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Reinterpreting Russia

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Reinterpreting Russia

Contributors:

By (Author) Robert Service
Edited by Geoffrey Hosking

ISBN:

9780340731352

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Hodder Arnold

Publication Date:

1st April 2003

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Social and cultural history

Dewey:

947

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 157mm, Height 234mm, Spine 19mm

Description

Russia has undergone immense changes in the 20th century. From tsarism to communism, from communism to the market economy. But to what extent does this market economy reproduce the capitalism that characterised Russia in the centuries before 1917 What are the prospects for a democratic, prosperous Russia This volume examines the large problems of Russia's past. The linking theme is the balance of continuity and discontinuity in the history of the country across several centuries. The chapters cover a wide range of topics: politics, administration, economy, sociology and culture. They also consider the latest historical discussions in Russia and abroad. The work aims to put Russia into a fresh historical perspective and enable the reader to consider the weight of the past lying on attempts to fashion a different Russian future.

Author Bio

Geoffrey Hosking is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne and a Research Fellow at Columbia University's Russian Institute. He is the author of numerous books, including Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union (Belknap Press, 2006), Russia and the Russians: A History (Belknap Press, 2001), Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 (Belknap Press, 1997), and The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Belknap Press, 1992).

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