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List of figures 10
Acknowledgments 14
Prologue 16
1. Russia before Russia 26
Warriors and christians 31
Druzhinas and princes 36
2. Moscow, Novgorod, Lithuania, and the Mongols 44
3. The Emergence of Russia 62
Ivan the Terrible 73
The time of troubles 78
4. Consolidation and Revolt 84
5. Peter the Great 104
6. Two Empresses 126
7. Catherine the Great 142
8. Russia in the Age of Revolution 163
9. The Pinnacle of Autocracy 180
10. Culture and Autocracy 197
11. The Era of the Great Reforms 211
12. From Serfdom to Nascent Capitalism 233
The last decades 244
13. The Golden Age of Russian Culture 253
Science in the age of reform 253
Music 256
The visual arts 262
Literature 265
14. Russia as an Empire 274
Poles in the Russian Empire 278
The Baltic provinces 279
Finland 281
Jews 283
Ukrainians 286
The Asiatic Empire 288
Central Asia 291
The Manchurian gamble 294
15. Autocracy in Decline 297
16. War and Revolution 318
War 318
Revolution 323
Civil war and Soviet power 329
17. Compromise and Preparation 343
18. Revolutions in Russian Culture 359
Literature, music, and art 359
Culture and NEP 368
The natural sciences 371
19. Building Utopia 376
20. War 396
21. Growth, Consolidation, and Stagnation 418
22. Soviet Culture 438
23. The cold war 454
Epilogue. The End of the USSR 472
Further reading 486
Rus and early Russia 486
The eighteenth century 487
From the great reforms to 1917 489
Economic, social, and religious history 490
Foreign policy and empire 491
The Soviet era 492
Documentary collections 493
The war 493
The Cold War and the end of the USSR 494
Culture 495
Index 498