A History of Russia

Now completely revised in this seventh edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the postcommunist present. Featuring a new coauthor, Mark Steinberg, this edition offers extensively updated material based on the most current research, including documents from recently opened archives. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance. This seventh edition contains a wealth of new images and a fully revised bibliography and reading list. Two new chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's complex experience after communism and discuss its chances of becoming a more stable and prosperous country in the future.

Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume history available, A History of Russia is being offered in paperback for the first time. In addition to the one-volume version, it is now also available in two separate volumes--Volume I covers early Russia through the nineteenth century and Volume II ranges from 1855 to the present. Volume II also features an additional introductory chapter that links Russia's modern history to the events that preceded it.

Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond. Drawing on both primary sources and major interpretive works, this sixth edition updates its existing coverage of the social, economic, cultural, political and miliary events of Russia's past and includes a new chapter on the post-Gorbachev era as well as helpful updated biblipgraphies and reading source lists.

Examining contemporary issues such as the rise of Yeltsin, the nationalities question, and Russia's attempts to market capitalism, this sixth edition takes the study of Russia straight into the new millennium, continuing A History of Russia's nearly forty-year track record as the leader in the field.

Part I: Introduction

1. A Geographical Note

2. Russia Before the Russians

Part II: Kievan Russia

3. The Establishment of the Kievan State

4. Kievan Russia: A Political Outline

5. Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

6. Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture

Part III: Appanage Russia

7. Appanage Russia: Introduction

8. The Mongols and Russia

9. Lord Novgorod the Great

10. The Southwest and the Northeast

11. The Rise of Moscow

12. Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

13. Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture

14. The Lithuanian-Russian State

Part IV: Muscovite Russia

15. The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theordore, 1584-98

16. The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613

17. The Reigns of Michael 1613-45, Alexis 1645-76, and Theodore 1676-82

18. Muscovite Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions

19. Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture

Part V: Imperial Russia

20. The Reign of Peter the Great 1862-1725

21. Russian History from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great

22. The Reigns of Catherine the Great 1762-96 and Paul 1796-1801

23. The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century

24. Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century

25. The Reign of Alexander I 1801-25

26. The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-55

27. The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

28. Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

29. The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81

30. The Reign of Alexander III 1881-94 and the First Part of Reign of Nicholas II 1894-1905

31. The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period 1905-17

32. The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the "Great Reforms until the Revolutions of 1917

33. Russian Culture from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917

34. The Revolutions of 1917

Part VI: Soviet Russia

35. Soviet Russia: An Introduction

36. War Communism 1917-21 and the New Economic Policy 1921-28

37. The First Three Five-Year Plans 1928-41

38. Soviet Foreign Policy 1921-41 and the Second World War 1941-45

39. Stalin's Last Decade 1945-53

40. The Soviet Union After Stalin 1953-85

41. Soviet Society and Culture

42. The Gorbachev Years 1985-91 and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Part VII: Russian Federation

43. Russia After Communism: Yeltsin 1991-99 and Putin 2000-

44. Society and Culture Since 1991

Bibliography

Appendix

Recommended Readings