A History of Russia and its Empire : : From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin

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1. The rise of Russia in the Seventeenth Century, 1613-1689 -- The Romanov Dynasty : Mikhail -- The Romanov Dynasty : Aleksei -- The ruling system -- Russia's economy, society, and culture -- Women and men in early modern Russia -- The geographical challenge -- Within and without Russia -- Cossacks -- Religion and foreigners -- 2. Great power, 1689-1796 -- Peter's significance -- Russia and the law ; Peter and the networks -- Peter the Great : Russia's Europeanization -- Peter : man and myth -- Romanov expansion eastward : Siberia's conquest -- Cultural and technological transfer : Russia's key to survival -- Female rule -- The Academy of Sciences and Russian culture -- Anna's autocracy -- Elizabeth -- Catherine the Great's significance -- Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst : Russia and the Enlightenment -- The limits of Catherine's power : foreigner, woman, murderess, or an autocratic facade? -- Poland partitioned : New Russia -- 3. The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855 -- The limitations of the autocracy -- Paul and Suvorov -- Speranskii -- The War of 1812 -- The Congress of Vienna -- Perennial backwardness? -- Stagnation : the Decembrists and the Third Department -- The birth of the Intelligentsia -- Greece and Poland -- Russian Colonialism -- The great game -- The great game in Central Asia -- The Age of Pushkin, Gogol, and Lermontov.
4. Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905 -- The watershed -- The Crimean War -- The abolition of serfdom -- Other reforms : the courts and local government -- The culmination of the reforms : the army -- The Polish question revisited -- Counterreform? -- Revolutionaries -- cultural brilliance -- Fatal contradictions ; industrialization and urbanization -- Land hunger -- Marxism and peasant Socialism -- Liberalism and Conservatism -- Non-Russian Nationalism -- 5. Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914 -- The Russo-Turkish War and Pan-Slavism -- Russia as an Imperialist power in East Asia -- The Russo-Japanese War -- Political opposition -- The 1905 Revolution -- The end of the Revolution -- Stolypin and the Tsar -- Peasants into farmers -- Industrialization and economic growth : strikes -- The Bosnian Crisis of 1908 and the Balkan Wars ; the Alliance System -- Women -- Religion -- Ballets Russes, Silver Age : decadence, the Empire's last hurrah, or Cassandra -- 6. Forging Soviet civilization, 1914-1924 -- The First world War -- Provisional government and Soviets -- The Bolsheviks -- Going boldly where no one went before -- How to build a Communist society -- Destroying an empire -- Empire and Comintern -- Cheka and Gulag : the beginnings -- A sham democracy -- Victory in war, retreat in peace -- The Soviet Federation -- Soviet women -- 7. The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? : 1924-1941 -- Lenin and Stalin -- The 1920s intermezzo and the great turn -- Bolshevik farming -- Collectivization and Dekulakization -- Famine -- Industrialization -- Culture and religion -- The Gulag Archipelago -- The Great Terror -- A Potemkin country -- Was Stalinism really necessary? -- 8. The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War -- The Second World War -- The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -- Before Barbarossa -- Barbarossa and beyond -- Soviet resolve -- The victor's spoils : Teheran, Yalta, and Postdam -- Postwar reconstruction -- Foreign affairs -- 9. Embattled leader of the "second world", 1953-1982 -- At the apex -- The struggle for Stalin's mantle -- Champion of the Third World -- Mao, Khrushchev, and beyond -- The "secret" speech and its consequences -- Khrushchev's domestic program and fall -- Collective leadership and Leonid Brezhnev -- 10. The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond, 1982-2013 -- Religion and Nationalism -- Brezhnev's successors -- Glasnost' and perestroika -- Gorbachev reforms his country -- Gorbachev embattled -- Russia and its former colonies -- Chang and continuity in Russia -- Vladimir Putin -- Past and present.

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