A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Putin
- ISBN-10
- 0141011211
- ISBN-13
- 9780141011219
- Series
- A HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA
- Category
- History / Modern / 20th Century / General
- Pages
- 704
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-09-04
- Publisher
- Penguin Adult
- Author
- Robert Service
Description
A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.
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