Russia and the Russians : : a History
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Introduction: Geopolitics, ecology, and national character -- pt. 1. Pre-imperial Rus and the beginnings of empire -- Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the rise of Muscovy -- Ivan IV and the expansion of Muscovy -- pt. 2. The troubled building of empire -- The turbulent seventeenth century -- Peter the Great and Europeanization -- pt. 3. Russia as European empire -- State and society in the eighteenth century -- The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I -- pt. 4. Imperial crisis -- Alexander II's uncertain reforms -- The rise of nationalism -- pt. 5. Revolution and utopia -- Social change and revolution -- War and revolution -- Social transformation and terror -- Soviet society takes shape -- pt. 6. The decline and fall of utopia -- Recovery and Cold War -- Soviet society under "developed socialism" -- From Perestroika to Russian Federation -- Chronology.
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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xiii, 728 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674061958
0674061950
SUBJECTS
National characteristics, Russian.
Russia -- History.
Soviet Union -- History.
Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-