Russia and the Soviet Union : an historical introduction from the Kievan state to the present /

Thompson, John M.

Russia and the Soviet Union : an historical introduction from the Kievan state to the present / John M. Thompson. - 4th ed. - Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, 1998 c1990 - xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancient Russia and the Kievan state-- Russia divided and conquered, 1054-1462-- Moscow and "the Gathering of the Russian Lands" 1328-1533-- Ivan the terrible and the time odf troubles, 1533-1618-- The molding of Russian Society, 1613-89-- Peter the great and Westernization, 1689-1725-- Change and continuity, 1725-1801-- Power, backwardness, and creativity, 1801-55-- Reform, reaction, and modernization, 1855-1904-- Revolution, reform and war, 1904-17--Revolution civil war, and the founding of soviet society, 1917-28-- The second revolution, the stalinist system and World War II, 1928-46-- The Soviet Union as a superpower: change, stagnation, and Cold War, 1946-82-- The Gorbachev revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1983-91-- The New Russia in the Post-Soviet Era.

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Kievan Rus--History.
Russia--History.
Soviet Union--History.
Russia (Federation)--History.
Kievan Russia--Historia
Rusia--Historia
Unión Sovietica--Historia
Rusia (Federación)--Historia

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