This atlas, which combines thorough scholarship with the most practical features for use, will become an indispensable supplement to texts on Russian history for the historian, the student, and the inquiring layman. The book contains thirty-four handsomely drawn maps--accurate, uncluttered, and easy-to-read--that show how Russia's boundaries have changed from the formation of the embryonic state of Kievan Rus in the ninth century to the most recent...