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Now completely revised in this seventh edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the postcommunist present. Featuring a new coauthor, Mark Steinberg, this edition offers extensively updated material based on the most current research, including documents from recently opened archives. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance. This seventh edition contains a wealth of new images and a fully revised bibliography and reading list. Two new chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's complex experience after communism and discuss its chances of becoming a more stable and prosperous country in the future. Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume history available, A History of Russia is being offered in paperback for the first time. In addition to the one-volume version, it is now also available in two separate volumes--Volume I covers early Russia through the nineteenth century and Volume II ranges from 1855 to the present. Volume II also features an additional introductory chapter that links Russia's modern history to the events that preceded it.

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Based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections, a surprising new portrait of the last Russian tsar and his family during the Bolshevik revolution challenges long-held views of the Romanovs. UP.

Including letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions or leaders, this collection gives voice to the experiences, thoughts and feelings of ordinary Russian people - workers, peasants, soldiers - as expressed in their own words during the vast upheavals of 1917. schovat popis

The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 presents a vivid history of Russia's revolutionary era, focusing on the experiences of individuals as they navigated and shaped the unfolding events. From Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the end of the civil war in 1921, the narrative combines the insights of a professional historian with the immediacy of contemporary journalism. It explores various locations and communities—city streets, peasant villages, and the margins of the empire, including Central Asia and Ukraine—highlighting the diverse voices of men and women, workers, intellectuals, artists, and activists. Key figures such as Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotsky, and Alexandra Kollontai are featured alongside lesser-known individuals, illustrating a broad spectrum of experiences. Central themes include social, economic, gendered, and ethnic inequalities, as well as power dynamics, resistance, violence, and notions of justice and freedom. Aimed at students and general readers, this history draws heavily on contemporary texts to vividly bring the past to life, emphasizing the interpretations, values, emotions, and aspirations that made these tumultuous times significant for those who lived through them.