The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917
Subtitle: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 8, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195109276
First sentence: The major thrust of Russian foreign policy after the truce of Andrusovo (1667) was directed against the Southern Frontier, for the acquisition of Kiev strengthened a logic of expansion along the Dniepr in the direction of the Black Sea.