Table of Contents

Part 1 ANCIENT AND EARLY MODERN RUSSIA; Chapter 1 THE SLAVS BY 800 BC; Chapter 2 THE ASIAN MIGRATIONS 800-600 BC; Chapter 3 SCYTHIANS, GREEKS AND SLAVS 600 BC - 300 BC; Chapter 4 ROMANS AND SARMATIANS 200 BC - 200 AD; Chapter 5 THE TRIUMPH OF THE GOTHS 200-400 AD; Chapter 6 THE RULE OF THE HUNS 450 AD; Chapter 7 THE FIRST SLAV EXPANSION 450-550 AD; Chapter 8 THE AVAR CONQUESTS 560-600 AD; Chapter 9 THE SLAV RECOVERY 600-700 AD; Chapter 10 THE KHAZAR KINGDOM 650-750 AD; Chapter 11 THE SCANDINAVIAN MIGRATIONS 800–1000 AD; Chapter 12 THE SLAVS AND THE NORSEMEN BY 880 AD; Chapter 13 KIEVAN RUSSIA 880–1054; Chapter 14 RIVERS AND TRADE IN 1000 AD; Chapter 15 CHRISTIANITY AND THE SLAVS BY 1000 AD; Chapter 16 THE FLOURISHING OF RUSSIAN MONASTICISM 1200–1600; Chapter 17 THE FRAGMENTATION OF KIEVAN RUSSIA 1054–1238; Chapter 18 THE REPUBLIC OF NOVGOROD 997–1478; Chapter 19 THE EASTERN TRADE ROUTES OF NOVGOROD 1000–1450; Chapter 20 GERMAN EASTWARD EXPANSION AND THE BALTIC 900–1500; Chapter 21 THE MONGOL EMPIRE BY 1300; Chapter 22 THE TARTAR CONQUEST OF RUSSIA 1219–1241; Chapter 23 THE LITHUANIAN CONQUESTS 1240–1462; Chapter 24 THE EASTWARD SPREAD OF CATHOLICISM BY 1462; Chapter 25 THE RISE OF MOSCOW 1261–1533; Chapter 26 THE EXPANSION OF RUSSIA 1533–1598; Chapter 27 MOSCOW AND RIVERS OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA 1460–1860; Chapter 28 THE EXPROPRIATION OF LAND BY IVAN IV 1565–1571; Chapter 29 RUSSIA IN THE TIME OF TROUBLES 1598–1613; Chapter 30 THE POLISH AND SWEDISH INVASIONS 1610 – 1618; Chapter 31 THE WESTWARD EXPANSION OF RUSSIA 1640 – 1667; Chapter 32 SOCIAL UNREST 1648 and 1670; Chapter 33 RUSSIAN EASTWARD EXPANSION 1478–1710; Chapter 34 TRADE AND INDUSTRY 1700–1800; Chapter 35 THE COSSACKS 1500–1916; Chapter 36 RUSSIAN WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE BALTIC 1721–1945; Part 2 IMPERIAL RUSSIA; Chapter 37 WAR AND REVOLT UNDER PETER THE GREAT 1695 - 1723; Chapter 38 THE PROVINCES AND POPULATION OF RUSSIA IN 1724; Chapter 39 THE GERMANS OF RUSSIA 1710 – 1959; Chapter 40 THE EXPANSION OF CHIN

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Merton College, Oxford University, UK