Revised edition of: A history of modern Russia from Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin. c2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Russian Empire in 1900 -- The Soviet Union, 1924-1936 -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945 -- The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997 -- The Russian Federation in 1997 -- Introduction -- And Russia? 1900-1914 -- The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917 -- Conflicts and crises 1917 -- The October Revolution 1917-1918 -- New world, old world -- Civil wars 1918-1921 -- The new economic policy 1921-1928 -- Leninism and its discontents -- The first five-year plan 1928-1932 -- Fortresses under storm: culture, religion, nation -- Terror upon terror 1934-1938 -- Coping with big brothers -- The second World War 1939-1945 -- Coda -- Suffering and struggle 1941-1945 -- The hammers of peace 1945-1953 -- The despot and his masks -- 'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961 -- Hopes unsettled 1961-1964 -- Stabilization 1964-1970 -- 'Developed Socialism' 1970-1982 -- Privilege and alienation -- Towards reform 1982-1985 -- Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988 -- Imploding imperium 1989 -- Hail and farewell 1990-1991 -- Power and the market 1992-1993 -- The lowering of expectations 1994-1999 -- And Russia? from 2000.