The making of modern Russia : from Kiev Rusʹ to the collapse of the Soviet Union
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The making of modern Russia : from Kiev Rusʹ to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Penguin, 1997
3rd ed / John Keep
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The third revised edition begins with the arrival of the Slavs in the 6th century and ends with Gorbachev, the demise of communism and an outline of the Yeltsin years. Greater attention has been paid to developments in Russian provinces and also to the history of arts and cultural life.
Table of Contents
- The rise and fall of Kiev Rus
- the Mongol conquest and the rise of Muscovy
- the formation of a national state
- Ivan The Terrible and the crisis of Russian autocracy
- the time of troubles
- the growth of absolution - the early Romanovs
- expansion and bureaucracy - the age of Peter The Great
- the birth of civil society
- liberators and gendarmes
- from reform to assassination
- economic development and social change in the late imperial era
- towards the first Russian revolution
- last years of empire
- war and revolution
- red victory
- recovery and consolidation
- The Revolution and the world
- Stalinism
- the great patriotic war
- building an empire
- from neo-Leninism to stagnation
- the paradoxes of 'mature socialism'
- the USSR as a world power
- Gorbachev and after.
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