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The longest river in Europe, the Volga, flows 3,500 km through central Russia into the Caspian Sea. In this socio-economic history, Janet Hartley analyzes the development of Russia and the peoples who lived in the Volga basin over one-thousand years, their trade, transport, agricultural and other economic activities, and also the politics and culture of the settlement of the Volga basin. Hartley’s book consists of four parts: a shorter introduction on the rise of Rus´ and the early history of... |
