In Russia in the Making (originally published in 1957), John Lawrence presents long and complicated history of Russia as a living and intelligible whole from the very beginning. Based on a wide knowledge of Russian history and a considerable experience of Soviet ways, his book provides an admirable starting point for wider reading.
In Russia in the Making (originally published in 1957), John Lawrence presents the long and complicated history of Russia as a living and intelligible whole from the very beginning. Based on a wide knowledge of Russian history and a considerable experience of Soviet ways, his book provides an admirable starting point for wider reading. The author gives a clear outline which demonstrates how authoritarianism is in the tradition of Russian history. Full value is given to the immense changes brought about by the revolution, and the book ends with an analysis of the changes in social structure that forced Stalins work into another mould.
This book demands no previous knowledge of its subject. The author has used his knowledge of Soviet ways to produce from a complicated and confusing record a most readable and easily digestible narrative.
Part 1: Forest and Steppe
1. In the Beginning
2. The Age of Kiev
3. The
Resurgence of the Steppe
4. Roots of the Polish Problem
5. The Cities of the
West Comparative Dates Part 2: The Age of Moscow
6. The Rise of Moscow
7. The
First Age of Moscow
8. Ivan the Terrible
9. The Time of Troubles
10. The Last
Age of Muscovy
11. The Two Nations Comparative Dates Part 3: The Age of St.
Petersburg
12. Peter the Great and the Foundations of Modern Russia
13. The
Eighteenth Century
14. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
15. Shades of
the Prison House
16. The Beginning of Modern Russia
17. The First Age of
Industrialism
18. The Foundations Crack Comparative Dates Part 4: The Soviet
Age
19. The Time of the Breaking of Nations
20. A New Time of Troubles
21. A
Breathing Space
22. Stalins Revolution
23. War and the Cold War
24. Russia
on the Move Comparative Dates
John Lawrence was a British diplomat and writer. He lived in Russia as British Press Attaché for more than three years during the war. Among other things, he was the editor of British Ally, an uncensored weekly newspaper in Russian which circulated freely all over the Soviet Union. He was also the editor of The Christian News Letter.
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