Russia / Freeze, Gregory L.

Chronicles Russia's history from the beginnings of Kievan Rus in the ninth century to Vladimir Putin's reforms of the early twenty-first century, and features a critical reassessment of the Stalinist era.

A collectively-authored account of Russian history from its recorded origins through the late twentieth century, drawing from archives made available since 1991 to trace the process of economic, state, and social development, and examining the multinational composition of the empire.