Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond. Drawing on both primary sources and major interpretive works, this sixth edition updates its existing coverage of the social, economic, cultural, political and miliary events of Russia's past and includes a new chapter on the post-Gorbachev era as well as helpful updated bibliographies and reading source lists. Examining contemporary issues such as the rise of Yeltsin, the nationalities question, and Russia's attempts to market capitalism, this sixth edition takes the study of Russia straight into the new millennium, continuing A History of Russia's nearly forty-year track record as the leader in the field. -- Publishers description.

pt. I.Introduction. -- I. A Geographical Note. -- II. Russia Before the Russians -- pt. II. Kievan Russia. -- III. The Establishment of the Kievan State. -- IV. Kievan Russia: A Political Outline. -- V. Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions. -- VI. Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture -- pt. III. Appanage Russia. -- VII. Appanage Russia: Introduction. -- VIII. The Mongols and Russia. -- IX. Lord Novgorod the Great. -- X. The Southwest and the Northeast. -- XI. The Rise of Moscow. -- XII. Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions. -- XIII. Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture. -- XIV. The Lithuanian-Russian State -- pt. IV. Muscovite Russia. -- XV. The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theodore, 1584-98. -- XVI. The Time of Troubles, 1598-1613.