ROGER BARTLETT is Professor Emeritus of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.

'A well-organized and balanced overview.' - Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania 'An accurate, up-to-date and accessible survey.' - Shane O'Rourke, University of York 'A very compact and readable history of the development of Russian people and state from mediaeval origins to the post-soviet period until the emergence of Putin. This is altogether an extremely useful, balanced and authoritative work. - Brian Cooper, Mainstream East-West Christian Understanding '...it would be hard to think of a better book of its kind.' - Simon Dixon, University of Leeds, UK

• List of MapsList of TablesList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration, Names and DatesIntroduction: The Geographical SettingThe Origins to 1600: Kiev and Sarai1300-1600: Moscow and Novgorod: The Emergence of Empire and Autocratic Rule1600-1760: Moscow and St Petersburg: Muscovy and the Petrine Empire1760-1860: Russia and Europe: Apogee and Decline of the Autocratic State1860-1917: Europe and Russia: Stabilisation and Collapse of the Autocratic State1917-53: Russian Empire and Soviet Union: From Pariah to Superpower1953-91: The Soviet Union as World Power: Retreat from Utopia1991-the Present: The Russian Federation and CIS: Democracy and Free Market?NotesFurther ReadingIndex.

ROGER BARTLETT is Professor Emeritus of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.

'A well-organized and balanced overview.' - Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania 'An accurate, up-to-date and accessible survey.' - Shane O'Rourke, University of York 'A very compact and readable history of the development of Russian people and state from mediaeval origins to the post-soviet period until the emergence of Putin. This is altogether an extremely useful, balanced and authoritative work. - Brian Cooper, Mainstream East-West Christian Understanding '...it would be hard to think of a better book of its kind.' - Simon Dixon, University of Leeds, UK

• List of MapsList of TablesList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration, Names and DatesIntroduction: The Geographical SettingThe Origins to 1600: Kiev and Sarai1300-1600: Moscow and Novgorod: The Emergence of Empire and Autocratic Rule1600-1760: Moscow and St Petersburg: Muscovy and the Petrine Empire1760-1860: Russia and Europe: Apogee and Decline of the Autocratic State1860-1917: Europe and Russia: Stabilisation and Collapse of the Autocratic State1917-53: Russian Empire and Soviet Union: From Pariah to Superpower1953-91: The Soviet Union as World Power: Retreat from Utopia1991-the Present: The Russian Federation and CIS: Democracy and Free Market?NotesFurther ReadingIndex.

ROGER BARTLETT is Professor Emeritus of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.

'A well-organized and balanced overview.' - Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania 'An accurate, up-to-date and accessible survey.' - Shane O'Rourke, University of York 'A very compact and readable history of the development of Russian people and state from mediaeval origins to the post-soviet period until the emergence of Putin. This is altogether an extremely useful, balanced and authoritative work. - Brian Cooper, Mainstream East-West Christian Understanding '...it would be hard to think of a better book of its kind.' - Simon Dixon, University of Leeds, UK

• List of MapsList of TablesList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration, Names and DatesIntroduction: The Geographical SettingThe Origins to 1600: Kiev and Sarai1300-1600: Moscow and Novgorod: The Emergence of Empire and Autocratic Rule1600-1760: Moscow and St Petersburg: Muscovy and the Petrine Empire1760-1860: Russia and Europe: Apogee and Decline of the Autocratic State1860-1917: Europe and Russia: Stabilisation and Collapse of the Autocratic State1917-53: Russian Empire and Soviet Union: From Pariah to Superpower1953-91: The Soviet Union as World Power: Retreat from Utopia1991-the Present: The Russian Federation and CIS: Democracy and Free Market?NotesFurther ReadingIndex.