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| Eighteen twelve and after | |
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| 1812 | |
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| The Tsar in Europe | |
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| Russian society in 1812 | |
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| The Church | |
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| Alexander I | |
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| The Tsar's advisers: Golitsyn and Arakcheyev | |
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| Russia and the world | |
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| Alexander the constitutionalist | |
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| Education | |
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| The Decembrist Revolt | |
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| Zeal conquers all | |
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| Nicholas I and his reign | |
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| Nicholas's subordinates and their duties | |
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| Orthodoxy | |
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| Autocracy | |
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| Nationality | |
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| Government | |
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| Internal enemies, and the Third Section | |
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| Education and scholarship | |
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| Literature and the arts | |
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| The critics and commentators | |
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| Censorship | |
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| The army | |
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| Russia at war | |
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| The Tsar Emancipator | |
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| Alexander II | |
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| The Russian peasant at mid-century | |
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| The 1861 reform and after | |
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| Industry and railways | |
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| Reformers and revolutionaries | |
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| Towards popular government? | |
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| Judicial reform | |
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| Military reform | |
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| Education, censorship, and publishing | |
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| The arts | |
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| The Russo-Turkish War | |
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| The revolutionaries | |
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| Alexander III | |
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| Violence and counter-violence | |
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| Alexander III and his ministers | |
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| The nationalities | |
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| The Jews in Russia | |
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| Russia in Asia | |
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| Grand duchy to empire | |
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| Russia in Central Asia | |
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| The settlement of Siberia | |
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| Russian naval policy | |
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| Siberia as a planned economy | |
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| The Russo-Japanese War | |
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| 1905 | |
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| Nicholas II | |
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| The Hague Conference | |
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| Marxism comes to Russia | |
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| Lenin | |
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| Revolutionaries and reformers | |
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| Bloody Sunday | |
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| The Potemkin Mutiny | |
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| The strike and the Moscow Rising | |
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| Russian government before and after 1905 | |
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| The Dumas and the parties | |
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| Stolypin | |
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| The Stolypin Reform | |
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| Russia in 1914 | |
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| The population | |
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| Society | |
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| The economy | |
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| The army | |
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| The navy | |
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| Education | |
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| Science and technology | |
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| The arts | |
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| Stability or instability? | |
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| The Empire's last war | |
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| Tsarist foreign policy | |
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| Summer 1914 | |
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| The campaigns | |
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| Russia as an ally | |
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| The home front | |
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| The Empress and Rasputin | |
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| 1917 | |
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| The February Revolution | |
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| The Provisional Government and the Soviet | |
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| The army in 1917 | |
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| The Bolsheviks | |
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| The Kornilov affair | |
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| The Bolshevik Revolution | |
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| The Bolshevik victory | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| The Bolsheviks in power | |
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| The first steps | |
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| The CHEKA | |
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| The end of Nicholas | |
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| The Red, White, Green, and other armies | |
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| The Civil War campaigns | |
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| The Russian emigration | |
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| Muscovy and the outside world | |
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| The party | |
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| War Communism | |
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| Famine | |
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| Disputes and decisions | |
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| The New Economic Policy (NEP) | |
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| The moulding of minds | |
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| Literature and the arts | |
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| The party | |
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| The end of Lenin | |
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| Stalin | |
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| Stalin and the succession | |
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| Agriculture under NEP | |
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| The industrialization debate | |
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| Collectivization | |
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| The collective farm | |
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| Stalinism in action | |
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| Industrialization | |
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| The planned economy | |
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| Labour | |
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| The party purged | |
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| The people purged | |
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| The 1936 Constitution | |
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| Justice | |
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| The Church | |
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| A new culture | |
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| The Great Patriotic War | |
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| A Japanese hors d'oeuvre | |
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| Foreign policy between the wars | |
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| The Soviet armed forces | |
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| June 1941 | |
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| The course of the war | |
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| The Red Army at war | |
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| Russians at war | |
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| Russia and the Allies | |
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| Consolidation and ossification | |
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| Post-war reaction | |
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| Post-war reconstruction | |
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| Russia and the world | |
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| Population | |
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| Living standards | |
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| Education | |
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| Science and technology | |
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| Literature and the arts | |
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| The nationalities | |
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| The Khrushchev Revival | |
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| The end of Stalin | |
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| Khrushchev | |
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| The leadership after Stalin | |
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| Khrushchev's 1956 'secret' speech | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| The economy | |
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| 'Socialist legality' | |
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| The arts | |
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| Education | |
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| The armed forces | |
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| The people's democracies | |
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| Foreign affairs | |
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| The relegation of Khrushchev | |
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| Decrepitude | |
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| Political life | |
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| The Andropov phase | |
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| Chernenko | |
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| Renovation of the KGB | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Industry | |
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| Technology | |
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| 'Every such victory brings its own vengeance' | |
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| The people's democracies | |
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| Foreign policy | |
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| The armed forces | |
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| The arts | |
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| Soviet society | |
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| Russian bureaucratic virtue | |
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| The lazy and the liquorish | |
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| Transformation | |
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| Gorbachev | |
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| In the beginning was the word | |
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| The arts | |
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| Gorbachev and the party | |
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| The end of perestroika | |
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| The economy | |
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| Society | |
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| The armed forces | |
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| Empire's end | |
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| Shocks and therapies | |
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| The post-Soviet republics | |
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| Yeltsin in power | |
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| From Yeltsin to Putin | |
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| Putin | |
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| Transition democracy | |
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| The regions | |
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| Chechnya | |
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| The new economy | |
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| Society | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Maps and tables | |
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| Index | |