This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day.* Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada* Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia* Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people* Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field

Notes on Contributors x1 Russian Historiography after the Fall 1Abbott GleasonPART I RUS': THE EARLY EAST SLAVIC WORLD 152 From "Proto-Slavs" to Proto-State 17P. M. Barford3 The First East Slavic State 34Janet Martin4 Rus' and the Byzantine Empire 51George Majeska5 The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms 66Donald OstrowskiPART II TO MUSCOVY AND BEYOND 876 Muscovite Political Culture 89Nancy Shields Kollmann7 Slavery and Serfdom in Russia 105Richard Hellie8 Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism 121Ilia A. Dorontchenkov(translated by Abbott Gleason)9 The Church Schism and Old Belief 145Nadieszda KizenkoPART III THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 16310 Petrine Russia 165Lindsey Hughes11 The Westernization of the Elite, 1725-1800 180Gary Marker12 The "Great Reforms" of the 1860s 196Daniel Field13 Industrialization and Capitalism 210Thomas C. Owen14 The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia 225Christopher Ely15 Russia: Minorities and Empire 243Robert Geraci16 The Intelligentsia and its Critics 261Gary Saul Morson17 Russian Modernism 279Andrew Wachtel18 Russia's Popular Culture in History and Theory 295Louise McReynolds19 The Russian Experience of the First World War 311Melissa StockdalePART IV THE SOVIET UNION 33520 From the First World War to Civil War, 1914 - 1923 337Mark von Hagen21 The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence 353Elizabeth A. Wood22 Stalinism and the 1930s 368Lynne Viola23 The Soviet Union in the Second World War 386Nikita Lomagin(translated by Melissa Stockdale and Abbott Gleason)24 The Cold War 414David C. Engerman25 Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev 429Robert English26 The End of the Soviet Union 451Robert V. DanielsPART V WHITHER RUSSIA? 47127 Russia's Post-Soviet Upheaval 473Bruce Parrott28 Russian History and the Future of Russia 490William E. OdomIndex 505