Russia A History

LIST OF PLATES

1. 1169: Novgorod icon about victory in the struggle for Kievan succession

2. Kizhi wooden church from the fourteenth century

3. Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich 1645–76

4. 17th century: Engraving of peasants

5. Peter the Great

6. Catherine the Great

7. Religious procession in the 1870s, (Ilya Repin painting)

8. Nicholas II and family

9. Peasant elders c.1910

10. Petrograd demonstration in 1917

11. Antireligious campaign

12. Sculpture by Vera Mukhina, ‘The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman’

13. Doctoring photographs

14. Ukrainian collective farmers handing a corn wreath to Nikita Khrushchev, 19 September 1963

15. Party Congress: Brezhnev, Podgnorny, Andropov, Kosygin

16. Reagan and Gorbachev at Geneva summit

17. Yeltsin after the defeat of the coup in August 1991

18. Putin and Medvedev (May day, 2008)