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History of Russia

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ISBN-10: 019534197X

ISBN-13: 9780195341973

Edition: 8th 2016

Authors: Nicholas Riasanovsky, Mark Steinberg

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List price: $112.95
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 792
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

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…    

Maps
Illustrations
New to the Eighth Edition
Preface to the Eighth Edition
Introduction
The Geographical Environment
Russia before the Russians
Kievan Rus
The Origins of the Kievan State
Kievan Rus: A Political Outline
Kievan Rus: Economy, Society, Institutions
Kievan Rus: Religion and Culture
Appanage Russia
Appanage Russia: Introduction
The Mongols and Russia
Lord Novgorod the Great
The Southwest and the Northeast
The Rise of Moscow
Appanage Russia: Economy, Society, Institutions
Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture
The Lithuanian-Russian State
Muscovite Russia
The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theodore, 1584-98
The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613
The Reigns of Michael, 1613-45, Alexis, 1645-76, and Theodore, 1676-82
Muscovite Russia: Economy, Society, Institutions
Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture
Imperial Russia
The Reign of Peter the Great, 1682-1725
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
The Reigns of Catherine the Great, 1762-96, and Paul, 1796-1801
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century
Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century
The Reign of Alexander I, 1801-25
The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-55
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81
The Reign of Alexander III, 1881-94, and the First Part of the Reign of Nicholas II, 1894-1905
The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period, 1905-17
The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917
Russian Culture from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917
The Revolutions of 1917
Soviet Russia
Soviet Russia: An Introduction
War Communism, 1917-21, and the New Economic Policy, 1921-28
The Stalin Era
Soviet Foreign Policy, 1921-41, and the Second World War, 1941-45
Stalin's Last Decade, 1945-53
The Soviet Union after Stalin, 1953-85
Soviet Society and Culture
The Gorbachev Years, 1985-91, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Politics and the Economy after Communism: Yeltsin, Putin, and Beyond
Society and Culture since 1991
Appendix: Russian Rulers
A Bibliography of Readings in English on Russian History
Index