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Russia -Concise History

The recent tremendous changes in Russia have only enhanced the special fascination which this powerful, enigmatic country has so long held for the world at large. Russia`s history, from her beginnings as an illiterate pagan Slav community centered on Kiev to her twentieth-century superpower status, has its own unique rhythm, Appalling calamities have shaped Russia: the Tatar Yoke; the Time of Troubles; the Napoleonic invasion, two world wars separated by a great civil war; a multitude of famines and epidemics. Not least among these scourges have been leaders such as Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin. A succession of governments – Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet – have, with the help of powerful political police organizations, dragooned a common people fatalistic, courageous, resillient and patient in suffering, yet liable to sudden explosions of collective rage.In this revised and updated edition, Ronald Hingley considers the recent astonishing developments: the first steps towards liberalization, the collapse of communist rule throughout Russia`s former satellite states, and above all the demise of Soviet communism and the disintegration of the USSR in the wake of Boris Yeltsin`s rise to power. Russia`s present troubles can be better comprehended as the latest chapter in a long and enthralling history; a history – evoked here with the aid of over 200 illustrations – which is now being energetically reassessed by the Russians themselves.

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