A state of nations: empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin, Ronald Grigor Suny, Terry Dean Martin, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514423-9, ... Finally, toward the end of the century, Tsar Fedor referred to the 'Great Russian Tsardom' (Velikorossiis/roe tsarstoie), 'a term denoting an imperial, absolutist state, subordinating Russian as well as non-Russian territories' ...
