A companion to Russian history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Abbot Gleason

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830920703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-13912-6; 1-78034-103-2; 9786612139123; 1-4051-7726-8; 1-4443-0841-6; 1-4443-0842-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (568 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to world history
• Altri autori (Persone): GleasonAbbott
• Disciplina: 947
• Soggetti: Russia History; Soviet Union History; Russia (Federation) 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: A COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter One: Russian Historiography after the Fall; PART I: Rus': The Early East Slavic World; Chapter Two: From "Proto-Slavs" to Proto-State; Chapter Three: The First East Slavic State; Chapter Four: Rus' and the Byzantine Empire; Chapter Five: The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms; Part II: To Muscovy and Beyond; Chapter Six: Muscovite Political Culture; Chapter Seven: Slavery and Serfdom in Russia; Chapter Eight: Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism; Chapter Nine: The Church Schism and Old Belief; Part III: The Russian EmpireChapter Ten: Petrine Russia; Chapter Eleven: The Westernization of the Elite, 1725-1800; Chapter Twelve: The "Great Reforms" of the 1860s; Chapter Thirteen: Industrialization and Capitalism; Chapter Fourteen: The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia; Chapter Fifteen: Russia: Minorities and Empire; Chapter Sixteen: The Intelligentsia and its Critics; Chapter Seventeen: Russian Modernism; Chapter Eighteen: Russia's Popular Culture in History and ; Theory; Chapter Nineteen: The Russian Experience of the First World War; Part IV: The Soviet Union; Chapter Twenty: From the First World War to Civil War, 1914-1923Chapter Twenty-One: The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence; Chapter Twenty-Two: Stalinism and the 1930s; Chapter Twenty-Three: The Soviet Union in the Second World War; Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cold War; Chapter Twenty-Five: Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev; Chapter Twenty-Six: The End of the Soviet Union; Part V: Whither Russia?; Chapter Twenty-Seven: Russia's Post-Soviet Upheaval; Chapter Twenty-Eight: Russian History and the Future of Russia; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and CanadaAnalyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet RussiaOffers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary peopleOffer