Before empire: early Rus' visions of diversity of lands and peoples -- Imperial beginnings: Muscovy -- Disrupting the easy road from empire to nation-state: a theoretical interlude -- Responsive rule and its limits: force and sentiment in the eighteenth century -- Russians' identities in the eighteenth century: a multitude of possibilities -- Imperial Russia in the moment of the nation, 1801-1855 -- War, reforms, revolt, and reaction -- Imperial anxieties: 1905-1914 -- Clash and collapse of empires: 1914-1921 -- Making nations, Soviet style: 1921-1953 -- Imperial impasses: reform, reaction, revolution -- The end of empire, 1991-2016...or not?
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