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Informationen zum Autor Kees Boterbloem is professor of history at the University of South Florida. Klappentext This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Putin's current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature. Zusammenfassung This concise text provides an introduction to Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Putin’s current term. Through a clear chronological narrative, Boterbloem traces the political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments that led Russia from an exotic backwater to superpower stature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Phoenix: The Rise of Russia in the Seventeenth Century, 1613-1689Chapter 2: Great Power, 1689-1796Chapter 3: The Height and Decline of Imperial Russia, 1789-1855Chapter 4: Domestic Convulsions, 1855-1905Chapter 5: Fatal Foreign Entanglements and a Failed Revolution, 1877-1914Chapter 6: Forging Soviet Civilization, 1914-1924Chapter 7: The Inevitable Triumph of Stalinism? 1924-1941Chapter 8: The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War, 1941-1953Chapter 9: Embattled Leader of the "Second World," 1953-1982Chapter 10: The Fall of the Soviet Union and Beyond, 1982-2018ChronologyIndex
