Russia and the Russians : a history / Geoffrey Hosking.
From the publisher. From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the history and destiny of Russia have unfolded. In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking world's l...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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MSU: This book was selected in recognition of MSU Libraries Student Employee, Richard Holland, Class of 2012. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 728 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : geopolitics, ecology, and national character
- Part 1. Pre-imperial Rus and the beginnings of empire
- Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the rise of Muscovy
- Ivan IV and the expansion of Muscovy
- Part 2. The troubled building of empire
- The turbulent seventeenth century
- Peter the Great and Europeanization
- Part 3. Russia as European empire
- State and society in the eighteenth century
- The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I
- Part 4. Imperial crisis
- Alexander II's uncertain reforms
- The rise of nationalism
- Part 5. Revolution and utopia
- Social change and revolution
- War and revolution
- Social transformation and terror
- Soviet society takes shape
- Part 6. The decline and fall of utopia
- Recovery and Cold War
- Soviet society under "developed socialism"
- From Perestroika to Russian Federation
- Chronology.