Russia and the Russians: A History

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Hosking

• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 776
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a sweeping narrative, Geoffrey Hosking, one of the English-speaking world's leading historians of Russia, follows the country's history from the first emergence of the Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century CE to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's headlines.

The second edition covers the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitrii Medvedev and the struggle to make Russia a viable functioning state for all its citizens.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Maps
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Geopolitics, Ecology, and National Character
I Pre-Imperial Rus and the Beginnings of Empire
1 Kievan Rus, the Mongols, and the Rise of Muscovy
2 Ivan IV and the Expansion of Muscovy
II The Troubled Building of Empire
3 The Turbulent Seventeenth Century
4 Peter the Great and Europeanization
III Russia as European Empire
5 State and Society in the Eighteenth Century
6 The Reigns of Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I
IV Imperial Crisis
7 Alexander II’s Uncertain Reforms
8 The Rise of Nationalism
V Revolution and Utopia
9 Social Change and Revolution
10 War and Revolution
11 Social Transformation and Terror
12 Soviet Society Takes Shape
VI The Decline and Fall of Utopia
13 Recovery and Cold War
14 Soviet Society under “Developed Socialism”
15 From Perestroika to Russian Federation
Notes
Index