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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Russia's Perpetual Geopolitics Author: Stephen Kotkin Narrator: Kevin Stillwell Format: Unabridged Length: 26 mins Language: English Release date: 04-19-16 Publisher: Foreign Affairs Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture Publisher's Summary: For half a millennium, Russian foreign policy has been characterized by soaring ambitions that have exceeded the country’s capabilities. Beginning with the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the sixteenth century, Russia managed to expand at an average rate of 50 square miles per day for hundreds of years, eventually covering one-sixth of the earth’s landmass. By 1900, it was the world’s fourth or fifth-largest industrial power and the largest agricultural producer in Europe. But its per capita GDP reached only 20 percent of the United Kingdom’s and 40 percent of Germany’s. Imperial Russia’s average life span at birth was just 30 years - higher than British India’s (23) but the same as Qing Ch