Amazon.com description: Product Description: A collection of basic sources of Imperial Russia's complex political, social, economic and cultural problems; Russia's colonial ambitions in the North Pacific region, the Far East, Central Asia, the Middle Est, the Balkans and Eastern Europe; Russia's wars with Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Napoleonic France, Japan, Austria-Hungary and Germany; and Russian persecution of such non-Russian subjects as Jews, Poles, Ukrainians and Moslems of Central Asia, as well as of many Russians who dared to criticize the government's domestic and foreign policies. 66 selections plus several maps.