{"first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Rus (a term used anciently both of the land and its people) was a political entity that arose in the ninth century and quickly established itself over a large part of what are no Russia, the Ukraine and Belorussia, to become the largest early medieval European state."}, "physical_format": "Hardcover", "subtitle": "A Thousand Years That Changed the World", "weight": "3.8 pounds", "languages": [{"key": "/l/eng"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publishers": ["Quadrillion Publishing"], "number_of_pages": 397, "isbn_13": ["9781858333977"], "id": 12186132, "edition_name": "Revised edition", "isbn_10": ["1858333970"], "publish_date": "October 1998", "key": "/b/OL9003935M", "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-30 09:38:13.731961"}, "title": "The Russian Chronicles", "contributions": ["Joseph F. Ryan (Editor)", "Orlando Figes (Editor)", "Lindsey Hughes (Editor)", "Robin Milner-Gulland (Editor)"], "subjects": ["Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union", "History: World", "Russia - History", "History", "History - General History", "European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)", "Russia"], "physical_dimensions": "12 x 9 x 1.2 inches", "revision": 1}