Why the RF is not yet Russia. The unwanted legacy of the empire

The readers are offered the book of the famous modern historian S.V. Volkov, dedicated to our history, including the centuries-old Russian Empire, the seventieth USSR and 20-year-old & quot, the post-Soviet & quot, the statehood of the modern Russian Federation, and in the European and even world context. According to the author, the importance of historical being and in many ways the unique experience of the Russian Empire is huge. Even if she is not soon or never destined to be politically reborn, the Russian empire will remain in the history of world civilization with a bright meaningful phenomenon, and its state experience will still become a role model and will admire people committed to the basics on which traditional world order was sought. That is why her legacy, waiting for its researchers and apologists, is worthy of the most careful study