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A history of the Urals : Russia's crucible from early empire to the post-Soviet era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dukes, Paul, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Subjects:
Ural Mountains (Russia) > History.
Ural Mountains Region (Russia) > History.
Mines and mineral resources > Russia (Federation) > Ural Mountains > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Approaches to the Urals
  • The arrival of the Russian Empire, 1552-1725
  • Tsarist modernisation, 1725-1825
  • Reaction and reform, 1825-1894
  • From tsarist to Soviet Russia, 1894-1921
  • Soviet modernisation and the Great Patriotic War, 1921-1945
  • Reconstruction and the Cold War, 1945-1964
  • Stagnation and collapse, 1964-1991
  • The new Russia, 1991-2012
  • Afterword.