Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. In the ninth edition, this includes expanded attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and to imperial expansion and diversity. Extensively revised and with a more streamlined organization, A History of Russia, Ninth Edition, includes recent developments in Ukraine and Russia's near abroad in the Putin era.
Author(s): Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
Edition: 9
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 748
Tags: Kievan Rus: History; Russia: History; Soviet Union: History; Russia (Federation): History
Cover
A History of Russia
About the Authors
Contents
Maps
Illustrations
New to the Ninth Edition
Preface to the Ninth Edition
Part I: KIEVAN RUS
1: Introduction: The Lands and Peoples of the Eurasian Plain
2: A Political Outline, c. 882–1240
3: Institutions, Economy, Society
4: Religion and Culture
Part II: APPANAGE RUSSIA
5: Appanage Russia: Introduction
6: Mongol Rule
7: Lord Novgorod the Great
8: The Southwest and the Northeast
9: The Rise of Moscow
10: Institutions, Economy, Society
11: Religion and Culture
12: Lithuania, Poland, and Russia
Part III: MUSCOVITE RUSSIA
13: Ivan the Terrible, 1533–84
14: The Time of Troubles
15: The Early Romanovs, 1613–82
16: Institutions, Economy, Society
17: Religion and Culture
Part IV: IMPERIAL RUSSIA
18: Peter the Great, 1682_1725
19: From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, 1725–1762: Catherine I, Peter II, Anne, Ivan VI, Elizabeth, and Peter III
20: Catherine the Great, 1762–96, and Paul, 1796–1801
21: Economy and Society in the Eighteenth Century
22: Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century
23: Alexander I, 1801–25
24: Nicholas I, 1825–55
25: Economy and Society before the Great Reforms
26: Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
27: Alexander II, 1855–81
28: Alexander III, 1881–94, and Nicholas II to the Revolution of 1905
29: Nicholas II in the Era of Revolution and Reform, 1905–17
30: Economy and Society from the Great Reforms to 1917
31: Russian Culture from the Great Reforms to the Revolutions of 1917
32: The Revolutions of 1917
Part V: SOVIET RUSSIA
33: Revolutionary Russia, 1917–28
34: The Stalin Revolution, 1928–39
35: The Soviet Union and the World, 1921–45
36: Stalin's Last Years, 1945–53
37: Politics and Economy after Stalin, 1953–85
38: Soviet Society, 1917–85
39: Soviet Culture, 1917–85
40: Glasnost, Perestroika, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985–91
Part VI: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
41: Politics after Communism: Yeltsin and Putin
42: Economy, Society, and Culture after Communism
Appendix: Russian Rulers
Bibliography: Select Readings in English
Index
