Russia and the Soviet Union
Subtitle: a historical introduction from the Kievan State to the present
By: John M. Thompson
Edition: Seventh edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813346960; 9780813346977
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient Russia and the Kievan State; title: Russia divided and conquered, 1054-1462; title: Moscow and "The gathering of the Russian lands," 1328-1533; title: Ivan The Terrible and the Time of Troubles, 1533-1618; title: Molding of Russian society, 1613-1689; title: Peter the Great and westernization, 1689-1725; title: Change and continuity, 1725-1801; title: Power, backwardness, and creativity, 1801-1855; title: Reform, reaction, and modernization, 1855-1904; title: Revolution, reform, and war, 1904-1917; title: Revolution, civil war, and the founding of soviet society, 1917-1928; title: Second revolution, the Stalinist system, and World War II, 1928-1946; title: Soviet Union as a superpower: change, stagnation, and "Cold War", 1946-1984; title: Gorbachev "Revolution" and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1983-1991; title: "New" Russia in the post-Soviet era, 1991-2000; title: The Putin era: progress and problems, 2000-2012.