The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century

Author(s): Robert Service

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Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond. This new edition also discusses Russia's unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.


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Robert Service is professor of Russian History at Oxford University, a fellow of St Antony's College and an associate fellow of the Hoover Institution. His other books include biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, a textbook on the Russian Revolution and Russia: Experiment with a People, from 1991 to the Present as well asComrades. Communism: A World History. He writes and broadcasts for the media and is a fellow of the British Academy.

General Fields

  • : 9780141981543
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.522
  • : August 2015
  • : 198mm X 132mm X 35mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Robert Service
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 947.08
  • : 768