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100	1		_aGaleotti, Mark, _eauthor. _9101967
245	1	2	_aA short history of Russia : how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
264		1	_aToronto, Ontario, Canada : _bHanover Square Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c�2020
300			_a224 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aRussia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it has been subject to invasion by outsiders, from Vikings to Mongols, from Napoleon's French to Hitler's Germans. In order to forge an identity, it has mythologized its past to unite its people and to signal strength to outsiders. In A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, desperate and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia, and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and try to influence their future. In turn, this self-invented history has come to affect not just their constant nation-building project but also their relations with the world.
600	1	0	_aPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, _d1952- _9101968
651		0	_aRussia (Federation) _xPolitics and government _y1991- _9102759
651		0	_aRussia _xHistory. _9102760
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