Companion Volume
Russia
Engages the World, 1453–1825, featuring 120 striking images,
many in full color, from the Library’s extraordinary collections, includes
eight essays, a succinct chronology of Russian history during the period
under review, and a checklist of the works in the exhibition. Published
by Harvard University Press, it is available at The Library Shops and
in bookstores nationwide.
Alexander, John T. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Cracraft, James. The Petrine Revolution
in Russian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming
(2004).
Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
De Madariaga, Isabel. Catherine the Great: A Short History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.
De Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the
Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press,
1981.
Figes, Orlando. Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
Gregorian, Vartan. Islam. A Mosaic: Not a Monolith.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Halperin, alHCharles. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact
on Russian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the Age
of Peter the Great. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998.
Kamenskii, Aleksandr Borisovich. The
Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Tradition and Modernization from
Peter to Catherine. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
Kappeler, Andreas. The Russian Multiethnic
Empire. Harlow, England: Longman, 2001.
Khodarkovsky, Michael. Russia’s Steppe
Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500–1800. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2002.
Lieven, Dominic. Empire: The Russian
Empire and Its Rivals. New Haven,
Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
Lincoln, W. Bruce. Sunlight at Midnight:
St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. New York: Basic Books,
2000.
Marker, Gary. Publishing, Printing,
and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700–1800. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Poe, Marshall. “A People Born to Slavery”:
Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476–1748. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 2000.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History
and Thought. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1985.
Whittaker, Cynthia Hyla. Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue.
De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.
Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe:
The Map of Civilization in the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Wortman, Richard S. Scenarios of Power:
Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Vol. 1: From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I. Vol. 2:
From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1995–2000.
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