Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-394) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ancient Russia and the Kievan state -- Russia divided and conquered, 1054-1462 -- Moscow and the "gathering of the Russian lands," 1328-1533 -- Ivan the Terrible and the time of troubles, 1533-1618 -- The molding of Russian society, 1613-1689 -- Peter the Great and Westernization, 1689-1725 -- Change and continuity, 1725-1801 -- Power, backwardness, and creativity, 1801-1855 -- Reform, reaction, and modernization, 1855-1904 -- Revolution, reform, and war, 1904-1917 -- Revolution, civil war, and the founding of Soviet society, 1917-1928 -- The second revolution, the Stalinist system, and World War II, 1928-1946 -- The Soviet Union as a superpower : change, stagnation, and "cold war," 1946-1984 -- The Gorbachev "revolution" and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1983-1991 -- The "new" Russia in the post-Soviet era, 1991-2000 -- Putin's paradoxes, 2000-2008.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This balanced and succinct presentation covers the entire expanse of Russian history from the first Kievan states (800 a.d.) to the present day Putin era.