A companion to Russian history /
A companion to Russian history /
edited by Abbott Gleason.
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- xi, 554 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions to world history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on Contributors x
Russian Historiography after the Fall
1 (14)
Abbott Gleason
Part I Rus': The Early East Slavic World
15 (72)
From ``Proto-Slavs'' to Proto-State
17 (17)
P.M. Barford
The First East Slavic State
34 (17)
Janet Martin
Rus' and the Byzantine Empire
51 (15)
George Majeska
The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms
66 (21)
Donald Ostrowski
Part II To Muscovy and Beyond
87 (76)
Muscovite Political Culture
89 (16)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
Slavery and Serfdom in Russia
105 (16)
Richard Hellie
Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism
121 (24)
Ilia A. Dorontchenkov
The Church Schism and Old Belief
145 (18)
Nadieszda Kizenko
Part III The Russian Empire
163 (172)
Petrine Russia
165 (15)
Lindsey Hughes
The Westernization of the Elite, 1725-1800
180 (16)
Gary Marker
The ``Great Reforms'' of the 1860s
196 (14)
Danicl Field
Industrialization and Capitalism
210 (15)
Thomas C. Owen
The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia
225 (18)
Christopher Ely
Russia: Minorities and Empire
243 (18)
Robert Geraci
The Intelligentsia and its Critics
261 (18)
Gary Saul Morson
Russian Modernism
279 (16)
Andrew Wachtel
Russia's Popular Culture in History and Theory
295 (16)
Louise McReynolds
The Russian Experience of the First World War
311 (24)
Melissa Stockdale
Part IV The Soviet Union
335 (136)
From the First World War to Civil War, 1914-1923
337 (16)
Mark von Hagen
The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence
353 (15)
Elizabeth A. Wood
Stalinism and the 1930s
368 (18)
Lynne Viola
The Soviet Union in the Second World War
386 (28)
Nikita Lomagin
The Cold War
414 (15)
David C. Engerman
Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev
429 (22)
Robert English
The End of the Soviet Union
451 (20)
Robert V. Daniels
Part V Whither Russia?
471 (34)
Russia's Post-Soviet Upheaval
473 (17)
Bruce Parrott
Russian History and the Future of Russia
490 (15)
William E. Odom
Index 505
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.
9781405135603 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405135603 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008032173
Rusia --Historia
Unión Soviética--Historia
Russia--History.
Soviet Union--History.
Russia (Federation)--History.
Rusia (Federación)--Historia
338 DK 40 / C737 2009
947
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes on Contributors x
Russian Historiography after the Fall
1 (14)
Abbott Gleason
Part I Rus': The Early East Slavic World
15 (72)
From ``Proto-Slavs'' to Proto-State
17 (17)
P.M. Barford
The First East Slavic State
34 (17)
Janet Martin
Rus' and the Byzantine Empire
51 (15)
George Majeska
The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms
66 (21)
Donald Ostrowski
Part II To Muscovy and Beyond
87 (76)
Muscovite Political Culture
89 (16)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
Slavery and Serfdom in Russia
105 (16)
Richard Hellie
Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism
121 (24)
Ilia A. Dorontchenkov
The Church Schism and Old Belief
145 (18)
Nadieszda Kizenko
Part III The Russian Empire
163 (172)
Petrine Russia
165 (15)
Lindsey Hughes
The Westernization of the Elite, 1725-1800
180 (16)
Gary Marker
The ``Great Reforms'' of the 1860s
196 (14)
Danicl Field
Industrialization and Capitalism
210 (15)
Thomas C. Owen
The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia
225 (18)
Christopher Ely
Russia: Minorities and Empire
243 (18)
Robert Geraci
The Intelligentsia and its Critics
261 (18)
Gary Saul Morson
Russian Modernism
279 (16)
Andrew Wachtel
Russia's Popular Culture in History and Theory
295 (16)
Louise McReynolds
The Russian Experience of the First World War
311 (24)
Melissa Stockdale
Part IV The Soviet Union
335 (136)
From the First World War to Civil War, 1914-1923
337 (16)
Mark von Hagen
The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence
353 (15)
Elizabeth A. Wood
Stalinism and the 1930s
368 (18)
Lynne Viola
The Soviet Union in the Second World War
386 (28)
Nikita Lomagin
The Cold War
414 (15)
David C. Engerman
Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev
429 (22)
Robert English
The End of the Soviet Union
451 (20)
Robert V. Daniels
Part V Whither Russia?
471 (34)
Russia's Post-Soviet Upheaval
473 (17)
Bruce Parrott
Russian History and the Future of Russia
490 (15)
William E. Odom
Index 505
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.
9781405135603 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405135603 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2008032173
Rusia --Historia
Unión Soviética--Historia
Russia--History.
Soviet Union--History.
Russia (Federation)--History.
Rusia (Federación)--Historia
338 DK 40 / C737 2009
947