ISBN:
9780742568389
,
9780742568396
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 345 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
DDC:
947.08
Keywords:
Soviet Union History
;
Russia History
;
Russia (Federation) History 1991-
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description / Table of Contents:
PhoenixThe eighteenth century -- The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855 -- Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905 -- Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914 -- Forging Soviet civilization -- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? -- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War -- Embattled leader of the "second world", 1953-1982 -- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond.
