Paul W. Werth is Professor of History and Department Chair at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Since 2009, he has been serving as Editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, a leading international journal. His books include At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia’s Volga-Kama Region (2002), Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy: Sketches on the History of Religious Diversity in the Russian Empire (2012) [in Russian], and The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia (2014).

• List of MapsList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Enlargement & Crisis1. Muscovite Enlargement, 1300-1611 2. Russia Gets Really Big, 1611-1812 3. A (Mostly) Asian Century, 1812-1919 4. Still One-Sixth, 1919-19425. From Victory to Collapse, 1942-1991 6. The Pattern Continues, 1991-20247. Expansion—Why and How?PART II: Complications8. Russia Beyond 9. Russia Within Epilogue: The End of Enlargement?BibliographyIndex

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