01761nam a22002417a 4500 20220406110214.0 220406b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0500276277 Aloy eng 23 947 HINR Ronald Hingley 27877 Russia: A concise history London Thames and Hudson 1998 224 p. PB 23x18 cm Tremendous changes in Russia have enhanced the special fascination which this powerful, enigmatic country has so long held for the world at large. 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. 205 black-and-white illustrations Soviet Russia 27878 Russian Empire 27879 Pre Imperial Russia 27880 Provisional Government 27881 HINGLEY (Ronald) 27882 ddc GF 222208 222208 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 947 HINR GF03473 2022-04-06 00:00:00 2022-04-06 GF