A History of Russia since 1855 - Volume 2
ISBN: 9780195341997 | 0195341996
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. xi |
| Illustrations | p. xiii |
| New to the Eighth Edition | p. xvii |
| Preface to the Eighth Edition | p. xix |
| Introduction: The Historical Background | p. xxi |
| 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... MORE | 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.
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