Empire of the periphery : Russia and the world system / Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Renfrey Clarke.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-355) and index.

Introduction: topic and method -- Land of cities -- Thirteenth-century decline -- Moscow and Novgorod -- 'English Tsar' -- Crisis of the seventeenth century -- Empire of the periphery -- Peter the Great -- Eighteenth-century expansion -- Granary of Europe -- Crimean War and the world system -- Age of reforms -- Flourishing of Russian capitalism: from Witte to Stolypin -- Revolutionary explosion -- Soviet world -- After 1991: the peripheral capitalism of the Restoration era.

Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of a thousand 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, and 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

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