Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire by Agnia Grigas
Journal: Region Regional Studies of Russia Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Year: 2017

Reviewed by: Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire by Agnia Grigas Kirstyn Leigh Hevey (bio) Agnia Grigas. Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire. xi + 352 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780300214505. In Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, Agnia Grigas systematically explores and evaluates Russian foreign policy towards its “compatriots”: ethnic Russians residing abroad, Russian-language speakers, and descendants of the Soviet Union. Grigas proposes a theory of Russian re-im