Valerie Kivelson and Ronald Suny, “Russia’s Empires” (Oxford UP, 2016)

Names can be deceiving. Americans call the area where Moscow’s writ runs “Russia.” But the official name of this place is the “Russian Federation.” Federation of what, you ask? Well, there are a lot of people who live in “Russia” who are in important senses not Russians. There are Ingush,...

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