A history of Russia and its empire : from Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin /
This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 through Putin's current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious and cultural developments that led...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Phoenix : the rise of Russia in the seventeenth century, 1613-1689
- Great power, 1689-1796
- The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855
- Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905
- Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914
- Forging Soviet civilization, 1914-1924
- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? 1924-1941
- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War, 1941-1953
- Embattled leader of the "Second World," 1953-1982
- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond, 1982-2018.