Russia Reverts to Muscovy: What if We Simply Drop "Russia" from the Discourse?

Russia Reverts to Muscovy explores the implications of removing the notion of “Russia” from political and scholarly discourse.

The book posits the following questions: Should the state ruled from Moscow be termed “Russia”? Might not “Muscovy” be more appropriate? It reflects on how academia has conceptualized developments among the Eastern Slavs over the centuries from the early days of Muscovy up until the present-day Russian Federation with the result that by consistently viewing events th...