A Gleason, Abbott 1938-2015 editor text bibliography enk Chichester, UK Wiley-Blackwell 2014 monographic eng xi, 554 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. 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. 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 edited by Abbot Gleason. Originally published: 2009 Includes bibliographical references and index. Russia History Rusia Historia Soviet Union History Unión Soviética Historia Russia (Federation) History Rusia (Federación) Historia 338 DK 40 C737 2014 947 9781118730003 (pbk.) 1118730003 (pbk.) MiAaPQ 080723 20231013121726.0 eng