Christopher J. Ward received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches Russian and world history at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta, USA, and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism.The late John M. Thompson was a graduate of Columbia University’s Russian Institute and taught history at Indiana University, USA, for seventeen years. He was a distinguished visiting professor at the United States Air Force Academy and the Air War College.

• 1. Introduction: Ancient Russia and Kievan Rus’ 2. Kievan Rus’ in Crisis and the Mongol Contact, 1054–1462 3. The Rise of Moscow, 1328–1533 4. The Russian Empire & The Time of Troubles, 1533–1618 5. The Formation of Imperial Russian Society, 1613–1689 6. Peter the Great and the Conundrum of Westernization, 1689–1725 7. Change and Continuity, 1725–1801 8. Autocracy, Dissent, and Ferment, 1801–1855 9. Reform, Reaction, and Modernization, 1855–1904 10. Conflict, Revolution, and War, 1904–1917 11. Revolution, Civil War, and the Founding of the Soviet State, 1917–1928 12. The Stalin Revolution and World War II, 1928–1946 13. Stability and Stagnation during the Cold War, 1946–1984 14. The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 15. Russia in a Post-Soviet World, 1991–2000 16. Russia under Putin

Christopher J. Ward received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches Russian and world history at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta, USA, and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism.The late John M. Thompson was a graduate of Columbia University’s Russian Institute and taught history at Indiana University, USA, for seventeen years. He was a distinguished visiting professor at the United States Air Force Academy and the Air War College.

• 1. Introduction: Ancient Russia and Kievan Rus’ 2. Kievan Rus’ in Crisis and the Mongol Contact, 1054–1462 3. The Rise of Moscow, 1328–1533 4. The Russian Empire & The Time of Troubles, 1533–1618 5. The Formation of Imperial Russian Society, 1613–1689 6. Peter the Great and the Conundrum of Westernization, 1689–1725 7. Change and Continuity, 1725–1801 8. Autocracy, Dissent, and Ferment, 1801–1855 9. Reform, Reaction, and Modernization, 1855–1904 10. Conflict, Revolution, and War, 1904–1917 11. Revolution, Civil War, and the Founding of the Soviet State, 1917–1928 12. The Stalin Revolution and World War II, 1928–1946 13. Stability and Stagnation during the Cold War, 1946–1984 14. The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 15. Russia in a Post-Soviet World, 1991–2000 16. Russia under Putin