The Russian Empire and the World, 1700-1917

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…breaks it up very unevenly sometimes covering a whole century in one chapter. Perhaps this book could have accomplished its thesis better in a multiple volume book instead of trying to cram all of the information into the limitations of one book. Also if it were broken up it would probably be a little easier to read. With the technical terminology that the author uses a multi-volume work would probably satisfy the readers even more.