History of the Urals

Paul Dukes is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He has held visiting appointments at Auckland University, New Zealand, and Cornell University, USA. The best known of his many publications include A History of Russia c.882-1996: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary (1997) and The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801 (1990). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of History Today.

• Introduction1. The Arrival of the Russian Empire, to 17252. Tsarist Modernisation, 1725-18253. Reaction and Reform, 1825-18944. From Tsarist to Soviet Russia, 1894-19215. Soviet Modernisation and the Great Patriotic War, 1921-19456. Reconstruction and the Cold War, 1945-19687. Stagnation and Collapse, 1968-19918. The New Russia, 1991-2012EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Paul Dukes' book places the economic development of the Urals into the overall context of the political and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union with great effectiveness ... [A] perceptive book.