Ronald Grigor Suny is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. His many publications on Russian history include Armenia in Modern History (1993), and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (1998).

'The essays in the volume together provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of Russia's most turbulent century and will stand the test of time.' Europe-Asia Studies

• 1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century Ronald Grigor Suny; 2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900–14 Mark D. Steinberg; 3. World War I, 1914–18 Mark von Hagen; 4. The Revolutions of 1917–18 S. A. Smith; 5. The Russian civil war, 1917–22 Donald J. Raleigh; 6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921–8 Alan Ball; 7. Stalinism, 1928–40 David R. Shearer; 8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945 John Barber and Mark Harrison; 9. Stalin and his circle Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki; 10. The Khrushchev period, 1953–64 William Taubman; 11. The Brezhnev era Stephen E. Hanson; 12. The Gorbachev era Archie Brown; 13. The Russian Republic. Michael McFaul; 14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes Peter Gatrell; 15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development Esther Kingston-Mann; 16. Workers and industrialization Lewis H. Siegelbaum; 17. Women and the Soviet state Barbara Engel; 18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after Jeremy Smith; 19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics Serhy Yekelchyk; 20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia David Holloway; 21. Culture, 1900–45 James von Geldern; 22. The politics of culture, 1945–2000 Josephine Woll; 23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–41 Jonathan Haslam; 24. Moscow's foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions, and interests Ted Hopf; 25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism Lars T. Lih.

Ronald Grigor Suny is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. His many publications on Russian history include Armenia in Modern History (1993), and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (1998).

'The essays in the volume together provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of Russia's most turbulent century and will stand the test of time.' Europe-Asia Studies

• 1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century Ronald Grigor Suny; 2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900–14 Mark D. Steinberg; 3. World War I, 1914–18 Mark von Hagen; 4. The Revolutions of 1917–18 S. A. Smith; 5. The Russian civil war, 1917–22 Donald J. Raleigh; 6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921–8 Alan Ball; 7. Stalinism, 1928–40 David R. Shearer; 8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945 John Barber and Mark Harrison; 9. Stalin and his circle Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki; 10. The Khrushchev period, 1953–64 William Taubman; 11. The Brezhnev era Stephen E. Hanson; 12. The Gorbachev era Archie Brown; 13. The Russian Republic. Michael McFaul; 14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes Peter Gatrell; 15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development Esther Kingston-Mann; 16. Workers and industrialization Lewis H. Siegelbaum; 17. Women and the Soviet state Barbara Engel; 18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after Jeremy Smith; 19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics Serhy Yekelchyk; 20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia David Holloway; 21. Culture, 1900–45 James von Geldern; 22. The politics of culture, 1945–2000 Josephine Woll; 23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–41 Jonathan Haslam; 24. Moscow's foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions, and interests Ted Hopf; 25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism Lars T. Lih.

Ronald Grigor Suny is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. His many publications on Russian history include Armenia in Modern History (1993), and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (1998).

'The essays in the volume together provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of Russia's most turbulent century and will stand the test of time.' Europe-Asia Studies

• 1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century Ronald Grigor Suny; 2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900–14 Mark D. Steinberg; 3. World War I, 1914–18 Mark von Hagen; 4. The Revolutions of 1917–18 S. A. Smith; 5. The Russian civil war, 1917–22 Donald J. Raleigh; 6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921–8 Alan Ball; 7. Stalinism, 1928–40 David R. Shearer; 8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945 John Barber and Mark Harrison; 9. Stalin and his circle Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki; 10. The Khrushchev period, 1953–64 William Taubman; 11. The Brezhnev era Stephen E. Hanson; 12. The Gorbachev era Archie Brown; 13. The Russian Republic. Michael McFaul; 14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes Peter Gatrell; 15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development Esther Kingston-Mann; 16. Workers and industrialization Lewis H. Siegelbaum; 17. Women and the Soviet state Barbara Engel; 18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after Jeremy Smith; 19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics Serhy Yekelchyk; 20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia David Holloway; 21. Culture, 1900–45 James von Geldern; 22. The politics of culture, 1945–2000 Josephine Woll; 23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–41 Jonathan Haslam; 24. Moscow's foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions, and interests Ted Hopf; 25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism Lars T. Lih.