Synopses & Reviews
In this fully updated second edition of 'A History of Russia' Vol. II, Walter G. Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up-to-date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world. Moss’s accessible history includes full treatments of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful with both academics and students, including a well-organized and clearly written text, references to varying historical viewpoints, numerous illustrations and maps that supplement and amplify the text, fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography of more comprehensive works, a glossary and a chronology of important events. Moss's 'A History of Russia' will appeal to academics, students and general readers alike.
Review
‘An expertly presented and thoroughly informative narration recommended for a scholar's Russian History reference shelf, as well as accessibly informative reading for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the historical development of Russia.'
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Synopsis
Moss's engaging historical account includes full treatment of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations.
Synopsis
A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
Synopsis
This new edition retains the features of the first edition that made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world. Moss's accessible history includes full treatment of everyday life, the role of women, rural life, law, religion, literature and art. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful with both professors and students, including: a well-organized and clearly written text, references to varying historical perspectives, numerous illustrations and maps that supplement and amplify the text, fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography of more comprehensive works, a glossary, and chronological and genealogical lists. Moss's 'A History of Russia' will appeal to academics, students and general readers alike.
Synopsis
Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.
About the Author
‘Manages to embrace a wide range of topics while at the same time remaining accessible and interesting…balances humorous anecdotes with provocative concepts, and discusses historiography in a clearer and more contemporary fashion than that found in Riasanovsky's A History of Russia, now in its sixth edition and looking a bit musty by comparison...There is little to fault with this volume.’
Andrew Gentes, Lecturer in Russian and European History, University of Queensland in Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 18 (2004)
‘An expertly presented and thoroughly informative narration recommended for a scholar's Russian History reference shelf, as well as accessibly informative reading for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the historical development of Russia.'
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Table of Contents
List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition A Note to Students Introduction Part I. The Rus Era Part II. The Mongols and the Rise of Moscow to 1533 Part III. Muscovy and Its Expansion, 1533-1689 Part IV. Early Imperial Russia, 1689-1855 Part V. Late Imperial Russia, 1855-1917 General Bibliography for Russia to 1917 Appendix A. Chronology Appendix B: Rus/Russian Thinkers Appendix C: Glossary Index