Kees Boterbloem

A History of Russia and Its Empire

From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Putin's current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9781538104408
• ISBN-10: 1538104407
• Artikelnr.: 51154995

Autorenporträt

Kees Boterbloem is professor of history at the University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Phoenix: The Rise of Russia in the Seventeenth Century, 1613
1689 Chapter 2: Great Power, 1689
1796 Chapter 3: The Height and Decline of Imperial Russia, 1789
1855 Chapter 4: Domestic Convulsions, 1855
1905 Chapter 5: Fatal Foreign Entanglements and a Failed Revolution, 1877
1914 Chapter 6: Forging Soviet Civilization, 1914
1924 Chapter 7: The Inevitable Triumph of Stalinism? 1924
1941 Chapter 8: The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War, 1941
1953 Chapter 9: Embattled Leader of the "Second World," 1953
1982 Chapter 10: The Fall of the Soviet Union and Beyond, 1982
2018 Chronology Index