Our systems are now restored following recent technical disruption, and we’re working hard to catch up on publishing. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Find out more

Recommended product

Popular links

Popular links


The Cambridge History of Russia 3 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge History of Russia 3 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge History of Russia 3 Volume Hardback Set

Maureen Perrie, University of Birmingham
Dominic Lieven, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ronald Suny, University of Chicago
November 2006
Unavailable - out of print December 2019
Multiple copy pack
9780521861946
Out of Print
Multiple copy pack
3 Hardback books

    This is a definitive new history of Russia from early Rus' to the successor states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Volume I encompasses developments before the reign of Peter I; volume II covers the 'imperial era', from Peter's time to the fall of the monarchy in March 1917; and volume III continues the story through to the end of the twentieth century. At the core of all three volumes are the Russians, the lands which they have inhabited and the polities that ruled them while other peoples and territories have also been given generous coverage for the periods when they came under Riurikid, Romanov and Soviet rule. The distinct voices of individual contributors provide a multitude of perspectives on Russia's diverse and controversial millennial history.

    • Major new three-volume history of Russia from early Rus' to the present
    • Most comprehensive and authoritative history of Russia in existence
    • The volumes encompass social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history of Russia and the Soviet Union

    Reviews & endorsements

    'This three-volume Cambridge History of Russia, the first such English-language reference work of its kind, is based on up-to-date research and is admirably detailed and reliable in its judgements.' Financial Times

    See more reviews

    Product details

    November 2006
    Multiple copy pack
    9780521861946
    2412 pages
    233 × 157 × 156 mm
    4.44kg
    85 b/w illus. 14 maps
    Unavailable - out of print December 2019

    Table of Contents

    • VOLUME I 1. Introduction
    • 2. Russia's geographical environment
    • Part I. Early Rus' and the Rise of Muscovy (c. 900–1462):
    • 3. The origins of Rus' (c. 900–1015)
    • 4. Kievan Rus' (1015–1125)
    • 5. The Rus' principalities (1125–1246)
    • 6. North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246–1359)
    • 7. The emergence of Moscow (1359–1462)
    • 8. Medieval Novgorod
    • Part II. The Expansion, Consolidation and Crisis of Muscovy (1462–1613):
    • 9. The growth of Muscovy (1462–1533)
    • 10. Ivan IV (1533–84)
    • 11. Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584–1605)
    • 12. The peasantry
    • 13. Towns and commerce
    • 14. The non-Christian peoples on the Muscovite frontier
    • 15. The Orthodox Church
    • 16. The law
    • 17. Political ideas and rituals
    • 18. The Time of Troubles (1603–13)
    • Part III. Russia Under the First Romanovs (1613–89):
    • 19. The central government and its institutions
    • 20. Local government and administration
    • 21. Muscovy at war and peace
    • 22. Non-Russian subjects
    • 23. The economy, trade and serfdom
    • 24. Law and society
    • 25. Urban developments
    • 26. Popular revolts
    • 27. The Orthodox Church and the Schism
    • 28. Cultural and intellectual life
    • Bibliography. VOLUME II Introduction
    • Part I. Empire:
    • 1. Russia as empire and periphery
    • 2. Managing empire: tsarist nationalities policy
    • 3. Geographies of imperial identity
    • Part II. Culture, Ideas, Identities:
    • 4. Russian culture in the eighteenth century
    • 5. Russian culture:
    • 1801–1917
    • 6. Russian political thought:
    • 1700–1917
    • 7. Russia and the legacy of 1812
    • Part III. Non-Russian Nationalities:
    • 8. Ukrainians and Poles
    • 9. Jews
    • 10. Islam in the Russian Empire
    • Part IV. Russian Society, Law and Economy
    • 11. The elites
    • 12. The groups between: Raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals
    • 13. Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century: portrait of a city
    • 14. Russian orthodoxy: church, people and politics in Imperial Russia
    • 15. Women, the family and public life
    • 16. Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia
    • 17. Law, the judicial system and the legal profession
    • 18. Peasants and agriculture
    • 19. The Russian economy and Banking System
    • Part V. Government:
    • 20. Central government in the Russian Empire
    • 21. Provincial and local government
    • 22. State Finances
    • Part VI. Foreign Policy and the Armed Forces:
    • 23. Peter the Great and the Northern War
    • 24. Russian foreign policy, 1725–1815
    • 25. The Imperial Army
    • 26. Russian foreign policy, 1815–1917
    • 27. The Russian navy at the turn of the twentieth century: imperialism, technology and class war
    • Part VII. Reform, War and Revolution:
    • 28. The reign of Alexander II: a watershed?
    • 29. Russian workers and revolution
    • 30. Police and revolution
    • 31. War and revolution, 1914–1917. VOLUME III 1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century
    • 2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900-1914
    • 3. World War I, 1914-1918
    • 4. The revolutions of 1917-1918
    • 5. The Russian civil war, 1917-1922
    • 6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921-1928
    • 7. Stalinism, 1928-1940
    • 8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945
    • 9. Stalin and his circle
    • 10. The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964
    • 11. The Brezhnev era
    • 12. The Gorbachev era
    • 13. The Russian republic
    • 14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes
    • 15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development
    • 16. Workers and industrialization
    • 17. Women and the Soviet ztate
    • 18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after
    • 19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics
    • 20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia
    • 21. Culture, 1900-1945
    • 22. The politics of culture, 1945-2000
    • 23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919-1941, 24. Moscow's Foreign Policy, 1945-2000: identities, institutions, and interests
    • 25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism.
      Contributors
    • VOLUME I: Maureen Perrie, Denis J. B. Shaw, Jonathan Shepard, Simon Franklin, Martin Dimnik, Janet Martin, V. L. Ianin, Donald Ostrowski, Sergei Bogatyrev, A. P. Pavlov, Richard Hellie, Michael Khodarkovsky, David B. Miller, Michael S. Flier, Marshall Poe, Brian Davies, Nancy Shields Kollmann, Robert O. Crummey, Lindsey Hughes. VOLUME II: Dominic Lieven, Theodore Weeks, Mark Bassin, Lindsey Hughes, Gary M. Hamburg, Alexander M. Martin, Timothy Snyder, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Catherine Evtuhov, Gregory L. Freeze, Barbara Alpern Engel, Michelle Lamarche Marrese, Jorg Baberowski, David Moon, Boris Ananich, Zhand P. Shakibi, Janet Hartley, Peter Waldron, Paul Bushkovitch, Hugh Ragsdale, William C. Fuller Jr, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Nikolai Afonin, Larisa Zakharova, Reginald Zelnik, Jonathan Daly, Eric Lohr. VOLUME III: Ronald Grigor Suny, Mark D. Steinberg, Mark von Hagen, S. A. Smith, Donald J. Raleigh, Alan Ball, David R. Shearer, John Barber, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk, Yoram Gorlizki, William Taubman, Stephen E. Hanson, Archie Brown, Michael McFaul, Peter Gatrell, Esther Kingston-Mann, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Barbara Engel, Jeremy Smith, Serhy Yekelchyk, David Holloway, James von Geldern, Josephine Woll, Jonathan Haslam, Lars T. Lih, Ted Hopf.

    • Editors
    • Maureen Perrie , University of Birmingham

      Maureen Perrie is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Russian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Her publications include Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: the False Tsars of the Time of Troubles (1995) and The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (2001).

    • Dominic Lieven , London School of Economics and Political Science

      Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime (1989) and Empire: The Russian Empire and its Rivals (2000).

    • Ronald Suny , University of Chicago

      Ronald Grigor Suny is Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. His many publications on Russian history include Armenia in Modern History (I1993), and The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (1998).