A Short History of Russia
Author | : Mary Platt Parmele |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1900-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465579338 |
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Author | : Mary Platt Parmele |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1900-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465579338 |
Author | : Paul Bushkovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139504444 |
Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.
Author | : Michael Kort |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 143810829X |
Serves as a guide to the history and culture of Russia. This book details the social, economic, and political changes and crises that the people of Russia have had to endure. It includes a chronology, bibliography, and, suggested readings. It also covers the conquest and rule of Russia by the Mongol Golden Horde as well as the reign of terror.
Author | : Geoffrey Hosking |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199580987 |
A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.
Author | : Philip Longworth |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 2006-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429916869 |
Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.
Author | : Vasiliĭ Osipovich Kl~inotuchevskiĭ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abraham Ascher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786071436 |
Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History begins with the origins of the first Slavic state, and continues to the present-day tensions between Russia and its neighbours, the rise of Vladimir Putin, and the increasingly complex relationship with the United States.
Author | : M. N. Pokrovskii |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5875291818 |
Author | : Orlando Figes |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2022-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250796903 |
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the West.” —Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy and Red Famine Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews From “the great storyteller of Russian history” (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia’s past and politics—essential reading for understanding the country today The Story of Russia is a fresh approach to the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies. From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putin’s war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russia’s actions throughout its long and troubled existence. Whether he's describing the crowning of Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral or the dramatic upheaval of the peasant revolution, he reveals the impulses, often unappreciated or misunderstood by foreigners, that have driven Russian history: the medieval myth of Mother Russia’s holy mission to the world; the imperial tendency toward autocratic rule; the popular belief in a paternal tsar dispensing truth and justice; the cult of sacrifice rooted in the idea of the “Russian soul”; and always, the nationalist myth of Russia’s unjust treatment by the West. How the Russians came to tell their story and to revise it so often as they went along is not only a vital aspect of their history; it is also our best means of understanding how the country thinks and acts today. Based on a lifetime of scholarship and enthrallingly written, The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes: sweeping, revelatory, and masterful.
Author | : Frances A. Shaw |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2024-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385533252 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.