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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Engel, Barbara Alpern
Martin, Janet (1945-....)
Titre(s) : Russia in world history [Texte imprimé] / Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University Press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-156 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : New Oxford world history
Lien à la collection : The new Oxford world history
Note(s) : Editors' Preface -- A Note on Dates and Names -- The Formation of Russia : Slavs,
Vikings and Byzantium -- The Formation and Development of Muscovy (1240-1462) -- Muscovy
: The Late Ryurikids and Early Romanovs (1462-1689) -- The Petrine Revolution (1689-1725)
-- The Triumph of Empire (1725-1855) -- Reform and Revolution (1855-1905) -- Wars
and Revolutions (1905-1945) -- Cold War and the Collapse of Communism (1945 to the
present) -- Chronology -- Websites. - Includes bibliographical references and index
"This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking
changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and
Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography,
climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and
rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances
that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences
of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place virtually
everywhere and for decades provided a model for societies seeking development independent
of capitalism. This book also brings the story of Russia's arduous and costly climb
to great power to a personal level through the stories of individual women and men-leading
figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent individuals from a range
of social backgrounds whose voices illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical
change. As was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide variety
of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited
from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity.
The book examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and commodities
flowing between east and west, north and south, and absorbed and adapted influences
from both Europe and Asia and how it came to play an increasingly important role on
a regional and, ultimately, global scale"
Sujet(s) : Russie -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199947874 (hardback) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 0199947872 (hardback) (alkaline
paper). - ISBN 9780199947898 (paperback) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 0199947899 (paperback)
(alkaline paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443681736
Notice n° :
FRBNF44368173
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
