centuries. While it is handy it is reach enough of important facts and comments on the evolution and decline of the Great Empire. It embraces the best of the both worlds giving us a very careful and well balanced epic picture based on some of the most important soarces as well as on the academic literature. Fortunately the book is free of ideological bias so typical for russian studies of almost any origin.

Neatly structured, supported by detailed notes, chronology, index, and extreamly useful "Tables and Statisics" the book serves as an almost perfect key to 300 years of The Great but Fragile Empire and at the same time offers its own unprejudised analysis of primary problems of Russian and comparative history. The only dissapointment i have is that the author stops short of writing about the modern Russia.