Description: An examination of how, and with what success, the Russian Empire handled the huge logistical challenge of organizing the eclectic peoples of the Eurasian region under one constitution.
Brief description: Marina B. Mogilneris Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia(2013).
Review Quotes: "The New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 certainly belongs in every university library and on the reading list of every course dealing with the politics, history, or area studies of this vast region. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." --Choice