Russia. A History

M. S. Anderson, Peter the Great (London, 1978), traditional biography, with emphasis on foreign policy.

E. V. Anisimov, The Reforms of Peter the Great (Armonk, NY, 1993), revisionist interpretation.

G. Barany, The Anglo-Russian Entente Cordiale of 1697–1698 (Boulder, Colo., 1986), on the ‘Grand Embassy’.

P. Bushkovitch, Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725 (New York, 2001), political narrative, with strong emphasis on the antecedents and genesis of the Petrine reforms and rulership.

J. Cracraft, The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture (Chicago, IL, 1988), beautifully illustrated and broadly conceived.

———(ed.), Peter the Great Transforms Russia (3rd edn., Lexington, Ky., 1991), anthology of major interpretative essays.

M. Curtiss, A Forgotten Empress (New York, 1974), the only book-length treatment on Anna in English.

L. Hughes, Peter the Great (New Haven, CT, 2002), engaging scholarly biography.

L. Hughes Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (New Haven, CT, 1998), the standard general synthesis of the Petrine era.

A. Lentin (ed. and trans.), Peter the Great: His Law on the Imperial Succession in Russia (Oxford, 1995), translation of important defining political statement, ‘The Truth of the Monarch’s Will’.

E. J. Phillips, The Founding of Russia’s Navy (Westport, Conn., 1995), new interpretation on the origins of the Russian navy.

I. Pososhkov, The Book of Poverty and Wealth (Stanford, Calif., 1987), translation of important writing by a merchant in Petrine Russia.

N. V. Riasanovsky The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought

(New York, 1985), overview of rhetorical and historical representations of Peter.

E. A. Zitser, The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great (Ithaca, NY, 2004), explores the discursive revolution in Petrine era.

5. THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1740–1801

J. T. Alexander, Catherine the Great (New York, 1989), modern scholarly biography.

E. V. Anisimov, Empress Elizabeth (Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1995), important study of key period of state-building.

G. L. Freeze, The Russian Levites: Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1977), on transformation of the married parish clergy into a social and cultural caste.

R. E. Jones, The Emancipation of the Russian Nobility, 1762–1785 (Princeton, NJ, 1973), examines the politics of terminating obligatory state service for the nobility.

———Provincial Development in Russia (New Brunswick, NJ, 1984), case study of provincial life and administration in Catherinean Russia.

W. G. Jones, Nikolay Novikov (Cambridge, 1984), standard work on leading publisher and intellectual figure.

J. D. Klier, Russia Gathers her Jews (De Kalb, Ill., 1986), on the formation of the Pale of Settlement.

J. P. LeDonne, Ruling Russia (Princeton, NJ, 1984), controversial attempt to provide ‘class’ interpretation of state and policies.

I. de Madariaga, Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (New Haven, CT, 1981), comprehensive portrait of Russian state and society in the second half of the eighteenth century.

G. Marker, Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700–1800

(Princeton, NJ, 1985), on the role of state and public in the development of print culture.

M. Raeff, Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia (New York, 1966), imaginative attempt to explain how Petrine servitors became the disaffected intelligentsia.

———The Well-Ordered Police State (New Haven, CT, 1983), comparative study of cameralism and its transplantation to Imperial Russia.

D. L. Ransel, The Politics of Catherinean Russia (New Haven, CT, 1975), highly original analysis of clan and politics.

C. Whittaker, Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue (DeKalb, Ill., 2003), on the emerging discourse about monarchy and its legitimacy.

6. PRE-REFORM RUSSIA, 1801–1855