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|title=A Concise History of Russia

|sort= Concise History of Russia

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|date=December 2011

|website=http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/bushkovitch.html

|summary=A comprehensive history of Russia, from its origins to the election of Vladimir Putin, with the emphasis on political developments, but also including chapters on Russian arts and culture from the 19th century onwards.

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Russia's recent history, especially since the end of the Cold War, has been so full of new developments that there is probably little if any limit to the number of fresh histories the market can absorb. This most recent, from a Professor of History at Yale University, take a little over 450 pages to tell the story from the earliest days of Kiev Rus, the territory which was to become the ancestor of the present nation state around the 10th century AD, to Vladimir Putin's assumption of office as President in 2000.