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Russia in World History
Contributor(s): Engel, Barbara Alpern (Author)
ISBN: 0199947899     ISBN-13: 9780199947898
Publisher: OUP Us
OUR PRICE:   $30.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- History | World - General
Dewey: 947
LCCN: 2015001743
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.65 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
 
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Publisher Description:
Over the course of twelve centuries, Russia's peoples overcame the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions to become the world's second largest land empire and the largest in modern history. This energetic
introduction to Russia's history follows the development of local tribes into a federation of principalities centered at Kiev, the shift of power to Moscow and the centralization of the state, and Russia's pursuit of imperial ambitions. It examines the circumstances that led to the foundation of the
world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's extensive confrontation with the United States. Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power gains a personal dimension through the stories of individual women and men-pivotal figures as well as common
people-illuminating the human consequences of sweeping historical change. Peoples of many ethnicities became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefitted from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. This book examines how Russia served as a
conduit for people, ideas, and commodities - owing between east and west, north and south and how it came to play an increasingly important role on a global scale.