British editors ... Russian imperialism has fed and nurtured Russian autocracy—to understand why, as the title of Zygar’s book proclaimed, the empire must die. You can hear the anger at ...

A Russian distributor orders booksellers to pull works by well-known authors, in an apparent act of censorship.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World ... of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.” When Elkins’s book won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction ...

the Russian Empire. The society must have had something in it of Elizabethan England (with its preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a ...

It was a former piece of the Russian empire later absorbed into a rival imperial fold ... Particularly engaging is the account toward the end of the book of recent British government efforts to hide ...

In recent years, Elkins has broadened the scope of her inquiries beyond Kenya, publishing a new book in March called “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.” I spoke to Elkins ...

A book which will be welcome to many who have found it impossible to keep track of the rapidly changing relationships between different parts of the British Empire. The book is distinguished by ...

The legacy of the British Empire is vast, sprawling, and extremely complex. There’s a reason we’ve provided a round-up of books written by experts in the field, instead of attempting to ...

It is a vast and sprawling story about how the legacy, structures and thought of the British Empire reach around the ... which make up nearly half of this book. That’s because gathering all ...

So I think to understand American history, you really do have to understand British Empire as well. SIMON: Yeah. A good portion of the book is phrased as a personal journey. You're from a Sikh ...

It followed the Greek invasion in western Anatolia and the postwar western partition of the Ottoman Empire ... with the Russian capture of Erzurum, in part thanks to the heroics of British ...