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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Ancient Russia and the Kievan State | |
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| The Russian Land | |
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| The Peoples of Russia | |
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| The Slavs Come to Russia | |
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| The Formation of the Kievan State | |
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| How Did Kievan Russians Make a Living? | |
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| Kievan Society | |
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| Religion and Culture in Kievan Russia | |
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| Power and Politics in Kievan Russia | |
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| The Fall and Significance of Kievan Russia | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Russia Divided and Conquered, 1054-1462 | |
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| Russia Divided | |
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| The Mongol Scourge | |
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| The Impact of the Mongols | |
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| The Decline of Mongol Power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Moscow and the "Gathering of the Russian Lands," 1328-1535 | |
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| The Odds Against Moscow | |
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| Moscow's Advantages | |
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| The Unification of Russia, 1328-1533 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Ivan the Terrible and the Time of Troubles, 1533-1618 | |
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| The Personality and Character of Ivan the Terrible | |
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| The Reforms of Ivan IV | |
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| Ivan Versus the Aristocracy | |
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| The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Molding of Russian Society, 1613-1689 | |
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| Serfdom | |
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| The Autocracy | |
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| The Orthodox Church | |
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| The Expansion of Russia | |
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| Relations with the West | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Peter the Great and Westernization, 1689-1725 | |
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| Peter's Coming of Age | |
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| Peter's Personality and Character | |
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| Peter in War and Diplomacy | |
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| Peter's Reforms | |
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| Resistance to Peter | |
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| Significance of Peter the Great | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Change and Continuity, 1725-1801 | |
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| Peter's Successors, 1725-1762 | |
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| Catherine the Great, 1762-1796 | |
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| Russian Expansion and Colonization | |
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| Economic and Social Development | |
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| The Changing Role of the Nobility | |
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| Education and Culture | |
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| The Reign of Paul I,1796-1801 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Power, Backwardness, and Creativity, 1801-1855 | |
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| The Serf Economy | |
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| Russia Unchanged | |
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| Creativity and Dissent | |
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| Russia: Arbiter of Europe, Colonizer of Asia and America | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Reform, Reaction, and Modernization, 1855-1904 | |
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| The Era of the Great Reforms, 1855-1881 | |
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| Terror and Reaction | |
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| Economic and Social Modernization, 1861-1905 | |
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| Competing Ideologies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Revolution, Reform, and War, 1904-1917 | |
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| The Revolution of 1905 | |
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| The Duma Period, 1906-1914 | |
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| The Silver Age: Russian Culture, 1890-1917 | |
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| Russian Involvement in World War 1, 1914-1917 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Revolution, Civil War, and the Founding of Soviet Society, 1917-1928 | |
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| The February Revolution: The Collapse of the Tsarist System | |
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| The Bolsheviks Come to Power | |
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| Civil War and Foreign Intervention, 1918-1921 | |
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| The New Economic Policy and Coexistence, 1921-1928 | |
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| The Struggle for Power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Second Revolution, the Stalinist System, and World War II, 1928-1946 | |
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| The Revolution from Above: Industrialization and Collectivization | |
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| The Stalinist System | |
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| Soviet Culture, 1917-1953 | |
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| Stalin and the World, 1928-1946 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Soviet Union as a Superpower: Change, Stagnation, and "Cold War," 1946-1984 | |
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| Reconstruction and Renewed Stalinism | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Ideological Rigidity and Repression | |
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| The Succession to Stalin and the Rise of Khrushchev | |
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| Peaceful Coexistence and Troubles in Eastern Europe | |
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| Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split | |
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| Ups and Downs in Soviet-Western Relations | |
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| Khrushchev: Reformer or Repairman? | |
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| Bureaucratic Stability Under Brezhnev and His Successors | |
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| Detente and Its Erosion | |
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| The Changing Soviet Society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Gorbachev "Revolution" and the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1983-1991 | |
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| The Origins of the Gorbachev Reforms | |
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| Efforts to Rejuvenate the Economy | |
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| "New Thinking" in Foreign Policy | |
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| Glasnost� | |
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| Democratization | |
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| Gorbachev's Downfall | |
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| The Attempted Coup of August 1991 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The "New" Russia in the Post-Soviet Era, 1991-2000 | |
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| The Quadruple Revolution | |
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| On the High Road to Capitalism | |
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| Setbacks and Problems | |
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| Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Russia | |
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| Difficult Times in the New Russia | |
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| Cultural Attitudes Shift | |
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| The Rocky Road to Democracy | |
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| A New Constitution | |
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| A Shaky Democracy and Yeltsin's Decline | |
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| The Chechen Rebellion and the First Chechen War | |
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| Russia, Its Neighbors, and the World | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Putin Era: Progress and Problems, 2000-2012 | |
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| The Meteoric Rise of Vladimir Putin | |
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| Good Times and Bad Times | |
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| "Sovereign Democracy" | |
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| Elections | |
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| Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Medvedev's Rule | |
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| The Challenge of the Caucasus | |
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| Putin's Assertive Foreign Policy | |
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| Russia and the United States | |
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| Russia and Its Neighbors | |
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| Russia and the European Union | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |