Russia and the Russians
Subtitle: a history
By: Geoffrey Hosking
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9780674061958
Subjects: Russian National characteristics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Geopolitics, ecology, and national character; title: I. Pre-imperial Rus and the beginnings of empire. Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the rise of Muscovy ; Ivan IV and the expansion of Muscovy; title: II. The troubled building of empire. The turbulent seventeenth century ; Peter the Great and Europeanization; title: III. Russia as European empire. State and society in the eighteenth century ; The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I; title: IV. Imperial crisis. Alexander II's uncertain reforms ; The rise of nationalism; title: V. Revolution and utopia. Social change and revolution ; War and revolution ; Social transformation and terror ; Soviet society takes shape; title: VI. The decline and fall of utopia. Recovery and Cold War ; Soviet society under "developed socialism" ; From Perestroika to Russian Federation; title: Chronology.