New York: Schocken Books, 1972. — 308 p. This is the first and only comprehensive account of four great popular Russian rebellions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Avrich gives a very accurate and highly readable account of the revolts and also tries to makes sense of their causes and effects. "Russian revolts, senseless and merciless." Such was Pushkin's...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1961. - 654 p. To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom-the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries-is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate...
Routledge, 2007. — 272 p. — (Warfare and History). — ISBN: 978-0-415-23986-8. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Muscovy waged a costly struggle against the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for control of the fertile steppe above the Black Sea. This was a region of great strategic and economic importance — arguably the pivot of...
London: Longman, 1982. - 197 pgs. This is the fourth part of the Longman History of Russia. This study surveys the first two centuries of Romanov rule from the foundation of the dynasty by Michael Romanov in 1613 to the accession of Alexander I in 1801. The central theme of the book is the growth of absolutism in Russia throughout these years, and it traces in detail how the...
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017. — ISBN: 978–1-78374–374–2; 978–1-78374–375–9. From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Empire brings together...
New York: The Free Press, 1992. — 557 p. The topic of Imperial Russia's strategic complex is an arcane one, but Fuller makes it both insightful and interesting. He argues that the highest officials in Russian policy-making during these three centuries were concerned with three basic things: (1) Maintaining the social status quo; (2) Defending an expansive border; (3) Making the...
London: John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1913. — p. With 15 Illustrations and a Map. Russia is becoming more interesting to England every day. I should like to point out how and why. We are interested in the mediaeval state of the Russian civilisation and in the religious life of the peasantry, in which it is possible to see something of what we ourselves were like in the far...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. — 402 p. The country of extremes The past of the cossacks Russian piety and the clergy Unorthodoxy and the monastic prisons A legend of Alexander I The educational revolution in the sixties — and after Students’ movements and political life The assassination of Alexander II "Agents Provocateurs": The scourge and the problem Silhouettes of...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. — 402 p. The country of extremes The past of the cossacks Russian piety and the clergy Unorthodoxy and the monastic prisons A legend of Alexander I The educational revolution in the sixties — and after Students’ movements and political life The assassination of Alexander II "Agents Provocateurs": The scourge and the problem Silhouettes of...
Paris: A la galerie de Bossange, père, libraire de S. A. R. Monseigneur le Duc D'orléans, rue Richelieu, 1826. — 424 p. Un des mes plus célèbres compatriotes, M. de Karamsin, éleve en ce moment un monument à la gloire de ma patrie; grace à ses longues et savantes recherches, l'Europe va posséder une Histoire Russe, dissipant tous les nuages qui couvraient notre origine, et...
London, H.G. Bohn, 1854-55. - 552 p. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1850 ). Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Ségur
Indiana University Press, 2002. - 304 p. Anyone familiar with the author’s first book Where Two Worlds Met (1992) must look forward to reading this new volume, which is a comprehensive study of Moscow’s relations with the steppe nomads from the emergence of a Russian empire until the closing of the frontier 300 years later. He will not be disappointed. In the author’s own...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0199280517; ISBN13: 978-0199280513. Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how...
London — New York: Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis, 2004. — vi, 478 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe). — ISBN: 978-0-415-30751-2. Discusses the nature and extent of 'modernization' in seventeenth century Russia, before Peter the Great's accession, showing that, contrary to the popular view, there was a great deal of modernization in this...
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. - 261 c. At its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in...
London: Strand, and W. Blackwood, 1823. — 632 p. Every city, like mortal man, has its day. The noblest and the proudest see the helplessness of infancy, and pass through the vicissitudes of their existence to ruin and oblivion. What are now the boast of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta ? Two mean villages. — What is Carthage? A mere promontory, where scarcely one stone lies...
Revised and Edited by Charles Edmund Fryer. — Chicago: The H.W. Snow and Son Company, 1910. — 412 p. — (The History of Nations, Volume XV). The editorial work in this volume has been limited for the most part to condensing Professor Morfill's narrative so as to bring it within the limits prescribed for this series. The first and last chapters on Russia are contributed by the...
2nd edition. — London ; New York: Routledge, 2015. — xxviii, 323 p.: ill. This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that...
London — New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — xiv, 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-76393-3. Imperial Russia provides an accessible reference tool for students, researchers, historians and Russian history enthusiasts. It covers the period from Ivan IV to the death of Nicholas II. There are chronologies for each of the reigns and the handbook covers important political and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xxii + 777 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-81227-6. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. - 361 pgs. Pipes purpose in this book is to ask why in Russia, of all the Western states, society failed to place political power under any kind of constraint. His answer is that in Russia, due to exigencies of history and geography (it is both very big and has a very low population density), state power was not imposed upon society from...
Cornell University Press, 2001. — 307 p. Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it? In the first book devoted to answering these questions,...
Boston: D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat, 1880. - 100 p. When the "Histoire de la Russie," by M. Alfred Rambaud, made its appearance, it was immediately welcomed by the press of both countries with the most flattering approval, and it was also crowned by the French Academy. The London Athenaeum says of it : " We have the ' Histoire de la Russie/ by M. Alfred Rambaud, who, by his...
Boston: D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat, 1880. — 400 p. M. Alfred Rambaud, made its appearance, it was immediately welcomed by the press of both countries with the most flattering approval, and it was also crowned by the French Academy. The London Athenaeum says of it : " We have the ' Histoire de la Russie/ by M. Alfred Rambaud, who, by his 'Russie E pique' and other publications,...
Boston: D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat, 1880. — 400 p. M. Alfred Rambaud, made its appearance, it was immediately welcomed by the press of both countries with the most flattering approval, and it was also crowned by the French Academy. The London Athenaeum says of it : " We have the ' Histoire de la Russie/ by M. Alfred Rambaud, who, by his 'Russie E pique' and other publications,...
München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1960. — 422 S. Vorwort Noch immer besteht die Neigung, die Sowjetunion ohne Einschränkung für einen Staat der Russen oder allenfalls der Ostslawen zu halten und von "Russen“ zu sprechen, wenn ” man die Gesamtheit der Sowjetbürger meint. Unter diesen Umständen ist das Erscheinen eines Überblicks über die Geschichte der übrigen, in diesem Reiche...
Routledge, 2013. — 352 p. Russia’s emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I’s radical programme of "Westernising" reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia created a powerful strategy of its own, integrating steppe defence with European...
Volume 1-3. Boston: J.B. Milett Company, 1910. Russia, the most easterly country of Europe, stretching far away across the whole of Northern Asia to the Far East, abutting on Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and the Chinese Empire, is, next to the British, the most powerful empire in the world. Its position and power as affecting the Orient make it an object of overpowering...
Routledge, 2007. — 282 p. — (Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe; 8). — ISBN-13: 978-0-415-41621-4. Using a wide range sources, this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks, the author takes a thorough assessment of how the...
Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013. — 360 p. Permissions Introduction: Russian Monarchy and the Symbolic Sphere Russian Monarchy and Law Russian Monarchy and the Rule of Law: New Considerations of the Court Reform of 1864 The Representation of Dynasty and “Fundamental Laws” in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy Review of Anatolii Viktorovich Remnev, Samoderzhavnoe...
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