Short History of Russia's First Civil War

Chester S. L. Dunning is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is editor and translator of The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy by Jacques Margeret (1983).

• CONTENTSList of Illustrations and MapsIntroduction 1.A Comparative Approach to the Problem of Origins of theCivil War2.Long-Term Origins: The Growth of Autocracy and Imperialism3.Ivan the Terrible and Russia’s Slide into Crisis4.The Rise of Boris Godunov, the Uglich Tragedy, and Enserfment5.The Southern Frontier and the Cossacks6.The Beginning of the Time of Troubles and the Great Famine7.What Triggered the civil War?8.The Pretender Dmitrii Ivanovich9.Dmitrii’s Invasion and the Beginning of the Civil War10.Tsar Boris Strikes Back and the Civil War Widens11.The Death of Tsar Boris and Dmitrii’s Triumph12.The Short Reign of Tsar Dmitrii13.Assassination of the Tsar14.Vasilii Shuiskii Seizes Power and Rekindles the Civil War15.The Beginning of the “Bolotnikov Rebellion”16.The Civil War Widens and the Rebels Advance to Moscow17.The Siege of Moscow18.Retreat from Moscow, the Siege of Kaluga, and the Rise of Tsarevich Petr19.Collapse of the Siege of Kaluga and the Beginning of Tsar Vasilii’s Offensive20The Siege of Tula and the Resurrection of “Tsar Dmitrii”21.Tsar Vasilii’s Struggle Against the Tushino Impostor22.Foreign Intervention and the Formation of the National Liberation Movement23.The End of the Civil War and the Election of Mikhail Romanov24.Tsar Mikhail and the End of the Time of Troubles25.Disturbing LegacyIndex

“Dunning’s new book is a historical tour de force, a major reconceptualization of Russia’s Time of Troubles, 1598–1613.”—Carol B. Stevens American Historical Review