Riasanovsky N.V. A History of Russia

6th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2000. — 726 p. — ISBN: 0-19-512179-1.Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and beyond. Drawing on both primary sources and major interpretive works, this sixth edition updates its existing coverage of the social, economic, cultural, political and military events of Russia's past and includes a new chapter on the post-Gorbachev era as well as helpful updated bibliographies and reading source lists.
Examining contemporary issues such as the rise of Yeltsin, the nationalities question, and Russia's attempts to market capitalism, this sixth edition takes the study of Russia straight into the new millennium, continuing A History of Russia's nearly forty-year track record as the leader in the field.A Geographical Note
Russia Before the Russians
Kievan Russia
The Establishment of the Kievan State
Kievan Russia: A Political Outline
Kievan Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions
Kievan Russia: Religion and Culture
Appanage Russia
Appanage Russia: Introduction
The Mongols and Russia
Lord Novgorod the Great
The Southwest and the Northeast
The Rise of Moscow
Appanage Russia: Economics, Society, Institutions
Appanage Russia: Religion and Culture
The Lithuanian-Russian State
Muscovite Russia
The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533—84, and of Theodore, 1584—98
The Time of Troubles, 1598—1613
The Reigns of Michael, 1613—45, Alexis, 1645—76, and Theodore, 1676—82
Muscovite Russia: Economy, Society, Institutions
Muscovite Russia: Religion and Culture
Imperial Russia
The Reign of Peter the Great, 1682—1725
Russian History from Peter the Great to Catherine the Great: The Reigns of Catherine I,1725—27, Peter II, 1727—30, Anne, 1730—40, Ivan VI, 1740—41, Elizabeth, 1741—62, and Peter III, 1762
The Reigns of Catherine the Great, 1762—96, and Paul, 1796—1801
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the Eighteenth Century
Russian Culture in the Eighteenth Century
The Reign of Alexander I, 1801—25
The Reign of Nicholas I, 1825—55
The Economic and Social Development of Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Russian Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The Reign of Alexander II, 1855—81
The Reign of Alexander III, 1881—94, and the First Part of the Reign of Nicholas II, 1894—1905
The Last Part of the Reign of Nicholas II: The Revolution of 1905 and the Constitutional Period, 1905—17
The Economic and Social Development of Russia from the «Great Reforms» until the Revolutions of 1917
Russian Culture from the «Great Reforms» until the Revolutions of 1917
The Revolutions of 1917
Soviet Russia
Soviet Russia: An Introduction
War Communism, 1917—21, and the New Economic Policy, 1921—28
The Stalin Era
Soviet Foreign Policy, 1921—41, and the Second World War, 1941—45
Stalin's Last Decade, 1945—53
The Soviet Union after Stalin, 1953—85
Soviet Society and Culture
The Gorbachev Years, 1985—91, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Yeltsin's Russia, 1991—1999