Thompson, John M. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0813334853 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98006481  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Kievan Rus--History.<br/>Russia--History.<br/>Soviet Union--History.<br/>Russia (Federation)--History.<br/>Kievan Russia--Historia<br/>Rusia--Historia<br/>Unión Sovietica--Historia<br/>Rusia (Federación)--Historia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>338 DK 40  / T468r 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>947