Now extensively revised in this tenth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. Extensively revised and with a more streamlined organization, the Tenth Edition includes recent developments in Ukraine and Russia's "e;near abroad"e; in the Putin era.