Russia and the Russians

Name: Russia and the Russians
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ISBN: 9780674011144

ISBN-10: 0674011147

ISBN-13: 9780674011144

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Geoffrey Hosking

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From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world's leading historians of Russia follows this story from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's headlines. Hosking's is a monumental story of competing legacies, of an enormous power uneasily balanced between the ideas and realities of Asian empire, European culture, and Byzantine religion; of a constantly shifting identity,…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 6.50" wide x 13.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Geoffrey Hosking is retired Professor of Russian History at the University College London.



Preface


Introduction: Geopolitics, Ecology, and National Character



Pre-Imperial Rus and the Beginnings of Empire



Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the Rise of Muscovy



Ivan IV and the Expansion of Muscovy



The Troubled Building of Empire



The Turbulent Seventeenth Century



Peter the Great and Europeanization



Russia as European Empire



State and Society in the Eighteenth Century



The Reigns of Paul




Imperial Crisis



Alexander II's Uncertain Reforms



The Rise of Nationalism



Revolution and Utopia



Social Change and Revolution



War and Revolution



Social Transformation and Terror



Soviet Society Takes Shape



The Decline and Fall of Utopia



Recovery and Cold War



Soviet Society under "Developed Socialism"



From Perestroika to Russian Federation


Chronology


Notes


Index