A History of Russia
ISBN: 9780195341973 | 019534197X
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/12/2010
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Now completely revised in this eighth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. New chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's ... MORE
| Maps | p. x |
| Illustrations | p. xii |
| New to the Eighth Edition | p. xvii |
| Preface to the Eighth Edition | p. xviii |
| Introduction | |
| The Geographical Environment | p. 3 |
| Russia before the Russians | p. 9 |
| Kievan Rus | |
| The Origins of the Kievan State | p. 19 |
| Kievan Rus: A Political Outline | p. 24 |
| Kievan Rus: E... MORE | p. 38 |
| Kievan Rus: Religion and Culture | p. 46 |
| Appanage Russia | |
| Appanage Russia: Introduction | p. 57 |
| The Mongols and Russia | p. 61 |
| Lord Novgorod the Great | p. 71 |
| The Southwest and the Northeast | p. 83 |
| The Rise of Moscow | p. 89 |
| Appanage Russia: Economy, Society, Institutions | p. 107 |
| Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture | p. 114 |
| The Lithuanian-Russian State | p. 128 |
| Muscovite Russia | |
| The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theodore, 1584-98 | p. 139 |
| The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613 | p. 155 |
| The Reigns of Michael, 1613-45, Alexis, 1645-76, and Theodore, 1676-82 | p. 173 |
| Muscovite Russia: Economy, Society, Institutions | p. 182 |
| Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture | p. 195 |
| Imperial Russia | |
| The Reign of Peter the Great, 1682-1725 | p. 211 |
| Russian History from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great: The Reigns of Catherine I, 1725-27, Peter II, 1727-30, Anne, 1730-40, Ivan VI, 1740-41, Elizabeth, 1741-62, and Peter III, 1762 | p. 239 |
| The Reigns of Catherine the Great, 1762-96, and Paul, 1796-1801 | p. 251 |
| The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century | p. 272 |
| Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century | p. 280 |
| The Reign of Alexander I, 1801-25 | p. 296 |
| The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-55 | p. 319 |
| The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century | p. 337 |
| Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century | p. 344 |
| The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81 | p. 363 |
| The Reign of Alexander III, 1881-94, and the First Part of the Reign of Nicholas II, 1894-1905 | p. 385 |
| The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period, 1905-17 | p. 400 |
| The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917 | p. 421 |
| Russian Culture from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917 | p. 439 |
| The Revolutions of 1917 | p. 464 |
| Soviet Russia | |
| Soviet Russia: An Introduction | p. 479 |
| War Communism, 1917-21, and the New Economic Policy, 1921-28 | p. 487 |
| The Stalin Era | p. 511 |
| Soviet Foreign Policy, 1921-41, and the Second World War, 1941-45 | p. 529 |
| Stalin's Last Decade, 1945-53 | p. 547 |
| The Soviet Union after Stalin, 1953-85 | p. 559 |
| Soviet Society and Culture | p. 588 |
| The Gorbachev Years, 1985-91, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union | p. 617 |
| Russian Federation | |
| Politics and the Economy after Communism: Yeltsin, Putin, and Beyond | p. 641 |
| Society and Culture since 1991 | p. 681 |
| Appendix: Russian Rulers | p. A-1 |
| A Bibliography of Readings in English on Russian History | p. B-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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Nicholas Riasanovsky is Professor Emeritus of History the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including A Parting of Ways: Government and the Educated Public in Russia: 1801-1855 (1976) and The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought (OUP, 1985).
Mark Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specializing in the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his many books include Voices of Revolution, 1917 (2001) and Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (2002). Since 2006, he has been editor of the journal Slavic Review.
