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The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century

By Robert Service

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2015
ISBN
0141981547, 9780141981543
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6810184 bytes)
Edition
4th Edition | Retail
Pages
665\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-12-05 10:25:20
Russian History

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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