by N/A
Extensively revised and based on documentation only recently made available in the West, this is the ideal one-volume survey of centuries of Russian historyReflecting the changed outlook of Russia as it approaches the new millennium, this updated edition offers authoritative accounts of the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century, the Mongol conquest, the birth of the nation-state, and early Romanov absolutism, along with fresh analyses of the policies and personalities of the Soviet Union and an outline of the Yeltsin years and the dilemmas facing Russia today.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Edition: 2
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Aug 1994
ISBN 10: 0140136487
ISBN 13: 9780140136487