A history of modern Russia

By Robert Service

Subjects: Soviet Union - History, Nonfiction, Soviet union, history, Soviet Union -- History, Geschichte, 947.08, Russia - History, Russia (federation), history, Geschichte 1900-1917, History, Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-, Dk266 .s494 2009, Geschichte 1991-2002

Description: A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain world of Yeltsin and Putin.