Britannica Guide to Russia

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Military parade in Moscow's Red Square in 1985 Tass/Sovfoto, courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.

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Vladimir Putin (b. 1952) President of Russia, The Kremlin, Courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.

Maps

Physical map of Russia

Political map of present-day Russia

Moscow

The Trans-Siberian Railway

INTRODUCTION

MARY DEJEVSKY

Russia can claim to be one of the most grievously misunder­stood countries of the early twenty-first century. A vast land mass, with a harsh climate and declining population, the country boasts as rich a history and as glorious a culture as any in the world. Yet the upheavals it experienced in the twentieth century - from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the largely peaceful reversal of that revolution before the century was out - left the country and its people exhausted, while striving to catch up with a European and global main­stream that had largely passed them by.

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