The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

	Chapter 1: Before the Russians (Before 862)
	Chapter 2: Kievan Russia (862 to 1300)
	Chapter 3: Muscovite Russia (1300 to 1682)
	Chapter 4: Imperial Russia (1682 to 1917)
	Chapter 5: Soviet Russia (1917 to 1991)
	Chapter 6: Commonwealth Russia (1985 to 1999)

Chapter 1: Before the Russians

Before 862 A.D.

	Introduction
	The First Steppe Lords
	The Cimmerians
	The Scythians
	The Sarmatians
	The Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus
	The Goths
	The Huns
	The Avars
	The Rise of the Bulgars
	The Khazars
	The Magyars and Petchenegs
	The Main Ingredients -- The Slavs and Varangians

Chapter 2: Kievan Russia

862 to 1300

	The Kievan Principality
	A Christian Russia
	The Decline of Kiev
	The Mongol Conquest
	The Baltic Crusades Begin
	Alexander Nevsky
	The Golden Horde

Chapter 3: Muscovite Russia

1300 to 1682

	The Rise of Lithuania
	The Rise of Muscovy
	The Golden Horde Breaks Up
	Ivan the Great
	Ivan the Terrible
	North to the Orient
	The Time of Troubles
	The Conquest of Siberia
	Russia Under the Early Romanovs

Chapter 4: Imperial Russia

1682 to 1917

	Peter the Great
	Interregnum
	Catherine the Great
	Russian America
	Napoleon and Alexander
	"Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationalism"
	The Crimean War
	The Liberation of the Serfs
	Alexander III
	Nicholas II and the Birth of Marxism-Leninism
	The 1905 Revolution
	World War I
	Imperial Russia In Color

Chapter 5: Soviet Russia

1917 to 1991

Part I

	The February Revolution and the Provisional Government
	The Bolsheviks Take Over
	The Russian Civil War
	The Russo-Polish War and the Comintern
	The New Economic Policy
	The Struggle to Succeed Lenin

Part II

	The Nightmare of Stalinism Begins
	Prelude to World War II
	The Winter War
	"The Great Patriotic War"
	Operation Barbarossa
	Stalingrad: The Turning Point
	The Battle Of Kursk
	Crushing the Third Reich
	Aftermath

Part III

	The Cold War Begins
	Recompression at Home
	The Khrushchev Years
	Brezhnev Takes Charge
	Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Doctrine & Détente
	Gerontocracy Triumphant
	Gorbachev's Experiment
	The Union of Fewer and Fewer Republics

Chapter 6: Commonwealth Russia

1985 to 1999

	After the Implosion
	Belarus: Back in the USSR
	Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: The Western Pacesetters
	Moldovia: The State with an Identity Crisis
	Ukraine: An Awakening Giant?
	Hard Times for the Russian Bear

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