Great Russia. History and modernity. To the 1150th anniversary of Russian statehood

In 2012, a significant anniversary is celebrated in our country - the 1150th anniversary of the foundation of the Russian state.
In the depths of the centuries, the history of our Motherland is out. Once in antiquity, she was called Rus, and relatively recently - the Soviet Union, or the abbreviated USSR. But most of the time of its existence, Fatherland, our name was the same name as now, Russia.
Russia was, there will be a great power. And not because it is the largest country in the country of the world. The reason in the other: Russia is among the most powerful states, plays a leading role in the international arena, affects everything that happens on the globe.
About how the history of Russia was folded, as many pages of her past were crowned with glory, as our statement gained the greatest fate, this book tells