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The Making of Modern Russia - Softcover

Kochan, Lionel; Abraham, Richard

 
9780140136487: The Making of Modern Russia

Synopsis

Extensively revised and based on documentation only recently made available in the West, this is the ideal one-volume survey of centuries of Russian historyReflecting the changed outlook of Russia as it approaches the new millennium, this updated edition offers authoritative accounts of the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century, the Mongol conquest, the birth of the nation-state, and early Romanov absolutism, along with fresh analyses of the policies and personalities of the Soviet Union and an outline of the Yeltsin years and the dilemmas facing Russia today.

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