G. L. Freeze, The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Princeton, NJ, 1983), study of church reform (goals, politics, problems) within the larger context of social and political change.
C. Johanson, Women’s Struggle for Higher Education in Russia, 1855–1900 (Kingston, 1987), on the problem of female access to higher education.
W. B. Lincoln, The Great Reforms (DeKalb, Ill., 1990), best general overview of great reforms.
D. Staliunas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam, 2007), case study of nationality policy and its impact on the north-west.
S. F. Starr, Decentralization and Self Government in Russia, 1830–1870 (Princeton, NJ, 1972), on under-institutionalization and the zemstvo reform of 1860s.
R. Stites, The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia (2nd edn., Princeton, NJ, 1991), survey of different streams of women’s movement.
F. Venturi, Roots of Revolution (Chicago, IL, 1983), detailed narrative account.
T. R. Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (De Kalb, Ill., 1996), important monograph on the western borderlands, with particular attention to Polish and Jewish nationalism.
P. A. Zaionchkovskii, The Russian Autocracy under Alexander III (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1976), on counter-reforms of 1880s.
———The Russian Autocracy in Crisis, 1878–1882 (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1979), on the dramatic confrontation of autocracy and revolutionary terrorism.
R. E. Zelnik, Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia (Stanford, Calif., 1971), on the early history of the labour movement and state response.
———Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872 (Berkeley, CA, 1995), microhistory of an early labour conflict.
8. REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, 1890–1914
A. Ascher, The Russian Revolution of 1905 (2 vols., Stanford, Calif, 1988–92), best synthesis of recent scholarship.
———P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia (Stanford, Calif., 2001), excellent study of Stolypin’s attempt to build a new order.
V. E. Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion (Berkeley, CA, 1983), detailed account of worker politics and mobilization, 1905–14.
J. Bradley, Muzhik and Muscovite (Berkeley, CA, 1985), urban history of Moscow in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
J. Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read (Princeton, NJ, 1985), study of popular reading culture, consumption, and major themes.
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.