A COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY	1
	Contents	9
	Notes on Contributors	12
	Chapter One: Russian Historiography after the Fall	15
	PART I: Rus': The Early East Slavic World	29
	Chapter Two: From “Proto-Slavs” to Proto-State	31
	Chapter Three: The First East Slavic State	48
	Chapter Four: Rus' and the Byzantine Empire	65
	Chapter Five: The Mongols and Rus': Eight Paradigms	80
	Part II: To Muscovy and Beyond	101
	Chapter Six: Muscovite Political Culture	103
	Chapter Seven: Slavery and Serfdom in Russia	119
	Chapter Eight: Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism	135
	Chapter Nine: The Church Schism and Old Belief	159
	Part III: The Russian Empire	177
	Chapter Ten: Petrine Russia	179
	Chapter Eleven: The Westernization of the Elite, 1725–1800	194
	Chapter Twelve: The “Great Reforms” of the 1860s	210
	Chapter Thirteen: Industrialization and Capitalism	224
	Chapter Fourteen: The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia	239
	Chapter Fifteen: Russia: Minorities and Empire	257
	Chapter Sixteen: The Intelligentsia and its Critics	275
	Chapter Seventeen: Russian Modernism	293
	Chapter Eighteen: Russia’s Popular Culture in History and Theory	309
	Chapter Nineteen: The Russian Experience of the First World War	325
	Part IV: The Soviet Union	349
	Chapter Twenty: From the First World War to Civil War, 1914–1923	351
	Chapter Twenty-One: The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence	367
	Chapter Twenty-Two: Stalinism and the 1930s	382
	Chapter Twenty-Three: The Soviet Union in the Second World War	400
	Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cold War	428
	Chapter Twenty-Five: Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev	443
	Chapter Twenty-Six: The End of the Soviet Union	465
	Part V: Whither Russia?	485
	Chapter Twenty-Seven: Russia’s Post-Soviet Upheaval	487
	Chapter Twenty-Eight: Russian History and the Future of Russia	504
	Index	519