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History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond

ISBN: 9780534548919 | 0534548911
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 7/1/1998

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Table of Contents
List of Maps
xxi(1)
List of Illustrations
xxii(4)
List of Figures
... MORE(1)
List of Tables
xxvi
PART ONE EARLY RUSSIA TO 16893(168)
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
3(8)
Geography
3(3)
The Peoples
6(2)
Russian Responses to Challenges
8(3)
CHAPTER 2 ANCIENT RUS
11(13)
Early Occupants of the Great Eurasian Plain
11(3)
The Huns, Avars, and Khazars
14(3)
Problem 1: The Formation of Kievan Rus
17(7)
CHAPTER 3 THE PRINCES OF KIEVAN RUS
24(12)
Political History
24(5)
Ruling Rus
29(3)
External Relations
32(2)
Decline and Fall
34(2)
CHAPTER 4 KIEVAN RUS: ECONOMIC LIFE, SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
36(15)
Economic Life
36(2)
Social Structure
38(2)
Urban Life
40(4)
Religion and Culture
44(7)
CHAPTER 5 THE ASCENDANCE OF THE SOUTHWEST AND THE NORTHEAST
51(9)
The Southwest
51(2)
The Northeast
53(7)
CHAPTER 6 THE MONGOLS AND RUSSIA
60(14)
Chingis-Khan
61(1)
The Mongol Invasion of Rus
62(1)
The Golden Horde's Suzerainty over Rus
63(5)
Problem 2: The Mongol Impact
68(6)
CHAPTER 7 NOVGOROD AND LITHUANIA
74(11)
Novgorod
74(7)
Lithuania
81(4)
CHAPTER 8 THE RISE OF MOSCOW
85(11)
Founding and Early Development
86(1)
Moscow versus Tver
87(1)
Ivan I and His Successors
88(1)
Dmitri Ivanovich and the Battle of Kulikovo
89(4)
Russian Historians on Moscow's Rise
93(3)
CHAPTER 9 SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION IN APPANAGE RUS
96(9)
The Issue of Russian "Feudalism"
96(3)
Role of the Orthodox Church
99(6)
CHAPTER 10 THE UNIFICATION OF GREAT RUSSIA
105(11)
Expansion and the Growth of Grand Princely Power
105(3)
Ivan III, The Great (1462-1505)
108(2)
Internal Changes and Conflicts
110(3)
Vasili III (1505-1533)
113(3)
CHAPTER 11 IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1533-1584)
116(16)
Minority and Rule with the Chosen Council
116(4)
External Affairs
120(2)
The Oprichnina and After
122(2)
Ivan's Reign Assessed
124(2)
Problem 3: The Oprichnina
126(6)
CHAPTER 12 THE TIME OF TROUBLES
132(11)
Background and Causes
132(2)
Dynastic Struggle: Fedor I and Boris Godunov (1584-1605)
134(1)
Social Revolt and Foreign Invasion (1605-1610)
135(5)
National Revival and the Romanovs' Election (1610-1613)
140(3)
CHAPTER 13 THE EARLY ROMANOVS: POLITICS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
143(13)
The Rulers and the Zemskii Sobor
143(2)
Administration
145(2)
Law
147(1)
The Army
148(1)
Eastward Expansion
149(2)
Annexation of Eastern Ukraine
151(5)
CHAPTER 14 THE EARLY ROMANOVS: SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
156(15)
Foreign Influences
156(1)
Religious Controversies and Heresies
157(2)
Patriarch Nikon's Church Reforms
159(4)
The Development of Serfdom
163(8)
PART TWO EARLY IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1689-1855171(128)
CHAPTER 15 PETER THE GREAT: POLITICS, WAR, AND DIPLOMACY
171(18)
Peter's Youth and His Trip to the West
171(4)
War and Diplomacy
175(5)
Administration
180(3)
Problem 4: Historians and the Petrine Reforms
183(6)
CHAPTER 16 PETER THE GREAT: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND RELIGIOUS POLICIES
189(10)
State Service by the Nobility
189(2)
Increased Burdens of the Peasantry
191(2)
Economic Policies
193(1)
Church Reform
194(5)
CHAPTER 17 THE ERA OF PALACE REVOLUTIONS, 1725-1762
199(12)
Politics
199(4)
Society and Economy
203(2)
Culture and Westernization
205(1)
Foreign Relations
206(2)
Conclusion
208(3)
CHAPTER 18 CATHERINE II RULES AND EXPANDS RUSSIA, 1762-1796
211(18)
Peter III and the Coup of June 1762
211(2)
Catherine II--Woman and Ruler
213(2)
The Legislative Commission
215(1)
Administrative Changes
215(2)
External Affairs
217(6)
Problem 5: Was Catherine II an Enlightened Despot?
223(6)
CHAPTER 19 CATHERINE II: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL POLICIES
229(14)
The Economy
229(2)
The Society
231(4)
The Pugachov Revolt, 1773-1774
235(2)
Education and Culture
237(1)
The Russian Enlightenment
238(5)
CHAPTER 20 BUREAUCRATIC MONARCHY: PAUL AND ALEXANDER I, 1796-1825
243(15)
Paul I
243(4)
Political Policies of Alexander I
247(2)
Speranskii's Reform Program
249(3)
The Arakcheevshchina
252(1)
The Decembrist Revolt
253(5)
CHAPTER 21 WAR AND DIPLOMACY, 1796-1825
258(11)
Paul I
258(1)
Alexander I: Orientation and Initial Policies, 1801-1804
259(1)
Coalition Wars, 1805-1807
260(1)
Tilsit and the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1807-1812
261(2)
Napoleon Invades Russia, 1812
263(2)
Liberation of Europe and the Vienna Settlement, 1813-1815
265(1)
The Concert of Europe
266(3)
CHAPTER 22 SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, 1796-1855
269(12)
The Nobility
269(1)
Urban Centers
270(1)
Industrial Development
271(2)
Literature
273(4)
Music
277
Painting and Architecture
362
CHAPTER 23 THE "IRON TSAR"
281(18)
The Ruler and His Ideology
281(2)
Administration
283(1)
The Army
284(1)
The Intelligentsia
285(2)
Foreign Affairs
287(2)
The Crimean War, 1853-1856
289(2)
Problem 6: Whither Russia? Slavophiles versus Westernizers
291(8)
PART THREE MODERN RUSSIA, 1855 TO THE PRESENT299(398)
CHAPTER 24 POLITICAL REFORM AND MINORITIES, 1855-1904
299(17)
Alexander II and the Emancipation
299(3)
Other Social and Political Reforms
302(1)
Censorship and Education
302(1)
Local Self-Government
303(1)
Judicial Reform
304(2)
Military Reform
306(1)
Significance of the Great Reforms
306(1)
Treatment of Minorities before 1905
307(2)
Problem 7: Why Did Alexander II Free the Serfs?
309(7)
CHAPTER 25 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 1855-1904
316(15)
The Peasant World
317(1)
Agriculture
318(3)
Industry and Finance until 1891
321(3)
Finance and Industry: The Spurt of the 1890s
324(1)
Social Change
325(3)
Religion
328(3)
CHAPTER 26 DIPLOMACY AND EMPIRE, 1855-1905
331(15)
Relations with Europe until 1875
332(1)
Pan-Slavism and the Eastern Question until 1878
332(2)
The Caucasus and Central Asia
334(2)
Europe and the Balkans, 1881-1905
336(1)
Russia in the Far East until 1914
337(3)
Problem 8: Why Did Russia Expand in Central Asia?
340(6)
CHAPTER 27 OPPOSITION TO TSARISM, 1855-1905
346(17)
Liberalism and Radicalism, 1855-1870
347(2)
Revolutionary Populism
349(3)
The Development of Marxism
352(5)
From Populism to the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)
357(1)
Liberalism Organizes
358(1)
Reactionary Tsarism, 1881-1904
359(4)
CHAPTER 28 WAR, REVOLUTION, AND REFORM, 1904-1914
363(17)
The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
363(1)
The 1905 Revolution
364(4)
Creation of the Duma Monarchy, 1905-1906
368(3)
Political Development, 1907-1914
371(1)
Economic and Social Development
372(4)
Foreign Affairs, 1906-1914
376(4)
CHAPTER 29 CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1855-1917
380(13)
Literature
380(6)
Music
386(3)
Painting
389(2)
Architecture
391(2)
CHAPTER 30 WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1914-1917
393(17)
Russia Enters World War I
393(1)
War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy
394(1)
The Army and the Fronts
395(2)
The Home Front
397(5)
The March Revolution
402(2)
Problem 9: Did World War I Cause the Collapse of Tsarism?
404(6)
CHAPTER 31 FROM MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1917
410(18)
The "Dual Power"
410(2)
The Bolsheviks Gain Leaders and a Program
412(2)
The Revolution Moves Left (May-July)
414(1)
Kornilov and the Rightward Shift (July-September)
415(1)
The Rising Tide (September-November)
416(3)
The November Revolution
419(3)
Problem 10: Why Did the Bolsheviks Win?
422(6)
CHAPTER 32 CIVIL WAR AND COMMUNISM, 1917-1921
428(12)
First Steps, 1917-1918
428(3)
Civil War, 1918-1920
431(1)
Civil War and Allied Intervention, 1918-1920
432(4)
"War Communism": An Economic Disaster
436(1)
The Kronstadt Revolt of 1921
437(3)
CHAPTER 33 THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND POWER STRUGGLE, 1921-1927
440(16)
Economic and Political Controls of NEP
440(4)
The Struggle over Succession
444(4)
Problem 11: From Lenin to Stalin: Continuity or Betrayal?
448(8)
CHAPTER 34 THE POLITICS OF STALINISM, 1928-1941
456(13)
Intraparty Struggles and Crises, 1929-1934
457(2)
The Great Purge
459(2)
Government and Party Organization
461(5)
Stalinism
466(3)
CHAPTER 35 THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION
469(18)
The Great Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928
469(2)
Forced Collectivization
471(3)
Industry: The Five Year Plans
474(4)
Shifts in Social Policies
478(3)
Problem 12: Forced Collectivization: Why and How?
481(6)
CHAPTER 36 SOVIET CULTURE UNDER LENIN AND STALIN, 1917-1953
487(20)
Initial Policies
487(1)
Lunacharskii: The Politics of Culture
488(1)
Soviet Culture in the Making: Proletkult and Other Vanguard Groups
489(2)
Literature
491(3)
The Cinema
494(1)
Education
495(1)
Science
495(1)
Stalinist Culture, 1929-1953
496(2)
Partiinost in Literature
498(4)
Anticosmopolitanism and the Arts
502(1)
Music
503(4)
CHAPTER 37 SOVIET FOREIGN RELATIONS TO 1941
507(20)
First Revolutionary Era, 1917-1921
509(2)
Accommodation, 1921-1927
511(4)
Neoisolationism, 1928-1933
515(1)
Collective Security, 1934-1937
516(2)
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
518(3)
Problem 13: The Nazi-Soviet Pact: Then and Now
521(6)
CHAPTER 38 WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1941-1953
527(15)
Invasion
527(3)
The 1942 Campaign: The Turning Point
530(1)
Soviet Offensives and Allied Victory, 1943-1945
531(2)
The USSR and the Far Eastern War
533(1)
Postwar Stalinism
534(8)
CHAPTER 39 THE KHRUSHCHEV ERA, 1953-1964
542(20)
Politics: Repudiating Stalinism
542(5)
Economy: Focus on Agriculture
547(2)
Foreign Affairs: Crises in the Communist Bloc Countries
549(4)
Khrushchev's Fall
553(1)
Problem 14: De-Stalinization: Stalin's Role in the Purges and in World War II
554(8)
CHAPTER 40 THE BREZHNEV ERA, 1964-1982
562(27)
Politics: Brezhnev's Rise
562(4)
Nationalism and Dissent
566(3)
Economy and Society
569(5)
Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces
574(6)
Problem 15: Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968, and Its Repudiation, 1989
580(9)
CHAPTER 41 THE SOVIET GERONTOCRACY, 1982-1985
589(15)
Domestic Politics
589(7)
Economy and Society
596(3)
Foreign Policy
599(5)
CHAPTER 42 THE GORBACHEV REVOLUTION, 1985-1991
604(28)
The Leader and the Succession
604(2)
Glasnost and Political Reform
606(7)
Nationalities and Nationalism
613(4)
Perestroika's Impact on the Economy and Society
617(7)
National Security and Foreign Affairs
624(8)
CHAPTER 43 SOVIET CULTURE AFTER STALIN, 1953-1991
632(23)
The Thaw, 1953-1956
632(1)
Dr. Zhivago and the Refreeze
633(1)
Culture under Khrushchev
634(4)
Culture under Brezhnev
638(8)
Culture under Gorbachev, 1985-1991
646(9)
CHAPTER 44 THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1990-1992
655(16)
Gorbachev Declines, Yeltsin Rises, 1990-1991
655(2)
The August Coup
657(4)
The Demise of the Soviet Union, 1991-1992
661(2)
The Commonwealth of Independent States
663(2)
Problem 16: Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
665(6)
CHAPTER 45 THE LEGACY OF SOVIET COMMUNISM AND TROUBLED TRANSITIONS IN THE 1990s
671(26)
A Devastated Land
673(6)
Troubled Transitions, 1992-1998
679(11)
Post-Soviet Culture
690(7)
Appendix A: Russian and Soviet Leaders, 1328-1998697(3)
Appendix B: Areas and Populations of Former Soviet Union Republics700(1)
Appendix C: Populations of Principal Cities of the Russian Federation701(1)
Glossary of Foreign Words702(3)
Bibliography705(6)
Index711

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