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CULTURAL ATLAS OF RUSSIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
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| By: |
Robin Milner-Gulland, Nikolai Dejevsky |
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Hardback |
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£53.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816038155 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816038152 |
| Publisher: |
FACTS ON FILE INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 1998 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
Cultural Atlas |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A revised edition of this history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. The CULTURAL ATLAS series aims to evoke the spirit and vitality of the world's great civilisations, past and present, through photography, maps and supporting text. |
| Synopsis: |
The Russian Orthodox Church is currently celebrating its millennium, one that coincides approximately with the documented history of Russia itself. That 1000-year history - both political and cultural - is the principal subject of this volume. After due acknowledgment of the Hellenistic, Slav, Viking and Byzantine backgrounds, the historical account opens with the conversion of Rus to Christianity in the 10th century and with the early centers of civilization at Kiev, Novgorod and Vladimir. Two centuries of Tatar rule divide the fall of Kievan Russia from the rise of Muscovy, but the medieval period of Russian history does not fully end until after the accession of Peter the Great in 1682. Peter's reforms and extrovert policies, precursors of late 20th-century development, suddenly projected Russia onto the center stage of world politics - a position which, for better or worse, it has never relinquished. An opening section of the atlas provides the geographical and ethnic context for the cultural history that follows, the book ends with a spectacular portrait in maps, text and pictures of each country within the former Soviet Union today. |
| Illustrations: |
200 colour photographs, 100 b&w photographs, 50 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Facts On File Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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