On the conquest of Kazan and Muslim-Russian interaction in the Middle Volga: Matthew P. Romaniello, The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012) and his "Grant, Settle, Negotiate: Military Servitors in the Middle Volga Area," in Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Shrader, and Willard Sunderland, eds., Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (London, New York: Routledge, 2007), 61-77; Janet Martin, "Tatar Pomeshchiki in Muscovy 1560s-70s," in Gyula Szvak, ed., The Place of Russia in Eurasia (Budapest: Magyar Ruszisztikai Intezet, 2001), 114-20, "Multiethnicity in Muscovy: A Consideration of Christian and Muslim Tatars I the 1550s-1580s," Journal of Early Modern History 5 (2001): 1-23 and her "Mobility, Forced Resettlement and Regional Identity in Muscovy," in Gail Lenhoff and Ann M. Kleimola, eds., Culture and Identity in Muscovy, 1359-1584 (Moscow: "ITZ-Garant," 1997), 431-49.
On Cossacks: Philip Longworth, The Cossacks (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970); William Hardy McNeill, Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964). Review articles and forums on the diversity of Cossack communities in Eurasia: Ab Imperio 2 (2002); Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 13 (2012): 983-92 and 15 (2014): 884-95. First-hand account: Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan, A Description of Ukraine (Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1993).
On expansion into Bashkiria, Kazakhstan, and northern Caucasus: Yuriy Malikov, Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads: The Formation of a Borderland Culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Berlin: KS, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2011); Willard Sunderland, Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004); Thomas M. Barrett, At the Edge ofthe Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860 (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999); Alton Donnelly, "The Mobile Steppe Frontier: The Russian Conquest and Colonization of Bashkiria and Kazakhstan to 1850," in Michael Rywkin, ed., Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917 (London: Mansell, 1988), 189-207; Brian J. Boeck, Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Christian Noack, "The Western Steppe: The Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian Rule," in Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank, and Peter B. Golden, eds., The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 303-30.
On expansion into Siberia: Christoph Witzenrath, Cossacks and the Russian Empire: 1598-1725 (London: Routledge, 2007); Andrew A. Gentes, Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); George Lantzeff, Siberia in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Colonial Administration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943); Janet Hartley, Siberia: A History of the People (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014); Willard Sunderland, "Russians into Iakuts? 'Going Native' and Problems of Russian National Identity in the Siberian North, 1870s-1914," Slavic Review 55 (1996): 806-25; James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Terence E. Armstrong, Russian Settlement in the North (Cambridge: University Press, 1965); Alan Wood, ed., The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution (London and New York: Routledge, 1991). See also Willard Sunderland, "Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s-1585)," in S. M. Norris and W. Sunderland, eds., Russia's People of Empire (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2012), 16-24. Li Narangoa and R. B. Cribb provide excellent maps and narrative of expansion into eastern Siberia: Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).
On politics and identity in early modern Ukraine: Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) and his The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Frank E. Sysyn, Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1985), History, Culture and Nation: An Examination of Seventeenth- Century Ukrainian History Writing (Cambridge, Mass.: Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1988), and "Concepts of Nationhood in Ukrainian History Writing, 1620-1690," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 10 (1986): 393-423; Iaroslav Isaievych, Voluntary Brotherhood: Confraternities of Laymen in Early Modern Ukraine (Edmonton: Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies Press, 2006); David Frick, "Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, and Silences: Problems of Seventeenth-Century Ruthenian and Muscovite Cultural History," in Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann, eds., Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997), 149-68 and his Meletij Smotryc'ky (Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1995); Zenon E. Kohut, Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate 1760s-1830s (Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1988).
On cultural trends: Max J. Okenfuss, The Rise and Fall of Latin Humanism in Early-Modern Russia: Pagan Authors, Ukrainians, and the Resiliency of Muscovy (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995); Volodymyr Mezentsev, "Mazepa's Palace in Baturyn: Western and Ukrainian Baroque Architecture and Decoration," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 31 (2009-10): 433-70.
Nobel laureate Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz penned a trilogy about the "Deluge": With Fire and Sword, trans. W. S. Kuniczak (Fort Washington, Pa.: Copernicus Society of America, 1991). On Jewish suffering, see Nathan Nata Hannover, Abyss of Despair: The Famous 17th Century Chronicle Depicting Jewish Life in Russia and Poland During the Chmielnicki Massacres of1648-1649 = Yeven Metzulah, trans. Abraham J. Mesch (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1983).
On colonization, internal colonization, and ideas of empire: Willard Sunderland, "Empire without Imperialism? Ambiguities of Colonization in Tsarist Russia," Ab Imperio 2 (2003): 101-14; Aleksander Etkind, Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (Cambridge: Polity, 2011); Michael Hechter, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975); Valerie Kivelson, "Claiming Siberia: Colonial Possession and Property Holding in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries" and Brian J. Boeck, "Containment vs. Colonization: Muscovite Approaches to Settling the Steppe," in Breyfogle, Shrader, and Sunderland, eds., Peopling the Russian Periphery, 21-40, 41-60; Valerie A. Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). On exemptions from conscription: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, From Serf to Russian Soldier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).