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03404aam a2200445 i 4500 001 F599B14EF7B511E98B85DA5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20191026010047 008 180530s2018 mduab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018004487 020 $a 1538104407 020 $a 9781538104408 020 $a 1538104393 020 $a 9781538104392 035 $a (OCoLC)1041227086 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d NYP $d BKL $d UKMGB $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d MDS $d ZLM $d OCLCA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ru--- $a e-ru--- 050 00 $a DK40 $b .B596 2018 082 00 $a 947.08 $2 23 100 1 $a Boterbloem, Kees, $d 1962- $e author. 245 12 $a A history of Russia and its empire : $b from Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin / $c Kees Boterbloem. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2018] 300 $a xiii, 351 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Phoenix : the rise of Russia in the seventeenth century, 1613-1689 -- Great power, 1689-1796 -- The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855 -- Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905 -- Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914 -- Forging Soviet civilization, 1914-1924 -- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? 1924-1941 -- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War, 1941-1953 -- Embattled leader of the "Second World," 1953-1982 -- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond, 1982-2018. 520 $a "This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putins new term. Through a consistent chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments and crucial turning points that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature in the twentieth century. The author assesses the tremendous price paid by those who made Russia and the Soviet Union into such a hegemonic power, both locally and globally. He considers the complex and varied interactions between Russians and non-Russians and investigates the reasons for the remarkable longevity of this last of the colonial powers, whose dependencies were not granted independence until 1991. He explores the ongoing legacies of this fraught decolonization process on the Russian Federation itself and on the other states that succeeded the Soviet Union. The only text designed and written specifically for a one-semester course on this four-hundred-year period, it will appeal to all readers interested in learning more about the history of the people who have inhabited one-sixth of the earths landmass for centuries." 648 7 $a Since 1991 $2 fast 651 0 $a Russia $x History 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x History 651 0 $a Russia (Federation) $x History $y 1991- 651 7 $a Russia $2 gnd 651 7 $a Sowjetunion. $2 gnd 776 08 $i Online version: $a Boterbloem, Kees, 1962- author. $t History of Russia and its empire $b Second edition. $d Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] $z 9781538104415 $w (DLC) 2018028599 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010332.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20191026010200.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F599B14EF7B511E98B85DA5097128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search