Imperial Russian History (2015)

Imperial Russian History
Dr. David McDonald
Spring 2015
Reading lists for Imperial Russian history can also be found here:
http://www.history.illinois.edu/graduate/prospective/fields/russia/reading/
https://www.history.upenn.edu/sites/www.history.upenn.edu/files/holquist_readings-imperialrussia.pdf
Overviews/State of the Field
Barrett, Thomas M. At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus
Frontier, 1700-1860. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.
Berlin, Isaiah, Henry Hardy, and Aileen Kelly. Russian Thinkers. New York: Viking Press, 1978.
Billington, James. The Icon and the Axe. An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
Burbank, Jane, and David L. Ransel. Imperial Russia New Histories for the Empire.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Cherniavsky, Michael. The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York:
Random House, 1970.
Cherniavsky, Michael. Tsar and People: Studies in Russian Myths (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1961).
Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine Worobec. Russia's Women:
Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991.
Crews, Robert D. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia.
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 2006.
Jelavich, Barbara. A Century of Russian Foreign Policy, 1814-1914. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
1964.
Kappeler, Andreas. The Russian empire: a multiethnic history. 2001.
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Alice S. Nakhimovsky. The Semiotics of Russian Cultural History: Essays. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1985.
Mironov, Boris Nikolaevich. 6RW࠰࠱ VLDOүQDL࠰࠱ D LVWRULL࠰࠱ D Rossii perioda imperii--XVIII-nachalo XX v.:
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gosudarstva. S.-Peterburg: D. Bulanin, 1999.
Slavic Review, Autumn 2001, forum on Boris Mironov’s Sotsial’naia istoriia.
Ragsdale, Hugh, and V. N. Ponomarev. Imperial Russian Foreign Policy. [Washington, D.C.]:
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.
Rieber, Alfred J. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, NC: University
of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David. Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from
Peter the Great to the Emigration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Walicki, Andrzej. A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism. Stanford,
Calif: Stanford University Press, 1979.
Wortman, Richard S. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: Vol. I:
From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I; Vol. II: From AlexanderII to the
Abdication of Nicholas II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995 and 2000.
“The Imperial Turn,” Kritika 7, 4 (Fall 2006)
18th century
Anisimov, E. V. The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia.
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
Avrich, Paul. Russian Rebels, 1600-1800. New York: Schocken Books, 1972.
de Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 1981.
Farrow, Lee A. “Peter the Great’s Law of Single Inheritance: State Imperatives and Noble
Resistance.” The Russian Review 55: 3 (1996): 430-47.
Freeze, Gregory. “The Soslovie (Estate) Paradigm in Russian Social History.” AHR, 91, (1986):
11-36.
Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven, Conn: Yale University
Press, 1998.
.DUDP]LQ1LNRODÕࡅ 0LNKDÕࡅ ORYLFKDQG5LFKDUG3LSHVMemoir on ancient and modern Russia.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Khodarkovsky, Michael. Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 15001800. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Lackey, Colum. “Patronage and Public Culture in the Russian Free Economic Society, 17651796,” Slavic Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 355-379
McGrew, Roderick E. Paul I of Russia, 1754-1801. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Meehan-Waters, Brenda. “Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule.” Russian
Review 34: 3 (1975): 293-307.
Offord, Derek. “Denis Fonvizin and the Concept of Nobility: An Eighteenth-century Russian
Echo of a Western Debate,” European History Quarterly, Vol 35(1) (2005), 9–38.
Raeff, Marc. “17th Century Europe in 18th Century Russia?” Slavic Review, 41: 4 (1982): 61119.
Raeff, Marc. “State and Nobility in the Ideology of M.M. Shcherbatov.” American Slavic and
East European Review 19:3 (1960): 363-79.
Raeff, Marc. The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change Through Law in
the Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983.
Ransel, David L. “The Diary of a Merchant: Insights into Eighteenth-Century Plebeian Life.”
The Russian Review 63 (2004): 594-608.
Ransel, David. The Politics of Catherinian Russia: The Panin Party. New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 1975.
Rogger, Hans. National Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1960.
Whittaker, Cynthia. Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political
Dialogue. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.
Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling. Structures of Society: Imperial Russia's "People of Various
Ranks". DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling. The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater. DeKalb
[Ill.]: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.
19th century until 1861
Annenkov, P. V., and Arthur P. Mendel. The Extraordinary Decade: Literary Memoirs. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968.
Geraci, Robert P. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Drozdek, A. “Chaadaev and the Principle of Unity,” Slavica Orientalis no. 1, 2008.
Gershenzon, M. O. *ULERL࠰࠱ HGRYVNDL࠰࠱ D Moskva. Hague: Mouton, 1970.
Gleason, Abbott. European and Muscovite; Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Hartley, Janet M. Alexander I. London: Longman, 1994.
Lieven, D. C. B. Russia against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace.
New York: Viking, 2010.
Lincoln, W. Bruce. Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1978.
Lincoln, W. Bruce. In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825-1861.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1982.
Malia, Martin E. Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812-1855. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1961.
Manchester, L. “Commonalities of Modern Political Discourse: Three Paths of Modern Activism
in Late Imperial Russia’s Alternative Intelligentsia.” Kritika (Fall 2007).
Martin, Alexander M. Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and
Politics in the Reign of Alexander I. DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Mazour, Anatole Gregory. The First Russian Revolution, 1825; The Decembrist Movement, Its
Origins, Development, and Significance. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press,
1961.
Orlovsky, Daniel T. The Limits of Reform: The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial Russia,
1802-1881. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Peterson, D. “Civilizing the Race: Chaadaev and the Paradox of Eurocentric Nationalism,”
Russian Review, October 1997, pp. 550-563.
Raeff, Marc. The Decembrist Movement. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Randolph, John. The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian
Idealism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. A Parting of Ways: Government and the Educated Public in Russia,
1801-1855. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825-1855. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1959.
Walicki, Andrzej. The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in NineteenthCentury Russian Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Zorin, Andrei. Kormia dvuglavnogo orla: Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v
poslednei treti XVIII-pervoi treti XIX veka. Moscow: NLO, 2001.
1861 to 1905
Anan’ich, Boris V. et al. Krizis samoderzhaviia, 1895-1917. Leningrad: Nauka, 1984.
Clowes, Edith W., Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West. Between Tsar and People: Educated
Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1991.
Eklof, Ben, John Bushnell, and L. G. Zakharova. Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Engel, Barbara Alpern, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Alix Kates Shulman, Mollie Steimer, and Ahrne
Thorne. Five Sisters: Women against the Tsar. New York: Knopf : distributed by
Random House, 1975.
Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle
Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Fields, Daniel. Rebels in the Name of the Tsar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
Fields, D. “Peasant Propagandists in the Russian Movement to the People of 1874.” The
Journal of Modern History 59:3 (1987): 416-38.
Geyer, Dietrich. Russian Imperialism: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy, 18601914. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
Gleason, Abbott. Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s. New York:
Viking Press, 1980.
Kelly, Aileen. Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism. Oxford
[Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Klioutchkine, K. “Between Sacrifice and Indulgence,” Slavic Review, Spring 2007.
Kotsonis, Yanni. Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian
Question in Russia, 1861-1914. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Lovell, S. “From Genealogy to Generation,” Kritika, Summer 2008.
Manchester, Laurie. “The Secularization of the Search for Salvation: The Self-Fashioning of
Orthodox Clergymen’s Sons in Late Imperial Russia.” Slavic Review 57: 1 (1998): 5076.
Nathans, Benjamin. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Paperno, Irina. Chernyshevsky and the Age of Realism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior.
Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Pipes, Richard. Struve, Liberal on the Left, 1870-1905. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University
Press, 1970.
Pozefsky, Peter C. The Nihilist Imagination: Dmitrii Pisarev and the Cultural Origins of Russian
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Sahadeo, Jeff. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent: 1865-1923. Bloomington: Indiana
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Stites, Richard. The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and
Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Venturi, Franco. Roots of Revolution; A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in
Nineteenth Century Russia. New York: Knopf, 1960.
Verhoeven, Claudia. The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of
Terrorism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Von Laue, Theodore H. Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1963.
Wcislo, Francis William. Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 18491915. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Worobec, Christine. Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period.
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Wortman, Richard. The Crisis of Russian Populism. London: Cambridge U.P., 1967.
Zelnik, Reginald E. Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia; The Factory Workers of St. Petersburg,
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Revolution and War
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Ascher, Abraham. P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Stanford, CA:
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Bonnell, Victoria E. Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg
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Bradley, Joseph. “Subjects into Citizens: Societies, Civil Society, and Autocracy in Tsarist
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