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THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA
Charles
E. Ziegler
PREFACE
CHAPTER I Russia and its People
CHAPTER II Kievan Russia
and the Mongol Experience
The Rise and Decline of Kiev / Appanage Russia / The
Mongol Conquest and Rule
CHAPTER III Muscovite Russia, 1240-1613
Politics and Expansion / Religion and
Culture / Economics and Society /
Russia’s Time of Troubles
(1584-1613)
CHAPTER IV Russia under the Romanovs: Empire
and Expansion, 1613-1855
Religion and Culture / Catherine
the Great / Economics and Society / Foreign Affairs /
Prelude to Reform: Alexandr
I / International Affairs / Revolt and Repression: Nicholas I /
The Crimean War
CHAPTER
V Reform, Reaction, and Revolution,
1855-1921
Reform / Reaction / Russia’s
First Revolution: 1905 / Culture and Society /
War and Revolution
CHAPTER VI
Building
Communism, 1921-1953
Culture / Creating “the New
Soviet Man” / Industrialization and Collectivization /
The Purges / The First
Totalitarian System? /
Foreign Affairs and the Great
Fatherland War / The Cold War / Stalin’s Final Years
CHAPTER VII
De-Stalinization
and Developed Socialism, 1953-1985
The Thaw / International Relations /
Unfulfilled Promises / Brezhnev and Company /
Soviet Nationalities / Soviet
Politics
CHAPTER VIII Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Collapse
of Communism
Mounting problems / Gorbachev
Succeeds / Perestroyka and Glasnost /
New Thinking in Foreign Policy /
Democratization / Culture and Society /
Strains of Nationalism / Coup and Collapse
CHAPTER IX
Russia's
Search for Democracy: The Yeltsin Era
Economic Reform / Social
Problems / Building Democracy /
Political Culture and Russian
Democracy / Russia
in the World
GLOSSAR
NOTABLE RUSSIANS
Special topics:
EARLY HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIAN CORE WEST OF THE URALS
(WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE
THE SLAVS AND VARANGARS?)
Andrew
Andersen
SLAVERY IN KIEVAN RUS
Gregory W. Frux
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Jeffrey Hays
THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR AND THE RED TERROR: 1918-1922
Andrew Andersen, James Graham, Tatyana Shwetsova,
Nicholas Werth,
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