This historical atlas follows the fortunes of Russia. It takes in the rise of Muscovy, the creation of the new capital, St Petersburg, territorial expansion under Catherine the Great, the collapse of communism, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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Table of Contents
Part I The Origins of Russia: Origins of the Slavs; Expansion of the Slavs; Kievan Rus; Principalities and Novgorod Republic; Christianity in Russia. Part II From Tatars to Time of Trouble: Russia under the Tatars; The Rise of Muscovy; Russian Expansion; The Time of Troubles; The Fur Trade. Part III From Muscovite to Imperial Russia: Russia to the End of the Petrine Period; Russia to Catherine the Great; Russia in Asia; Provinces, Population and Economy; Peter the Great and St Petersburg. Part IV Russia from Early 19th Century: Russia in Europe after 1798; European Russia 1801-1881; Economic Development to 1860; Russia in the Caucasus; Russia in Central Asia; The Crimean War. Part V From Reform to Revolution: Industrialization by 1900; The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; The 1905 Revolution; World War I; The Tsars. Part VI From Revolution to the USSR: 1917 Revolutions; Civil War and Foreign Intervention; New Economic Policy (NEP); Creation of USSR and Rise of Stalin; Industrialization and Collectivization; Foreign Policy; Stalinist Repression. Part VII War, Peace and Dissolution: Barbarossa; Stalingrad to Berlin; Post-war Stalinism; Khrushchev and the Arms Race; The Brezhnev Era; Gorbachev - Nationalism and Europe; USSR Dissolves; Khrushchev and the Virgin Lands.
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia by John Channon
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