Empire of the Periphery
Russia and the World System
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.
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.
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.
Introduction: Topic and Method
1. A Land of Cities
2. The Thirteenth-Century Decline
3. Moscow and Novgorod
4. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
5. The 'English Tsar'
6. Empire of the Periphery
7. Peter the Great
8. The Eighteenth-Century Expansion
9. The Granary of Europe
10. The Crimean War and the World System
11. The Age of Reforms
12. The Flourishing of Russian Capitalism
13. The Revolutionary Explosion
14. The Soviet World
15. After 1991: The Peripheral Capitalism of the Restoration Epoch
Notes
Index
1. A Land of Cities
2. The Thirteenth-Century Decline
3. Moscow and Novgorod
4. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
5. The 'English Tsar'
6. Empire of the Periphery
7. Peter the Great
8. The Eighteenth-Century Expansion
9. The Granary of Europe
10. The Crimean War and the World System
11. The Age of Reforms
12. The Flourishing of Russian Capitalism
13. The Revolutionary Explosion
14. The Soviet World
15. After 1991: The Peripheral Capitalism of the Restoration Epoch
Notes
Index
Published by Pluto Press in Dec 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 9780745326825
150mm x 230mm