This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial
Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in
1613 to Vladimir Putin's new term. Through a consistent
chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political,
military, economic, social, religious, and cultural developments
and crucial turning points that led Russia from an exotic backwater
to superpower stature in the twentieth century. The author assesses
the tremendous price paid by those who made Russia and the Soviet
Union into such a hegemonic power, both locally and globally. He
considers the complex and varied interactions between Russians and
non-Russians and investigates the reasons for the remarkable
longevity of this last of the colonial powers, whose dependencies
were not granted independence until 1991. He explores the ongoing
legacies of this fraught decolonization process on the Russian
Federation itself and on the other states that succeeded the Soviet
Union. The only text designed and written specifically for a
one-semester course on this four-hundred-year period, it will
appeal to all readers interested in learning more about the history
of the people who have inhabited one-sixth of the earth's landmass
for centuries.
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