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A companion to Russian history /

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This Companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day.:.; Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada.; Analyzes...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gleason, Abbott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2009.
Series:Blackwell companions to world history.
Subjects:
Russia (Federation) > History.
Soviet Union > History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Russian historiography after the fall / Abbott Gleason
  • From proto-Slavs to proto-state / P.M. Barford
  • The first East Slavic state / Janet Martin
  • Rusʹ and the Byzantine Empire / George Majeska
  • The Mongols and Rusʹ : eight paradigms / Donald Ostrowski
  • Muscovite political culture / Nancy Shields Kollmann
  • Slavery and serfdom in Russia / Richard Hellie
  • Russian art from the Middle Ages to modernism / Ilia A. Dorontchenkov
  • The church schism and old belief / Nadieszda Kizenko
  • Petrine Russia / Lindsey Hughes
  • The westernization of the elite, 1725-1800 / Gary Marker
  • The great reforms of the 1860s / Daniel Field
  • Industrialization and capitalism / Thomas C. Owen
  • The question of civil society in late imperial Russia / Christopher Ely
  • Russia : minorities and empire / Robert Geraci
  • The intelligentsia and its critics / Gary Saul Morson
  • Russian modernism / Andrew Wachtel
  • Russia's popular culture in history and theory / Louise McReynolds
  • The Russian experience of the First World War / Melissa Stockdale
  • From the First World War to civil war, 1914-1923 / Mark von Hagen
  • The woman question in Russia : contradictions and ambivalence / Elizabeth A. Wood
  • Stalinism and the 1930s / Lynne Viola
  • The Soviet Union in the Second World War / Nikita Lomagin
  • The Cold War / David C. Engerman
  • Old thinking and new : Khrushchev and Gorbachev / Robert English
  • The end of the Soviet Union / Robert V. Daniels
  • Russia's post-Soviet upheaval / Bruce Parrott
  • Russian history and the future of Russia / William E. Odom.