Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
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Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The History of Russia and others.
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Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December…
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