Contents
Prologue: Americans, Russians and Vikings.
5
Understanding America. 5
Competing Ideologies. 9
Empires Apart. 13
The Empires Today. 18
The Vikings. 21
Chapter 1: Rurik’s Land.. 25
The Influence of Champagne. 25
West and East Divide. 28
The Coming of Christ. 30
Russian History: True or False?. 33
Chapter 2: Amerigo’s Land.. 36
Spanish Exploration and Conquest. 36
Before Columbus. 41
The Scramble for America. 43
The English and Civilization. 47
Slavery. 52
Chapter 3: Legacy of the Mongol Terror..
56
The Mongols. 56
From Novgorod to Kulikovo. 59
Ivan the Terrible. 63
Russia after Ivan. 66
Chapter 4: Legacy of the Mystic Massacre..
70
Frying Natives. 70
Thanksgiving. 74
Pilgrims and Puritans. 77
Between God and Slave. 81
Chapter 5: Russia between West and
East.. 85
Yermak Timofeyevich: King of the Wild Frontier.
85
The Eastern Frontier. 89
Life in the Wild East. 93
Empire. 96
The First Romanovs. 98
Chapter 6: America Between East and West..
106
The Rule of Law.. 106
French America. 110
Prelude to Revolution. 114
The American Rebellion. 119
Thomas Paine and Tadeusz Kosciuszko. 122
Chapter 7: The Empires Get Going.. 127
Enlightenment: Russian and American Style.
127
Territorial Aggrandizement. 132
Tadeusz Kosciuszko and The Polish Question.
137
Napoleon and Alexander. 141
The 1812 Overtures. 148
Chapter 8: Determined Opportunism and Conquest..
154
King Andrew.. 155
A Time for Guns. 160
Manifest Destiny: Chechnya to Cuba. 164
The Road to Civil War. 171
Chapter 9: More Conquest.. 178
The War Between The States. 178
Slaves and Serfs. 184
To The Little Bighorn and Anadyrsk.. 189
Empire Marches On. 194
Chapter 10: Soul Searching.. 202
Dissidents. 203
The Soul of Industry. 209
New Model Empires. 216
Territory Belonging to the United States.
223
Chapter 11: Communism and Corporatism...
230
Bolshevism Arrives. 230
Come the Revolution. 237
Communism Arrives. 240
Corporatism: A Digression. 244
Ideologies in Transition. 252
Chapter 12: Empires Old and New... 259
The New Tsars: Lenin and Stalin the Terrible.
259
The Bolshevik Empire. 263
The Red Menace. 267
Corporatism v Communism.. 271
The Invisibilisation of Empire. 274
Chapter 13: Hot and Cold Running War.. 282
Allies Apart. 282
Empires Re-emerge. 289
Bipolarity. 296
Regime Change. 300
Russian Regime Change – The Death of
the Ultimate Tsar. 306
Chapter 14: Winning The War That Wasn’t..
312
Hot War, Cold War, Phoney War. 312
Monroe Marches On. 316
The Use of Force. 321
More Dissidents. 327
The End of the Russian Empire?. 332
Chapter 15 Pax Americana.. 339
American Democracy. 340
American Justice. 345
American Efficiency. 351
America Delivers. 353
From Invisible Empires to the Neo-Empire.
358
The Lessons of History. 361
