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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 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: Economic 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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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 (1462-1505) | |
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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 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: Politics 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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Peter The Great: Politics, 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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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 Pugachov Refolt, 1773-1774 | |
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Education and Culture | |
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The Russian Enlightenment | |
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Bureaucratic Monarchy: Paul and Alexander I, 1796-1825 | |
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Paul I. Political Policies of Alexander I. 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. Alexander I: Orientation and Initial Policies, 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, 1813-1815 | |
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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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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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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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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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War and Revolution, 1914-1917 | |
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Russia Enters World War I. 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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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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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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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 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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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. 'Partiinost' in Literature | |
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Anticosmopolitanism and the Arts | |
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Music | |
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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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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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The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964 | |
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Politics: Repudiating Stalinism | |
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Economy: 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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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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Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces | |
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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. 'Glasnost' and Political Reform | |
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Nationalities and Nationalism. 'Perestroika's' Impact on the Economy and Society | |
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National Security and Foreign Affairs | |
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Soviet Culture After Stalin, 1953-1991 | |
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The Thaw, 1953-1956. 'Dr. Zhivago' and the Refreeze | |
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Culture under Khrushchev | |
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Culture under Brezhnev | |
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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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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, 1992-? | |
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Politics: Yeltsin versus the Parliament | |
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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, 1328-2000 | |
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Areas and Populations of Former Soviet Union Republics | |
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Populations of Principal Cities of the Russian Federation | |
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Glossary of Foreign Words | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |