RUSSIA
A HISTORY
RUSSIA A HISTORY
Third Edition
EDITED BY
GREGORY L. FREEZE
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Russia : a history / edited by Gregory L. Freeze.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–956041–7 (pbk.)
1. Russia–History. 2. Soviet Union–History. 3. Russia (Federation)–History–1991
I. Freeze, Gregory L., 1945
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CONTENTS
List of Maps
List of Plates
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 1921–1929
11. BUILDING STALINISM 1929–1941
12. THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR AND LATE STALINISM 1941–1953
13. FROM STALINISM TO STAGNATION: 1953–1985
14. A MODERN ‘TIME OF TROUBLES’: FROM REFORM TO DISINTEGRATION 1985–1999
15. REBUILDING RUSSIA
Maps
Chronology
Further Reading
Photographic acknowledgements
Index
LIST OF MAPS
The Approach to Borodino
Territorial expansion and growth of the Russian Empire, 1260–1904
Kievan Russia, 1054–1238
Russia
Europe at the time of Peter the Great
The provinces of European Russia
Russia, its Empire, and its neighbours in the 20th century
The Great Patriotic War
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1950
The USSR in 1991
LIST OF PLATES
1. 1169: Novgorod icon about victory in the struggle for Kievan succession
2. Kizhi wooden church from the fourteenth century
3. Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich 1645–76
4. 17th century: Engraving of peasants
5. Peter the Great
6. Catherine the Great
7. Religious procession in the 1870s, (Ilya Repin painting)
8. Nicholas II and family
9. Peasant elders
10. Petrograd demonstration in 1917
11. Antireligious campaign
12. Sculpture by Vera Mukhina, ‘The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman’
13. Doctoring photographs
14. Ukrainian collective farmers handing a corn wreath to Nikita Khrushchev, 19 September 1963
15. Party Congress: Brezhnev, Podgnorny, Andropov, Kosygin
16. Reagan and Gorbachev at Geneva summit
17. Yeltsin after the defeat of the coup in August 1991
18. Putin and Medvedev (May day, 2008)
PREFACE
