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First published by Allen Lane 1997
Published in Penguin Books as A History of Twentieth-Century Russia 1998
Second edition published as A History of Modern Russia, with revisions 2003
Third edition published under the current title with further revisions 2009
Fourth edition published with revisions 2015
Copyright © Robert Service, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2015
Cover photograph © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum photos
Cover design by Richard Green
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Maps by Nigel Andrews
ISBN: 978-0-141-98155-0
The Penguin History of Modern Russia Page 78
