Riasanovsky's "History of Russia" has defined the market and set a standard for accurate, balanced interpretation, and attention to political, social, and cultural history and international relations. Featuring a new co-author, Mark Steinberg, this seventh edition includes more information on the politics and economics of post-Socialism and on post-Soviet society and culture. For the first time, the text is being offered in paperback and as a combined two-volume set covering early Russia through the nineteenth-century in volume one, and from 1855 to the present in volume two.