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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. ix
Illustrations	p. x
New to the Eighth Edition	p. xiii
Preface to the Eighth Edition	p. xiv
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: Econ... MOREomy, Society, Institutions	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 Region 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
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.

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