Edited by Andrew Andersen

AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN HISTORY

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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