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Restless Empire, a historical atlas of Russia, Ian Barnes ; with an introduction by Dominic Lieven

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Restless Empire, a historical atlas of Russia, Ian Barnes ; with an introduction by Dominic Lieven

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-213) and index

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Restless Empire

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892945909

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Ian Barnes ; with an introduction by Dominic Lieven

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a historical atlas of Russia

Table Of Contents

Preface / Ian Barnes -- Introduction / Dominic Lieven -- The coming of the Slavs and the origins of Russia -- From the arrival of Christianity to the golden age of Kiev -- The decline and fall of Kievan Rus -- The Tatar invasions and the Mongol yoke -- The rise of Muscovy -- Ivan the Great -- Ivan the Terrible -- The time of troubles -- The development of Christianity in Russia -- The rise of the Romanovs -- Petrine Russia : centralization and westernization -- Russia after Peter : the rule of the empresses -- Catherine the Great -- Russia as a great power, 1800 -- The Napoleonic Wars -- Nicholas I and the Crimean War -- The Alexanders : reform and reaction -- Russian foreign policy : China and Japan -- Imperial expansion : Caucasus -- Russia in Central Asia -- Poles, Finns, and Anti-Semitism -- Intellectuals and revolutionaries in nineteenth-century Russia -- Economic development and its effects -- Political upheaval, 1905-1906 -- Kursk : a province -- The First World War -- The February Revolution and provisional government -- From Red October to Brest-Litovsk : the consolidation of Bolshevik power -- The Russian Civil War -- The aftermath : from war Communism to NEP and the creation of a police state -- Stalin's rise to power -- The purges -- Stalin's collectivization -- Industrialization -- Roads to war -- The Winter War -- The Great Patriotic War -- Manchuria -- Postwar Europe -- Khrushchev : De-Stalinization, thaw, and reform -- Operation Anadyr -- Brezhnev and stagnation -- Russia in Eastern Europe : disintegrating empire -- The Cold War : defending the Soviet Union -- Soviet intellectuals, dissent, and Samizdat culture -- Interregnum : Andropov, early Perestroika, and Chernenko -- Gorbachev : from reform to failure -- The Yeltsin saga -- Nationalities and the near abroad -- Conflict in the Caucasus -- Russia, NATO, and the new European order -- The Putin era -- Russia's shadow empire -- Russian rulers

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Historical atlas of Russia

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