A Brief History of Russia
A Brief History of Russia
Editor/Author
Kort, Michael
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-0829-2
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
50
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Detailing the social, economic, and political changes and crises that the people of Russia have had to endure, A Brief History of Russia provides a comprehensive and accessible account of this vast country's history.
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Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Before the Russians, Kievan Rus, and Muscovite Russia (Tenth Century b.c.e.-1462 C.E.)
- Independence and Unification: The Last Rurikids to the First Romanovs (1462-1694)
- Imperial Russia: The Eras of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great (1694-1801)
- The Nineteenth-Century Crisis: The Mystic and the Knout (1801-1855)
- Reform, Reaction, and Revolution (1855-1917)
- The Golden and Silver Ages: Russian Cultural Achievement from Pushkin to World War I (1820-1917)
- Soviet Russia: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Realities (1917-1953)
- Soviet Russia: Reform, Decline, and Collapse (1953-1991)
- Post-Soviet Russia: Yeltsin and Putin (1991-2008)
- Conclusion: The Russian Riddle
- Appendixes
- Basic Facts about Russia
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Suggested Reading