Russian Moment in World History

Name: Russian Moment in World History
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ISBN: 9780691126067

ISBN-10: 0691126062

ISBN-13: 9780691126067

Edition: 2003

Authors: Marshall T. Poe

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Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's fascinating--not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful--past. Tracing Russia's course from its beginnings to the present day, Poe shows that Russia was the only non-Western power to defend itself against Western imperialism for centuries. It did so by building a powerful state that molded society to its military needs. Thus arose the only non-Western…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface



What Russia Is and What It Is Not



From Slavs to Rus'



From Rus' to Russia



The Challenge of Early Modernity



The Origins of the Russian Moment



The Progress of the Russian Moment



From Early Modernity to Modernity



The End of the Russian Moment



Coda: What Might Have Been


Chronology


Bibliographic Note


Index