A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition / Edition 3

by Robert Service

Overview

Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition takes the story from 2002 through the entire presidency of Vladimir Putin to the election of his successor, Dmitri Medvedev.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674034938
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/30/2009
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Russian History at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Transliteration

Maps

1. The Russian Empire in 1900
2. The Soviet Union, 1924–1936
3. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945
4. The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997
5. The Russian Federation in 1997

Introduction

1. And Russia? 1900–1914
2. The Fall of the Romanovs 1914–1917

Part One
3. Conflicts and Crises 1917
4. The October Revolution 1917–1918
5. New World, Old World
6. Civil Wars 1918–1921
7. The New Economic Policy 1921–1928
8. Leninism and its Discontents

Part Two
9. The First Five-Year Plan 1928–1932
10. Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation
11. Terror upon Terror 1934–1938
12. Coping with Big Brothers
13. The Second World War 1939–1945

Coda
14. Suffering and Struggle 1941–1945

Part Three
15. The Hammers of Peace 1945–1953
16. The Despot and his Masks
17. ‘De-Stalinization’ 1953–1961
18. Hopes Unsettled 1961–1964
19. Stabilization 1964–1970

Part Four
20. ‘Developed Socialism’ 1970–1982
21. Privilege and Alienation
22. Towards Reform 1982–1985
23. Glasnost and Perestroika 1986–1988
24. Imploding Imperium 1989
25. Hail and Farewell 1990–1991
26. Power and the Market 1992–1993
27. The Lowering of Expectations 1994–1999
28. And Russia? from 2000

Afterword

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Editorial Reviews

A remarkable work...It demands to be read.

Spectator - Adam Zamoyski

A fine book...It is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedeviled Western histories of Russia...A balanced, dispassionate and painstaking account.

Sunday Times - Brian Moynahan

Always well-informed and balanced in his judgments, clear and concise in his analysis...Service is extremely good on Soviet politics.

Sunday Telegraph - Orlando Figes

A fine book...It is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedeviled Western histories of Russia...A balanced, dispassionate and painstaking account.
— Brian Moynahan

Sunday Times

Always well-informed and balanced in his judgments, clear and concise in his analysis...Service is extremely good on Soviet politics.
— Orlando Figes

Sunday Telegraph

A remarkable work...It demands to be read.
— Adam Zamoyski

Spectator