Title:
Russia and the Soviet Union : a historical introduction from the Kievan State to the present / John M. Thompson.
Author:
Thompson, John M. (John Means)
Publication Information:
Boulder, CO : Westview Press, A member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
©2013
Call Number:
DK40 .T48 2013
Edition:
SEVENTH edition.
ISBN:
9780813346960
Physical Description:
xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents:
Ancient Russia and the Kievan State -- Russia divided and conquered, 1054-1462 -- Moscow and "The gathering of the Russian lands," 1328-1533 -- Ivan The Terrible and the Time of Troubles, 1533-1618 -- Molding of Russian society, 1613-1689 -- Peter the Great and westernization, 1689-1725 -- Change and continuity, 1725-1801 -- Power, backwardness, and creativity, 1801-1855 -- Reform, reaction, and modernization, 1855-1904 -- Revolution, reform, and war, 1904-1917 -- Revolution, civil war, and the founding of soviet society, 1917-1928 -- Second revolution, the Stalinist system, and World War II, 1928-1946 -- Soviet Union as a superpower: change, stagnation, and "Cold War", 1946-1984 -- Gorbachev "Revolution" and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1983-1991 -- "New" Russia in the post-Soviet era, 1991-2000 -- The Putin era: progress and problems, 2000-2012.
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