A Traveller's History of Russia and the U.S.S.R.

The coming of the Slavs; the bloody swamp of Mongol slavery; the rise of Muscovy, 1265-1462; the consolidation of the Muscovite state, 1462-1584; the time of troubles; years of recovery, 1613-1682; the reign of Peter the Great, 1689-1725; the era of empresses, 1725-1762; Catherine the Great, 1762-1796; Tsarism in crisis, 1796-1855; reform and reaction, 1855-1894; war and revolution, 1894-1917; the evolution of the Communist state, 1917-1924; Russia under Stalin, 1924-1953; the USSR since Stalin; the USSR in the eighties.