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Russia and the Russians : a history

Title
Russia and the Russians : a history / Geoffrey Hosking.
Author
Hosking, Geoffrey A.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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xiii, 728 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Geopolitics, ecology, and national character -- pt. 1. Pre-imperial Rus and the beginnings of empire -- Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the rise of Muscovy -- Ivan IV and the expansion of Muscovy -- pt. 2. The troubled building of empire -- The turbulent seventeenth century -- Peter the Great and Europeanization -- pt. 3. Russia as European empire -- State and society in the eighteenth century -- The reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I -- pt. 4. Imperial crisis -- Alexander II's uncertain reforms -- The rise of nationalism -- pt. 5. Revolution and utopia -- Social change and revolution -- War and revolution -- Social transformation and terror -- Soviet society takes shape -- pt. 6. The decline and fall of utopia -- Recovery and Cold War -- Soviet society under "developed socialism" -- From Perestroika to Russian Federation -- Chronology.
Call Number
JFE 11-3846
ISBN
  • 9780674061958 (pbk.)
  • 0674061950 (pbk.)
LCCN
2011011915
OCLC
711777259
Author
Hosking, Geoffrey A.
Title
Russia and the Russians : a history / Geoffrey Hosking.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Edition
2nd ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-3846
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