A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Putin - Softcover

Service, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141011211 ISBN 13: 9780141011219

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

Synopsis

A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.

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Review:

Robert Service's synthesis of Western and Russian historical writings provides a balanced assessment of the political leadership's interaction with Russian society from the last tsar to Boris Yeltsin...Service's comprehensive and well-written book serves as a solid reference tool for the general public and historians alike.--Isabel A. Tirado "American Historical Review "

About the Author:

Robert Service is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Most recently he has written LENIN: A BIOGRAPHY and RUSSIA: EXPERIMENT WITH A PEOPLE.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141011211
• ISBN 13: 9780141011219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704