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Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Stephen G. Wheatcroft

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Pre-Revolutionary Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Kaghanate of the Rus’: Non-Slavic Sources of Russian Statehood

      • David Christian
      Pages 3-26

    3. The Crisis of the Late Tsarist Penal System

      • Stephen G. Wheatcroft
      Pages 27-54

    4. The Russian Army and American Industry, 1915–17: Globalisation and the Transfer of Technology

      • Frederick R. Zuckerman
      Pages 55-65

  4. The Post-Stalin Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. The Dissident Roots of Glasnost

      • Robert Horvath
      Pages 173-202

    3. Rethinking Yermolov’s Legacy: New Patriotic Narratives of Russia’s Engagement with Chechnya

      • Julie Elkner
      Pages 203-216

    4. Stalinism and the Fall of the Soviet Union

      • Graeme Gill
      Pages 217-234

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 235-242
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This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia; and the fall of the Soviet Union.

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  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Stephen G. Wheatcroft

About the editor

DAVID CHRISTIAN Lecturer, San Diego State University R.W. DAVIES Professor Emeritus, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Birmingham University JULIE ELKNER Master's Degree, University of Melbourne SHEILA FITZPATRICK Chicago University GRAEME GILL Sydney University ROBERT HORVATH Lecturer in Research Fellow, University of Melbourne MELANIE ILIC Senior Lecturer, Cheltenham and Gloucester College F.S.ZUCKERMAN University of Adelaide.

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