The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century

Resumen del libro

Russia's 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 updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond. This new edition also discusses Russia's 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.

Biografía del autor

Robert Service es un historiador británico especializado en Rusia y profesor en el St Antony's College de Oxford. Sus últimas obras publicadas son Lenin: una biografía (2001), Rusia, experimento con un pueblo: de 1991 a la actualidad (2005), Stalin: una biografía (2006), Camaradas: breve historia del comunismo (2009), Trotski (2010), Spies and Commissars (2011) The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 (2015), The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (2017) y Russia and Its Islamic World, From the Mongol Conquest to the Syrian Intervention (2017).