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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812507603321

Titolo

Russia : a history / / edited by Gregory L. Freeze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-383-03121-5

0-19-162249-4

0-19-156839-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (542 p.)

Disciplina

947

Soggetti

Kyivan Rus History

Russia (Federation) History 1991-

Soviet Union History

Russia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Colour Plates; List of Maps; Editor's Preface; List of Contributors; Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms; Note on Transliteration and Dates; 1. From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450; 2. Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598; 3. From Muscovy towards St Petersburg, 1598-1689; 4. The Petrine Era and After, 1689-1740; 5. The Age of Enlightenment, 1740-1801; 6. Pre-Reform Russia, 1801-1855; 7. Reform and Counter-Reform, 1855-1890; 8. Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914; 9. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1921

10. The New Economic Policy (NEP) and the Revolutionary Experiment, 1921-192911. Building Stalinism, 1929-1941; 12. The Great Fatherland War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953; 13. From Stalinism to Stagnation, 1953-1985; 14. From Perestroika towards a New Order, 1985-1995; 15. Meltdown, Rebuilding, Reform, 1996-2001; Maps; Chronology; Further Reading; Picture Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties of the new millennium, this new history offers a fresh and systematic account of



Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War battleground, historians are now able to tell the story of Russia more dispassionately and with greater precision than was formerly possible. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, and informed thro