The Making of Modern Russia

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Rise and Fall of Kiev Rus....Pages 11-21
The Mongol Conquest and the Rise of Muscovy....Pages 22-28
The Formation of a National State....Pages 29-40
Ivan the Terrible and the Birth of Russian Autocracy....Pages 41-59
The Time of Troubles....Pages 60-72
The Growth of Absolutism: The Early Romanovs....Pages 73-100
Expansion and Bureaucracy: The Age of Peter the Great....Pages 101-125
The Age of the Nobility....Pages 126-147
Liberators and Gendarmes....Pages 148-179
Reform and Assassination....Pages 180-219
Dress Rehearsal for Revolution....Pages 220-255
Forebodings, 1881–1917....Pages 256-263
From Revolution to War....Pages 264-280
The Collapse of the Tsarist Order....Pages 281-304
The Bolsheviks Conquer Power....Pages 305-337
New Economic Policy, Nomenklatura and the Rise of Stalin....Pages 338-350
The Second Revolution: 1928–33....Pages 351-374
The Great Retreat and the Great Terror....Pages 375-384
The Revolution and the World....Pages 385-422
The War and the Cold War....Pages 423-440
Leaders and Dissidents....Pages 441-454
Mature Socialism: Promise and Reality....Pages 455-478
The Stronghold Sure....Pages 479-502
Epilogue....Pages 503-512
Back Matter....Pages 513-544