| List of Maps | |
| Preface | |
| A Note to Students | |
| 1 | Land and Peoples: From Ancient Times to the Present | 1 |
| 2 | The Politics of Kievan Rus | 15 |
| 3 | Kievan Society, Religion, and Culture | 35 |
| 4 | The Fragmentation of Kievan Rus and the Rise of New Centers | 56 |
| 5 | The Mongol Conquest and Subjugation | 71 |
| 6 | Moscow and Its Rivals, 1304-1533 | 83 |
| 7 | Society, Religion, and Culture, 1240-1533 | 106 |
| 8 | Ivan the Terrible: Autocrat | 133 |
| 9 | The Time of Troubles | 151 |
| 10 | The First Romanovs, 1613-1689 | 165 |
| 11 | Economic and Social Life, 1533-1689 | 187 |
| 12 | Religion and Culture, 1533-1689 | 206 |
| 13 | Peter the Great | 225 |
| 14 | Three Empresses and Three Emperors: Rulers and Politics, 1725-1762 | 249 |
| 15 | The Reign of Catherine the Great | 266 |
| 16 | Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Life | 290 |
| 17 | Eighteenth-Century Religion and Culture | 311 |
| 18 | The Reigns of Paul and Alexander I, 1796-1825 | 328 |
| 19 | Nicholas I: Despotism, Reform, and Legitimacy, 1825-1855 | 353 |
| 20 | Economic and Social Life, 1796-1855 | 372 |
| 21 | Religion and Culture, 1796-1855 | 395 |
| 22 | Alexander II, Reformism, and Radicalism | 413 |
| 23 | Reactionary Politics, Economic Modernization, and Political Opposition, 1881-1905 | 436 |
| 24 | Russian Imperial and Foreign Policy, 1856-1905 | 458 |
| 25 | Revolution of Evolution? Politics and War, 1905-1917 | 483 |
| 26 | Economics and Society, 1855-1917 | 507 |
| 27 | Religion and Culture, 1855-1917 | 535 |
| App. A: Chronology | 557 |
| App. B | Rus/Russian Rulers | 567 |
| App. C: Glossary | 570 |
| General Bibliography for Russia to 1917 | 574 |
| Index | 585 |