A Companion to Russian History (eBook)

Abbott Gleason (Herausgeber)

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2009
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0842-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day.

• Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada
• Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia
• Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people
• Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field

Autor

Abbott Gleason is Keeney Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, where he has served as Chairman of the History Department and Director of the Watson Institute from 2000-2001. In 1995 he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. In 1980-1982 he was Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC and was subsequently chosen Chairman of its Board Advisers.

Inhalt

A COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY 1
Contents 9
Notes on Contributors 12
Chapter One: Russian Historiography after the Fall 15
PART I: Rus': The Early East Slavic World 29
Chapter Two: From “Proto-Slavs” to Proto-State 31
Chapter Three: The First East Slavic State 48
Chapter Four: Rus' and the Byzantine Empire 65
Chapter Five: The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms 80
Part II: To Muscovy and Beyond 101
Chapter Six: Muscovite Political Culture 103
Chapter Seven: Slavery and Serfdom in Russia 119
Chapter Eight: Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism 135
Chapter Nine: The Church Schism and Old Belief 159
Part III: The Russian Empire 177
Chapter Ten: Petrine Russia 179
Chapter Eleven: The Westernization of the Elite, 1725–1800 194
Chapter Twelve: The “Great Reforms” of the 1860s 210
Chapter Thirteen: Industrialization and Capitalism 224
Chapter Fourteen: The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia 239
Chapter Fifteen: Russia: Minorities and Empire 257
Chapter Sixteen: The Intelligentsia and its Critics 275
Chapter Seventeen: Russian Modernism 293
Chapter Eighteen: Russia’s Popular Culture in History and Theory 309
Chapter Nineteen: The Russian Experience of the First World War 325
Part IV: The Soviet Union 349
Chapter Twenty: From the First World War to Civil War, 1914–1923 351
Chapter Twenty-One: The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence 367
Chapter Twenty-Two: Stalinism and the 1930s 382
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Soviet Union in the Second World War 400
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cold War 428
Chapter Twenty-Five: Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev 443
Chapter Twenty-Six: The End of the Soviet Union 465
Part V: Whither Russia? 485
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Russia’s Post-Soviet Upheaval 487
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Russian History and the Future of Russia 504
Index 519

Rezensionen

"As a companion for a journey across Russian history, this book is entertaining, clever and varied, brilliant at its best, and able to speak simultaneously and with authority to all kinds of students, general readers and specialists. Yet it has an eclectic air about it." (Slavonic and East European Review, 2 April 2011)

"Read from cover to cover, A Companion to Russian History will be of enormous value to those who teach survey courses in Russian history, to graduate students preparing for comprehensive exams in Russian history, or simply anyone who wants to get current with trends in the field." (The Russian Review, 2010)

"...Recommended as an up-to-date and well written guide to many important issues in Russian history, likely to be useful to everyone from senior school pupils to scholars seeking guidance in unfamiliar fields." (Reviews in History, April 2010)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to World History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to World History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Europäische Geschichte • Europäische Geschichte • European History • Geschichte • History • Russia, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Lenin, Soviet Union • Russland /Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0842-4 / 1444308424
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0842-6 / 9781444308426