History & Area Studies

edited by Michael S. Flier, Valerie Kivelson, Erika Monahan, and Daniel Rowland

Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics-Institutions-Culture

Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture: Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann brings together nineteen thought-provoking essays from an international group of specialists in medieval and early modern Russian and Ukrainian...

Charles J. Halperin

Ivan IV and Muscovy

Ivan the Terrible continues to fascinate and confuse historians. In Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish Charles J. Halperin presented a new and comprehensive interpretation of Ivan’s personality and reign. In his second book on...

David M. Griffiths, edited by George E. Munro

No Collusion! Catherine the Great and American Independence

Empress Catherine II, building on the military and diplomatic successes of Emperor Peter I and Empress Elizabeth, in less than two decades of rule brought Russia to the forefront among European powers. Her creation of a League of Armed Neutrality,...

Maria A Shelyakhovskaya & Christina E. Petrides

Being Grounded In Love

"The present volume is a conscious effort to look at and grasp the meaning of the tumultuous one hundred years of Russian and Soviet history (1872-1981) by taking an ordinary family perspective as a vantage point and reconstructing it based on the...

Anthony J. Heywood et al. (eds.)

RGWR V11: Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22

Long overlooked in the established literature, historical investigations of Russian Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine (STEM) have recently benefitted from newfound interest among academic specialists. Informed by a broad range of innovative...

Translated by Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker's Memoir of Sorrow

Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter, is a rare historical source about relief work spanning the two most devastating years of the pogroms in the Russian Civil War. He concentrates on the collapse of Jewish communities in Podolia,...

Edited by Susan Smith-Peter

The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth

Aleksei Evstaf´ev’s 1852 book, The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth, is an early work in English by a native of Ukraine who identified as a Russian. Drawing from his years of Russian diplomatic service in the United States,...