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Simon Dixon, School of History, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT Richard Hellie, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia 1600-1725. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, [...]

Thomas Sanders (ed.), Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, xiv + 521 pp., $97.95. REQUIRED TO ABSORB [...]

Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998, xii + 237 pp., $39.95. THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE WEEKLY [...]

Olga E. Glagoleva, Working with Russian Archival Documents: A Guide to Modern Handwriting, Document Forms, Language Patterns, and Other Related Topics. Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University [...]

Catherine Boris Gasparov, Alexander Ospovat & Mark Von Hagen (eds), Kazan, Moscow, St Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian EmpirelKazan', Moskva, Peterburg: Rossiiskaya imperiya vzglyadom iz raznykh uglov. Moscow: OGI, [...]

This book draws together English translations of 11 essays by Russian historians, corrected, and in the case of V. A. Fedorov's chapter on Alexander I, substantially revised since their first [...]

Readers of the stream of articles on Russian royal ritual that has flowed from the pen of Richard Wortman over the past decade (several of them, happily, published in Russia [...]

B. N. Chicherin lamented in his memoirs that his ideas had never been satisfactorily assimilated or developed. Would he think differently today? The reissue in 1990 of Chicherin's illegal pamphlet [...]

In The Shaping of Liberal Politics in Revolutionary France: A Comparative Perspective (Princeton: U. P., 1990; pp. xiv + 248. 32.50 £), Anne Sa'adah combines the methodologies of political history [...]

There is no doubt that Rasputin matters. His case serves to illuminate three contexts vital to our understanding of the last years of the Russian old regime: the court (or [...]

This impressive biography may be read on three different, though interrelated, levels - as a study of the enigmatic tsar's life and personality, as a history of his brief reign [...]

Louis XIV Richard Wilkinson Routledge, 2007 259 pages, 12.99 £ ISBN 978 0 415 35816 3 I must confess a personal interest at the outset. The author of this book [...]

Why was Russian entrepreneurship so weak? What prevented the formation of a Russian middle class? Following Speranskii's dictum that 'without knowledge of the laws, the history of the state can [...]