How Russia Got Big

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

A compelling overview of a critically important topic by a major scholar in the field. This book is must reading for anyone interested in the deep historical context of the Ukrainian war and problems of territory in Russia, past and present