Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia\"s Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to analyse the ways in which citizens learnt to live within its system and create distinctly Soviet ide...

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of \"heroic Leningrad\" omitted and distorted a great deal....