Russia

Experiment with a People

Robert Service

    List of Illustrations

    Preface

    Introduction

    One: The Project of Reform

    1. For a New Russia

    2. What Is Russia?

    3. Who Are the Russians?

    4. Public Images, 1800-1991

    5. Soviet Legacies

    Two: Power and the Kremlin

    6. The New Russian State

    7. Popular Opinion

    8. Masters of Red Square

    9. Economising on Reform

    10. Bloodbath in Chechnya

    11. Russia in the World

    Three: Persuading Russia

    12. Official Transmission

    13. Symbols for Russia

    14. Understating the Case

    15. The Politics of Ideas

    16. Culture for the Nation

    Four: In the Russian Depths

    17. Federation and the Regions

    18. Russian Town, Russian Village

    19. Class and the 'New Russians'

    20. A Society Disclosed

    21. Russiain Private

    22. Future Uncertain

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

  • Cover: Russia
  • A photo of the author

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