A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century

by Service, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780674034938
• ISBN10: 0674034937
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition takes the story from 2002 through the entire presidency of Vladimir Putin to the election of his successor, Dmitri Medvedev.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Transliteration

Maps

The Russian Empire in 1900

The Soviet Union, 1924-1936

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945

The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997

The Russian Federation in 1997

Introduction

And Russia? 1900-1914

The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917

Conflicts and Crises 1917

The October Revolution 1917-1918

New World, Old World

Civil Wars 1918-1921

The New Economic Policy 1921-1928

Leninism and its Discontents

The First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932

Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation

Terror upon Terror 1934-1938

Coping with Big Brothers

The Second World War 1939-1945

Coda

Suffering and Struggle 1941-1945

The Hammers of Peace 1945-1953

The Despot and his Masks

‘De-Stalinization' 1953-1961

Hopes Unsettled 1961-1964

Stabilization 1964-1970

‘Developed Socialism' 1970-1982

Privilege and Alienation

Towards Reform 1982-1985

Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988

Imploding Imperium 1989

Hail and Farewell 1990-1991

Power and the Market 1992-1993

The Lowering of Expectations 1994-1999

And Russia? from 2000

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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