| Contents |
Phoenix -- The eighteenth century -- The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855 -- Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905 -- Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914 -- Forging Soviet civilization -- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? -- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War -- Embattled leader of the "second world", 1953-1982 -- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2013013853 |
| ISBN | 9780742568389 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742568385 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780742568396 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742568393 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742568407 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780742568402 (electronic bk.) |
