| Description |
xv, 345 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Phoenix -- The eighteenth century -- 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 -- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? -- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War -- Embattled leader of the "second world", 1953-1982 -- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond. |
| Subject |
Russia -- History.
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Soviet Union -- History.
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Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-
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| ISBN |
9780742568389 cloth alkaline paper |
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0742568385 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780742568396 paperback alkaline paper |
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0742568393 paperback alkaline paper |
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