A History of Modern Russia

From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin

Revised Edition

Robert Service

    Acknowledgments

    A Note on Transliteration

    Maps

    1. The Russian Empire in 1900

    2. The Soviet Union, 1924-1936

    3. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945

    4. The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997

    5. The Russian Federation in 1997

    INTRODUCTION

    1. And Russia? 1900-1914 2. The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917

    PART ONE

    3. Conflicts and Crises 1917

    4. The October Revolution 1917-1918

    5. New World, Old World

    6. Civil Wars 1918-1921

    7. The New Economic Policy 1921-1928

    8. Leninism and its Discontents 150

    PART TWO

    9. The First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932

    10. Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation

    11. Terror upon Terror 1934-1938

    12. Coping with Big Brothers

    13. The Second World War 1939-1945

    CODA

    14. Suffering and Struggle 1941-1945

    PART THREE

    15. The Hammers of Peace 1945-1953

    16. The Despot and his Masks

    17. 'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961

    18. Hopes Unsettled 1961-1964

    19. Stabilization 1964-1970

    PART FOUR

    20. 'Developed Socialism' 1970-1982

    21. Privilege and Alienation

    22. Towards Reform 1982-1985

    23. Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988

    24. Imploding Imperium 1989

    25. Hail and Farewell 1990-1991

    26. Power and the Market 1992-1993

    27. And Russia? 1994-2002

    Afterword: Past and Prospects

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

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Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University.