Summary
Andrzej Nowak: Metamorphoses of the Russian Empire 1721 - 1921: geopolitics, odes and nations
What did the Russian Empire come from and how did it change over the centuries?
Where did his exceptional desire for power and conflict with the world come from?
What were his methods of action and how did he explain his historical role?
From the texts that are the result of years of work by Professor Andrzej Nowak - one of the most popular Polish historians and the world's best connoisseurs of Russian history - a fascinating mosaic of famous
people, ideas and events from the early years of Moscow power to the fall of the Romanov empire, whose legacy is now being restored in Vladimir Putin's Russia. and other poets who gave meaning to the Russian expansion, about the Russian Enlightenment, pan-Slavism, nationalism and still current Eurasianism, about exiles to Siberia, uprisings and the struggle of empires against Poland, Islam, Jacobinism and their own weaknesses.
ANDRZEJ NOWAK (born 1960) – full professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor and head of the Institute for the History of Eastern Europe at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; founder and editor-in-chief of the bimonthly magazine "Arcana" until 2012. He specializes in the political and intellectual history of Eastern Europe, Polish-Russian relations and comparative research of the empires of the 19th and 20th centuries. century. He taught Polish and Russian history at Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard and Virginia universities, among others. He is the author of more than twenty
books on the history of Poland and Eastern Europe, among which are Between the Tsar and the Revolution. Russia in the political imagination of the Great Emigration (1994), Poland and the three Russias. Piłsudski's Eastern Policy until April 1920 (2001), History of Poland, Vol. 1-3 (2014-2017), The First Betrayal of the West. 1920 - the forgotten appeasement (2015), Who said that the Muscovites are our brothers, Lehita... (2016) and Pillars of Independence (2018).
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