ID - 139561488 TI - Russia in world history AU - Engel, Barbara Alpern AU - Martin, Janet PY - 2015 SN - 9780190239428 0190239425 9780199947874 0199947872 9780199947898 0199947899 0190239433 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Social change KW - History. KW - History. KW - Russia KW - Soviet Union KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Russia KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - Relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139561488 AB - This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place vir ER -