A brief history of Russia / Michael Kort
- Bib ID:
- 4461572
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kort, Michael, 1944-
- Description:
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- New York : Facts On File, 2007
- xxiii, 310 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780816071128
- 0816071128
- Series:
- Brief history
- Summary:
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"Detailing the social, economic, and political changes and crises that the people of Russia have experienced, A Brief History of Russia provides a comprehensive and thorough account of this vast country's history. A chronology, bibliography, basic facts, a list of suggested reading, as well as 50 images and maps enrich this invaluable book."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Before the Russians: Kievan Rus, and Muscovite Russia (Tenth Century B.C.E.-1462 C.E.)
- 2. Independence and Unification: The Last Rurikids to the First Romanovs (1462-1694)
- 3. Imperial Russia: The Eras of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great (1694-1801)
- 4. The Nineteenth-Century Crisis: The Mystic and the Knout (1801-1855)
- 5. Reform, Reaction, and Revolution (1855-1917)
- 6. The Golden and Silver Ages: Russian Cultural Achievement from Pushkin to World War I (1820-1917)
- 7. Soviet Russia: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Realities (1917-1953)
- 8. Soviet Russia: Reform, Decline, and Collapse (1953-1991)
- 9. Post-Soviet Russia: Yeltsin and Putin (1991-2008)
- 10. Conclusion: The Russian Riddle
- Appendix 1. Basic Facts about Russia
- Appendix 2. Chronology
- Appendix 3. Bibliography
- Appendix 4. Suggested Reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-287) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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