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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Early Russia to 1689 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geography | |
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| The Peoples | |
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| Russian Responses to Challenges | |
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| Ancient Rus | |
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| Early Occupants of the Great Eurasian Plain | |
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| The Huns, Avars, and Khazars | |
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| The Formation of Kievan Rus | |
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| The Princes of Kievan Rus | |
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| Political History | |
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| Ruling Rus | |
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| External Relations | |
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| Decline and Fall | |
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| Kievan Rus: Ecoonomic Life, Society, Culture, And Religion | |
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| Economic Life | |
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| Social Structure | |
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| Urban Life | |
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| Religion and Culture | |
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| The Ascendance of the Southwest and the Northeast | |
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| The Southwest | |
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| The Northeast | |
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| The Mongols and Russia | |
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| Chingis-Khan | |
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| The Mongol Invasion of Rus | |
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| The Golden Horde's Suzerainty over Rus | |
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| The Mongol Impact | |
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| Novgorod and Lithuania | |
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| Novgorod | |
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| Lithuania | |
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| The Rise of Moscow | |
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| Founding and Early Development | |
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| Moscow versus Tver | |
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| Ivan I and His Successors | |
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| Dmitri Ivanovich and the Battle of Kulikovo | |
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| Russian Historians on Moscow's Rise | |
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| Society, Culture, and Religion in Appanage Rus | |
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| The Issue of Russian "Feudalism" | |
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| Role of the Orthodox Church | |
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| The Unification of Great Russia | |
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| Expansion and the Growth of Grand Princely Power | |
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| Ivan III, The Great (1462-1501) | |
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| Internal Changes and Conflicts | |
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| Vasili III (1505-1533) | |
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| Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) | |
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| Minority and Rule with the Chosen Council | |
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| External Affairs | |
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| The Oprichnina and After | |
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| Ivan's Reign Assessed | |
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| The Oprichnina | |
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| The Time of Troubles | |
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| Background and Causes | |
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| Dynastic Struggle: Fedor I and Boris Godunov (1584-1605) | |
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| Social Revolt and Foreign Invasion (1605-1610) | |
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| National Revival and the Romanovs' Election (1610-1613) | |
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| The Early Romanovs: Politcs and Foreign Affairs | |
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| The Rulers and the Zemskii Sobor | |
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| Administration | |
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| Law | |
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| The Army | |
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| Eastward Expansion | |
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| Annexation of Eastern Ukraine | |
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| The Early Romanovs: Society, Culture, and Religion | |
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| Foreign Influences | |
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| Religious Controversies and Heresies | |
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| Patriarch Nikon's Church Reforms | |
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| The Development of Serfdom | |
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| Early Imperial Russia, 1689-1855 | |
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| Peter the Great: Politcs, War, and Diplomacy | |
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| Peter's Youth and His Trip to the West | |
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| War and Diplomacy | |
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| Administration | |
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| Historians and the Petrine Reforms | |
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| Peter the Great: Social, Economic, and Religious Policies | |
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| State Service by the Nobility | |
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| Increased Burdens of the Peasantry | |
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| Economic Policies | |
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| Church Reform | |
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| The Era of Palace Revolutions, 1725-1762 | |
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| Politics | |
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| Society and Economy | |
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| Culture and Westernization | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Catherine II Rules and Expands Russia, 1762-1796 | |
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| Peter III and the Coup of June 1762 | |
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| Catherine II--Woman and Ruler | |
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| The Legislative Commission | |
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| Administrative Changes | |
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| External Affairs | |
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| Catherine II: Economic, Social, and Cultural Policies | |
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| The Economy | |
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| The Society | |
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| The Pugachev Revolt, 1773-1774 | |
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| Education and Culture | |
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| The Russian Enlightenment | |
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| Was Catherine II an Enlightened Despot? | |
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| Bureaucratic Monarchy: Paul and Alexander I, 1796-1825 | |
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| Paul I | |
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| Political Policies of Alexander I | |
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| Speranskii's Reform Program | |
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| The Arakcheevshchina | |
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| The Decembrist Revolt | |
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| War and Diplomacy, 1796-1825 | |
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| Paul I | |
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| Alexander I: Orientation and Initial Polices, 1801-1804 | |
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| Coalition Wars, 1805-1807 | |
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| Tilsit and the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1807-1812 | |
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| Napoleon Invades Russia, 1812 | |
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| Liberation of Europe and the Vienna Settlement, 1823-1815 | |
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| The Concert of Europe | |
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| Social, Economic, and Cultural Development, 1796-1855 | |
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| The Nobility | |
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| Urban Centers | |
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| Industrial Development | |
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| Literature | |
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| Music | |
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| Painting and Architecture | |
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| The "IRON TSAR" | |
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| The Ruler and His Ideology | |
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| Administration | |
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| The Army | |
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| The Intelligentsia | |
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| Foreign Affairs | |
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| The Crimean War, 1853-1856 | |
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| Whither Russia? Slavophiles versus Westernizers | |
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| Modern Russia, 1855 to the Present | |
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| Political Reform and Minorities, 1855-1904 | |
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| Alexander II and the Emancipation | |
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| Other Social and Political Reforms | |
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| Censorship and Education | |
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| Local Self-Government | |
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| Judicial Reform | |
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| Military Reform | |
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| Significance of the Great Reforms | |
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| Treatment of Minorities before 1905 | |
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| Why Did Alexander II Free the Serfs? | |
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| Social and Economic Development, 1855-1904 | |
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| The Peasant World | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Industry and Finance until 1891 | |
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| Finance and Industry: The Spurt of the 1890s | |
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| Social Change | |
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| Religion | |
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| Diplomacy And Empire, 1855-1905 | |
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| Relations with Europe until 1875 | |
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| Pan-Slavism and the Eastern Question until 1878 | |
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| The Caucasus and Central Asia | |
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| Europe and the Balkans, 1881-1905 | |
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| Russia in the Far East until 1914 | |
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| Why Did Russia Expand in Central Asia? | |
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| Opposition To Tsarism, 1855-1905 | |
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| Liberalism and Radicalism, 1855-1870 | |
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| Revolutionary Populism | |
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| The Development of Marxism | |
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| From Populism to the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) | |
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| Liberalism Organizes | |
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| Reactionary Tsarism, 1881-1904 | |
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| War, Revolution, And Reform, 1904-1914 | |
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| The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 | |
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| The 1905 Revolution | |
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| Creation of the Duma Monarchy, 1905-1906 | |
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| Political Development, 1907-1914 | |
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| Economic and Social Development | |
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| Foreign Affairs, 1906-1914 | |
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| Cultural Developments, 1855-1917 | |
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| Literature | |
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| Music | |
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| Painting | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| InfoTrac, College Edition Search Terms | |
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| War And Revolution, 1914-1917 | |
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| Russia Enters World War I | |
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| War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy | |
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| The Army and the Fronts | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| The March Revolution | |
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| Did World War I Cause the Collapse of Tsarism? | |
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| From March To November 1917 | |
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| The "Dual Power" | |
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| The Bolsheviks Gain Leaders and a Program | |
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| The Revolution Moves Left (May-July) | |
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| Kornilov and the Rightward Shift (July-September) | |
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| The Rising Tide (September-November) | |
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| The November Revolution | |
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| Why Did the Bolsheviks Win? | |
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| Civil War And War Communism, 1917-1921 | |
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| First Steps, 1917-1918 | |
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| Civil War, 1918-1920 | |
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| Civil War and Allied Intervention, 1918-1920 | |
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| "War Communism": An Economic Disaster | |
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| The Kronstadt Revolt of 1921 | |
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| The New Economic Policy And Power Struggle, 1921-1927 | |
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| Economic and Political Controls of NEP | |
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| The Struggle over Succession | |
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| From Lenin to Stalin--Continuity or Betrayal? | |
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| The Politics Of Stalinism, 1928-1941 | |
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| Intraparty Struggles and Crises, 1929-1934 | |
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| The Great Purge | |
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| Government and Party Organization | |
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| Stalinism | |
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| The Great Terror: Old and New Approaches | |
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| The Great Transformation | |
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| The Great Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928 | |
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| Forced Collectivization | |
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| Industry: The Five Year Plans | |
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| Shifts in Social Policies | |
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| Forced Collectivization: Why and How? | |
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| Soviet Culture Under Lenin And Stalin, 1917-1953 | |
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| Initial Policies | |
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| Lunacharskii: The Politics of Culture | |
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| Soviet Culture in the Making: Proletkult and Other Vanguard Groups | |
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| Literature | |
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| The Cinema | |
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| Education | |
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| Science | |
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| Stalinist Culture, 1929-1953 | |
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| Partiinost in Literature | |
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| Anticosmopolitanism and the Arts | |
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| Music | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Soviet Foreign Relations To 1941 | |
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| First Revolutionary Era, 1917-1921 | |
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| Accommodation, 1921-1927 | |
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| Neoisolationism, 1928-1933 | |
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| Collective Security, 1934-1937 | |
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| The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941 | |
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| The Nazi-Soviet Pact: Then and Now | |
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| War And Reconstruction, 1941-1953 | |
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| Invasion | |
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| The 1942 Campaign: The Turning Point | |
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| Soviet Offensives and Allied Victory, 1943-1945 | |
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| The USSR and the Far Eastern War | |
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| Postwar Stalinism | |
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| Did Stalin Plan to Attack Nazi Germany in July 1941? | |
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| The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964 | |
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| Politics Repudiating Stalinism | |
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| Economy: A Focus on Agriculture | |
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| Foreign Affairs: Crises in the Communist Bloc Countries | |
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| Khrushchev's Fall | |
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| De-Stalinization: Stalin's Role in the Purges and in World War II | |
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| The Brezhnev Era, 1964-1982 | |
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| Politics: Brezhnev's Rise | |
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| Nationalism and Dissent | |
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| Economy and Society | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces | |
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| Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968, and Its Repudiation, 1989 | |
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| The Soviet Gerontocracy, 1982-1985 | |
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| Domestic Politics | |
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| Economy and Society | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985-1991 | |
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| The Leader and the Succession | |
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| Glasnost and Political Reform | |
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| Nationalities and Nationalism | |
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| Perestroika's Impact on the Economy and Society | |
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| National Security and Foreign Affairs | |
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| Soviet Culture Since Stalin, 1953-1991 | |
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| The Thaw, 1953-1956 | |
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| Dr. Zhivago and the Refreeze | |
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| Culture under Khrushchev | |
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| Culture under Breznev | |
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| Culture under Gorbachev, 1985-1991 | |
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| The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, 1990-1992 | |
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| Gorbachev Declines, Yeltsin Rises, 1990-1991 | |
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| The August Coup | |
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| The Demise of the Soviet Union, 1991-1992 | |
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| The Commonwealth of Independent States | |
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| Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? | |
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| The Yeltsin Years, 1991-1999 | |
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| The Legacy of Soviet Communism | |
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| Environmental Problems: A Devastated Land | |
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| Troubled Transitions, the Yeltsin Era | |
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| Post-Soviet Culture | |
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| Yeltsin's Disputed Legacy | |
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| The Putin Presidency | |
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| Early Life and Career | |
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| The Road to the Presidency | |
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| Putin as President | |
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| Tentative Assessment | |
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| Culture under Yeltsin and Putin | |
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| Russian and Soviet Leaders, 1801-2000 | |
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| Area and Population of Union Republics (January 1989) | |
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| Population of the Largest Cities of the USSR, 1989 | |
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| Glossary of Foreign Words | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |