TY - BOOK AU - Gleason,Abbott TI - A companion to Russian history SN - 9781405135603 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - 338 DK 40 C737 2009 U1 - 947 PY - 2009/// CY - Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Rusia KW - Historia KW - Unión Soviética KW - Russia KW - History KW - Soviet Union KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Rusia (Federación) N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008032173.html ER -