Russia: A Complete History

by PeterNeville (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $11.17

  This history of Russia takes in all that vast country's changes over the last 2000 years. Peter Neville's purpose is to explain and elucidate the background to major events, describe the key personalities who shaped the region's history, while looking at internal economic and social pressures, and Russia's changing role in the world. There are reference sections at the back of the book including a chronology of major events, a listing of grand princes and tsars, prime ministers, general secretaries and presidents.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  Originally the lands we now know as Russia were settled by Scythians followed by nomadic tribes - the Sarmatians, Goths, Huns, Khazars and Slavs. The rise of Muscovy with its Tsars from Ivan Moneybags to Ivan the Terrible was followed by the despotic rule of the Romanovs, among them Peter the Great and Catherine II. The October Revolution ended the Tsarist despotism but replaced it with another kind of terror. Peter Neville takes the story right up to the present day, looking at the end of the communist state and the fragmentation of the USSR.