book chapter
Historical setting: early history to 1917
Russia: a country study • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 1-52
By: Kohut, Zenon E., Goldfrank, David M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a useful short history of Russia, from its origins in Kievan Rus’ during the Middle Ages up to the overthrow of the tsarist empire in the 1917 communist revolution. There is particular focus on the political and economic ramifications of major wars and strategic foreign relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 882-1917
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Russia; Belarus; Ukraine
- NotesAdditional notes
- Zenon E. Kohut and David M. Goldfrank
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 52a-52e)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97007563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Russia--History.