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Russia's history, from her beginnings as a pagan Slav community centered on Kiev to superpower status, has its own unique rhythm. Appalling calamities have shaped Russia: the Time of Troubles; the Napoleonic invasion; two world wars separated by a great civil war; a multitude of famines and epidemics. Not least among these scourges have been leaders such as Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin.
In this revised and updated edition, Ronald Hingley considers the recent astonishing developments: the first steps towards liberalization, the collapse of communist rule throughout Russia's former satellite states, and above all the demise of Soviet communism and the disintegration of the USSR.
Russia's present can be better comprehended as the latest chapter in a long and enthralling history; a history—evoked here with the aid of over 200 illustrations—which is now being energetically reassessed by the Russians themselves.
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Philip Johnson
reviewed Russia a Concise History on January 06, 2019 Russia a Concise History
I read this specifically to just get a bare-bones understanding of Russian history before embarking on another cultural history book. Russian history was basically by-passed in my k-12 texts, and really only discussed briefly in relation to global conflicts in college gen-ed history... So, this definitely helped fill in the gaps.
It's a quick and easy read, and is set up in a way that facilitates retention. I was left wanting to know more, but, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. At least now I know what "more" I want to discover whereas before I didn't know what all I didn't know. I'll always take the former over the latter.
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