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Aspects of Russian Expansion1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Philip E. Mosely
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Russian imperialism under various regimes has often been denounced, and rarely praised. Even more seldom has it been defined. In fact, it is more difficult to define than to condemn. One difficulty lies in the fact that from the time, beginning in the 1450s, of the final unification of the principalities of central Russia around a single center of power—Moscow—the Muscovite state itself was constantly expanding through the settlement of Russian peasants across the Eastern European plain, while even in this earliest period various non-Russian peoples came under Muscovite rule. At what point does “expansion” end and “imperialism” begin?

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , October 1948 , pp. 197 - 213
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1948

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Footnotes

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Based largely upon a lecture delivered at Brown University.

References

2 KljuČevskij, V.O., A History of Russia (1911), I, 2 Google Scholar. For an interesting study of the eastward movement in Russia see Kerner, R. J., The Urge to the Sea; the Course of Russian History; the Role of Rivers, Portages, Ostrogs, Monasteries and Furs (Berkeley, 1942).Google Scholar

3 Izvestia, June 27, 1946.

4 For a detailed account see Chamberlin, W. H., The Russian Revolution (1935), 2 vols.Google Scholar

5 Published in Izvestia, November 16, 1917.