Empire. The Third Rome. Book Two

What is translatio Imperii? What tradition did the Russian Empire inherit from Assyria, Persia, and Rome? What is Russia's mission in world history? K.V. Malofeev's book is dedicated to the Empire, its past, present, and future. The author explores the interaction in world history of the imperial principle, based on religiously justified power, and the principle of trade and finance. A grand historical panorama unfolds before the reader — Assyria and Babylon, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage, and up to our time — the collapse of the Russian Empire, the rise and fall of the Soviet project, the establishment of the modern world order, and attempts to counteract it. Great conquerors, prophets and saints, trading corporations and banking houses act on these pages. The second volume examines the period from Russia's acceptance of the imperial mission in the mid-15th century to the revolutionary upheavals of 1917. The study, on the one hand, is based on the best achievements of domestic and world historiography, and on the other hand — offers original historiographical ideas developed by the author over decades. The book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, political scientists, economists, as well as students and a wide range of history enthusiasts.