"A very timely study of Russia's emergence as a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. It reveals how Russian exports shaped global energy flows as well as how international trade impacted the fabric of the country's foreign relations and, ultimately, the course of Russian history"--

Introduction; 1. Russia in the global history of oil; 2. The Bolsheviks and oil; 3. Energy in the Cold War; 4. Path to dependence; 5. Crisis, collapse, and resurgence; 6. Energy, geopolitics, and war; Conclusion.

Jeronim Perovi¿ is Professor of Eastern European History in the University of Zurich's Department of History. He specialises in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the history of the Balkans. He is the author of several monographs, including From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule (2018), and the editor of several collected volumes, including Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas (2017).