TY - JOUR TI - Empire as an Heuristic Challenge T2 - The Russian Sociological Review IS - The Russian Sociological Review AB - Review of the book: Vulpius R. (2023) The Birth of the Russian Empire. Concepts and Practices of Political Domination in the 18th Century / Translated in Russian from German by M. Bogdanovich. Moscow: New Literary Review. — 889 p. — (Historia Rossica / Studia Europaea).ISBN: 978-5-4448-2112-1 AU - Oleg Kil'dyushov UR - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2025-24-3/1089120733.html PY - 2025 SP - 328-336 VL - 24