J. Bushnell, Mutiny and Repression (Bloomington, Ind., 1985), close analysis of the uneven pattern of soldiers’ involvement in revolution.
C. J. Chulos, Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861–1917 (DeKalb, Ill., 2003), study of popular Orthodoxy in Voronezh province.
B. E. Clements et al. (eds.), Russia’s Women (Berkeley, CA, 1991), on women’s experiences and problems in modern Russia.
E. W. Clowes et al. (eds.), Between Tsar and People (Princeton, NJ, 1991), on the emergence of civil society.
H. J. Coleman, Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905–1929 (Bloomington, Ind., 2005), model study of Baptism and its relationship to tsarist and Soviet state.
O. Crisp and L. H. Edmondson (eds.), Civil Rights in Imperial Russia (Oxford, 1989), on reform and civil rights in early twentieth century.
J. Daly, The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906–1917 (DeKalb, Ill., 2004), positive portrait of the political police in its struggle to combat the revolutionary movement.
T. Emmons, Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia (Cambridge, 1983), on liberal and moderate parties as they prepare for the first Duma.
L. Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness (Ithaca, NY, 1992), a study of Russian society and culture seen through the prism of sex and gender.
O. Figes, A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution (New York, 1996), broad narrative account from the 1890s to the mid-1920s.
W. C. Fuller, Jr., Civil-Military Conflict in Imperial Russia, 1881–1914 (Princeton, NJ, 1985), insightful study of tension between military professionalism and civil service.
C. Gaudin, Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill., 2007), interesting exploration of peasant responses to ever more intrusive state from the 1880s.
M. F. Hamm (ed.), The City in Late Imperial Russia (Bloomington, Ind., 1986), case studies of several leading cities.
J. F. Hutchinson, Politics and Public Health in Revolutionary Russia, 1890–1913 (Baltimore, MD, 1990), study of medical profession and its response to issues of public health and politics.
D. C. B. Lieven, Russia and the Origins of the First World War (New York, 1983), on domestic causes of Russian entry into war.
———Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime (New Haven, CT, 1989), prosopographical and biographical study of State Council.
R. T. Manning, The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia (Princeton, NJ, 1982), on shift of gentry from opposition to a conservative defence of old order.
S. Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia (Cambridge, 2006), examines the discourse on suicide to explore issues like selfhood and institutional conflict and power.
L. McReynolds, The News under Russia’s Old Régime (Princeton, NJ, 1991), on the development of a mass circulation press.
J. Neuberger, Hooliganism (Berkeley, CA, 1993), on youth and crime in St Petersburg.
J. Pallot, Land Reform in Russia, 1906–1917 (Oxford, 1999), critical account of the Stolypin reforms from the perspective of peasant responses.
A. J. Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia (Chapel Hill, NC, 1982), sophisticated account of merchant-industrial élites in post-reform era.
R. G. Robbins, The Tsar’s Viceroys (Ithaca, NY, 1987), on profile and role of governors at end of old regime.
H. Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA, 1986), an important series of essays on the complexities of state policy and politics.
J. A. Sharp, Russian Modernism between East and West: Natalia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde (New York, 2006), on the creativity and achievements of Goncharov and Russian modernism before the outbreak of war.
V. Shevzov, Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution (New York, 2004), study of lay piety in late Imperial Russia.
J. Smele and A. Heywood (eds.), The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (London, 2005), essays reflecting recent scholarship and especially valuable for the attention to the provinces and periphery.
E. C. Thaden (ed.), Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855–1914 (Princeton, NJ, 1981), valuable collection of essays on post-reform minority policy.
A. M. Verner, The Crisis of Autocracy (Princeton, NJ, 1990), close analysis of the emperor and bureaucratic élite responses to the challenges of revolution.
T. H. Von Laue, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia (New York, 1963), classic account of Witte and his industrialization policies.
N. B. Weissman, Reform in Tsarist Russia (New Brunswick, NJ, 1981), on the problem of rebuilding a more effective system of local government.
A. L. Wildman, The Making of a Workers’ Revolution: Russian Social Democracy, 1891–1903 (Chicago, IL, 1967), on the relations between Marxist intellectuals and politicized workers.
R. E. Zelnik (ed.), Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections (Berkeley, CA, 1999), valuable essays on worker-intelligentsia relations in the pre-revolution.
III. SOVIET HISTORY AND BEYOND
8. GENERAL HISTORIES AND MONOGRAPHS
K. E. Bailes, Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin (Princeton, NJ, 1978), path-breaking study of the Soviet technical intelligentsia.
J. S. Curtiss, The Russian Church and the Soviet State, 1917–50 (New York, 1953), balanced treatment of Soviet religious policies.
R. W. Davies et al. (eds.), The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913–1945 (Cambridge, 1994).
J. Degras (ed.), Soviet Documents on Foreign Policy, 1917–41, 3 vols. (New York, 1978), important collection of documents.
M. Fainsod, How Russia Is Ruled (2nd edn., Cambridge, 1965), classic institutional and political history from pre-revolutionary roots to the Khrushchev era.
J. L. Gaddis, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States (2nd edn., New York, 1990), good overview of Soviet–American relations.
W. Z. Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution (Cambridge, 1993), on Soviet family policy from the revolution to the mid-1930s.
L. R. Graham, Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (New York, 1987), treats the impact of ideology on science.
T. Hasegawa, The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations, 2 vols. (Berkeley, CA, 1998), comprehensive account of the territorial dispute that has divided the two powers since the eighteenth century.
M. Heller and A. Nekrich, Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present, 2 vols. (New York, 1992), vigorously anti-Soviet émigré history, with fresh detail on many subjects.
G. A. Hosking, The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (2nd edn., Cambridge, 1993), excellent, well-informed account.
C. Kelly, Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 (New Haven, CT, 2007), on the history of children and adolescents in twentieth-century Russia.