A Companion to Russian HistoryAbbott Gleason 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.
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Contents
From ProtoSlavs to ProtoState P M Barford | 17 |
The First East Slavic State | 34 |
Rus and the Byzantine Empire | 51 |
Eight Paradigms | 66 |
Muscovite Political Culture | 89 |
Slavery and Serfdom in Russia | 105 |
Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism | 121 |
The Church Schism and Old Belief | 145 |
17Russian Modernism | 279 |
Russias Popular Culture in History and Theory | 295 |
The Russian Experience of the First World War | 311 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 335 |
From the First World War to Civil War 19141923 337 | 352 |
22Stalinism and the 1930s | 368 |
23TheSoviet Union in the Second World War | 386 |
The Cold War | 414 |
Petrine Russia | 165 |
The Westernization of the Elite 17251800 | 180 |
The Great Reformsofthe1860s | 196 |
Industrialization and Capitalism | 210 |
The Question of Civil Society in LateImperialRussia | 225 |
Minorities and Empire | 243 |
16TheIntelligentsia and its Critics | 261 |
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