From Nicholas II to Putin

A History of Modern Russia

A new edition of the highly successful book previously published as <I>A History of Twentieth-Century Russia</I>. It is now entirely current to late 2002

Robert Service is a Fellow  of St Antony's College, Oxford and Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Most recently he has written LENIN: A BIOGRAPHY and RUSSIA: EXPERIMENT WITH A PEOPLE.

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.

Robert Service

From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. <br/>
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In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2020, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond. This new edition also discusses Russia's unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.

The Penguin History of Modern Russia

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