Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. In the ninth edition, this includes expanded attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and to imperial expansion and diversity. Extensively revised and with a more streamlined organization, A History of Russia, Ninth Edition, includes recent developments in Ukraine and Russia's near abroad in the Putin era.

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky was Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Contents
Maps
Illustrations
New to the Ninth Edition
Preface to the Ninth Edition

Part I: Kievan Rus

1. Introduction: The Lands and Peoples of the Eurasian Plain
2. A Political Outline, c882-1240
3. Institutions, Economy, Society
4. Religion and Culture

Part II: Appanage Russia

5. Introduction
6. Mongol Rule
7. Lord Novgorod the Great
8. The Southwest and the Northeast
9. The Rise of Moscow
10. Institutions, Economy, Society
11. Religion and Culture
12. Lithuania, Poland, and Russia

Part III: Muscovite Russia

13. Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84
14. The Time of Troubles
15. The Early Romanovs, 1613-82
16. Institutions, Economy, Society
17. Religion and Culture

Part IV: Imperial Russia

18. Peter the Great, 1682-1725
19. From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, 1725-1762
20. Catherine the Great, 1762-96, and Paul, 1796-1801
21. Economy and Society in the Eighteenth Century
22. Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century
23. Alexander I, 1801-25
24. Nicholas I, 1825-55
25. Economy and Society before the Great Reforms
26. Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
27. Alexander II, 1855-81
28. Alexander III, 1881-94, and Nicholas II to the Revolution of 1905
29. Nicholas II in the Era of Revolution and Reform, 1905-17
30. Economy and Society from the Great Reforms to 1917
31. Russian Culture from the Great Reforms to 1917
32. The Revolutions of 1917

Part V: Soviet Russia

33. Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928
34. The Stalin Revolution, 1928-1939
35. The Soviet Union and the World, 1921-45
36. Stalin's Last Years, 1945-53
37. Politics and Economy after Stalin, 1953-85
38. Soviet Society, 1917-1985
39. Soviet Culture, 1917-1985
40. Glasnost, Perestroika, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-91

Part VI: The Russian Federation

41. Politics after Communism: Yeltsin and Putin
42. Economy, Society, and Culture after Communism

Appendix: Russian Rulers A-1
A Bibliography of Readings in English on Russian History B-1
Index I-1