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Russia in World History (Hardcover)
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Russia in World History (Hardcover)
Series: New Oxford World History
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This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic
history and the striking changes that characterize its story.
Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show
how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by
geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and
devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's
second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances
that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces
the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the
United States, which took place virtually everywhere and for
decades provided a model for societies seeking development
independent of capitalism. This book also brings the story of
Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power to a personal
level through the stories of individual women and men-leading
figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent
individuals from a range of social backgrounds whose voices
illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical change. As
was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide
variety of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian
empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld
a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. The book
examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and
commodities flowing between east and west, north and south, and
absorbed and adapted influences from both Europe and Asia and how
it came to play an increasingly important role on a regional and,
ultimately, global scale.
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