Russia. A History

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.