Format:
Online-Ressource (518 p.)
ISBN:
9780521835626
Series Statement:
Cambridge Concise Histories
Content:
This book provides students and general readers with a broad overview of Russian history from the ninth century to the present
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; A Concise History of Russia; CAMBRIDGE CONCISE HISTORIES; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; 1 Russia before Russia; WARRIORS AND CHRISTIANS; DRUZHINAS AND PRINCES; 2 Moscow, Novgorod, Lithuania, and the Mongols; 3 The Emergence of Russia; IVAN THE TERRIBLE; THE TIME OF TROUBLES; 4 Consolidation and Revolt; 5 Peter the Great; 6 Two Empresses; 7 Catherine the Great; 8 Russia in the Age of Revolution; 9 The Pinnacle of Autocracy; 10 Culture and Autocracy; 11 The Era of the Great Reforms; 12 From Serfdom to Nascent Capitalism
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THE LAST DECADES13 The Golden Age of Russian Culture; SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF REFORM; MUSIC; THE VISUAL ARTS; LITERATURE; 14 Russia as an Empire; THE BALTIC PROVINCES; FINLAND; JEWS; UKRAINIANS; THE ASIATIC EMPIRE; CENTRAL ASIA; THE MANCHURIAN GAMBLE; 15 Autocracy in Decline; 16 War and Revolution; WAR; REVOLUTION; CIVIL WAR AND SOVIET POWER; 17 Compromise and Preparation; 18 Revolutions in Russian Culture; LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND ART; CULTURE AND NEP; THE NATURAL SCIENCES; 19 Building Utopia; 20 War; 21 Growth, Consolidation, and Stagnation; 22 Soviet Culture; 23 The Cold War
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EPILOGUE: The End of the USSRFURTHER READING; RUS AND EARLY RUSSIA; THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FROM THE GREAT REFORMS TO 1917; ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY; FOREIGN POLICY AND EMPIRE; THE SOVIET ERA; DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS; THE WAR; THE COLD WAR AND THE END OF THE USSR; CULTURE; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139220491
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1139033204
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521835623
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521543231
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139217408
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1139223925
Language:
English
Keywords:
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