Forged in War

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Author's Note
Introduction

Part 1: The Forging of Russia
1. The Making of the Rus'
2. The Wars of the Princes
3. The Northern Crusades
4. The Steppe Threat
5. The Storm from the East
6. Throwing off the Yoke

Part 2: Forging an Empire
7. Ivan's Musketeers
8. Times of Terror and Troubles
9. The Cossacks
10. The Conquest of Siberia

Part 3: A European Power
11. Peter and his Navy
12. The Great Northern War
13. A European Power at Last
14. Tsarina versus Tsargrad

Part 4: Triumph and Decline
15. Russia versus the Antichrist
16. Gendarme of Europe, Conqueror of the Margins
17. The Two Crimean Wars
18. Years of Decay
19. Apocalypse for an Empire

Part 5: Red Star Rise and Fall
20. Red Victory
21. The Great Patriotic War
22. Cold War

Part 6: Back to the Future
23. Bringing Russia 'Off its Knees'
24. Putin's Hubris
25. Conclusions

Index

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Soviet Union; USSR; Eastern Front; World War II; Putin; Russian Revolution; Georgia; Chechnya; Tsarist Russia; Cold War; 1917; Great Patriotic War; Invasion of Ukraine; Crimea; Crimean War; Rus; druzhiny; Byzantium