Review of 'The Russian Empire 1450-1801'
Journal: Reviews in History
Year: 2017

2017 is a wonderful year to study the history of Russia. This year saw the publication of new stimulating volumes of sweeping scope and new interpretive analyses including Kivelson and Suny's Russia's Empires and Westad's The Cold War: A World History, as well as more specialised works starting with Elizabeth McGuire's Red at Heart (which looks at the way Chinese revolutionaries understood the Russian Revolution) and culminating with Vera Kaplan's Historians and Historical Societies in the Publi