• Examines all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance • Contains a wealth of new images and a fully revised bibliography and reading list • Two new chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's complex experience after communism and discuss its chances of becoming a more stable and prosperous country in the future Contents: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Kievan Russia Part 3: Appanage Russia Part 4: Muscovite Russia Part 5: Imperial Russia Part 6: Soviet Russia Part 7: Russian Federation Bibliography Appendix Recommended Readings Index

Part I: Introduction 1. A Geographical Note 2. Russia Before the Russians Part II: Kievan Russia 3. The Establishment of the Kievan State 4. Kievan Russia: A Political Outline 5. Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions 6. Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture Part III: Appanage Russia 7. Appanage Russia: Introduction 8. The Mongols and Russia 9. Lord Novgorod the Great 10. The Southwest and the Northeast 11. The Rise of Moscow 12. Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions 13. Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture 14. The Lithuanian-Russian State Part IV: Muscovite Russia 15. The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theordore, 1584-98 16. The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613 17. The Reigns of Michael 1613-45, Alexis 1645-76, and Theodore 1676-82 18. Muscovite Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions 19. Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture Part V: Imperial Russia 20. The Reign of Peter the Great 1862-1725 21. Russian History from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great 22. The Reigns of Catherine the Great 1762-96 and Paul 1796-1801 23. The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century 24. Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century 25. The Reign of Alexander I 1801-25 26. The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-55 27. The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 28. Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 29. The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81 30. The Reign of Alexander III 1881-94 and the First Part of Reign of Nicholas II 1894-1905 31. The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period 1905-17 32. The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the "Great Reforms until the Revolutions of 1917 33. Russian Culture from the "Great Reforms" until the Revolutions of 1917 34. The Revolutions of 1917 Part VI: Soviet Russia 35. Soviet Russia: An Introduction 36. War Communism 1917-21 and the New Economic Policy 1921-28 37. The First Three Five-Year Plans 1928-41 38. Soviet Foreign Policy 1921-41 and the Second World War 1941-45 39. Stalin's Last Decade 1945-53 40. The Soviet Union After Stalin 1953-85 41. Soviet Society and Culture 42. The Gorbachev Years 1985-91 and the Collapse of the Soviet Union Part VII: Russian Federation 43. Russia After Communism: Yeltsin 1991-99 and Putin 2000- 44. Society and Culture Since 1991 Bibliography Appendix Recommended Readings

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, University of California, Berkeley, and Mark Steinberg, Professor of History, University of Illinois

"Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg's new two-volume A History of Russia is a masterpiece, as comprehensive and scholarly as its previous editions but now updated to include chapters on contemporary-or at least late 20th century-Russian politics, society, culture, and the arts. There can be few single texts that deal more carefully with so great a range of historical eras, and few that do so while covering so broad a spectrum."-Catherine Merridale, University of London for the London Times Book Review, February 24, 2006