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A History of Russia: New, Revised Edition Paperback – September 10, 1961

by George Vernadsky (Author)

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"Scholarly, intellectually stimulating, and readable. It is not only a very good guide through the record of Russian development, but it makes one go deeper by the way it raises interesting questions."—Frederick C. Barghoorn

Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the political and economic aspects of Russian civilization. Professor Vernadsky reviews the origins of the Russian state, Kievan Russia, the Mongol period, the tsardom of Moscow in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Russian empire from Peter the Great to Nicholas II. The last third of the book discusses the revolution of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet Union as a world power.

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520 pages
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English
Publisher

Yale University Press
Publication date

September 10, 1961
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8 x 5.15 x 1.4 inches
ISBN-10

0300002475
ISBN-13

978-0300002478
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Generally recognized as the standard one-volume history of Russia, this monumental work describes Russia's growth from the times of the nomadic tribes to the present Cold War and examines the social, religious, and cultural as well as the political and economic aspects of Russian civilization.

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‎Yale University Press; 6th ed. edition (September 10, 1961)

Language

‎English

Paperback

‎520 pages

ISBN-10

‎0300002475

ISBN-13

‎978-0300002478

Item Weight

‎3.25 pounds

Dimensions

‎8 x 5.15 x 1.4 inches

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Jeffrey Huntington

Back when we loved Russia

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015

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Vernadsky was a very respected authority writing as an emigre about the country he loved. As WWII was still in progress, the cold war was in the future, Russia was America's ally, and it was important to keep good relations between the nations. And many of the atrocities committed by the Stalin government were still secret, so this account is much friendlier to Stalin than any later account. I attribute this not to blind dogmatism on Vernadsky's part, but to optimism and faith in human benevolence.

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W. Hawkins

Vernadsky has become more popular since USSR fell

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2013

Contrary to what the previous reviewer has heard, George Vernadsky was criticized during the Soviet era by the Moscow regime because he was not a Marxist but a traditional historian. His learnings were with the White forces in teh Russian Civil War and he fled Russia when the Reds won. He has become popular since the USSR collapsed because he is a "Euroasianist" who sees Russia as a multinational empire throughout history that was trying to operate (and should) as a nation. He was never opposed to Russian greatness, just to the Soviet dictatorship which had driven him from his beloved homeland; which was the Ukraine within a Greater "Eurasian" Russia stretching across to the Pacific. This grand view is popular with President Putin and other "nationalists" who want post-Soviet Russia to still be a major world power as Tsarist Russia was before the Communist Revolution.

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World-class history book

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2017

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Probably one of the most accurate and insightful volume on Russian history. Scholarly and well written, making it easy and a pleasurable reading..

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