Russia / edited by Richard Joseph Stein
- Bib ID:
- 4983939
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2010
- viii, 214 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780824210991
- Series:
- Reference shelf ; v. 82, no. 4.
- Full contents:
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- pt. 1. Historical Russia : from the medieval to imperial period
- "The era of Vladimir I" / Janet Martin, excerpted from medieval Russia, 980-1584
- "The foundations of Russian culture and art" / Souren Melikian, International herald tribune
- "Russia and the Ottoman Empire" / excerpted from The encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
- "Peter I, Czar of Russia" / excerpted from Columbia electronic encyclopedia, 6th ed.
- "Russia against Napoleon" / Meredith Hindley, Barnes & Noble review
- "The emancipation of the Russian serfs, 1861
- A charter of freedom or an act of betrayal?" / Michael Lynch, History review
- pt. 2. Revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union
- "Witnessing a revolution" / Charlotte Alston, History today
- "The world according to Marx" / Rupert J. Taylor, Canada and the world backgrounder
- "Russian Revolution" / Matt Forster, excerpted from Russian Revolution
- "Bloody Sunday" / Richard Cavendish, History today
- "Lenin in power" / Russel Tarr, History review
- "Stalin the Terrible" / Robert Service, Hoover digest
- pt. 3. From Soviet Union to Soviet collapse
- "Russia reflects on sixty-five years since the Soviet Union's World War Two victory" / by Alexander Mekhanik, Expert magazine
- "Stalin denounced by Nikita Krushchev" / History today
- "Sputnik and the space race" / Maria Schaff, excerpted from Sputnik & the space race
- "When the Cold War almost turned hot" / Albin F. Irzyk, Army magazine
- "How not to end a war" / Victor Sebestyen, New statesman
- "Saving Russia's armpit" / Anne Applebaum, Slate.com
- "Death of a writer" / Anne Applebaum, Slate.com
- "When Gorbachev took charge" / Archie Brown, International herald tribune
- pt. 4. After the fall : post-Soviet Russia
- "The road from 1989" / John O'Sullivan, National review
- "Russia's flawed hero" / Lynn Berry, Wilson quarterly
- "Forged in fire" / Fred Weir, Walrus
- "The Kremlin begs to differ" / Dimitri K. Simes and Paul J. Saunders, The national interest
- "Fear comes to the Russian heartland" / Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek
- "Russia and U.S. sign nuclear arms pact" / Peter Baker, New York times
- pt. 5. The riddle wrapped in an enigma : inside contemporary Russia
- "Restlessness in Russia's western outpost" / Michael Schwirtz, New York Times
- "The Moscow bombings don't matter" / Julia Ioffe, Foreign policy
- "Moscow never sleeps" / Martin Cruz Smith, National geographic
- "Why are Chechens so angry?" / Oliver Bullough, Transitions online
- "Russia fears embrace of giant Eastern neighbour" / Luke Harding, The guardian
- "Where the salmon rule" / David Quammen, National geographic
- "Send me to Siberia" / Paul Starobin, National geographic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stein, Richard Joseph
- Copyright:
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