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Soviet Union : a country study

lxxxii, 1068 pages : 24 cm · "Research completed May 1989." · Supersedes the 1971 ed. of Area handbook for the Soviet Union, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [and others] · Includes bibliographical references (pages 895-977) and index · Emergence of the East Slavs. The peoples of the East European Plain ; The East Slavs and the Varangians ; The golden age of Kiev ; The rise of regional centers ; The Mongol invasion -- Muscovy. The rise of Muscovy ; The evolution of Russian aristocracy ; Ivan IV ; The time of troubles ; The Romanovs ; Expansion and Westernization -- Early imperial Russia. Peter the Great and the formation of the Russian empire ; Era of palace revolutions ; Imperial expansion and maturation: Catherine II -- Ruling the empire. War and peace, 1796-1825 ; Period of reaction: Nicholas I, 1825-55 -- The transformation of imperial Russia. Economic developments ; Reforms and their limits, 1855-92 ; Foreign affairs after the Crimean War, 1856-93 ; The Age of Realism in literature ; The rise of revolutionary Populism and Russian Marxism, 1855-90 ; Serge Witte and accelerated industrialization, 1891-1903 ; The development of radical political parties, 1892-1904 ; Imperialism in A

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