TY - GEN T1 - The grand strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831 A1 - LeDonne, John P., 1935- LA - English PP - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm57144452 AB - At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government from Moscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman and Persian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy.; Rather than viewing Russia as peripheral to European Great Power politics, LeDonne makes a powerful case for Russia as an expansionist, militaristic, and authoritarian regime that challenged the great states and empires of its time. OP - 261 CN - DK43 .L4 2004eb SN - 9780195347692 SN - 0195347692 SN - 9780195161007 SN - 0195161009 SN - 0195185722 SN - 9780195185720 SN - 1280503246 SN - 9781280503245 SN - 9786610503247 SN - 6610503249 KW - Russia (Federation) : Territorial expansion. KW - Russia (Federation) : History : 1613-1917. KW - Imperialism. KW - ImpeĢrialisme. KW - HISTORY. KW - Imperialism KW - Territorial expansion KW - Russia (Federation) KW - 1613-1917 KW - History ER -