A Companion to Russian History

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Abbott Gleason
John Wiley & Sons, Jan 28, 2014 - History - 566 pages
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.
  • Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada
  • Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia
  • Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people
  • Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field
 

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
Khrushchev and Gorbachev
429
The End of the Soviet Union
451
Russias PostSoviet Upheaval
473
Russian History and the Future of Russia
490
Index
505
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Abbott Gleason is Keeney Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, where he has served as Chairman of the History Department and Director of the Watson Institute from 2000-2001. In 1995 he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. In 1980-1982 he was Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC and was subsequently chosen Chairman of its Board Advisers.

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