This is a select bibliography of post-World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1613 until 1917. It specifically excludes topics related to the Russian Revolution (see Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War for information on these subjects). Book entries may have references to reviews published in academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.
A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see "Further reading" for several book- and chapter-length bibliographies. The "External links" section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.
Inclusion criteria
Works included are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert as shown by scholarly reviews and have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.
Citation style
This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Russian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.
If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.
When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.
Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape. Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[7][8]
Borrero, M. (2004) Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Facts on File.[9]
Boterbloem, K. (2018) A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. (2nd Ed.) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.[10]
Boterbloem, K. (2020) Russia as Empire: Past and Present. London: Reaktion Books.[11]
Breyfogle, N., Schrader, A., Sunderland W. (2007) Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History. London: Routledge.[12]
Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[13][14][15][16]
Chatterjee, Choi. (2022) Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach. London: Bloomsbury Academic.[17]
Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York, NY: Random House.
Christian, D. (1998). A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.[18][19][20][21]
Clarkson, J. D. (1961). A History of Russia. New York: Random House.[22][23]
Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dmytryshyn, B. (1967, 1973, 1997). Medieval Russia: A Source Book 2: 850-1700. San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.[24][25]
Dmytryshyn, B. (1977). A History of Russia. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.[26][27]
Dukes, P. (1998) A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary. New York: McGraw-Hill.[28][29][30][31]
Figes, O. (2022). The Story of Russia. New York: Metropolitan Books.[32]
Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[33][34][35][36][37]
Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia: A History (Revised edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.[38]
Gleason A. (Ed.). (2009). A Companion to Russian History. — Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History).[39][40][41]
Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.[42]
Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[a]
Moss W. G. (1955, 2d ed. 2003-2005) A History of Russia (2 Vols). London: Anthem Press.
Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.[43][44][45][46]
Poe, M. T. (2003) The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.[47][48][49][50]
Riasanovsky, N. V. (2018). A History of Russia (9th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[51]
Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press.
Ward, C. J., & Thompson J. M. (2021). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present. (9th Ed.). New York: Routledge.
LeDonne, J. P. (1991). Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700–1825. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[69][70][71][72]
Lieven, D. (1989). Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime. New Haven: Yale University Press.[73][74][75]
Lincoln, W. B. (1997). Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia. New York: Viking.
Lincoln, W. B. (1981). The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias. New York: Doubleday.[76][77]
Lincoln, W. B. (2001). Sunlight at Midnight: St Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[78][79][80]
Mironov, B. N., & Eklof, B. (2000). The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700–1917 (2 vols.). , Oxfordshire, UK: Westview Press.[81]
Montefiore, S. (2017). Romanovs: 1613–1918, New York: Vintage.[82]
Seton-Watson, H. (1967). The Russian Empire 1801–1917 (Oxford History of Modern Europe). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[83][84][85][86]
Weeks, T. R. (1996). Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[87][88][89]
Williams, B. (2021). Late Tsarist Russia, 1881–1913 (Routledge Studies in the History of Russian and Eastern Europe). New York: Routledge.[90]
Topical works
Alexander, J. T. (1969). Autocratic Politics in a National Crisis: The Imperial Russian Government and Pugachev’s Revolt 1773–1775. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[91][92][93][94]
Anisimov, E. V. (1993). The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress through Coercion in Russia. New York: Routledge.[95][96][97][98]
Ascher, A. P. A. (2001). Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.[99][100][101]
Crummey, R. O. (1983). Aristocrats and Servitors: The Boyar Elite, 1613–89. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[102][103][104]
Daly, J. W. (1997). Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia 1866–1905. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[105][106][107][108]
Daly, J. W. (2004). The Watchful State 1906–17: Security Police and Opposition in Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
Dunning, C. S. L. (2001). Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.[109][110][111]
Eklof, B. Bushnell, J., & Zakharova, L. (Eds.). (1994). Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855–1881. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[112][113][114]
Emmons, T. (2014). The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[115][116][117]
Fuller, Jr. W. C. (2006). The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[118][119]
Gatrell, P. (1994). Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 92).[120][121][122][123][124]
Hughes, L. (1997). Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven: Yale University Press.[125][126][127]
Kates, G. (2001). Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books.[128][129]
Kelly, L. (2006). Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia. New York: I.B. Tauris.[130][131]
LeDonne, J. P. (1984). Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism 1762–96. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[132][133][134]
Levin, E. (2014). A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel. New York: Knopf Doubleday/Schocken Books.
Lincoln, W. B. (1990). The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[135][136][137]
Lincoln, W. B. (1982). In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia’s Enlightened Bureaucrats. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[138][139]
Lincoln, W. B. (1983). In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians before the Great War. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[140][141]
McDonald, E., & McDonald, D. (2011). Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Madariaga, I. de, (1981). Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven: Yale University Press.[142][143]
Manning, R. (1982). The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[144][145][146]
Mazour, R. J. (1937). The First Russian Revolution, 1825: The Decembrist Movement, its Origins, Development, and Significance . Berkeley: University of California Press.[147][148][149]
Merridale, C. (2013). Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History. London: Penguin.[150]
Perrie, M. (2002). Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[151][152][153]
Pflaum, R. (1968). The Emperor’s Talisman: The Life of the Duc de Morny. New York: Meredith Press.
Ransel, D. L. (1975). The Politics of Catherinian Russia: The Panin Party. New Haven: Yale University Press.[154][155][156]
Saul, N. E. (1970). Russia and the Mediterranean, 1797–1807. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.[157][158]
Sumner, B. H. (1962). Russia and the Balkans 1870–1880. Hamden: Archon Books.[159][160][161]
Tairova-Yakovleva, T. (2020). Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire. Translated by J. Surer. Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research Monograph Series, vol. 11. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.[162]
Venturi, F. (1960). Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia (F. Haskell, Trans.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.[163][164]
Vitale, S. (1997). Pushkin’s Button. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.[165]
Walicki, A. (1975). The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-century Russian Thought. (H. Andrews-Rusiecka, Trans.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.[166][167]
Kahan, A. (1985). Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.[168][169][170][171]
Kahan, A. (1989). Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.[172][173][174]
Becker, S. (2004). Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865–1924. London: Routledge.[175][176][177]
Bilenky, S. (2018). Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 (Illustrated edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[178]
Bobroff, R. P. (2006). Roads to Glory: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish Straits. London: I.B.Tauris.[179][180][181]
Dukes, Paul (2015). A History of the Urals: Russia's Crucible from Early Empire to the Post-Soviet Era. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Figes, O. (2010). Crimea. London: Metropolitan Books.
Fisher, A. W. (1970). The Russian Annexation of the Crimea 1772–1783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[182][183][184]
Friesen, A. E. (2020). Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[185]
Gammer, M. (1994). Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. London: Routledge.[186][187][188]
Geyer, D. (1987). Russian Imperialism: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy 1860–1914. New Haven: Yale University Press.[189][190][191]
Heuman, S. (1998). Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[192][193][194]
Hosking, G. (1997). Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.[195][196][197]
Kappeler, A. (2001). The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History (A. Clayton, trans.). Harlow: Longman.
Keller, S. (2020). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[198]
Khalid, A. (2021). Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[199]
Khodarkovsky, M. (1992). Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[200][201][202]
Khodarkovsky, M. (2002). Russia’s Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500–1800. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[203][204][205]
Kirmse, S. B. (2020). The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[185]
Kohut, Z. E. (1989). Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s–1830s (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[206][207][208]
LeDonne, J. P. (1997). The Russian Empire and the World 1700–1917: The Geopolitics of Expansion and Containment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
LeDonne, J. P. (2020) Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[198]
Miller, A. (2015). The Romanov Empire and the Russian Nation. In A. Miller & S. Berger (Eds.), Nationalizing Empires (pp. 309–368). Central European University Press.
Miller, C. (2021). We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.[199]
Morrison, A., Drieu, C., & Chokobaeva, A. (Eds.). (2020). The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press.[185]
Morrison, A. (2021). The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[199]
Mosse, W. E. (1963). The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System 1855–71: The Story of a Peace Settlement. New York: Macmillan.[209][210][211][212]
O’Neill, K. (2017). Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.[213]
Riegg, S. B. (2020). Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801–1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Ithaca.[185]
Rywkin, M. (ed.). (1988). Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917. London: Mansell Publishing.[214][215][216]
Steller, G. W. (2020). Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition'. (Translated and annotated by M. A. Engel and K. E. Willmore). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[218]
Weeks, T. R. (1996). Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[87][88][89]
Kappeler, A., Kohut, Z. E., Sysyn, F. E., & von Hagen, M. (Eds.). (2003). Culture, nation, and identity: the Ukrainian-Russian encounter, 1600–1945. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
Ivanov, A. A. (2020). A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.[198]
Kizenko, N. (2021). Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. New York: Oxford University Press.[222]
Rosenthal, B. G. (Ed.). (1997). The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. New York: Cornell University Press.[226][227][228][229]
Sartori, P., & Ross, D. (eds.). (2020) Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1500–1900. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.[230]
Zitser, E. A. (2004). The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[232][233]
Women and family
Engel, B. A. (2021). Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin (The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.[199]
Friedman, R. (2020). Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury.[199]
Ilic, M. (Ed.). (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kates, G. (2001). Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books.[128][129]
Marrese, M. L. (2002). A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[234][235]
Martin, R. E. (2012). A Bride for the Tsar: Brideshows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
McDonald, E., & McDonald, D. (2011). Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Jensen, C., Maier, I., & Shamin, S. (2021). Russia's Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[251]
Lyssakov, P., & Norris, S. M., (eds.). (2020) The City in Russian Culture (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series). New York: Routledge.[259]
Ritzarev, M. (2006). Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. London: Routledge.[260][261][262]
Rowland, D. B. (2020). God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[185]
Shkandrij, M. (2001). Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press.
Smith, A. K. (2021). Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia'. London: Reaktion Books.[199]
Farrow, L. A. (2021). The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations (Library of Modern Russia). New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.[266]
Kaminski, A. S. (1993). Republic vs. Autocracy Poland-Lithuania and Russia 1686-1697 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[267][268][269]
Brower, D. R. and Lazzarini, E. (eds.). (1997). Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[270][271][272][273]
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Cross, A. C. (1997). By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[278][279][280]
Herlihy, P. (1991). Odessa: A History, 1794–1914 (Harvard Series In Ukrainian Studies). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[282][283][284]
King, G. (2006). The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II. Hoboken: Wiley.
Polunov A. (2005). Russia in The Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Raeff, M. (1983). The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change Through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600–1800. New Haven: Yale University Press.[286][287][288]
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Weeks, T. R. (1996). Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[289][290]
Military and conflicts
Blanch, L. (1960). The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus. New York: Viking Press.
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Menning, B. (1992). Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914. Bloomington: Indian University Press.[300][301]
Rich, D. A. (1997). The Tsar’s Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[302][303][304]
Green, A. (2010). Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[366][367][368]
Hall, C. (2006). Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna, 1847–1928. London: Holmes & Meier.[369]
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Jenkins, M. (1969). Arakcheev: Grand Vizier of the Russian Empire. New York: Dial Press.[370][371]
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Longworth, P. (1965). The Art of Victory: The Life and Achievements of Field Marshal Suvorov, 1729–1800. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.[380][381]
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^Christian, David; Haining, Thomas Nivison (1999). "Review of A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Volume 1: Inner Eurasia, from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire". The Slavonic and East European Review. 77 (3): 548–550. JSTOR4212924.
^Anderson, David G.; Forsyth, James (1995). "Review of A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony". Cambridge Anthropology. 18 (3): 78–80. JSTOR23818763.
^Forsyth, James; Pierce, Richard A. (1993). "Review of A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990". The American Historical Review. 98 (4): 1290–1291. doi:10.2307/2166736. JSTOR2166736.
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^Smele, J. D.; Forsyth, James (1993). "Review of A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990". The Slavonic and East European Review. 71 (4): 751–753. JSTOR4211402.
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^Huddle, Frank Jr. (1971). "René Grousset. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Translated from the French by Naomi Walford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1970". The American Historical Review. 76 (4): 1204–1205. doi:10.1086/ahr/76.4.1204.
^Pipes, Richard; Treadgold, Donald W. (1975). "Review of Russia under the Old Regime". Slavic Review. 34 (4): 812–814. JSTOR2495731.
^Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.; Pipes, Richard (1976). "Review of Russia under the Old Regime". The Russian Review. 35 (1): 103–104. doi:10.2307/127659. JSTOR127659.
^Pipes, Richard; KAPLAN, HERBERT H. (1977). "Review of Russia Under the Old Regime". The Polish Review. 22 (4): 94. JSTOR25777529.
^Pipes, Richard; Atkinson, Dorothy (1976). "Review of Russia under the Old Regime". The American Historical Review. 81 (2): 423–424. doi:10.2307/1851283. JSTOR1851283.
^Baev, Pavel (2004). "Review of The Russian Moment in World History by Marshall T. Poe". Journal of Peace Research. 41 (5): 644–645. JSTOR4149637.
^Brower, Daniel R. (2004). "Review of The Russian Moment in World History by Marshall T. Poe". Journal of World History. 15 (3): 389–391. doi:10.1353/jwh.2004.0030. JSTOR20079279.
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^Perrie, Maureen (2004). "Review of The Russian Moment in World History by Marshall T. Poe". European History Quarterly. 34 (4): 553–555. doi:10.1177/0265691404046547.
^Lohr, Eric (2012). "Russia in 1913. By Wayne Dowler. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. Pp. X+351. $38.00". The Journal of Modern History. 84 (2): 535–536. doi:10.1086/664691.
^Gaudin, Corinne (2011). "Reviewed work: Russia in 1913, Wayne Dowler". Russian Review. 70 (4): 700–701. JSTOR41290056.
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^ abBlejwas, Stanislaus A. (1998). "Reviewed work: Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914, Theodore R. Weeks". The American Historical Review. 103 (5): 1653–1654. doi:10.2307/2650078. JSTOR2650078.
^ abPearson, Raymond (1998). "Reviewed work: Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914, Theodore R. Weeks". The English Historical Review. 113 (452): 769–770. doi:10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.769-b. JSTOR578122.
^Haigh, Elizabeth V. (1998). "Reviewed work: Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism, Susan Heuman". Russian History. 25 (4): 473–474. JSTOR24659113.
^Hamburg, G. M. (2000). "Reviewed work: Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism, Susan Heuman". Slavic Review. 59 (1): 221–222. doi:10.2307/2696942. JSTOR2696942. S2CID164741259.
^Armstrong, John A. (1999). "Reviewed work: Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism, Susan Heuman". The American Historical Review. 104 (2): 680–681. doi:10.2307/2650548. JSTOR2650548.
^Dukes, Paul (1990). "Reviewed work: Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s, Zenon e. Kohut". The Slavonic and East European Review. 68 (3): 567–568. JSTOR4210411.
^Le Donne, John (1990). "Reviewed work: Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s, Zenon e. Kohut". The American Historical Review. 95 (5): 1584–1585. doi:10.2307/2162831. JSTOR2162831.
^Sysyn, Frank E. (1993). "Reviewed work: Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s-1830s, Zenon Kohut". The Russian Review. 52 (1): 120–121. doi:10.2307/130885. JSTOR130885.
^Kotenko, Anton (2019). "Reviewed work: CLAIMING CRIMEA: A HISTORY OF CATHERINE THE GREat's SOUTHERN EMPIRE, Kelly O'Neill". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (3/4): 495–497. JSTOR48585325.
^Weeks, T. R. (2022). "Review of The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation: Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905–1915". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID248954384.
^Switalski, John (1990). "Reviewed work: Ukraine: A History, Orest Subtelny". The Polish Review. 35 (3/4): 276–280. JSTOR25778520.
^White, James M. (2018). "Reviewed work: Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture, Amy Singleton Adams, Vera Shevzov". The Slavic and East European Journal. 62 (4): 750–751. JSTOR45408780.
^Marker, Gary (2018). "Reviewed work: Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France, Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva". The Slavic and East European Journal. 62 (1): 219–220. JSTOR45408825.
^Michelson, P. L. (2022). "Review of Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 363–398. doi:10.1111/russ.12367. S2CID246913570.
^Wolffram, Heather (2015). "Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia. By Julia Mannherz.De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. Pp. X+275. $48.00". The Journal of Modern History. 87: 243–245. doi:10.1086/680136.
^Kurlander, Eric (2015). "Reviewed work: Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia, Julia Mannherz". The English Historical Review. 130 (543): 479–481. doi:10.1093/ehr/cev018. JSTOR24474448.
^Menzel, Birgit (2014). "Reviewed work: Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia, Julia Mannherz". The Russian Review. 73 (4): 637–638. JSTOR43662156.
^Kivelson, Valerie A. (1998). "Reviewed work: The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal". The Russian Review. 57 (4): 621–622. JSTOR131388.
^Monas, Sidney (1999). "Book Reviews The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture.Edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997". The Journal of Modern History. 71 (2): 517–518. doi:10.1086/235287. S2CID151549209.
^Merridale, Catherine (1998). "Reviewed work: The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal". Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (5): 930–931. JSTOR153913.
^Wanner, Adrian (1997). "Reviewed work: The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture., Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal". Slavic Review. 56 (4): 815–816. doi:10.2307/2502164. JSTOR2502164. S2CID164465958.
^Kefeli, A. (2022). "Review of Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 363–398. doi:10.1111/russ.12367. S2CID246913570.
^Chakars, M. (2022). "Review of Under the Shadow of White Tara: Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID248954384.
^Cynthia Marsh (2017). "Reviewed work: Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890". The Slavonic and East European Review. 95 (4): 744. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.95.4.0744.
^Thurston, Robert W. (2014). "Reviewed work: When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia, Katia Dianina". The Russian Review. 73 (4): 614–615. JSTOR43662135.
^Offord (2019). "Review: Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762–1861". The Slavonic and East European Review. 97 (2): 347. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.2.0347.
^Swoboda, Marina (2022). "Review of: Russia's Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 363–398. doi:10.1111/russ.12367. S2CID246913570.
^Smith-Peter, Susan (2015). "Reviewed work: A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature, Ingrid Kleespies". The Russian Review. 74 (3): 501–502. JSTOR43662311.
^Costlow, Jane (2014). "A Nation Astray: Nomadism and National Identity in Russian Literature. By Ingrid Kleespies. De Kalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2012. X, 242 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $48.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 73: 208–209. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.73.1.0208. S2CID165033182.
^Hammarberg, Gitta (2012). "Reviewed work: The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia, Marcus C. Levitt". Russian Review. 71 (3): 501–502. JSTOR23263857.
^Morris, Marcia A. (2012). "The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia. By Marcus C. Levitt. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011. Xii, 362 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $49.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 71 (4): 956–957. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.71.4.0956. S2CID164671861.
^Bushnell, John (1999). "Book Reviews Social Identity in Imperial Russia. By Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter de Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. Pp. Xi+260. $35.00". The Journal of Modern History. 71 (4): 1016–1018. doi:10.1086/235417. S2CID151577144.
^Saunders, David (1999). "Reviewed work: Social Identity in Imperial Russia, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter". The English Historical Review. 114 (457): 759. doi:10.1093/ehr/114.457.759. JSTOR580489.
^Zhuravleva, V. I. (2022). "Review of The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID248954384.
^Frost, Robert I. (1995). "Reviewed work: Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia, 1686-1697, Andrzej Sulima Kamiński". The Slavonic and East European Review. 73 (3): 543–545. JSTOR4211891.
^Hughes, Lindsey (1995). "Reviewed work: Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia, 1686-1697., Andrzej Sulima Kamiński". Slavic Review. 54 (2): 472–473. doi:10.2307/2501663. JSTOR2501663. S2CID164598985.
^Longworth, Philip (1995). "Reviewed work: Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia, 1686-1697, Andrzej Sulima Kamiński". The American Historical Review. 100 (5): 1622–1623. doi:10.2307/2170009. JSTOR2170009.
^Robbins, Richard G. (1998). "Reviewed work: The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917, Bruce F. Adams". The American Historical Review. 103 (4): 1282–1283. doi:10.2307/2651288. JSTOR2651288.
^Ruud, Charles A. (1996). "Reviewed work: The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917, Bruce F. Adams". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 38 (3/4): 524–525. JSTOR40869864.
^Ashin, Paul (1988). "Reviewed work: Odessa: A History, 1794-1914, Patricia Herlihy". Journal of Social History. 21 (4): 838–840. doi:10.1353/jsh/21.4.838. JSTOR3788037.
^Rieber, Alfred J. (1988). "Reviewed work: Odessa: A History, 1794-1914, Patricia Herlihy". The American Historical Review. 93 (4): 1087. doi:10.2307/1863636. JSTOR1863636.
^Bater, James H. (1988). "Reviewed work: Odessa: A History, 1794-1914, Patricia Herlihy". The Economic History Review. 41 (4): 657–658. doi:10.2307/2596624. JSTOR2596624.
^Blejwas, Stanislaus A. (1998). "Reviewed work: Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914, Theodore R. Weeks". The American Historical Review. 103 (5): 1653–1654. doi:10.2307/2650078. JSTOR2650078.
^Pearson, Raymond (1998). "Reviewed work: Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914, Theodore R. Weeks". The English Historical Review. 113 (452): 769–770. doi:10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.769-b. JSTOR578122.
^Owen, Thomas C. (1995). "Reviewed work: Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism., Peter Gatrell". The Journal of Economic History. 55 (3): 705–706. doi:10.1017/S0022050700041838. JSTOR2123682. S2CID154518864.
^Graf, Daniel W. (1997). "Reviewed work: Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism., Peter Gatrell". The Journal of Military History. 61 (2): 384–385. doi:10.2307/2953994. JSTOR2953994.
^Rieber, Alfred J. (1997). "Reviewed work: Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism, Peter Gatrell". The Russian Review. 56 (2): 312. doi:10.2307/131676. JSTOR131676.
^Kilcoyne, Martin (1962). "Noble Frankland, Imperial Tragedy: Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars. New York: Coward-Mc Cann, 1961. 193". Slavic Review. 21: 161. doi:10.2307/3000552. JSTOR3000552. S2CID164705316.
^McDonald, David Maclaren (1994). "Reviewed work: Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars, Marc Ferro". Russian History. 21 (4): 477–478.
^Perrie, Maureen (1996). "Reviewed work: Nicholas II. Emperor of All the Russias, Dominic Lieven". The English Historical Review. 111 (440): 249–250. doi:10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.249.
^Pearson, Raymond (1995). "Reviewed work: Nicholas II: Emperor of All the Russias, Dominic Lieven". The Slavonic and East European Review. 73 (1): 143–144.
^Legvold, Robert (2016). "Reviewed work: The Romanovs: 1613–1918, Simon Sebastian Montefiore". Foreign Affairs. 95 (5): 179.
^Jena, Detlef (2001). "Reviewed work: The Flight of the Romanovs. A Family Saga, Curtis Perry, Constantine Pleshakov". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 49 (2): 302.
^Kulikowski, Mark (1993). "Reviewed work: The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II, Edvard Radzinsky, Marian Schwartz". Russian History. 20 (1/4): 320–322. doi:10.1163/187633193X00478 (inactive 13 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
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^Kotenko, Anton (2020). "Reviewed work: Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas, Paul Robert Magocsi, Paul Robert Magocsi; Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition, Magocsi Paul Robert". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 37 (1/2): 225–228. JSTOR48627244.
Further reading
Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to Russian history.
Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.