A History of Russia - Couverture rigide

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195074629 ISBN 13 : 9780195074628

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Widely acclaimed for its authority and balance, this is the best one-volume history of Russia available. Tracing major social, economic, and cultural developments, as well as political and military events, the book covers Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russian history. This new updated edition also has a chapter on the Gorbachev years from the initiation of glasnost and perestroika to the failed coup of August 1991, and an updated bibliography.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholas Riasanovsky is Professor Emeritus of History the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including A Parting of Ways: Government and the Educated Public in Russia: 1801-1855 (1976) and The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought (OUP, 1985). Mark Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specializing in the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his many books include Voices of Revolution, 1917 (2001) and Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (2002). Since 2006, he has been editor of the journal Slavic Review.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Riasanovsky's History of Russia has defined the market and set a standard for accurate, balanced interpretation, and attention to political, social, and cultural history and international relations. Featuring a new co-author, Mark Steinberg, this seventh edition includes more information on the politics and economics of post-Socialism and on post-Soviet society and culture. For the first time, the text is being offered in paperback and as a combined two-volume set covering early Russia through the nineteenth-century in volume one, and from 1855 to the present in volume two.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195074629
• ISBN 13: 9780195074628
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 731
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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