## Historical Interpretations: What Explains the Fall of the USSR, c.1985-91? For much of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union dominated not just the vast expanse of Eurasia but the global political imagination. At its zenith, the USSR was both the...

## Chapter 4 — Russia and its Empire: Nationalities and Satellite States The history of the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union is indelibly linked with the complex management of a vast mosaic of nationalities. From the partitions of Poland in...