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A companion to Russian history / edited by Abbot Gleason.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Blackwell companions to world historyPublication details: Chichester, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.Description: xi, 554 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781118730003 (pbk.)
  • 1118730003 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 947
LOC classification:
  • 338 DK 40 C737 2014
Contents:
Russian historiography after the fall / Abbott Gleason From proto-Slavs to proto-state / P.M. Barford The first East Slavic state / Janet Martin Rus§ and the Byzantine Empire / George Majeska The Mongols and Rus§ : eight paradigms / Donald Ostrowski Muscovite political culture / Nancy Shields Kollmann Slavery and serfdom in Russia / Richard Hellie Russian art from the Middle Ages to modernism / Ilia A. Dorontchenkov The church schism and old belief / Nadieszda Kizenko Petrine Russia / Lindsey Hughes The westernization of the elite, 1725-1800 / Gary Marker The great reforms of the 1860s / Daniel Field Industrialization and capitalism / Thomas C. Owen The question of civil society in late imperial Russia / Christopher Ely Russia : minorities and empire / Robert Geraci The intelligentsia and its critics / Gary Saul Morson Russian modernism / Andrew Wachtel Russia's popular culture in history and theory / Louise McReynolds The Russian experience of the First World War / Melissa Stockdale From the First World War to civil war, 1914-1923 / Mark von Hagen The woman question in Russia : contradictions and ambivalence / Elizabeth A. Wood Stalinism and the 1930s / Lynne Viola The Soviet Union in the Second World War / Nikita Lomagin The Cold War / David C. Engerman Old thinking and new : Khrushchev and Gorbachev / Robert English The end of the Soviet Union / Robert V. Daniels Russia's post-Soviet upheaval / Bruce Parrott Russian history and the future of Russia / William E. Odom
Summary: This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada. Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia. Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people. Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field.
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Originally published: 2009

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Russian historiography after the fall / Abbott Gleason
From proto-Slavs to proto-state / P.M. Barford
The first East Slavic state / Janet Martin
Rus§ and the Byzantine Empire / George Majeska
The Mongols and Rus§ : eight paradigms / Donald Ostrowski
Muscovite political culture / Nancy Shields Kollmann
Slavery and serfdom in Russia / Richard Hellie
Russian art from the Middle Ages to modernism / Ilia A. Dorontchenkov
The church schism and old belief / Nadieszda Kizenko
Petrine Russia / Lindsey Hughes
The westernization of the elite, 1725-1800 / Gary Marker
The great reforms of the 1860s / Daniel Field
Industrialization and capitalism / Thomas C. Owen
The question of civil society in late imperial Russia / Christopher Ely
Russia : minorities and empire / Robert Geraci
The intelligentsia and its critics / Gary Saul Morson
Russian modernism / Andrew Wachtel
Russia's popular culture in history and theory / Louise McReynolds
The Russian experience of the First World War / Melissa Stockdale
From the First World War to civil war, 1914-1923 / Mark von Hagen
The woman question in Russia : contradictions and ambivalence / Elizabeth A. Wood
Stalinism and the 1930s / Lynne Viola
The Soviet Union in the Second World War / Nikita Lomagin
The Cold War / David C. Engerman
Old thinking and new : Khrushchev and Gorbachev / Robert English
The end of the Soviet Union / Robert V. Daniels
Russia's post-Soviet upheaval / Bruce Parrott
Russian history and the future of Russia / William E. Odom

This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada. Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia. Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people. Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field.

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