PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Theodore R. Weeks is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (1996) and From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The Jewish Question in Poland, 1855 to 1914 (2006).
There are different ways to write a survey of Russianhistory, and most of them have been tried many times. Yet SimonDixon, the editor of this excellent three-volume series, hasinvited his authors to do something new. (Slavonicand East European Review, 1 April 2012) On the whole, there are many positives in this work. Thethematic approach makes it clear that certain characteristics werepresent in both tsarist and Soviet times, and that significantcontinuities were evident within the political and social aspectsof revolutionary Russia. (Revolutionary Russia, 2 December2011) Ted Weeks's book is an excellent and well-judged account ofthis crucial period. He presents the history of Russia and theSoviet Union in a way that will challenge students and make themthink hard. (The Russian Review, 1 July 2011) Recommended. Mostlevels/libraries. (Choice, 1 May 2011)
