A History of Russia Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces: Since 1800,9780395660737

A History of Russia Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces: Since 1800

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ISBN13: 9780395660737
ISBN10: 0395660734
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Pub. Date: 2003-04-29
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Table of Contents

Preface xiii
PART I Russia's European Century, 1796-1914 1(254)
CHAPTER 1 Russia in the Age of Napoleon: Paul I and Alexander I, 1796-1815
2(19)
Europe in 1800: The Napoleonic Wars
3(3)
Palace and Parade Ground: Paul I, 1796-1801
6(4)
Alexander Comes to Power: Peace and War, 1801-1807
10(5)
Alliance with Napoleon and Speransky's Vision, 1807-1812
15(3)
The Horned Beast: Invasion and Triumph, 1812-1815
18(3)
CHAPTER 2 The Age of Restoration: Russia in Europe, 1815-1830
21(18)
The Congress of Vienna and the Holy Alliance, 1815
22(4)
The Golden Age and Pushkin
26(4)
The Blessed Emperor, 1815-1825
30(3)
Secret Societies and the December Uprising
33(3)
The Polish Uprising, 1830
36(3)
CHAPTER 3 Nicholas I: Monarchy, Society, Empire, 1825-1855
39(24)
Nicholas Comes to Power, 1825-1830
40(4)
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
44(3)
Law and Administration, 1830-1840
47(5)
The "Marvelous Decade"
52(5)
European Revolution and Ottoman War, 1848-1856
57(6)
CHAPTER 4 Russian Society and Daily Life in the Twilight of serfdom, 1800-1861
63(17)
On the Land: Nests of Gentry
63(3)
On the Land: Live Souls
66(6)
The Big City: Rich Folk, Poor Folk
72(4)
The Small Town: Provincial Russia
76(4)
CHAPTER 5 Around the Russian Empire, 1801-1861
80(18)
European Borderlands
82(5)
In and Beyond the Caucasus
87(5)
The Steppes of Central Asia
92(1)
Siberia: The Wild East
93(2)
Frontiers of the Imagination
95(3)
CHAPTER 6 Alexander II and the Era of the Great Reforms, 1855-1870
98(21)
Monarchy and Gentry After Crimea
99(5)
The Great Reforms: Emancipation
104(4)
Creating a New Society? The Zemstvo and Legal Reforms
108(4)
Life in the Reform Era
112(4)
Challenge from Poland: The 1863 Rebellion
116(3)
CHAPTER 7 The Turbulent Seventies
119(23)
After the Reforms, 1866-1881
120(6)
Going to the People, 1873-1874
126(4)
Cultural Life in the Capitals
130(4)
Pan-Slavism and the Balkans, 1870-1878
134(3)
Terrorists and Revolutionaries
137(3)
Murder of an Emperor, 1881
140(2)
CHAPTER 8 Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality Reaffirmed, 1881-1905
142(16)
The European Empires
143(1)
Ruling Russia: Personalities
144(3)
Ruling Russia: Bureaucracy and Counterreform
147(4)
Church and State: A Conservative Symphony
151(2)
Administering Empire: Russifying the Borderlands
153(3)
From Berlin to Paris
156(2)
CHAPTER 9 Economic Structures and Visions, 1881-1905
158(21)
The Drama of Industrialization
159(7)
Money and Markets
166(4)
The Agricultural Sector
170(3)
Other Visions: Marxists and Populists
173(2)
A Eurasian Power
175(4)
CHAPTER 10 Society, Culture, Politics, 1881-1905
179(20)
Class, Status, Profession, Household
180(6)
The 1880's: Universities and Intellectual Life in a Positivist Age
186(3)
The 1890's: Postfamine Politics
189(5)
Orthodoxy and Religious Reform
194(1)
Movements of National Liberation
195(4)
CHAPTER 11 Cultural Explosion, 1900-1920
199(16)
New Beginnings: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev
200(2)
Forerunners: Four Giants
202(2)
The Silver Age
204(9)
Art Goes to the People
213(2)
CHAPTER 12 Russia on the Barricades: The Revolution of 1904-1907
215(21)
The Pale Horseman
216(3)
Political Parties and Movements
219(2)
War and Revolution I: From Liaodong to the Zemstvo Congress
221(3)
War and Revolution II: The Bloody Year 1905
224(7)
The Revolutionary Dumas
231(5)
CHAPTER 13 The "Duma Monarchy," 1907-1914
236(19)
Government and Society: A New Dialogue?
237(6)
Reform from Above: Stolypin
243(3)
The New Political Culture: Press and Public Opinion
246(3)
Celebrating Russia: The Romanov Tercentenary
249(2)
On the Eve: War and Diplomacy in the Balkans
251(4)
PART II Russia's Turbulent Twentieth Century and After, Since 1914 255
CHAPTER 14 Russia in World War I, 1914-1917
256(20)
The Clash of Arms
257(2)
Tragedy Behind the Lines
259(6)
The War Business
265(5)
On the Home Front
270(2)
War and Peace
272(2)
Midnight of Empire, 1916-1917
274(2)
CHAPTER 15 The Revolutions of 1917
276(21)
February: The Fall of the Monarchy
278(1)
Dual Powerlessness: Government and Soviets
279(8)
The Lid Comes Off: Spectacles of Freedom
287(2)
The Summer of 1917
289(4)
October in Petrograd
293(4)
CHAPTER 16 Civil War: Reds, Whites, and Greens, 1917-1921
297(21)
Soviet Russia
297(5)
Civil War, Front and Rear
302(6)
War Communism and Popular Anticommunism
308(3)
Retaking the Empire
311(5)
Bolshevism in Europe
316(1)
Looking Back
316(2)
CHAPTER 17 The Years of New Economic Policy: Power, Society and Culture, 1921-1928
318(20)
The New Regime: Party and State
318(4)
The New Economic Policy: Socialism and Capitalism
322(2)
Society Turned Upside Down
324(3)
Culture and Revolution
327(3)
World Communism and World Relations
330(2)
Who Will Rule?
332(6)
CHAPTER 18 Revolution in the Life of Peoples, 1921-1928
338(17)
USSR: A Multinational State
338(5)
Slavic Renaissance: Ukraine and Belorussia
343(2)
The Jews of Socialism
345(1)
Transcaucasia
346(2)
Red Flag over Oasis and Steppe
348(6)
Empire and Union
354(1)
CHAPTER 19 Stalinism Established, 1928-1939
355(16)
Iron and Steel: Industrialization 355
360(2)
Tractors and Corpses: Collectivization
Purge and Terror: The Road to Death
362(7)
State Machine and Political Culture
369(2)
CHAPTER 20 Stalinism: Life Inside the System, 1928-1939
371(17)
Cultural Revolution, 1928-1932
371(1)
Socialist Realism and Mass Culture, 1932-1941
372(4)
Citizens: From the Kremlin to the Gulag
376(4)
Nations of the Union
380(5)
Stalin's Parade
385(3)
CHAPTER 21 The Soviet Homeland Defended: World War II, 1939-1945
388(18)
Facing Fascism, 1933-1939
388(6)
Invasion and Occupation
394(4)
Front and Rear
398(2)
Turn of the Tide
400(2)
The Hidden Wars
402(2)
Sacred War and Modern Memory
404(2)
CHAPTER 22 At the Dawn of the Cold War, 1945-1953
406(17)
The Big Three: Wartime Alliance, 1941-1945
407(2)
Lowering the Iron Curtain
409(5)
The Cultural Pogrom
414(2)
Town and Country, Men and Women
416(2)
Postwar Blues: Malaise and Counterculture
418(1)
Exit Stalin
419(4)
CHAPTER 23 Khrushchëv and the Decline of Stalinism, 1953-1964
423(17)
Collective Leadership: Destalinization of the Deed
424(1)
Revelations and Echoes: Destalinization of the Word
425(3)
Reaching Out: Religion and Rocketry
428(3)
Imperial Arena: The Bloc
431(1)
Global Arena: Victories and Defeats
432(4)
The Plot That Worked
436(4)
CHAPTER 24 The Brezhnev Years: Order and Stability, 1964-1982
440(13)
The Politics of Holding On
440(3)
Production and Consumption
443(4)
Technology and the Environment
447(1)
People: Progress and Passivity
448(2)
The Cultural Landscape
450(3)
CHAPTER 25 The Brezhnev Years: Change and Ferment, 1964-1982
453(20)
Counterpolitics: The Dissidents
453(3)
Underlife: Internal Emigration
456(1)
The Other Half: Soviet Republics
457(8)
Empire: Cuba to High Asia
465(6)
The Old Men Depart, 1982-1985
471(2)
CHAPTER 26 The Gorbachëv Revolution, 1985-1991
473(19)
Perestroika: Controlled Reform
473(2)
Glasnost: The Raised Voice
475(3)
New Thinking and Global Detente Economic Woes
478(3)
Political Experiments
481(4)
"And Nations Waken in the Night"?
485(3)
From Putsch to Collapse, 1990-1991
488(4)
CHAPTER 27 The Parting of the Ways: After 1991
492(20)
Boris Yeltsin: Bloodshed in Moscow and Chechnya
492(5)
Boris Yeltsin: Political and Economic Achievements
497(3)
Vladimir Putin
500(3)
Memories of Empire
503(4)
The Outer World
507(1)
Russia in a New Millennium
508(4)
CHAPTER 28 Another Russia: Emigration in the Twentieth Century
512
Three Waves
512(1)
"Russia Abroad": Between Two Wars
513(7)
Displaced Persons: World War II
520(5)
The Third Wave and Beyond
525(3)
Interconnections and Dislocations: Emigre Thought and Culture
528
Suggested Readings A-1
Rulers of Various Russian States A-15
Index I-1

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