Russia
By: edited by Richard Joseph Stein
Series: The reference shelf -- v. 82, no. 4
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824210991
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Historical Russia : from the medieval to imperial period; title: "The era of Vladimir I" / Janet Martin, excerpted from medieval Russia, 980-1584; title: "The foundations of Russian culture and art" / Souren Melikian, International herald tribune; title: "Russia and the Ottoman Empire" / excerpted from The encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire; title: "Peter I, Czar of Russia" / excerpted from Columbia electronic encyclopedia, 6th ed.; title: "Russia against Napoleon" / Meredith Hindley, Barnes & Noble review; title: "The emancipation of the Russian serfs, 1861; title: A charter of freedom or an act of betrayal?" / Michael Lynch, History review; title: pt. 2. Revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union; title: "Witnessing a revolution" / Charlotte Alston, History today; title: "The world according to Marx" / Rupert J. Taylor, Canada and the world backgrounder; title: "Russian Revolution" / Matt Forster, excerpted from Russian Revolution; title: "Bloody Sunday" / Richard Cavendish, History today; title: "Lenin in power" / Russel Tarr, History review; title: "Stalin the Terrible" / Robert Service, Hoover digest; title: pt. 3. From Soviet Union to Soviet collapse; title: "Russia reflects on sixty-five years since the Soviet Union's World War Two victory" / by Alexander Mekhanik, Expert magazine; title: "Stalin denounced by Nikita Krushchev" / History today; title: "Sputnik and the space race" / Maria Schaff, excerpted from Sputnik & the space race; title: "When the Cold War almost turned hot" / Albin F. Irzyk, Army magazine; title: "How not to end a war" / Victor Sebestyen, New statesman; title: "Saving Russia's armpit" / Anne Applebaum, Slate.com; title: "Death of a writer" / Anne Applebaum, Slate.com; title: "When Gorbachev took charge" / Archie Brown, International herald tribune; title: pt. 4. After the fall : post-Soviet Russia; title: "The road from 1989" / John O'Sullivan, National review; title: "Russia's flawed hero" / Lynn Berry, Wilson quarterly; title: "Forged in fire" / Fred Weir, Walrus; title: "The Kremlin begs to differ" / Dimitri K. Simes and Paul J. Saunders, The national interest; title: "Fear comes to the Russian heartland" / Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek; title: "Russia and U.S. sign nuclear arms pact" / Peter Baker, New York times; title: pt. 5. The riddle wrapped in an enigma : inside contemporary Russia; title: "Restlessness in Russia's western outpost" / Michael Schwirtz, New York Times; title: "The Moscow bombings don't matter" / Julia Ioffe, Foreign policy; title: "Moscow never sleeps" / Martin Cruz Smith, National geographic; title: "Why are Chechens so angry?" / Oliver Bullough, Transitions online; title: "Russia fears embrace of giant Eastern neighbour" / Luke Harding, The guardian; title: "Where the salmon rule" / David Quammen, National geographic; title: "Send me to Siberia" / Paul Starobin, National geographic.