LSC CPS1 () : THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA VOLUME ONE

by Moss, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780072536249
• ISBN10: 0072536241
• Edition: Custom
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This is the first volume of a two-volume text that focuses on three main topics: the struggle for and against political authority, the expansion and contraction ofRussia and its dealings with non-Russian nationalities and foreign powers, and the life and culture of the Russian people. This approach contributes to the book's stress on the continuities in Russian history from its beginnings to the mid 1990's. The text provides a balanced and comprehensive coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history.Distinctions A two-volume format, with the material on Late Imperial Russia appearing in both volumes. Incorporates the latest scholarly findings and briefly mentions scholarly controversies. A clear overview stressing main themes is offered at the beginning of each historical period and the beginning of each chapter. Chapters are organized in a chronological/topical manner and written in a clear style interweaving narrative and analysis. Offers greater treatment of such topics as nationalities issues, political opposition, women, eating and drinking, health and sickness, law, crime and punishments, and popular culture. Much stronger coverage of social history than its competitors. Extensive and current list of sources at the end of each chapter. A more general source list at the end of each volume includes references to media sources and internet sources. Primary source inserts drawn from memoirs, letters, foreign observers accounts, and Soviet dissident literature are all included in each chapter.

Table of Contents

A Note to Students

CHAPTER 1: Land and Peoples: From Ancient Times to the Present

PART I: THE RISE AND DISINTEGRATION OF KIEVAN RUS

CHAPTER 2: The Politics of Kievan Rus

CHAPTER 3: Kievan Society, Religion, and Culture

CHAPTER 4: The Fragmentation of Kievan Rus and Rise of New Centers

PART II: THE MONGOLS AND THE RISE OF MOSCOW TO 1533

CHAPTER 5: The Mongol Conquest and Subjugation

CHAPTER 6: Moscow and Its Rivals, 1304-1533

CHAPTER 7: Society, Religion, and Culture, 1240-1533

PART III: MUSCOVITE TSARS AND EXPANSION, 1533-1689

CHAPTER 8: Ivan the Terrible: Autocrat

CHAPTER 9: The Time of Troubles

CHAPTER 10: The First Romanovs, 1613-1689

CHAPTER 11: Economic and Social Life, 1533-1689

CHAPTER 12: Religion and Culture, 1533-1689

Part IV: EARLY IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1689-1855

CHAPTER 13: Peter the Great

CHAPTER 14: Three Empresses and Three Emperors: Rulers and Palace Politics, 1725-1762

CHAPTER 15: Catherine the Great

CHAPTER 16: Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Life

CHAPTER 17: Eighteenth-Century Religion and Culture

CHAPTER 18: Paul and Alexander I, 1796-1825

CHAPTER 19: Nicholas I, 1825-1855

CHAPTER 20: Economic and Social Life, 1796-1855

CHAPTER 21: Religion and Culture, 1796-1855

PART V: LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1855-1917

CHAPTER 22: Alexander II, Reformism and Radicalism

CHAPTER 23: Reactionary Politics, Economic Modernization, and Political Opposition, 1881-1905

CHAPTER 24: Russian Imperial and Foreign Policy, 1855-1905

CHAPTER 25: Revolution or Evolution? Politics and War, 1905-1917

CHAPTER 26: Economics and Society, 1855-1917

CHAPTER 27: Religion and Culture, 1855-1917

Appendix A: Chronology

Appendix B: Glossary of Terms

Appendix C: Genealogy of Russian Rulers

General Bibliography

Index