TY - CHAP A1 - Motyl, Alexander J. A2 - Barkey, Karen A2 - von Hagen, Mark T1 - Thinking About Empire T2 - After Empire. Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building. The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires N2 - Common sense tells us that empires rise and fall. We know that the Roman, Habsburg, Ottoman, and Romanov realms were called empires, and we know — from history or, more precisely, from historians — that they had temporally identifiable beginnings and ends. Not surprisingly, we conclude that the history of entities called empires must hold the explanatory key to the rise and fall of empires. Y1 - 2006 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44 UR - http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/motyl_empire.pdf SP - 19 EP - 29 PB - Westview Press CY - Boulder ER -