The Russian Empire : A Multi-ethnic History (Paperback)

1. The Medieval Background.  2. The Gathering of the Lands of the Golden Horde between Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries.  3. Westward Expansion from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.  4. Pre-modern Russian Multi-ethnic Empire.  5. Colonial Expansion in Asia in the Nineteenth Century.  6. National Challenge.  7. Reaction of the State: Policy on Nationalities, 1831-1904.  8. The Late Tsarist Multi-ethnic Empire between Modernization and Tradition.  9. Nationalities Question and Revolution.  10. Change and Continuity in the Soviet Multi-ethnic Empire.