Hosking's delineation of the trends, the sense of history's sweep, the accumulation of a wealth of material, the interweaving of the cultural with the religious with the social with the demotic, are generally done with a skill born of experience...So close has been his study of Russia ancient and modern that he is able to be as categorical on the 18th as on the 20th century...This is writing with a steady hand, guided by opinion formed through large experience.
   --John Lloyd, Financial Times

A sweeping overview of Russian history written by a master of the subject. It is rich in details, sources, and ideas about Russian political, historical, and cultural development. It is an impressive work that will be useful to students of Russian history, culture, religion, as well as politics.
   --Nicolai N. Petro, author of The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture

Geoffrey Hosking has written a wonderfully suggestive and innovative Russian history that deserves to be widely read. He masterfully interweaves the latest scholarship in social history with an imaginative rereading of intellectual, institutional, and political history.
   --Mark von Hagen, author of Soldiers of the Proletariat Dictatorship

Geoffrey Hosking is retired Professor of Russian History at the University College London.

Read More by Geoffrey Hosking:

• Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Enlarged Edition
• The Awakening of the Soviet Union, Enlarged Edition
• The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition
• Russia and the Russians: A History
• The Awakening of the Soviet Union, First edition
• Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union