Abstract
A distinguished team of historians has stripped away the propaganda and preconceptions of the past to tell the definitive story of Russia, from tenth-century Kiev and Muscovy through empire and revolution to the fall of Communism and the 'new order' of the 1990s and early 21st century.
From Kiev to Muscovy : the beginnings to 1450 / Janet Martin -- Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598 / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- From Muscovy towards St. Petersburg, 1598-1689 / Hans-Joachim Torke -- The Petrine era and after, 1689-1740 / John T. Alexander -- The age of Enlightenment, 1740-1801 / Gary Marker -- Pre-reform Russia, 1801-1855 / David L. Ransel -- Reform and counter reform, 1855-1890 / Gregory L. Freeze -- Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914 / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Russia in war and revolution, 1914-1921 / Daniel T. Orlovsky -- The new economic policy (NEP) and the revolutionary experiment, 1921-1929 / WIlliam B. Husband -- Building Stalinism, 1929-1941 / Lewis Siegelbaum -- The Great Fatherland War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 / William C. Fuller, Jr. -- From Stalinism to stagnation, 1953-1985 / Gregory L. Freeze -- A modern "time of troubles" : from reform to disintegration, 1985-1999 / Gregory L. Freeze -- Rebuilding Russia / Gregory L. Freeze.