Dominic Lieven
Born
January 19, 1952
Genre
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
22 editions
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2009
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
22 editions
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2015
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In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
9 editions
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2000
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Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire
10 editions
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1993
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Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia
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4 editions
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2015
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The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
6 editions
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Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914
8 editions
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1993
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Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime
6 editions
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1989
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Russia and the Origins of the First World War
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1983
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“The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in central Europe when military operations began.”
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
“Much more interesting and difficult is the task of challenging Russian national myths. Naturally, by no means are all these myths untrue. The Russian army and people showed great heroism and suffered hugely in 1812. The truly bizarre and unique element in Russian mythology about the defeat of Napoleon is, however, that it radically underestimates the Russian achievement. The most basic reason for this is that the Russia which defeated Napoleon was an aristocratic, dynastic and multi-ethnic empire. Mining the events of the Napoleonic era just for Russian ethno-national myths and doing so in naive fashion inevitably leaves out much about the war effort.”
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
“one result of Napoleon’s destruction was a great increase in British power. For a century after Waterloo Britain enjoyed global pre-eminence at a historically small price in blood and treasure. Russian pride and interests sometimes suffered from this, most obviously in the Crimean War. In the long run, too, British power meant the global hegemony of liberal-democratic principles fatal to any version of Russian empire. But this is to look way into the future: in 1815 Wellington and Castlereagh disliked democracy at least as much as Alexander I did. Under no circumstances could Russian policy in the Napoleonic era have stopped Britain’s Industrial Revolution, or its effects on British power. Moreover, in the century after 1815 Russia grew greatly in wealth and population, benefiting hugely from integration into the global capitalist economy whose main bulwark was Britain. In the nineteenth as in the twentieth century Russia had much less to fear from Britain than from land-powers intent on dominating the European continent.”
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
― Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
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