Table of Contents

Part I The Origins of Russia: Origins of the Slavs; Expansion of the Slavs; Kievan Rus; Principalities and Novgorod Republic; Christianity in Russia. Part II From Tatars to Time of Trouble: Russia under the Tatars; The Rise of Muscovy; Russian Expansion; The Time of Troubles; The Fur Trade. Part III From Muscovite to Imperial Russia: Russia to the End of the Petrine Period; Russia to Catherine the Great; Russia in Asia; Provinces, Population and Economy; Peter the Great and St Petersburg. Part IV Russia from Early 19th Century: Russia in Europe after 1798; European Russia 1801-1881; Economic Development to 1860; Russia in the Caucasus; Russia in Central Asia; The Crimean War. Part V From Reform to Revolution: Industrialization by 1900; The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; The 1905 Revolution; World War I; The Tsars. Part VI From Revolution to the USSR: 1917 Revolutions; Civil War and Foreign Intervention; New Economic Policy (NEP); Creation of USSR and Rise of Stalin; Industrialization and Collectivization; Foreign Policy; Stalinist Repression. Part VII War, Peace and Dissolution: Barbarossa; Stalingrad to Berlin; Post-war Stalinism; Khrushchev and the Arms Race; The Brezhnev Era; Gorbachev - Nationalism and Europe; USSR Dissolves; Khrushchev and the "Virgin Lands".