A History of Samara

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Early Settlements and the Volga Frontier
• Chapter 2 Samara in the Kievan Rus’ Sphere
• Chapter 3 Mongol-Tatar Influence and the Golden Horde
• Chapter 4 Incorporation into the Grand Duchy of Moscow
• Chapter 5 The Time of Troubles and Samara’s Role
• Chapter 6 Expansion under the First Romanovs
• Chapter 7 Peter the Great’s Reforms and River Trade
• Chapter 8 Samara as a Frontier Fortress in the 18th Century
• Chapter 9 Catherine the Great’s Administrative Reforms
• Chapter 10 The Napoleonic Wars and Samara’s Militia
• Chapter 11 Agricultural Growth and the Rise of Grain Export
• Chapter 12 The Emancipation Reform and Its Impact on Samara
• Chapter 13 Railway Arrival: Connecting Samara to Russia’s Network
• Chapter 14 Industrialization at the Turn of the 20th Century
• Chapter 15 The 1905 Revolution in Samara
• Chapter 16 World War I Mobilization and Home Front Efforts
• Chapter 17 The February and October Revolutions in Samara
• Chapter 18 Civil War Battles and the Red Army’s Consolidation
• Chapter 19 New Economic Policy (NEP) and Samara’s Revival
• Chapter 20 Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan: Heavy Industry Push
• Chapter 21 Collectivization and Its Rural Consequences
• Chapter 22 Samara During the Great Patriotic War (WWII)
• Chapter 23 Post‑War Reconstruction and the Khrushchev Thaw
• Chapter 24 The Stagnation Era and Samara’s Urban Development
• Chapter 25 Perestroika, Collapse of the USSR, and Contemporary Samara