Russia. A History

V. O. Kliuchevskii, A History of Russia, 5 vols. (London, 1911–13), classic account by pre-revolutionary scholar, emphasizing colonization, endogamous forces of development.

N. S. Kollmann, Kinship and Politics (Stanford, Calif., 1987), shows family and clan at the heart of Muscovite power hierarchy and political conflict.

I. de Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia (New Haven, CT, 2005), readable, scholarly account of the infamous sixteenth-century tsar.

S. F. Platonov, Ivan the Terrible (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1974), translation of splendid pre-revolutionary biography.

A. E. Presnaikov, The Tsardom of Muscovy (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1978), excellent introduction to the early history of autocracy and its institutions.

R. G. Skrynnikov, Ivan the Terrible

(Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1981), detailed political narrative by leading Soviet historian.

I. Thyrêt, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia (DeKalb, Ill., 2001), monograph showing how female piety served to empower royal women in Muscovite society.

3. FROM MUSCOVY TOWARDS ST PETERSBURG, 1598–1689

C. Bussow, The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm (Montreal, 1994), translation of important contemporary account.

R. O. Crummey, Aristocrats and Servitors (Princeton, NJ, 1983), social and political history of aristocracy in seventeenth-century Russia.

C. S. L. Dunning, Russia’s First Civil War

(University Park, Pa., 2001), detailed account of the Time of Troubles.

R. S. Hellie, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600–1725 (Chicago, IL, 1999), valuable compendium of information on economic development in early modern Russia.

———Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy (Chicago, IL, 1971), parallel studies of enserfment and landed military élite.

———(ed. and trans.), Muscovite Law Code (Ulozhenie) of 1649 (vol. i, Irvine, Calif., 1988), parallel Russian and English texts of critical, formative law code.

L. Hughes, Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657–1704 (New Haven, CT, 1990), on the origins of the Petrine reform era.

V. M. Kivelson, Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Stanford, Calif., 1996), original study of the provincial dimension to Muscovite politics.

———Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia

(Ithaca, NY, 2006), on Muscovite maps as a reflection of contemporary representation of imagination of the realm.

P. Longworth, Alexis, Tsar of All the Russias (London, 1984), broad survey of mid- seventeenth-century Muscovy.

G. Michels, At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Stanford, Calif., 1999), a critical, innovative study showing the relatively limited scale of the schism in seventeenth-century Muscovy.

M. Perrie, Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles (Cambridge, 1995), analysis of the pretender phenomenon.

S. F. Platonov, The Time of Troubles (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1970), sweeping pre-revolutionary analysis, emphasizing the interaction of dynastic, social, and national crises.

———Boris Godunov (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1973), classic liberal account.

R. G. Skrynnikov, The Time of Troubles

(Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1988), detailed, nationalistic account.

C. Stevens, Soldiers in the Steppe (De Kalb, Ill., 1995), on military reform and social development in Muscovy.

II. IMPERIAL RUSSIA, 1689–1917

GENERAL HISTORIES AND MONOGRAPHS

P. Avrich, Russian Rebels, 1600–1800 (New York, 1976), on four great popular insurrections.

D. R. Brower and E. J. Lazzerini (eds.), Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917 (Bloomington, Ind., 1997), stimulating collection of essays on the interaction between Imperial Russia and its non-Russian borderlands.