A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin by Robert Service

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  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • ISBN-13: 9780674018013
  • Sales Rank: 55,688
  • 704pp
  • Edition Description: Second Edition
  • Edition Number: 2
 
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Synopsis

Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition also discusses continuing economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the military campaign in Chechnya, and Russia's reduced role on the world stage.

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Biography

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University. From 2004 to 2006 he was Tad and Diane Taube Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution.

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Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 An amazing glimse into a turbulent world...
Guinevere, a student fascinated by Russia, 01/29/2006

This book was amazing, and definately one of the best books that I have ever read. Service does an excellent job, his book is well-written and broad in scope. It encompasses the events from the fall of the tsars to modernity, and emhasizes the political aspects especially. Service points out both the good and the bad of the Soviet era, and presents a wealth of knowledge on the matters he covers. He shows how an empire was built, and the causes by which it fell. I would highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in Russia or politics in general.