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Now completely revised in this seventh edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the postcommunist present. Featuring a new coauthor, Mark Steinberg, this edition offers extensively updated material based on the most current research,including documents from recently opened archives. 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,... MORE

Maps

Illustrations

xiii

Prefaces

xvii

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Part I Introduction

A Geographical Note

(7)

Russia before the Russians

(11)

Part II Kievan Russia

The Establishment of the Kievan State

(5)

Kievan Russia: A Political Outline

(13)

Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

(9)

Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture

(11)

Part III Appanage Russia

Appanage Russia: Introduction

(4)

The Mongols and Russia

(9)

Lord Novgorod the Great

(10)

The Southwest and the Northeast

(6)

The Rise of Moscow

(17)

Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

105

(6)

Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture

111

(12)

The Lithuanian-Russian State

123

(8)

Part IV Muscovite Russia

The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533--84, and of Theodore, 1584--98

131

(13)

The Time of Troubles, 1598--1613

144

(17)

The Reigns of Michael, 1613--45, Alexis, 1645--76, and Theodore, 1676--82

161

(8)

Muscovite Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

169

(12)

Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture

181

(16)

Part V Imperial Russia

The Reign of Peter the Great, 1682--1725

197

(26)

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

223

(12)

The Reigns of Catherine the Great, 1762--96, and Paul, 1796--1801

235

(21)

The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century

256

(8)

Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century

264

(15)

The Reign of Alexander I, 1801--25

279

(22)

The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825--55

301

(16)

The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

317

(6)

Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

323

(18)

The Reign of Alexander II, 1855--81

341

(21)

The Reign of Alexander III, 1881--94, and the First Part of the Reign of Nicholas II, 1894--1905

362

(15)

The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period, 1905--17

377

(19)

The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the ``Great Reforms'' until the Revolutions of 1917

396

(19)

Russian Culture from the ``Great Reforms'' until the Revolutions of 1917

415

(24)

The Revolutions of 1917

439

(12)

Part VI Soviet Russia

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

451

(9)

War Communism, 1917--21, and the New Economic Policy, 1921--28

460

(22)

The First Three Five-Year Plans, 1928--41

482

(19)

Soviet Foreign Policy, 1921--41, and the Second World War, 1941--45

501

(16)

Stalin's Last Decade, 1945--53

517

(12)

The Soviet Union after Stalin, 1953--85

529

(27)

Soviet Society and Culture

556

(28)

The Gorbachev Years, 1985--91, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

584

(25)

Part VII Russian Federation

Russia after Communism: Yeltsin, 1991--99, and Putin, 2000--

609

(32)

Society and Culture since 1991

641

Appendix tables

1--4 Russian Rulers

(4)

5 Political Subdivisions of the U.S.S.R. as of January 1, 1976

Bibliography

(1)

A Select List of Readings in English on Russian History

(1)

Index

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