List of Colour Plates
List of Maps
Editor's Preface
List of Contributors
Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
Note on Transliteration and Dates
1: Janet Martin: From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450
2: Nancy Shields Kollmann: Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598
3: Hans-Joaachim Torke: From Muscovy towards St Petersburg,
1598-1689
4: John T. Alexander: The Petrine Era and After, 1682-1740
5: Gary Marker: The Age of Enlightenment, 1740-1801
6: David L. Ransel: Pre-Reform Russia, 1801-1855
7: Gregory L. Freeze: Reform and Counter-Reform, 1855-1890
8: Reginald E. Zelnik: Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914
9: Daniel T. Orlovsky: Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-21
10: William B. Husband: The New Economic Policy (NEP) and the
Revolutionary Experiment, 1921-1929
11: Lewis Siegelbaum: Building Stalinism, 1929-1941
12: William C. Fuller, Jr.: The Great Fatherland, War, and Late
Stalinism, 1941-1953
13: Gregory L. Freeze: From Stalinism to Stagnation, 1953-1985
14: Martin McCauley: From Perestroika towards a New Order,
1985-95
15: Gregory L. Freeze: Meltdown, Rebuilding, Reform, 1996-2001
Maps
Chronology
Further Reading
Index
Gregory Freeze is Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has also been a research associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University since 1972 and is chief editor and director of the Russian Archive series, which publishes new inventories of recently declassified archival collections. He has spent over 12 years conducting research in the central and provincial archives of the former Soviet Union.
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