Eighteen twelve and after -- The Russia of Nicholas I -- Tsar and serf -- Thaw -- From bombs to pogroms -- Russia in Asia -- 1905 -- On the eve -- The empire's last war -- 1917 -- The Civil War -- Disputes and decisions -- The thirties -- The Great Patriotic War -- Consolidation or Ossification? -- The Khrushchev revival -- The Brezhnev regime -- From Brezhnev to Gorbachev
