Russia: A History - Softcover

Freeze, Gregory L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198662521 ISBN 13: 9780198662525

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s, this history text offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War battleground, historians are now able to tell the story of Russia more dispassionately and with greater precision than was formerly possible. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, and informed throughout by the latest archival research into previously classified sources, international experts here reassess and reinterpret the history of one of the world's great powers. What emerges is a powerful sense of national destiny - of repeated themes, unchanging conditions, and cycles of circumstance. Throughout Russian history, all-powerful autocrats like Ivan the Terrible or Stalin have maintained their authority through brutality; but their omnipotence was always under threat, circumscribed by geography, compromised by bureaucratic incompetence, pervasive corruption, and resistance from below.

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Product Description

Apart from slight shelf wear to covers this copy is like new.

Review

"A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years....With stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose...."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years....With stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose...."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years....With stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose...."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years....With stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose...."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198662521
• ISBN 13: 9780198662525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496