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Tables of Contents for A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond With Infotrac
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xi
Preface
xiii
PART ONE EARLY RUSSIA TO 1689
Introduction
3
8
Geography
3
3
The Peoples
6
2
Russian Responses to Challenges
8
1
Suggested Additional Reading
9
2
Ancient Rus
11
13
Early Occupants of the Great Eurasian Plain
11
3
The Huns, Avars, and Khazars
14
9
The Formation of Kievan Rus
17
6
Suggested Additional Reading
23
1
The Princes of Kievan Rus
24
12
Political History
24
5
Ruling Rus
29
3
External Relations
32
2
Decline and Fall
34
1
Suggested Additional Reading
35
1
Kievan Rus: Ecoonomic Life, Society, Culture, and Religion
36
15
Economic Life
36
2
Social Structure
38
2
Urban Life
40
4
Religion and Culture
44
5
Suggested Additional Reading
49
2
The Ascendance of the Southwest and the Northeast
51
9
The Southwest
51
2
The Northeast
53
5
Suggested Additional Reading
58
2
The Mongols and Russia
60
14
Chingis-Khan
61
1
The Mongol Invasion of Rus
62
1
The Golden Horde's Suzerainty over Rus
63
9
The Mongol Impact
68
4
Suggested Additional Reading
72
2
Novgorod and Lithuania
74
11
Novgorod
74
7
Lithuania
81
2
Suggested Additional Reading
83
2
The Rise of Moscow
85
11
Founding and Early Development
86
1
Moscow versus Tver
87
1
Ivan I and His Successors
88
1
Dmitri Ivanovich and the Battle of Kulikovo
89
4
Russian Historians on Moscow's Rise
93
1
Suggested Additional Reading
94
2
Society Culture, and Religion in Appanage Rus
96
10
The Issue of Russian ``Feudalism''
96
3
Role of the Orthodox Church
99
5
Suggested Additional Reading
104
2
The Unification of Great Russia
106
12
Expansion and the Growth of Grand Princely Power
106
2
Ivan III, The Great (1462-1501)
108
3
Internal Changes and Conflicts
111
4
Vasili III (1505-1533)
115
1
Suggested Additional Reading
116
2
Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584)
118
16
Minority and Rule with the Chosen Council
118
4
External Affairs
122
2
The Oprichnina and After
124
3
Ivan's Reign Assessed
127
6
The Oprichnina
128
5
Suggested Additional Reading
133
1
The Time of Troubles
134
11
Background and Causes
134
2
Dynastic Struggle: Fedor I and Boris Godunov (1584-1605)
136
2
Social Revolt and Foreign Invasion (1605-1610)
138
2
National Revival and the Romanovs' Election (1610-1613)
140
3
Suggested Additional Reading
143
2
The Early Romanovs: Politcs and Foreign Affairs
145
12
The Rulers and the Zemskii Sobor
145
1
Administration
146
2
Law
148
1
The Army
149
1
Eastward Expansion
150
2
Annexation of Eastern Ukraine
152
3
Suggested Additional Reading
155
2
The Early Romanovs: Society Culture, and Religion
157
14
Foreign Influences
157
1
Religious Controversies and Heresies
158
1
Patriarch Nikon's Church Reforms
159
5
The Development of Serfdom
164
3
Suggested Additional Reading
167
4
PART TWO EARLY IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1689-1855
Peter the Great: Politcs, War, and Diplomacy
171
18
Peter's Youth and His Trip to the West
171
4
War and Diplomacy
175
5
Administration
180
8
Historians and the Petrine Reforms
183
5
Suggested Additional Reading
188
1
Peter the Great: Social, Economic, and Religious Policies
189
10
State Service by the Nobility
189
2
Increased Burdens of the Peasantry
191
2
Economic Policies
193
2
Church Reform
195
3
Suggested Additional Reading
198
1
The Era of Palace Revolutions, 1725-1762
199
12
Politics
199
4
Society and Economy
203
2
Culture and Westernization
205
1
Foreign Relations
206
2
Conclusion
208
1
Suggested Additional Reading
209
2
Catherine II Rules and Expands Russia, 1762-1796
211
14
Peter III and the Coup of June 1762
211
2
Catherine II-Woman and Ruler
213
2
The Legislative Commission
215
1
Administrative Changes
215
2
External Affairs
217
6
Suggested Additional Reading
223
2
Catherine II: Economic, Social, and Cultural Policies
225
18
The Economy
225
2
The Society
227
4
The Pugachev Revolt, 1773-1774
231
2
Education and Culture
233
2
The Russian Enlightenment
235
7
Was Catherine II an Enlightened Despot?
238
4
Suggested Additional Reading
242
1
Bureaucratic Monarchy: Paul and Alexander I, 1796-1825
243
15
Paul I
243
4
Political Policies of Alexander I
247
2
Speranskii's Reform Program
249
3
The Arakcheevshchina
252
1
The Decembrist Revolt
253
4
Suggested Additional Reading
257
1
War and Diplomacy 1796-1825
258
11
Paul I
258
1
Alexander I: Orientation and Initial Polices, 1801-1804
259
1
Coalition Wars, 1805-1807
260
1
Tilsit and the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1807-1812
261
1
Napoleon Invades Russia, 1812
262
3
Liberation of Europe and the Vienna Settlement, 1823-1815
265
1
The Concert of Europe
266
1
Suggested Additional Reading
267
2
Social, Economic, and Cultural Development, 1796-1855
269
12
The Nobility
269
1
Urban Centers
270
1
Industrial Development
271
2
Literature
273
4
Music
277
1
Painting and Architecture
278
1
Suggested Additional Reading
279
2
The ``Iron Tsar''
281
18
The Ruler and His Ideology
281
2
Administration
283
1
The Army
284
1
The Intelligentsia
285
2
Foreign Affairs
287
2
The Crimean War 1853-1856
289
6
Whither Russia? Slavophiles versus Westernizers
291
4
Suggested Additional Reading
295
4
PART THREE MODERN RUSSIA, 1855 TO THE PRESENT
Political Reform and Minorities, 1855-1904
299
17
Alexander II and the Emancipation
299
3
Other Social and Political Reforms
302
1
Censorship and Education
302
1
Local Self-Government
303
1
Judicial Reform
304
2
Military Reform
306
1
Significance of the Great Reforms
306
1
Treatment of Minorities before 1905
307
7
Why Did Alexander II Free the Serfs?
309
5
Suggested Additional Reading
314
2
Social and Economic Development, 1855-1904
316
16
The Peasant World
317
1
Agriculture
318
3
Industry and Finance until 1891
321
3
Finance and Industry: The Spurt of the 1890s
324
1
Social Change
325
3
Religion
328
1
Suggested Additional Reading
329
3
Diplomacy and Empire, 1855-1905
332
15
Relations with Europe until 1875
333
1
Pan-Slavism and the Eastern Question until 1878
333
2
The Caucasus and Central Asia
335
2
Europe and the Balkans, 1881-1905
337
1
Russia in the Far East until 1914
338
8
Why Did Russia Expand in Central Asia?
341
5
Suggested Additional Reading
346
1
Opposition to Tsarism, 1855-1905
347
17
Liberalism and Radicalism, 1855-1870
348
3
Revolutionary Populism
351
2
The Development of Marxism
353
5
From Populism to the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs)
358
1
Liberalism Organizes
359
1
Reactionary Tsarism, 1881-1904
360
2
Suggested Additional Reading
362
2
War, Revolution, and Reform, 1904-1914
364
18
The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
364
1
The 1905 Revolution
365
4
Creation of the Duma Monarchy, 1905-1906
369
3
Political Development, 1907-1914
372
3
Economic and Social Development
375
2
Foreign Affairs, 1906-1914
377
3
Suggested Additional Reading
380
2
Cultural Developments, 1855-1917
382
17
Literature
382
7
Music
389
3
Painting
392
1
Architecture
393
1
Popular Culture
394
3
InfoTrac, College Edition Search Terms
397
1
Suggested Additional Reading
397
2
War and Revolution, 1914-1917
399
18
Russia Enters World War I
399
1
War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy
400
1
The Army and the Fronts
401
2
The Home Front
403
5
The March Revolution
408
7
Did World War I Cause the Collapse of Tsarism?
410
5
Suggested Additional Reading
415
2
From March to November 1917
417
18
The ``Dual Power''
417
2
The Bolsheviks Gain Leaders and a Program
419
2
The Revolution Moves Left (May-July)
421
1
Kornilov and the Rightward Shift (July-September)
422
1
The Rising Tide (September-November)
423
3
The November Revolution
426
7
Why Did the Bolsheviks Win?
329
104
Suggested Additional Reading
433
2
Civil War and War Communism, 1917-1921
435
12
First Steps, 1917-1918
435
3
Civil War 1918-1920
438
1
Civil War and Allied Intervention, 1918-1920
439
4
``War Communism'': An Economic Disaster
443
1
The Kronstadt Revolt of 1921
444
1
Suggested Additional Reading
445
2
The New Economic Policy and Power Struggle, 1921-1927
447
15
Economic and Political Controls of NEP
447
4
The Struggle over Succession
451
10
From Lenin to Stalin--Continuity or Betrayal?
455
6
Suggested Additional Reading
461
1
The Politics of Stalinism, 1928-1941
462
18
Intraparty Struggles and Crises, 1929-1934
463
1
The Great Purge
464
3
Government and Party Organization
467
3
Stalinism
470
8
The Great Terror: Old and New Approaches
473
5
Suggested Additional Reading
478
2
The Great Transformation
480
18
The Great Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928
480
2
Forced Collectivization
482
3
Industry: The Five Year Plans
485
4
Shifts in Social Policies
489
7
Forced Collectivization: Why and How?
492
4
Suggested Additional Reading
496
2
Soviet Culture Under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953
498
22
Initial Policies
498
1
Lunacharskii: The Politics of Culture
499
1
Soviet Culture in the Making: Proletkult and Other Vanguard Groups
500
2
Literature
502
3
The Cinema
505
1
Education
506
1
Science
507
1
Stalinist Culture, 1929-1953
508
1
Partiinost in Literature
509
5
Anticosmopolitanism and the Arts
514
1
Music
514
2
Popular Culture
516
1
Suggested Additional Reading
517
3
Soviet Foreign Relations to 1941
520
20
First Revolutionary Era, 1917-1921
522
2
Accommodation, 1921-1927
524
4
Neoisolationism, 1928-1933
528
1
Collective Security, 1934-1937
529
2
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
531
7
The Nazi-Soviet Pact: Then and Now
534
4
Suggested Additional Reading
538
2
War and Reconstruction, 1941-1953
540
22
Invasion
540
3
The 1942 Campaign: The Turning Point
543
1
Soviet Offensives and Allied Victory 1943-1945
544
3
The USSR and the Far Eastern War
547
1
Postwar Stalinism
548
11
Did Stalin Plan to Attack Nazi Germany in July 1941?
554
5
Suggested Additional Reading
559
3
The Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964
562
21
Politics Repudiating Stalinism
562
5
Economy: A Focus on Agriculture
567
2
Foreign Affairs: Crises in the Communist Bloc Countries
569
4
Khrushchev's Fall
573
8
De-Stalinization: Stalin's Role in the Purges and in World War II
574
7
Suggested Additional Reading
581
2
The Brezhnev Era, 1964-1982
583
28
Politics: Brezhnev's Rise
583
4
Nationalism and Dissent
587
2
Economy and Society
589
6
Popular Culture
595
1
Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces
595
14
Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968, and Its Repudiation, 1989
602
7
Suggested Additional Reading
609
2
The Soviet Gerontocracy, 1982-1985
611
16
Domestic Politics
611
7
Economy and Society
618
3
Foreign Policy
621
4
Suggested Additional Reading
625
2
The Gorbachev Revolution, 1985-1991
627
28
The Leader and the Succession
627
3
Glasnost and Political Reform
630
7
Nationalities and Nationalism
637
4
Perestroika's Impact on the Economy and Society
641
5
National Security and Foreign Affairs
646
6
Suggested Additional Reading
652
3
Soviet Culture Since Stalin, 1953-1991
655
24
The Thaw, 1953-1956
655
1
Dr. Zhivago and the Refreeze
656
1
Culture under Khrushchev
657
4
Culture under Breznev
661
9
Culture under Gorbachev 1985-1991
670
6
Suggested Additional Reading
676
3
The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990-1992
679
16
Gorbachev Declines, Yeltsin Rises, 1990-1991
679
2
The August Coup
681
4
The Demise of the Soviet Union, 1991-1992
685
2
The Commonwealth of Independent States
687
6
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
689
4
Suggested Additional Reading
693
2
The Yeltsin Years, 1991-1999
695
30
The Legacy of Soviet Communism
695
2
Environmental Problems: A Devastated Land
697
6
Troubled Transitions, the Yeltsin Era
703
13
Post-Soviet Culture
716
3
Yeltsin's Disputed Legacy
719
2
Suggested Additional Reading
721
4
The Putin Presidency
725
14
Early Life and Career
725
2
The Road to the Presidency
727
4
Putin as President
731
3
Tentative Assessment
734
1
Culture under Yeltsin and Putin
735
4
Appendix A: Russian and Soviet Leaders, 1801-2000
739
3
Appendix B: Area and Population of Union Republics (January 1989)
742
1
Appendix C: Population of the Largest Cities of the USSR, 1989
743
1
Glossary of Foreign Words
744
3
Bibliography
747
6
Index
753