Author: George Vernadsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: russia, series, history, kievan
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1973-09-10
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0300016476
ISBN-13: 9780300016475

Kievan Russia was originally published in a clothbound edition in 1948 as volume two in George Vernadsky’s comprehensive series, A History of Russia. It is now available for the first time in a paperbound edition. At the time of its publication Kievan Russia received the following reviews: "The account of this little-know chapter of Russian history is based on a formidable mass of Slavic Byzantine, Germanic, and Oriental (notably Arabic and Persian_ sources. Much of this material is new, and the thorough utilization of all primary and secondary literature accumulated since Kluchevsky