Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages B-1-B-34) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Kievan Rus -- Introduction: the lands and peoples of the Eurasian plain -- A political outline, c882-1240 -- Institutions, economy, society -- Religion and culture -- Part II. Appanage Russia -- Introduction -- Mongol rule -- Lord Novgorod the Great -- The southwest and the northeast -- The rise of Moscow -- Institutions, economy, society -- Religion and culture -- Lithuania, Poland, and Russia -- Part III. Muscovite Russia -- Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84 -- The time of troubles -- The early Romanovs, 1613-82 -- Institutions, economy, society -- Religion and culture -- Part IV. Imperial Russia -- Peter the Great, 1682-1725 -- From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, 1725-1762 -- Catherine the Great, 1762-96, and Paul, 1796-1801 -- Economy and society in the eighteenth century -- Russian culture in the eighteenth century -- Alexander I, 1801-25 -- Nicholas I, 1825-55 -- Economy and society before the great reforms -- Russian culture in the first half of the nineteenth century -- Alexander II, 1855-81 -- Alexander III, 1881-94, and Nicholas II to the Revolution of 1905 -- Nicholas II in the era of revolution and reform, 1905-17 -- Economy and society from the great reforms to 1917 -- Russian culture from the great reforms to 1917 -- The revolutions of 1917 -- Part V. Soviet Russia -- Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- The Stalin revolution, 1928-1939 -- The Soviet Union and the world, 1921-45 -- Stalin's last years, 1945-53 -- Politics and economy after Stalin, 1953-85 -- Soviet society, 1917-1985 -- Soviet culture, 1917-1985 -- Glasnost, Perestroika, and the end of the Soviet Union, 1985-91 -- Part VI. The Russian Federation -- Politics after communism: Yeltsin and Putin -- Economy, society, and culture after communism.
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