Author Description

Pre-imperial Russia - Tartars and the rise of Moscow - Early Muscovy - Ivan the Terrible - Muscovy under the first Romanovs - Peter the Great - The Age of Empresses - Reform and counter-reform - The empire in 1900 - Decline and fall - Provisional government - Russia under Lenin - Rise of Stalin - collectivization and the Five Year Plan - The Great Terror - Stalin's last years - Gorbachov and after.