Russia : a history
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Russia : a history
Oxford University Press, 2000
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First published 1997
Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-459) and index
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Description
From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s, this history text offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War battleground, historians are now able to tell the story of Russia more dispassionately and with greater precision than was formerly possible. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, and informed throughout by the latest archival research into previously classified sources, international experts here reassess and reinterpret the history of one of the world's great powers. What emerges is a powerful sense of national destiny - of repeated themes, unchanging conditions, and cycles of circumstance. Throughout Russian history, all-powerful autocrats like Ivan the Terrible or Stalin have maintained their authority through brutality; but their omnipotence was always under threat, circumscribed by geography, compromised by bureaucratic incompetence, pervasive corruption, and resistance from below.
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface. 1: Janet Martin: From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450. 2: Nancy Shields Kollmann: Muscovite Russia 1450-1598. 3: Hans-Joachim Torke: From Muscovy Towards St Petersburg 1598-1689. 4: John T. Alexander: The Petrine Era and After 1682-1740. 5: Gary Marker: The Age of Enlightenment 1740-1801. 6: David L. Ransel: Pre-Reform Russia 1801-55. 7: Gregory L. Freeze: Reform and Counter-Reform 1855-90. 8: Reginald E. Zelnik: Revolutionary Russia 1890-1914. 9: Daniel T. Orlovsky: Russia in War and Revolution 1914-21. 10: William B. Husband: The New Economic Policy and the Revolutionary Experiment 1921-9. 11: Lewis Siegelbaum: Building Stalinism 1929-41. 12: William C. Fuller Jr: The Great Fatherland, War, and Late Stalinism 1941-53. 13: Gregory L. Freeze: From Stalinism to Stagnation 1953-85. 14: Martin McCauley: From Perestroika Towards a New Order 1985-95. Chronology. Further Reading. List of Contributors. Glossary. Index
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