Drawing on a wide range of Russian sources, this revised and updated second edition retains the broad historical focus of the previous edition and picks up from where it left off in the early 1990's.

Iver B. Neumann is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a lifelong associate of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter One: Approach and Pre-History

Chapter Two: The Napoleonic Wars and the Decembrist Uprising

Chapter Three: Official Nationality, 'Slavophiles', 'Westernisers'

Chapter Four: From the Springtime of Nations to the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II

Chapter Five: From the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to the First World War

Chapter Six: From the First World War to Destalinisation

From the November coup to the Russo-Polish War

From the Russo-Polish to the Second World War

Chapter Seven: From Destalinisation to Perestroyka

From destalinisation to the ouster of Khrushchev

From the ouster of Khrushchev to perestroyka

Chapter Eight: From Perestroyka to Putin's Russia

Perestroyka

After perestroyka: the 1990s

Putin's Russia

Conclusion