ScopeBroad enough for its own sub-branch
AfterAP Euro History
Leads toThe Russian Revolution
Lineage23 books back to the Big Bang
I would like to know more about the growth of the Russian Empire, particularly its state-building and empire-building processes.
Russian state formation appears to have worked differently from state formation in France, Germany, or Italy. Russian imperial expansion also differed from the overseas colonial empires. While Western European states crossed oceans to conquer distant territories, Russia expanded continuously outward into what it considered its own backyard.