Imperial Russian Foreign Policy

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Imperial Russian Foreign Policy is written by Hugh Ragsdale and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 052144229X (ISBN 10) and 9780521442299 (ISBN 13).

Imperial Russian Foreign Policy aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicions of diabolical cunning, inscrutable motives, and international plots using unseen forces of the gigantic, fear-inspiring empire of the tsar. The contributors, leading historians from both Russia and the West, examine Imperial foreign policy from its origins to the October Revolution, revealing a policy that, as in other countries, had a complex of motives - commerce, nationalism, the interests of various social groups - but an unusual origin, coming almost exclusively from the entourage of the tsar. The work is based largely on original research in Soviet archives, which only became possible after Soviet glasnost.