This book contains fresh approaches to the interaction between regime and society in twentieth-century Russia. It offers new answers to familiar questions: * Ho

Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and h

In this provocative book, the author asks Russians difficult questions about how their country's volatile past has affected their everyday lives, their aspirati

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.