Author: George VernadskyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300016475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Looks at the history of Russia during the Kievan period, from 862 to 1237.
Kievan Russia
Author: George VernadskyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300016475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Looks at the history of Russia during the Kievan period, from 862 to 1237.
A History of Russia: Kievan Russia
Author: George VernadskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Reimagining Europe
Author: Christian RaffenspergerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Main description: An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.
RUSSIA
Author: JOHN. THOMPSONPublisher:
ISBN: 9780367098162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A History of Russia
Author: Georgij V. VernadskijRussia and the Russians
Author: Geoffrey A. HoskingPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674004733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.
Russia
Author: John M. ThompsonPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0813350778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from ancient Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency in the twenty-first century. Russia does not shy away from controversial topics, including the impact of the Mongol conquest, the paradoxes of Peter the Great, the "inevitability" of the 1917 Revolution, the Stalinist terror, and the Gorbachev reform effort. Tackling those topics and others, the new edition is updated to discuss the Russia-Georgia war of 2008, the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, the war in eastern Ukraine, and the Russian annexation of Crimea. Distinguished by its brevity and amply supplemented with useful images and suggested readings, this essential text provides balanced coverage of all periods of Russian history and incorporates economic, social, and cultural developments as well as politics and foreign policy.
A History of Russia
Author: George VernadskyRussian History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Geoffrey HoskingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199580987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.
The Origins of the Slavic Nations
Author: Serhii PlokhyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521155113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This 2006 book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.