| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 523 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-500) and index. |
| Contents |
From Kiev to Muscovy : the beginnings to 1450 / Janet Martin -- Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598 / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- From Muscovy towards St. Petersburg, 1598-1689 / Hans-Joachim Torke -- The Petrine era and after, 1689-1740 / John T. Alexander -- The age of enlightenment, 1740-1801 / Gary Marker -- Pre-reform Russia, 1801-1855 / David L. Ransel -- Reform and counter-reform, 1855-1890 / Gregory L. Freeze -- Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914 / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Russia in war and revolution, 1914-1921 / Daniel T. Orlovsky -- The New Economic Policy (NEP) and the revolutionary experiment, 1921-1929 / William B. Husband -- Building Stalinism, 1929-1941 / Lewis Siegelbaum -- The Great Fatherland War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 / William C. Fuller, Jr. -- From Stalinism to stagnation, 1953-1985 / Gregory L. Freeze -- From perestroika towards a new order, 1985-1995 / Martin McCauley -- Meltdown, rebuilding, reform, 1996-2001 / Gregory L. Freeze. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties of the new millennium, this new history offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War battleground, historians are now able to tell the story of Russia more dispassionately and with greater precision than was formerly possible. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, and informed thro. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost History Reference Center |
| Subject |
Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Soviet Union -- History.
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Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
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Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
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HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Russia -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1991
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freeze, Gregory L., 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Russia. 2nd ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0198605110 (DLC) 2003265317 (OCoLC)48532679 |
| ISBN |
9780191568398 (electronic book) |
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0191568392 (electronic book) |
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9780198605119 |
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0198605110 |
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