Russia

Name: Russia
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ISBN: 9780006383727

ISBN-10: 0006383726

ISBN-13: 9780006383727

Edition: N/A

Authors: Geoffrey Hosking

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Geoffrey Hosking's landmark work provides a new prism through which to view Russian history by asking the question, 'What is Russia's national identity?'.

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List price: $26.85
Publisher: Fontana Press
Pages: 576
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.69" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 0.352



Maps


The Expansion of Muscovy in the 16th and 17th Centuries


The Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th Century


Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great


Russia at its Greatest Extent Acknowledgements


Introduction The Russian Empire: How and Why State-Building


The First Crises of Empire


The Secular State of Peter the Great


Assimilating Peter's Heritage


The Apogee of the Secular State Social Classes, Religion and Culture in Imperial Russia


The Nobility


The Army


The Peasantry


The Orthodox Church


Towns and the Missing Bourgeoisie


The Birth of the Intelligentsia


Literature as 'Nation-Builder' Imperial Russia under Pressure


The Reforms of Alexander II


Russian Socialism


Russification


The Revolution of 1905-7


The Duma Monarchy Conclusions


Afterthoughts on the Soviet Experience


Chronology


Notes


Index