Kees Boterbloem

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