This study of the Russian army and how it has fared in the uncertain transitional period since independence in December 1991 provides the basis for understandin

He shows that serfs did not actively participate in the civil war and that the abolition of serfdom was never a rebel goal. Instead, most rebels were petty gent

This book is the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles.

Sergei Feodorovich Platonov's Time of Troubles is a classic study of the years 1598-1613, a turbulent and decisive period in Russian history. Available for the

This study of the Russian army and how it has fared in the uncertain transitional period since independence in December 1991 provides the basis for understandin