A history of Russia / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. (Nicholas Valentine), 1923-2011, author.

Steinberg, Mark D., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kievan Rus--History.

Kievan Rus.

Russia--History.

Russia.

History.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--History.

Russia (Federation).

Europe--Kyivan Rus.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 658, A-5, B-34, I-29 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history-political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural-with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. In the ninth edition, this includes expanded attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and to imperial expansion and diversity. Extensively revised and with a more streamlined organization, A History of Russia, Ninth Edition, includes recent developments in Ukraine and Russia's near abroad in the Putin era. New to This Edition Every chapter has been extensively revised to reflect new scholarship on all periods, many with new chapter titles that reflect these changes, Updated coverage of Russian history in the era of Putin, The text has been streamlined to allow for a smoother narrative flow and sharper focus on key historical developments, Five new photos and a new two-page map feature on the shifting borders of Ukraine Book jacket.

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

Lithuania, Poland, and Russia

Part III. Muscovite Russia

Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84

The time of troubles

The early Romanovs, 1613-82

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.

Notes:

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages B-1-B-34) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. (Nicholas Valentine), 1923-2011. History of Russia.

ISBN:

9780190645601

0190645601

9780190645595

0190645598

019064558X

9780190645588

OCLC:

994287621