History of Modern Russia From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition

Name: History of Modern Russia From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780674034938

ISBN-10: 0674034937

ISBN-13: 9780674034938

Edition: 3rd 2009

Authors: Robert Service

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Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition takes the story from 2002 through the entire presidency of Vladimir Putin to the election of his successor, Dmitri Medvedev.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.



Acknowledgements


A Note on Transliteration


Maps


The Russian Empire in 1900


The Soviet Union, 1924-1936


The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945


The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997


The Russian Federation in 1997


Introduction


And Russia? 1900-1914


The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917





Conflicts and Crises 1917


The October Revolution 1917-1918


New World, Old World


Civil Wars 1918-1921


The New Economic Policy 1921-1928


Leninism and its Discontents





The First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932


Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation


Terror upon Terror 1934-1938


Coping with Big Brothers


The Second World War 1939-1945


Coda


Suffering and Struggle 1941-1945





The Hammers of Peace 1945-1953


The Despot and his Masks


‘De-Stalinization' 1953-1961


Hopes Unsettled 1961-1964


Stabilization 1964-1970





‘Developed Socialism' 1970-1982


Privilege and Alienation


Towards Reform 1982-1985


Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988


Imploding Imperium 1989


Hail and Farewell 1990-1991


Power and the Market 1992-1993


The Lowering of Expectations 1994-1999


And Russia? from 2000


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index