Russia in World History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 July 2015
- ISBN 9780199947874
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 157x239x15 mm
- Weight 394 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 illus. 0
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Short description:
A lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history from its origins to the present, this volume concisely describes how its peoples overcame constant challenges, including devastating foreign invasions, to become an ethnically and religiously diverse land empire, the first communist society, and a major world power.
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This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place virtually everywhere and for decades provided a model for societies seeking development independent of capitalism. This book also brings the story of Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power to a personal level through the stories of individual women and men-leading figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent individuals from a range of social backgrounds whose voices illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical change. As was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide variety of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. The book examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and commodities flowing between east and west, north and south, and absorbed and adapted influences from both Europe and Asia and how it came to play an increasingly important role on a regional and, ultimately, global scale.
In this concise but wide-ranging book, Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin provide a useful and engaging account of the course of Russian history from the earliest days of Slavic tribes down to the present ... In spite of its brevity, the work does not lack depth nor does it overly simplify Russia in its complexities and contradictions. Instead, it offers a sound foundation to anyone who is learning about Russian history for the first time ... [a] narrative with interesting stories and actors that -- in addition to its brevity -- make the work a useful, informative, and enjoyable read.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Editors' Preface
A Note on Dates and Names
Chapter 1 The Formation of Russia: Slavs, Vikings and Byzantium
Chapter 2 The Formation and Development of Muscovy (1240-1462)
Chapter 3 Muscovy: The Late Ryurikids and Early Romanovs (1462-1689)
Chapter 4 The Petrine Revolution (1689-1725)
Chapter 5 The Triumph of Empire (1725-1855)
Chapter 6 Reform and Revolution (1855-1905)
Chapter 7 Wars and Revolutions (1905-1945)
Chapter 8 Cold War and the Collapse of Communism (1945 to the present)
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments
Index
