The Penguin History of Modern Russia : From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
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Paperback English
By (author) Robert Service


Categories: European History Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 21st Century History: From C 2000 -


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Robert Services The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age.

Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.

In his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter, Robert Service explores the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Tsar Nicholas II, through the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; from Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond.

This new edition also discusses Russias unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.
Always well-informed and balanced in his judgements, clear and concise in his analysis ... Service is extremely good on Soviet politics Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph

A fine book ... it is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedevilled Western histories of Russia Brian Moynahan, Sunday Times

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antonys College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russias past and present. His most recent book, Trotsky, has been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.


Product details

Format Paperback | 768 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 32mm | 522g
Publication date 26 Nov 2020
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Revised
Edition Statement Revised edition
ISBN13 9780141992051
Bestsellers rank 132,064