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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 2009, 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 a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Most recently he has written Lenin: A Biography and Russia: Experiment with a People.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Prof. Service has put together an excellent overview of the last 110 years or so of Russian history. It must be stressed that this is all very broad brush - in only 570 pages, it would be impossible to treat so enormous a subject in full depth. But he has steered a course comfortably between skimming over events and going into too much detail. (That said, some elements of Soviet history - such as the war in Afghanistan - are slightly neglected as being not strictly relevant to a history of Russia). Occasionally the barrage of names can confuse - not always aided by his system of transliteration - but in general, the book holds together well. It balances analysis and narrative, though there isn't much sense of differing historical schools of thought, except in the introduction.
At the end of the day, this is an introductory history that more than fulfils its role.
At the end of the day, this is an introductory history that more than fulfils its role.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I purchased this book to help with my A2 History studies (OCR F966) and although it does not cover the entire period, it is an excellent book as it covers important events such as the First, and Second World wars as well as the Civil war. If you are studying Russia, this is the book for you!
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