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I.Early history : from medieval to imperial Russia. The era of Vladimir I / Janet Martin -- The foundations of Russian culture and art / Souren Melikian -- Peter I, Czar of Russia / Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. -- Moscow on the Seine / Jennifer Siegel -- The emancipation of the Russian serfs, 1861 / Michael Lynch -- II. Revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet era. Witnessing a revolution / Charlotte Alston -- 'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg : January 22nd, 1905 / Richard Cavendish -- The world according to Marx / Rupert J. Taylor -- Russia and World War One / Chris Trueman -- Lenin in power / Russell Tarr -- Reinventing Stalin / Rebecca Reich -- III. From Soviet Union to Soviet collapse. Russia reflects on sixty-five years since the Soviet Union's World War Two victory / Alexander Mekhanik -- Stalin denounced by Nikita Khrushchev / History Today -- When the Cold War almost turned hot / Albin F. Irzyk -- Saving Russia's armpit / Anne Applebaum -- Death of a writer / Anne Applebaum -- When Gorbachev took charge / Archie Brown. IV. After the fall : post-Soviet Russia. The road from 1989 / John O'Sullivan -- Russia's flawed hero / Lynn Berry -- Forged in fire : witnessing the rise of iron rule in Russia / Fred Weir -- The Kremlin begs to differ / Dimitri K. Simes and Paul J. Saunders -- The next Silicon Valley / Brett Forrest -- Russia and U.S. sign nuclear arms reduction pact / Peter Baker and Dan Bilefsky -- V. "A riddle wrapped in a mystery" : inside contemporary Russia. Moscow never sleeps / Martin Cruz Smith -- The Moscow bombings don't matter / Julia Ioffe -- Why are Chechens so angry? / Oliver Bullough -- Send me to Siberia : oil transforms a Russian outpost / Paul Starobin -- Russia fears embrace of giant eastern neighbour / Luke Harding -- Restlessness in Russia's western outpost / Michael Schwirtz -- Where the salmon rule / David Quammen.