Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953. — XXI, 614 p. The Caucasus region, which forms a natural boundary between Asia and Europe, has always been of great strategic importance. Russia's expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention between these two states, and the borderlands remained...
Boulder, Colorado; Westview Press, 1999. - 243 pgs. At the Edge of Empire examines the history of the Cossack frontier settlements in the North Caucasus during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The specific focus is the Terek Cossacks, frontier settlers along the Terek river who became servants of the Russian state, warriors, and occasionally soldiers for (and deserters...
Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004. — 344 p. — ISBN: 1-889963-04-6. This definitive work, the crown jewel in the distinguished career of Russian America scholar Lydia T. Black, presents a comprehensive overview of the Russian presence in Alaska. Drawing on extensive archival research and employing documents only recently made available to scholars, Black shows how...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 350 p. Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is highlighted here seek to extend new thinking about the way imperial Russian history is studied and taught. Populating their essays are a varied lot of ordinary Russians of the 18th and 19th centuries, from a luxury-loving merchant and his extended...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 318 p. From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim Question comprised a complex set of ideas...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 288 p. In "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire", Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst...
Duke University Press, 1965. — 386 p. This book covers the Russian campaigns against the Turks, the Persians, the Poles and those stubborn Chechnyan rebels who still today are a thorn in the Russian Bear's side. The author analyzes Nicholas I as a commander as well as the development of the Russian during his reign. Curtiss does a fine job of describing the politics that...
Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2016. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60223-303-4. The Alaska Purchase — denounced at the time as «Seward’s Folly» but now seen as a masterstroke — is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just what the Alaska Purchase was, how it came...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 354 p. — (Translated by Richard L. Bland). In Russian Colonization of Alaska , Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv examines the sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska, or “Russian America,” between 1741 and 1799. Beginning with the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Ivanovich Bering and Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov’s discovery...
Harper Collins Books, 2009. — 425 p. In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a humble serf who rose to create one of the most celebrated business empires the world has ever known. At the center of this vivid narrative, Pyotr Smirnov comes to life...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 359 p. Jussi Jalonen’s On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland approaches the Russian suppression of the Polish Uprising in 1830-1831 from a new transnational perspective. The Russian mobilization involved people from the farthest reaches of the Empire, and one notable group was the Finnish Battalion of the Imperial Guard. For...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. — 337 p. In the 1830s Russia was facing a crisis. The army was poorly organized, the administration was underdeveloped, inefficient, and corrupt, and the state was too poor to bear the strain. This crisis was the principal driving force behind Russia's reforms of the 1830s, and Nicholas' policies can only be understood within the context of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xxviii + 765 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-81529-1. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the...
E la paternita spirituale. Bose: Qiqajon. 2003. 344 p. La ricerca assidua dell'intimità con Dio nella solitudine conduce a volte alla fioritura di una comunità di fratelli in dialogo con le attese e le domande degli uomini. Un simile incontro tra storia e spiritualità ha caratterizzato nel xix secolo l'esperienza del monastero della Presentazione della Vergine al Tempio di...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 360 p. Imperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia's "window to Europe," whereas Moscow preserved the nation's proud historical traditions. "Enlightened Metropolis" challenges this myth by exploring how the tsarist regime actually tried to turn Moscow into a bridgehead of Europe...
Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2013. Quality is inherently electronic. Mary McGrigor explores a thrilling period of European history in this biography of James Wylie, Scottish-born personal physician to the Russian tsars in the early nineteenth century. A pioneer field surgeon who saved the lives of countless soldiers, Wylie was present at some of the seminal moments of the Napoleonic...
Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2013. Quality is inherently electronic. Mary McGrigor explores a thrilling period of European history in this biography of James Wylie, Scottish-born personal physician to the Russian tsars in the early nineteenth century. A pioneer field surgeon who saved the lives of countless soldiers, Wylie was present at some of the seminal moments of the Napoleonic...
Central European University Press, 2008. — 251 p. — ISBN: 978-963-9776-19-7 The History of the Russian Empire: in Search for Scope and Paradigm Russification or Russifications? Identity and Loyalty in the Language Policy of the Romanov Empire at Her Western Borderland The Romanov Empire and the Jews “Official Nationality”? A Reassessment of Count Sergei Uvarov’s Triad in the...
University of Washington Press, 2015. — 360 p. A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia's highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. — 385 p. Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and...
Translation by Lydia Black — University of Alaska Press, 2015. — 520 p. Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. The forces of nature and...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 449 p. "Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 288 p. The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of...
De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. 215 pgs. A category of persons best defined by what they were not, the raznochintsy —"people of various ranks" or "people of diverse origins"—inhabited the shifting social territory between nobles and serfs in preindustrial Russia. Not nobles, serfs, merchants nor clergy, raznochintsy may have been by occupation administrative...
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