Empire of the Periphery - Russia and the World System

Informationen zum Autor Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is the author of many books, his latest being The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left . In 2023 he was detained under Putin’s regime for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, and in February 2024 he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Since then, the Daniel Singer Foundation designated him as the recipient of its 2024 Prisoner of Conscience Award. Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist, translator and left activist. Klappentext Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history. Encompassing all key periods in Russia's dramatic development, the book covers everything from early settlers, through medieval decline, Ivan the Terrible - the 'English Tsar', Peter the Great, the Crimean War and the rise of capitalism, the revolution, the Soviet period, finally ending with the return of capitalism after 1991. Setting Russia within the context of the 'World System', as outlined by Wallerstein, this is a major work of historical Marxist theory that is set to become a future classic. Zusammenfassung Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history.

Product details

• Authors: Boris Kagarlitsky, Kagarlitsky Boris
• Assisted by: Renfrey Clarke (Translation), Clarke Renfrey (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2007
• EAN: 9780745326825
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2682-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet