A History of Russia Combined Volume

by Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.; Steinberg, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780195153941
• ISBN10: 0195153944
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Now completely revised in this seventh edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the postcommunist present. Featuring a new coauthor, Mark Steinberg, this edition offers extensively updated material based on the most current research,including documents from recently opened archives. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance. This seventhedition contains a wealth of new images and a fully revised bibliography and reading list. Two new chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's complex experience after communism and discuss its chances of becoming a more stable and prosperous country in the future. Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume history available, A History of Russia is being offered in paperback for the first time. In addition to the one-volume version, it is now also available in two split volumes--the first covers early Russia through the nineteenth century and the second rangesfrom 1855 to the present. Volume II features an additional introductory chapter that links Russia's modern history to the events that preceded it.

Table of Contents

Maps	xi
Illustrations	xiii
Prefaces	xvii
Part I Introduction
A Geographical Note	3	(7)
Russia before the Russians	10	(11)
Part II Kievan Russia
The Establishment of the Kievan State	21	(5)
Kievan Russia: A Political Outline	26	(13)
Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions	39	(9)
Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture	48	(11)
Part III Appanage Russia
Appanage Russia: Introduction	59	(4)
The Mongols and Russia	63	(9)
Lord Novgorod the Great	72	(10)
The Southwest and the Northeast	82	(6)
The Rise of Moscow	88	(17)
Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions	105	(6)
Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture	111	(12)
The Lithuanian-Russian State	123	(8)
Part IV Muscovite Russia
The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533--84, and of Theodore, 1584--98	131	(13)
The Time of Troubles, 1598--1613	144	(17)
The Reigns of Michael, 1613--45, Alexis, 1645--76, and Theodore, 1676--82	161	(8)
Muscovite Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions	169	(12)
Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture	181	(16)
Part V Imperial Russia
The Reign of Peter the Great, 1682--1725	197	(26)
Russian History from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great: The Reigns of Catherine I, 1725--27, Peter II, 1727--30, Anne, 1730--40, Ivan VI, 1740--41, Elizabeth, 1741--62, and Peter III, 1762	223	(12)
The Reigns of Catherine the Great, 1762--96, and Paul, 1796--1801	235	(21)
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century	256	(8)
Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century	264	(15)
The Reign of Alexander I, 1801--25	279	(22)
The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825--55	301	(16)
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century	317	(6)
Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century	323	(18)
The Reign of Alexander II, 1855--81	341	(21)
The Reign of Alexander III, 1881--94, and the First Part of the Reign of Nicholas II, 1894--1905	362	(15)
The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period, 1905--17	377	(19)
The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the ``Great Reforms'' until the Revolutions of 1917	396	(19)
Russian Culture from the ``Great Reforms'' until the Revolutions of 1917	415	(24)
The Revolutions of 1917	439	(12)
Part VI Soviet Russia
Soviet Russia: An Introduction	451	(9)
War Communism, 1917--21, and the New Economic Policy, 1921--28	460	(22)
The First Three Five-Year Plans, 1928--41	482	(19)
Soviet Foreign Policy, 1921--41, and the Second World War, 1941--45	501	(16)
Stalin's Last Decade, 1945--53	517	(12)
The Soviet Union after Stalin, 1953--85	529	(27)
Soviet Society and Culture	556	(28)
The Gorbachev Years, 1985--91, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union	584	(25)
Part VII Russian Federation
Russia after Communism: Yeltsin, 1991--99, and Putin, 2000--	609	(32)
Society and Culture since 1991	641
Appendix tables
1--4 Russian Rulers	2	(4)
5 Political Subdivisions of the U.S.S.R. as of January 1, 1976	6
Bibliography	1	(1)
A Select List of Readings in English on Russian History	1	(1)
Index	1