Table of Contents |
| Preface | |
I | Early History: From Medieval to Imperial Russia | |
| Editor's Introduction | 3 |
1 | The Era of Vladimir I / Janet Martin | 5 |
2 | The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art / Souren Melikian | 6 |
3 | Peter I, Czar of Russia. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition | 10 |
4 | Moscow on the Seine / Jennifer Siegel | 14 |
5 | The Emancipation of the Russian Serfs, 1861 / Michael Lynch | 17 |
II | Revolutionary Russia and the Early Soviet Era | |
| Editor's Introduction | 27 |
1 | Witnessing a Revolution / Charlotte Alston | 29 |
2 | B̀loody Sunday' in St. Petersburg: January 22nd, 1905 / Richard Cavendish | 33 |
3 | The World According to Marx / Rupert J. Taylor | 34 |
3 | Russia and World War One / Chris Trueman | 38 |
4 | Lenin in Power / Russell Tarr | 43 |
5 | Reinventing Stalin / Rebecca Reich | 52 |
III | From Soviet Union to Soviet Collapse | |
| Editor's Introduction | 61 |
1 | Russia Reflects on Sixty-Five Years Since the Soviet Union's World War Two Victory / Alexander Mekhanik | 63 |
2 | Stalin Denounced / Nikita Khrushchev | 67 |
3 | When the Cold war Almost Turned Hot / Albin F. Irzyk | 69 |
4 | Saving Russia's Armpit / Anne Applebaum | 79 |
5 | Death of a Writer / Anne Applebaum | 82 |
6 | When Gorbachev Took Charge / Archie Brown | 84 |
IV | After the Fall: Post-Soviet Russia | |
| Editor's Introduction | 89 |
1 | The Road from 1989 / John O'Sullivan | 91 |
2 | Russia's Flawed Hero / Lynn Berry | 98 |
3 | Forged in Fire: Witnessing the Rise of Iron Rule in Russia / Fred Weir | 102 |
4 | The Kremlin Begs to Differ / Paul J. Saunders | 109 |
5 | The Next Silicon Valley / Brett Forrest | 121 |
6 | Russia and U.S. Sign Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact / Dan Bilefsky | 126 |
V | "A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery": Inside Contemporary Russia | |
| Editor's Introduction | 131 |
1 | Moscow Never sleeps / Martin Cruz Smith | 133 |
2 | The Moscow Bombings Don't Matter / Julia Ioffe | 143 |
3 | Why Are Chechens So Angry? / Oliver Bullough | 147 |
4 | Send Me to Siberia: Oil Transforms a Russian Outpost / Paul Starobin | 155 |
5 | Russia Fears Embrace of Giant Eastern Neighbour / Luke Harding | 164 |
6 | Restlessness in Russia's Western Outpost / Michael Schwirtz | 169 |
7 | Where the Salmon Rule / David Quammen | 172 |
| Appendix | 181 |
| Bibliography | |
| Books | 197 |
| Web Sites | 201 |
| Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts | 203 |
| Index | 211 |