Physical Description:print xiii, 718 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher:Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Geopolitics, Ecology, and National Character -- I. Pre-Imperial Rus and the Beginnings of Empire -- 1. Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the Rise of Muscovy -- 2. Ivan IV and the Expansion of Muscovy -- II. Troubled Building of Empire -- 3. Turbulent Seventeenth Century -- 4. Peter the Great and Europeanization -- III. Russia as European Empire -- 5. State and Society in the Eighteenth Century -- 6. Reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I -- IV. Imperial Crisis -- 7. Alexander II's Uncertain Reforms -- 9. Rise of Nationalism -- V. Revolution and Utopia -- 9. Social Change and Revolution -- 10. War and Revolution -- 11. Social Transformation and Terror -- 12. Soviet Society Takes Shape -- VI. Decline and Fall of Utopia -- 13. Recovery and Cold War -- 14. Soviet Society under "Developed Socialism" -- 15. From Perestroika to Russian Federation.
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