GENERAL WORKS
Clarkson, J. D. A History of Russia. New York, 1969.
Florinsky, M. T. Russia. A History and An Interpretation, 2 vols. New York, 1955.
Freeze, G. L. (ed.) Russia. A History. New York, 1997.
Hosking, G. Russia: People and Empire, 1552–1917. Cambridge, MA, 1997.
—— Russia and the Russians. Cambridge, MA, 2001.
Kliuchevsky, V. O. A History of Russia, 5 vols, trans. C. J. Hogarth. New York, 1911–31, reissued 1960.
Pipes, R. E. Russia under the Old Regime. New York, 1974.
Raeff, M. (ed.) Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology. New York, 1966.
Riasanovsky, N. V. A History of Russia, 6th edn. New York, 1999.
Seton-Watson, H. The Russian Empire, 1801–1917. Oxford, 1967.
Vernadsky, G. A History of Russia, 5 vols. New Haven, 1943–69.
THE BEGINNINGS
Cross, S. H. and Sherbowitz, O. P. (eds and trans.) The Primary Russian Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Cambridge, MA, 1975.
Fedotov, G. P. The Russian Religious Mind. Kievan Chrstianity. The 10th to the 13th Centuries. Cambridge, MA, 1946.
Fennell, J. The Crisis of Medieval Russia, 1200–1304, 2 vols. London, 1983.
Franklin, S. and Shepard, J. The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200. London and New York, 1996.
Halperin, C. J. Russia and the Golden Horde. London, 1987.
Kaiser, D. H. The Growth of the Law in Medieval Russia. Princeton, 1980.
Levin, E. Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900–1700. Ithaca, NY, 1989.
Martin, J. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Cambridge, 1995.
THE RISE OF MUSCOVITE RUSSIA
Alef, G. Rulers and Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Muscovy. London, 1983.
Crummey, R. O. The Formation of Muscovy, 1300–1613. London and New York, 1987.
Fennell, J. Ivan the Great of Moscow. London, 1963.
—— The Emergence of Moscow, 1304–1359. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968.
Kollmann, N. S. Kinship and Politics. The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345–1547. Stanford, CA, 1987.
Martin, J. Treasury of the Land of Darkness. Cambridge, 1986.
Platonov, S. F. Ivan the Terrible. Gulf Breeze, FL, 1974.
Presniakov, A. E. The Tsardom of Muscovy. Gulf Breeze, FL, 1978.
TIMES OF TROUBLES AND GRANDEUR, 1584–1725
Anisimov, E. V. The Reforms of Peter the Great, trans. and ed. J. T. Alexander. Armonk, NY, 1993.
Avrich, P. Russian Rebels, 1600–1800. New York, 1976.
Blum, J. Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, 1983.
Crummey, R. O. Aristocrats and Servitors: The Boyar Elite in Russia, 1613–1689. Princeton, 1983.
Hellie, R. S. Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy. Chicago, 1971.
Hughes, L. Russia in the Age of Peter the Great. New Haven and London, 1998.
Keep, J. L. H. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462–1874. Oxford, 1985.
Platonov, S. F. The Time of Troubles, trans. J. T. Alexander. Lawrence, KS, 1970.
Raeff, M. (ed.) Peter the Great: Reformer or Revolutionary? Boston, 1963.
Sumner, B. H. Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. New York, 1966.
Wortman, R. S. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, vol. 1. Princeton, 1995.
DECLINE AND REVIVAL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
De Madariaga, I. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven and London, 1981.
Dukes, P. The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613–1801. London and New York, 1990.
Freeze, G. L. The Russian Levites: Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, MA, 1977.
Fuller, W., Jr. Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600–1914. New York, 1992.
Hans, N. A. History of Russian Educational Policy, 1701–1917. London, 1931.
Johnson, W. H. E. Russia’s Educational Heritage. Pittsburgh, 1950.
LeDonne, J. P. Ruling Russia. Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762–1796. Princeton, 1984.
Marker, G. J. Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700–1800. Princeton, 1984.
McConnell, A. A Russian Philosophe: Alexander Radishchev, 1749–1802. The Hague, 1964.
Raeff, M. Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia. The Eighteenth-Century Nobility. New York, 1966.
—— Imperial Russia, 1682–1825. New York, 1971.
—— The Well Ordered Police State. New Haven, 1985.
RUSSIA AS A GREAT POWER, 1801–55
Berlin, I. Russian Thinkers. London, 1978.
Blackwell, W. L. The Beginnings of Russian Industrialization, 1800–1860. Princeton, 1968.
Lincoln, W. B. In the Vanguard of Reform. DeKalb, IL, 1982.
—— Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. DeKalb, IL, 1989.
Malia, M. Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812–1855. Cambridge, MA, 1961.
Mazour, A. G. The First Russian Revolution, 1825. Berkeley, 1937.
McConnell, A. Tsar Alexander I. Paternalistic Reformer. New York, 1970.
Orlovsky, D. T. The Limits of Reform: The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial Russia, 1802–1881. Cambridge, MA, 1981.
Raeff, M. Michael Speransky: Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772–1839. The Hague, 1957.
—— Political Ideas and Institutions in Imperial Russia. Boulder, 1994.
Saunders, D. Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform, 1801–1881. London and New York, 1992.
Stanislawski, M. Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews. Philadelphia, 1985.
Tarle, E. V. Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia, 1812. London, 1942.
Walicki, A. A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism. Stanford, CA, 1979.
Wortman, R. S. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, vol. 2. Princeton, 2000.
REFORM AND COUNTER-REFORM, 1861–94
Becker, S. Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia. DeKalb, IL, 1985.
Byrnes, R. F. Pobedonostsev: His Life and Thought. Bloomington, IN, 1968.
Eklof, B. Russian Peasant Schools. Berkeley, 1986.
Emmons, T. The Russian Landed Gentry and the Peasant Emancipation of 1861. Cambridge, 1968.
Field, D. The End of Serfdom: Nobility and Bureaucracy in Russia, 1855–1861. Cambridge, MA, 1968.
Lincoln, W. B. The Great Reforms. DeKalb, IL, 1990.
Mosse, W. E. An Economic History of Russia, 1856–1914. New York, 1892.
Robinson, G. T. Rural Russia under the Old Regime. New York, 1932.
Rogger, H. Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, 1881–1917. London and New York, 1983.
—— Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia. Berkeley, 1986.
Starr, S. F. Decentralization and Self-Government in Russia, 1830–1870. Princeton, 1972.
Stites, R. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860–1930. Princeton, 1978.
Suny, R. G. The Making of the Georgian Nation: From Prehistory to Soviet Rule. Bloomington, IN, 1988.
Vuccinich, W. S. (ed.) The Peasant in Nineteenth Century Russia. Stanford, CA, 1968.
Zelnik, R. E. Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia: The Factory Workers of St. Petersburg, 1855–1870. Stanford, CA, 1971.
REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, 1894–1917
Ascher, A. The Russian Revolution of 1905, 2 vols. Stanford, CA, 1988–92.
—— P.A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Stanford, CA, 2001.
Avrich, P. The Russian Anarchists. Princeton, 1967.
Bonnell, V. E. Roots of Rebellion: Workers’ Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914. Berkeley, 1983.
Brooks, J. When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Culture, 1861–1917. Princeton, 1985.
Bushnell, J. Mutiny amid Repression: Russian Soldiers in the Revolution of 1905–1906. Bloomington, IN, 1985.
Carr, E. H. The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–1923, 3 vols. New York, 1951–61.
Chamberlin, W. H. The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921, 2 vols. New York, 1960.
Daly, J. W. Autocracy under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866–1905. DeKalb, IL, 1988.
Engelstein, L. Moscow, 1905. Stanford, CA, 1982.
—— The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca, NY, 1992.
Figes, O. Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917–1921. Oxford, 1989.
—— A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924. New York, 1997.
Frankel, J. Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917. Cambridge, 1981.
Galai, S. The Liberation Movement in Russia, 1900–1905. Cambridge, 1973.
Getzler, I. Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat. Cambridge, 1967.
Haimson, L. The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism. Cambridge, 1955.
Hosking, G. The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914. Cambridge, 1973.
Keep, J. L. H. The Rise of Social Democracy in Russia. Oxford, 1963.
—— The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization. New York, 1976.
Lampert, E. Sons against Fathers: Studies in Russian Radicalism and Revolution. Oxford, 1965.
Lieven, D. C. B. Russia and the Origins of the First World War. New York, 1983.
—— Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime. New Haven, 1989.
—— Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire. New York, 1994.
Manning, R. T. The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia. Princeton, 1982.
Mendelsohn, E. Class Struggle in the Pale: The Formative Years of the Jewish Workers’ Movement in Tsarist Russia. Cambridge, 1970.
Miller, M. S. The Economic Development of Russia, 1905–1914, 2nd edn. London, 1967.
Neuberger, J. Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900–1914. Berkeley, 1995.
Pipes, R. E. The Russian Revolution. New York, 1991.
Rieber, A. J. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, NC, 1982.
Robbins, R. G., Jr. The Tsar’s Viceroys. Ithaca, NY, 1987.
Venturi, F. Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth-Century Russia. New York, 1960.
Von Laue, T. H. Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. New York, 1963.
Wcislo, F. W. Reforming Rural Russia. Princeton, 1990.
Weeks, T. R. Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863–1914. DeKalb, IL, 1996.
Weissman, N. B. Reform in Tsarist Russia. New Brunswick, NJ, 1981.
Wildman, A. K. The End of the Russian Imperial Army, 2 vols. Princeton, 1980–7.
Wolfe, B. D. Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. New York, 1948.
Wortman, R. S. The Crisis of Russian Populism. Cambridge, 1967.
Wynn, C. Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms. Princeton, 1992.
THE SOVIET UNION UNDER LENIN AND STALIN
Avrich, P. Kronstadt 1921. Princeton, 1970.
Cohen, S. F. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution. New York, 1971.
Conquest, R. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York, 1990.
Dallin, A. German Rule in Russia, 1941–1945. London, 1957.
Fainsod, M. How Russia Is Ruled, rev. edn. Cambridge, MA, 1963.
Fitzpatrick, S. Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1934. Cambridge, 1979.
—— Stalin’s Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. Oxford, 1994.
—— Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Russia in the 1930s. New York, 1999.
Getty, J. A. Origins of the Great Purges. Cambridge, 1985.
Hosking, G. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within. Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Kotkin, S. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Berkeley, 1995.
Lewin, M. Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization. New York, 1975.
Malia, M. The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917–1991. New York, 1994.
Nove, A. An Economic History of the USSR, 3rd edn. London, 1990.
Pipes, R. E. The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923. Cambridge, MA, 1964.
—— Russia under the Bolshevik Regime. New York, 1994.
Schapiro, L. The Origins of the Communist Autocracy. London, 1955.
—— The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. London, 1960.
Service, R. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. Cambridge, MA, 1997.
—— Lenin, 3 vols. London, 1985–95.
Stokesbury, J. L. A Short History of World War II. New York, 1980.
Suny, R. G. The Baku Commune, 1917–18: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution. Princeton, 1972.
Tucker, R. C. Stalin as a Revolutionary, 1879–1929. New York, 1975.
—— Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928–1941. New York, 1990.
Ulam, A. The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia. New York, 1965.
—— Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–67. New York, 1968.
Viola, L. Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. New York, 1996.
Von Hagen, M. L. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship. Ithaca, NY, 1991.
REFORM, STAGNATION, COLLAPSE
Aron, L. Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life. New York, 2000.
Aslund, A. Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform. Ithaca, NY, 1991.
—— How Russia Became a Market Economy. Washington, 1995.
Bialer, S. Stalin’s Successors. Cambridge, 1980.
Brown, A. The Gorbachev Factor. Oxford, 1997.
Goldman, M. I. USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System. New York, 1983.
Gorbachev, M. S. Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World. New York and London, 1987.
Hosking, G. The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA, 1991.
Keep, J. L. H. Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union, 1945–1991. Oxford, 1995.
McCauley, M. The Soviet Union since 1917. London and New York, 1981.
—— Nikita Khrushchev. London, 1991.
Remnick, D. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. New York, 1993.
Shatz, M. S. Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective. New York, 1980.
Shevtsova, L. Yeltsin’s Russia: Myths and Reality. Washington, 1999.
Suny, R. G. The Revenge of the Past. Stanford, CA, 1994.
Yeltsin, B. Against the Grain. London, 1990.
THE RISE AND RISE OF PUTIN
Laqueur, W. Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, New York, 2015.
Myers, S. L. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, New York, 2015.