Description:
A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
Review Quotes:
'Manages to embrace a wide range of topics while at the same time remaining accessible and interesting...Balances humorous anecdotes with provocative concepts, and discusses historiography in a clearer and more contemporary fashion than that found in Riasanovsky's 'A History of Russia', now in its sixth edition and looking a bit musty by comparison...There is little to fault with this volume.' -Andrew Gentes, Lecturer in Russian and European History, University of Queensland, in 'Australian Slavonic and East European Studies'