Surveys major events in the history of tsarist Russian foreign relations between 1700 and 1917 and interprets Russian foreign policy of the period, drawing on the work of scholars Sir Halford Mackinder, Admiral Alfred Mahan, Geoffrey Parker, and Owen Lattimore. Contains sections on the expansion of Russia's Western, Southern, and Eastern frontiers, and the Germanic and coastland powers in Russia's containment. Includes b&w maps. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.