Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History

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Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky
Cambridge University Press, 1976 - Всего страниц: 403
An introduction, complete in one volume, to the history of Russia from medieval times to the fall of Khrushchev and beyond. A study of the geographical setting in which the Russian state grew to its present super-power status is followed by five chapters which discuss the political, social, and economic history of the country, and four final chapters examine respectively the role of the Church, Soviet government and politics, the economy of the Soviet state, and the international relations of the USSR. Each chapter has been specially commissioned for this volume, and the writers are acknowledged experts in their fields. Every chapter is followed by a guide to further reading. This is perhaps the most comprehensive and authoritative collaborative history of Russia yet to appear. It will be read as a continuous account, and will also be consulted as a standard reference guide in libraries of universities, colleges, and schools wherever Russian and Soviet history, European history, and international relations are studied. It forms the first part of the three-volume Companion to Russian Studies, the two other parts of which deal with Russian language and literature, and Russian art and architecture respectively.
 

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The Geographical Setting
1
The natural habitat
2
Growth and peopling of the Russian state
14
The location of economic activities
20
Distribution of population
31
Regions
40
Guide to further reading
46
Kievan Russia
49
The efflorescence of secular culture
209
Economic and social change
215
Government and opposition
233
Guide to further reading
248
Soviet Russia
272
The October Revolution
275
Civil war and foreign intervention
278
The NEP
282

The Normanist controversy
52
The origins of the Kievan state
54
The beginnings of Russian Christianity
58
Svyatoslav
59
Yaropolk
61
Vladimir I and the conversion of Russia
62
Yaroslav
65
Yaroslavs successors
67
Vladimir Monomakh
70
The decline of Kiev
71
Guide to further reading
75
Appanage and Muscovite Russia
78
Alexander Nevsky
79
The appanage system
81
The rise of Muscovy
82
Moscow Lithuania and Tver
86
Vasily II
89
Ivan III and the hegemony of Moscow
90
The church
94
Vasily III
96
Russian society
97
the Muscovite tsardom
98
The Time of Troubles
105
The Romanov dynasty
109
Tsar Alexis
111
Guide to further reading
116
Imperial Russia Peter I to Nicolas I
121
The empire
130
The government
141
The economy
153
The social classes
158
Westernization
170
Tensions
173
Guide to further reading
183
Imperial Russia Alexander II to the Revolution
196
The burdens of empire
197
Stalins rise to power
286
Collectivization
287
The Purges
290
Soviet foreign policy between the wars
292
The Soviet Union in the Second World War
295
Stalins last years
296
The ascendancy of Khrushchev
298
The fall of Khrushchev
305
Guide to further reading
308
The Church
315
Intellectual trends
318
Schisms and sects
320
The Russian Church and the Soviet state
323
Guide to further reading
328
The Structure of the Soviet State Government and Politics
331
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
333
The Constitution of 1936
338
Organs of control
344
Conclusion and prospects
345
Guide to further reading
347
The Structure of the Soviet State The Economy
350
The Stalin system
351
A centralized command economy
358
The Khrushchev period
359
The economy under Brezhnev and Kosygin
361
Guide to further reading
363
The Soviet Union and its Neighbours
366
Periods of Soviet foreign policy
370
Germany and eastern Europe
372
The Middle East
377
China and the Far East
380
Guide to further reading
386
Appendix
389
Index
393
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