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EMPIRES APART EMPIRES APART A HISTORY OF AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM BRIAN LANDERS PEGASUS BOOKS NEW YORK ‘There are now two great nations in the world which, starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Americans. Both have grown in obscurity, and while the world’s attention was occupied elsewhere, they have suddenly taken their place among the leading nations, making the world take note of their birth and of their greatness almost at the same instant. All other peoples seem to have nearly reached their natural limits and to need nothing but to preserve them; but these two are growing.… Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret desire of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.’ Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (1835–40) ‘The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it’. Oscar Wilde, Intentions (1891) CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD BY ANDREAS WHITTAM SMITH CHAPTER 1: RURIK’S LAND The Influence of Champagne West and East Divide The Coming of Christ Russian History: True or False? CHAPTER 2: AMERIGO’S LAND Spanish Exploration and Conquest Before Columbus The Scramble for America The English and Civilisation Slavery CHAPTER 3: LEGACY OF THE MONGOL TERROR The Mongols From Novgorod to Kulikovo Ivan the Terrible Russia after Ivan CHAPTER 4: LEGACY OF THE MYSTIC MASSACRE Frying Natives Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Puritans Between God and Slave CHAPTER 5: RUSSIA BETWEEN WEST AND EAST Yermak Timofeyevich: King of the Wild Frontier The Eastern Frontier Life in the Wild East Empire The First Romanovs CHAPTER 6: AMERICA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST The Rule of Law French America Prelude to Revolution The American Rebellion Thomas Paine and Tadeusz Kosciuszko CHAPTER 7: THE EMPIRES GET GOING Enlightenment: Russian and American Style Territorial Aggrandisement Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the Polish Question Napoleon and Alexander The 1812 Overtures CHAPTER 8: DETERMINED OPPORTUNISM AND CONQUEST King Andrew A Time for Guns Manifest Destiny: Chechnya to Cuba The Road to Civil War CHAPTER 9: MORE CONQUEST The War Between the States Slaves and Serfs To the Little Bighorn and Anadyrsk Empire Marches On CHAPTER 10: SOUL SEARCHING Dissidents The Soul of Industry New Model Empires Territory Belonging to the United States CHAPTER 11: COMMUNISM AND CORPORATISM Bolshevism Arrives Come the Revolution Communism Arrives Corporatism: A Digression Ideologies in Transition CHAPTER 12: EMPIRES OLD AND NEW The New Tsars: Lenin and Stalin the Terrible The Bolshevik Empire The Red Menace Corporatism v. Communism The Invisibilisation of Empire CHAPTER 13: HOT AND COLD RUNNING WAR Allies Apart Empires Re-Emerge Bipolarity Regime Change Russian Regime Change – The Death of the Ultimate Tsar CHAPTER 14: WINNING THE WAR THAT WASN’T Hot War, Cold War, Phoney War Monroe Marches On The Use of Force More Dissidents The End of the Russian Empire? CHAPTER 15: PAX AMERICANA American Democracy American Justice American Efficiency America Delivers From Invisible Empires to the Neo-Empire The Lessons of History BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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