Part I The Origins of Russia: Origins of the Slavs Expansion of the Slavs Kievan Rus Principalities and Novgorod Republic Christianity in Russia. Part II From Tatars to Time of Trouble: Russia under the Tatars The Rise of Muscovy Russian Expansion The Time of Troubles The Fur Trade. Part III From Muscovite to Imperial Russia: Russia to the End of the Petrine Period Russia to Catherine the Great Russia in Asia Provinces, Population and Economy Peter the Great and St Petersburg. Part IV Russia from Early 19th Century: Russia in Europe after 1798 European Russia 1801-1881 Economic Development to 1860 Russia in the Caucasus Russia in Central Asia The Crimean War. Part V From Reform to Revolution: Industrialization by 1900 The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 The 1905 Revolution World War I The Tsars. Part VI From Revolution to the USSR: 1917 Revolutions Civil War and Foreign Intervention New Economic Policy (NEP) Creation of USSR and Rise of Stalin Industrialization and Collectivization Foreign Policy Stalinist Repression. Part VII War, Peace and Dissolution: Barbarossa Stalingrad to Berlin Post-war Stalinism Khrushchev and the Arms Race The Brezhnev Era Gorbachev - Nationalism and Europe USSR Dissolves Khrushchev and the Virgin Lands.
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Pintner et al. (1998) studied this question.