A Brief History of Russia.pdf

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M ICHAEL K ORT

Boston University

A Brief History of Russia

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kort, Michael, 1944–

A brief history of Russia / Michael Kort.

p. cm.—(Brief history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-7112-8

ISBN-10: 0-8160-7112-8

1. Russia—History. 2. Soviet Union—History. I. Title.

DK40.K687 2007

947—dc22 2007032723

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Oxford University Press, London, for permission to reprint portions of Mikhail Speransky’s 1802

memorandum to Alexander I from The Russia Empire, 1801–1917 (1967) by Hugh Seton-Watson.

Oxford University Press, London, for permission to reprint material from A History of Russia (second

University of California Press, Berkeley, for permission to reprint portions of the edict of July

3, 1826, from Nicholas I and Ofﬁ cial Nationality, 1825–1855 (1967) by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky.

Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., for permission to reprint portions of “The State of

Russia under the Present Czar” by John Perry from Seven Britons in Imperial Russia, 1698–1812

Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA), New York, for permission to reprint portions of “Tale

of the Destruction of Riazan” and “Zadonshchina” from Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales

(revised and enlarged edition), edited by Serge A. Zenkovsky, translated by Serge A. Zenkovsky,

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