A history of Russia and its empire : from Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin

Boterbloem, Kees 1962- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780742568389 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742568385 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742568396 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742568393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742568402 (electronic)
ISBN: 0742568407 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780742568402 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2014]
Copyright: ©2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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, 1982-2013.