Thirty-two eminent historians and social scientists cover the last two centuries of Russian history in this rich collection of essays. The range and high quality of the contributions reflect the broadening of social and cultural directions that has characterized 'new history; issues of the Russian borderland, especially Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia, receive a prominent treatment as a key part of Russian and Soviet history. Too, studies in this volume show sensitivity to the multicultural nature of Russian society and culture. Top authority in Russian history, Alfred J. Rieber taught at leading US universities before joining Central European University.

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Edited by Marsha Siefert; Narrating Russia; Moshe Lewin, Agency and Process in Russian and Soviet History; Zenon E. Kohut, A Dynastic or Ethno-Dynastic Tsardom? Two Early Modern Concepts of Russia; Abby M. Schrader, Spectacles of Subversion: Sexualized Scenarios, Gendered Discourses, and Social Breakdown in Nineteenth-Century Russia; Richard S. Wortman, National Narratives in the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Russian Monarchy; Imperial Russia: A Multicultural Society and its Borderlands; Michael Khodarkovsky, Russia's Colonial Frontiers in the18th Century: From the North Caucasus to Central Asia; Alexander M. Martin, Precarious Existences: The Middling Households of Moscow and the Fire of 1812; Marina Loskoutova, The Rise of Men's Secondary Education in Provincial Russia: D.A. Tolstoi's Ministry Revisited; Yaroslav Hrytsak, 'Ruslan' without ' Rus(s)lan(d)': On Constructing Historical Memory among Austrian Ruthenians; Firouzeh Mostashari, Contiguous Colonization: Imperial Russia's Settlement Policy in Eastern Transcaucasia.; Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Colonization by Contract: Russian Settlers, South Caucasian Elites, and the Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century Tsarist Imperialism.; John Klier, On the Borderlands of Judaism: Iakov Gordon's 'Spiritual-Biblical Brotherhood' of 1881; Muriel Joffe, Diamond in the Rough: The State, Entrepreneurs and Turkestan's Hidden Resources in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia; The Revolutionary Decade; Leopold H. Haimson, The Political Evolution of Moscow's Kupechestvo in Early Twentieth Century Russia: Some Observations and Reflections; Reginald E. Zelnik, Worry about Workers: Concerns of the Intelligentsia from the 1870s to What is to Be Done?; Alexei Miller, A Testament of the All-Russian Idea: The Memorandum of the Special Political Department of the Foreign Ministry of the Provisional Government to the Soviet Government; Rafail Sholomovich Ganelin, Petrograd, February 26th, 1917: Events on Nevskii Prospekt and Znamenskaia Square; Curtis S. King, The Red High Command's Decision Making during the August 1919 Counteroffensive in South Russia; Boris A. Anan'ich, Wartime Entrepreneur: The Riabushinskiis' Banking Business, 1914-1919; Peter Gatrell, Russia's First World War: Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting; The Soviet Experience; V. M. Paneiakh, The Political Police and the Study of History in the USSR; Wendy Zeva Goldman, The Internal Soviet Passport: Workers and Free Movement; Leslie A. Rimmel, Class and Nation at the Borderlands: Soviet Citizenship during the Great Terror; Marsha Siefert, Brief Alliance: US-Soviet Film Exchanges and the WWII Battle for Russia; Hugh Ragsdale, The Soviet Position at Munich Reappraised: The Romanian Enigma; Alexander A. Fursenko, Khrushchev and the Outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962; Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Belief and Disbelief in Soviet Russia; Persistent Factors in Russian History; Vladimir Sogrin, The Contemporary Russian Transition in Historical Context; Boris Firsov, Intelligentsia, Intellectuals and Elites in Transition: An Attempt of Critical Discourse at the Turn of the Century; Harley D. Balzer. Public-Private Partnership in Russian Education: Lessons from the 1890s after 1991; Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Dynamic Ethnics: Socio-Religious Movements in Siberia in the Twentieth Century; Alvin Z. Rubinstein, The United States and Russia: Rivalry and Reconciliation; William G. Rosenberg, The Democratic Experience in Transitional Russia.