Preface Foreword: Keeping the Focus, Decentering the Sources Chapter 1: Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia's First Polities: The Formation of the Rous' Lands Chapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State-Building in Northern Eurasia (Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries) Chapter 4. From Local Polities to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Competing Scenarios of Power (Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries) Chapter 5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Principality of Moscow (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) Chapter 6. The Transformation of Social Imagination: The Seventeenth Century Chapter 7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an "Assembly Point" Chapter 8. From the "Gunpowder Empire" to the "Modern State" Chapter 9. From the "Modern State" to the "Modern Empire" Chapter 10.

The Modern Empire in Search of a Nation Chapter 11. Designing a National Empire Chapter 12. Empire and Revolution Chapter 13. The Collapse of the Rusian National Empire Regime Chapter 14. Self-Organization of the "Progressive Empire" Chapter 15. The War of Globalization and the Imperial Revolution Bibliography Index.