The Penguin History of Modern Russia – From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century
General:
Name: The Penguin History of Modern Russia – From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century
Format: epub
Size: 6.49 MB
Book:
Title: The Penguin History of Modern Russia
Author: Robert Service
Language: English
Year: 2009
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141037974
Total pages: 672 str.
Description:
Robert Service’s The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age.
Russia’s recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.
In his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter, Robert Service explores the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Tsar Nicholas II, through the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; from Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond.
This new edition also discusses Russia’s unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.
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