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.