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Select Bibliography on Imperial Russia

• Alexander, John T. Emperor of the Cossacks: Pugachev and the Frontier Jacquerie. 1973.
• . Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. 1989.
• Anisimov, Evgenii V. The Reforms of Peter the Great. 1993.
• Billington, James H. Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. 1980.
• Blum, Jerome. Lord and Peasant in Russia: From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. 1961.
• Bonnell,Victoria E. The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime.1983.
• . Roots of Rebellion: Workers’ Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914. 1983.
• Cherniavsky, Michael. Tsar and People: Studies in Russian Myths. 1969.
• Clausewitz, Carl von. The Campaign of 1812 in Russia. 1992.
• Curtiss, John Shelton. The Russian Army Under Nicholas I. 1965.
• . Russia’s Crimean War. 1979.
• Dukes, Paul. The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1613-1801. 1990.
• Edelman, Robert. Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party 1907-1917. 1980.
• Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia. 1992.
• Ferro, Marc. Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars. 1990.
• Field, Daniel. Rebels in the Name of the Tsar. 1989.
• . The End of Serfdom: Nobility and Bureaucracy in Russia, 1855-1861. 1976.
• Freeze, Gregory L. The Russian Levites: Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century. 1977.
• Fuller, William C., Jr. Civil-Military Conflict in Imperial Russia 1881-1914. 1985.
• Gleason, Abbott. Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s. 1980.
• Goldfrank, David M. The Origins of the Crimean War. 1994.
• Hasegawa, Tsuysohi. The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917. 1981.
• Haywood, Richard Mowbray. The Beginnings of Railway Development in Russia in the Reign of Nicholas I, 1825-1842. 1969.
• Hellie, Richard. Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy. 1971.
• . Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725. 1982.
• Hough, Richard. The Potemkin Mutiny. 1961.
• Katkov, George. The Kornilov Affair: Kerensky and the Break-Up of the Russian Army. 1980.
• Keep, John L. H. Soldiers of the Tsars: Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874. 1985.
• Koenker, Diane. Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution. 1981.
• Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Slavery and Russian Serfdom. 1987.
• Laue, Theodore H. von. Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia. 1963.
• Lincoln, W. Bruce. Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. 1978.
• . The Romanovs. 1981.
• . The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians. 1994.
• . In War’s Dark Shadows: The Russians Before the Great War. 1983.
• Manning, Roberta Thompson. The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia. 1982.
• Massie, Robert K. Peter The Great: His Life and World. 1980.
• . Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of the Imperial Russia. 1967.
• . The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. 1995.
• Mazour, Anatole G. The First Russian Revolution. 1932.
• Menning, Bruce W. Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914. 1992.
• Nish, Ian. The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War. 1985.
• Pinter, Walter McKenzie and Don Karl Rowney, eds.Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. 1980.
• Pipes, Richard. Russia Under the Old Regime. 1974.
• . Struve: Liberal on the Left, 1870-1905. 1970.
• Radzinsky, Edvard. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. 1992.
• Raeff, Marc. Understanding Imperial Russia. 1984.
• Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought.1985.
• Rich, Norman. Why the Crimean War: A Cautionary Tale. 1985.
• Robbins, Richard G. Famine in Russia, 1891-1892. 1975.
• Robinson, Geroid Tanquary. Rural Russia Under the Old Regime. 1932.
• Sablinsky, Walter. The Road to Bloody Sunday. 1976.
• Saunders, David. Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform, 1801-1881. 1992.
• Steinberg, Mark D. and Vladimir M. Khrustalev. The Fall of the Romanovs. 1995.
• Stites, Richard. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. 1978.
• Tarle, Eugene. Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812. 1979.
• Thaden, Edward C. Conservative Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russia. 1964.
• Thaden, Edward C., ed. Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914. 1981.
• Ulam, Adam B. In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. 1980.
• Yanov, Alexander. The Origins of Autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian History. 1981.