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Introduction
Before the Russians, Kievan Rus, and Muscovite Russia (tenth century B.C.E.-1462 C.E.)
Independence and unification: the last Rurikids to the first Romanovs (1462-1694)
Imperial Russia: the eras of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great (1694-1801)
The nineteenth-century crisis: the mystic and the Knout (1801-1855)
Reform, reaction, and revolution (1855-1917)
The Golden and Silver Ages: Russian cultural achievement from Pushkin to World War I (1820-1917)
Soviet Russia: utopian dreams and dystopian realities (1917-1953)
Soviet Russia: reform, decline, and collapse (1953-1991)
Post-Soviet Russia: Yeltsin and Putin (1991-2008)
Conclusion: The Russian riddle
Appendixes
Basic facts about Russia
Chronology
Bibliography
Suggested reading.
List of maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Before the Russians, Kievan Rus, and Muscovite Russia (tenth century B.C.E.-1462 C.E.)
Independence and unification: the last Rurikids to the first Romanovs (1462-1694)
Imperial Russia: the eras of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great (1694-1801)
The nineteenth-century crisis: the mystic and the Knout (1801-1855)
Reform, reaction, and revolution (1855-1917)
The Golden and Silver Ages: Russian cultural achievement from Pushkin to World War I (1820-1917)
Soviet Russia: utopian dreams and dystopian realities (1917-1953)
Soviet Russia: reform, decline, and collapse (1953-1991)
Post-Soviet Russia: Yeltsin and Putin (1991-2008)
Conclusion: The Russian riddle
Appendixes
Basic facts about Russia
Chronology
Bibliography
Suggested reading.