Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311) and index.
Contents:
The beginnings -- The rise of Muscovite Russia -- Times of troubles and grandeur, 1584-1725 -- Russia as a great power, 1801-55 -- Reform and counter-reform, 1861-94 -- Revolutionary Russia, 1894-1917 -- The Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin -- Reform, stagnation, collapse -- The rise and rise of Putin.
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