Parmele tells Russian history as the story of a power rather than a people: the early Slavs and the Varangians, the Tatar yoke, the rise of Moscow, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine, the partitions of Poland, Napoleon’s invasion and the nineteenth-century tsars, closing with the war with Japan.
A brisk survey for general readers, written with the confident judgements of its era. Download the free EPUB.