The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment
This is a book which will prove to be invaluable reference work for all those interested in the history of Austria over the last century and a half./Tim Kirk University of Northumbria/EHR Juen 1999. His extremely compact text...The text is rich, and speaks with many voices: Sometimes it records individual motivation ("As early as 1774 or 1775, Potemkin conceived an 'eastern system.'")./Max J. Okenfuss, St. Louis./Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 47 (1999). John Ledonne's new work is a significant exception...This work is at once impressive, ambitious, stimulating./Hugh Ragsdale/Foreign Affairs, March-April 1999. LeDonne provides a clear and richly detailed account of Russia's international relations.../ This densely written book is a good guide to the detail of Russian foreign policy.../ Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland, The Historical Association, 1999. this is no ordinary diplomatic history. There is a good deal of detail about treaties, IdemarchesI and military matters as there has to be in any study of foreign affairs./ David N. Collins, Leeds University, Jrnl??