A History of Modern Russia

From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century

Third Edition

Robert Service

    • Acknowledgements
    • 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

      3. 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

      9. 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

      14. Coda

    14. Suffering and Struggle 1941–1945

      15. 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

      20. 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. The Lowering of Expectations 1994–1999
    28. And Russia? from 2000

    Afterword

    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index
  • Cover: A History of Modern Russia
  • A photo of the author

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