The Russian Moment in World History /

The Russian Moment in World History / / Marshall T. Poe.

Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative and elegantly written short history of Russia, Marshall Poe takes us well beyond the Soviet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Poe, Marshall T.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2003
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (136 p.) :; 6 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • 1. What Russia Is and What It Is Not
  • 2. From Slavs to Rus'
  • 3. From Rus' to Russia
  • 4. The Challenge of Early Modernity
  • 5. The Origins of the Russian Moment
  • 6. The Progress of the Russian Moment
  • 7. From Early Modernity to Modernity
  • 8. The End of the Russian Moment
  • 9. Coda: What Might Have Been
  • Chronology
  • Bibliographic Note
  • Index

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