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==Further reading== {{Main|Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus'|Bibliography of Russian history (1223β1613)|Bibliography of Russian history (1613β1917)}} {{refbegin}} ===Surveys=== * Auty, Robert, and Dimitri Obolensky, eds. ''Companion to Russian Studies: vol 1: An Introduction to Russian History'' (1981) 403 pages; surveys by scholars. * Bartlett, Roger P. ''A History of Russia'' (2005) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrussia00bart online] * Brown, Archie et al. eds. ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union'' (2nd ed. 1994) 664 pages [https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00brow online] * Bushkovitch, Paul. ''A Concise History of Russia'' (2011) [https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Russia-Cambridge-Histories/dp/0521543231/ excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525205631/https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Russia-Cambridge-Histories/dp/0521543231 |date=25 May 2017 }} * Connolly, Richard. ''The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford University Press, 2020). [https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-russian-economy-a-very-short-introduction/ Online review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116060536/https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-russian-economy-a-very-short-introduction/ |date=16 November 2020 }} * Figes, Orlando. ''Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia'' (2002). [https://www.amazon.com/Natashas-Dance-Cultural-History-Russia/dp/0805057838/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003212154/https://www.amazon.com/Natashas-Dance-Cultural-History-Russia/dp/0805057838 |date=3 October 2016 }} * Florinsky, Michael T. ed. ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union'' (1961). * Freeze, Gregory L., ed.,. ''Russia: A History''. 2nd ed. (Oxford UP, 2002). {{ISBN|0-19-860511-0}}. * Harcave, Sidney, ed. ''Readings in Russian history'' (1962) excerpts from scholars. [https://archive.org/details/readingsinrussia00harc online] * Hosking, Geoffrey A. ''Russia and the Russians: a History'' (2011) [https://archive.org/details/russiarussianshi2ndehosk online] * Jelavich, Barbara. '' St. Petersburg and Moscow: Tsarist and Soviet Foreign Policy, 1814β1974'' (1974). * Kelly, Catriona. ''Russian Food Since 1800: Empire at Table'' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60874 onlie review of this book] * Kort, Michael. ''A Brief History of Russia'' (2008) [https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofru0000kort online] * McKenzie, David & Michael W. Curran. ''A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond''. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001. {{ISBN|0-534-58698-8}}. * Millar, James, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Russian History'' (4 vol. 2003). [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofru0001unse online] * Pares, Bernard. ''A History of Russia'' (1926) By a leading historian. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174320/page/n7 Online] * Paxton, John. ''Encyclopedia of Russian History'' (1993) [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofru0000paxt online] * Paxton, John. ''Companion to Russian history'' (1983) [https://archive.org/details/companiontorussi00paxt online] * Perrie, Maureen, et al. ''The Cambridge History of Russia''. (3 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2006). [https://www.amazon.com/The-Cambridge-History-Russia-Volume/dp/0521812275/ excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317054342/http://www.amazon.com/The-Cambridge-History-Russia-Volume/dp/0521812275 |date=17 March 2016 }} * Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. ''A History of Russia'' (9th ed. 2018) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrussia0000rias 9th edition 1993 online] * Service, Robert. ''A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century'' (Harvard UP, 3rd ed., 2009) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Russia-Tsarism-Twenty-First/dp/0674034937/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329235818/https://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Russia-Tsarism-Twenty-First/dp/0674034937 |date=29 March 2022 }} * Stone, David. ''A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya'' [https://www.amazon.com/Military-History-Russia-Terrible-Chechnya-ebook/dp/B0029LGW5A/ excerpts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525210951/https://www.amazon.com/Military-History-Russia-Terrible-Chechnya-ebook/dp/B0029LGW5A |date=25 May 2017 }} * Ziegler; Charles E. ''The History of Russia'' (Greenwood Press, 1999) ===Russian Empire=== {{Main|Russian Empire#Further reading}} * Baykov, Alexander. βThe Economic Development of Russia.β ''Economic History Review'' 7#2 1954, pp. 137β149. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2591618 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422033115/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2591618 |date=22 April 2022 }} * Billington, James H. ''The icon and the axe; an interpretive history of Russian culture'' (1966) [https://archive.org/details/iconaxeinterpret00bill online ] * Christian, David. ''A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia''. Vol. 1: ''Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire''. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. {{ISBN|0-631-20814-3}}. * De Madariaga, Isabel. ''Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great'' (2002), comprehensive topical survey * Fuller, William C. ''Strategy and Power in Russia 1600β1914'' (1998) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D1YCWC/ excerpts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325110104/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D1YCWC/ |date=25 March 2021 }} * Hughes, Lindsey. ''Russia in the Age of Peter the Great'' (Yale UP, 1998), Comprehensive topical survey. [https://archive.org/details/russiainageofpet00hugh online] * Kahan, Arcadius. ''The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia'' (1985) * Kahan, Arcadius. ''Russian Economic History: The Nineteenth Century'' (1989) ** Gatrell, Peter. "Review: Russian Economic History: The Legacy of Arcadius Kahan" ''Slavic Review'' 50#1 (1991), pp. 176β178 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500609 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422033122/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500609 |date=22 April 2022 }} * Lincoln, W. Bruce. ''The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias'' (1983) [https://archive.org/details/romanovsautocr00linc online], sweeping narrative history * Lincoln, W. Bruce. ''The great reforms : autocracy, bureaucracy, and the politics of change in Imperial Russia'' (1990) [https://archive.org/details/greatreformsauto0000linc online] * Manning, Roberta. ''The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government''. Princeton University Press, 1982. * Markevich, Andrei, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. 2018. βEconomic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire.β ''American Economic Review'' 108.4β5: 1074β1117. * Mironov, Boris N., and Ben Eklof. ''The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700β1917'' (2 vol Westview Press, 2000) * Moss, Walter G. ''A History of Russia''. Vol. 1: ''To 1917''. 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2002. * Oliva, Lawrence Jay. ed. ''Russia in the era of Peter the Great'' (1969), excerpts from primary and secondary sources [https://archive.org/details/russiaineraofpet00oliv online] * Pipes, Richard. ''Russia under the Old Regime'' (2nd ed. 1997) * Seton-Watson, Hugh. ''The Russian Empire 1801β1917'' (Oxford History of Modern Europe) (1988) [https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Empire-1801-1917-Oxford-History/dp/0198221525/ excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415013433/https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Empire-1801-1917-Oxford-History/dp/0198221525 |date=15 April 2017 }} * Treasure, Geoffrey. ''The Making of Modern Europe, 1648β1780'' (3rd ed. 2003). pp. 550β600. ===Soviet era=== {{See also|Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War|Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union|Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union}} * Chamberlin, William Henry. ''The Russian Revolution 1917β1921'' (2 vol 1935) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Chamberlin%2C%20William%20Henry.%20The%20Russian%20Revolution online free] * Cohen, Stephen F. ''Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917''. (Oxford University Press, 1985) * {{Cite book |last1=Cross |first1=Samuel Hazzard |last2=Sherbowitz-Wetzor |first2=Olgerd P. |date=1953 |orig-date=1930 |title=The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor |url=https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a011458.pdf |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=The Mediaeval Academy of America |access-date=26 January 2023 |archive-date=27 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827201438/https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/a/a011458.pdf |url-status=live }} * Davies, R. W. ''Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev'' (1998) [https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Development-Khrushchev-Studies-History-dp-0521622603/dp/0521622603/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227130245/https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Development-Khrushchev-Studies-History-dp-0521622603/dp/0521622603/ |date=27 December 2022 }} * Davies, R.W., Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft. ''The Economic transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945'' (1994) * Figes, Orlando. ''A people's tragedy a history of the Russian Revolution'' (1997) [https://archive.org/details/peoplestragedyhi00fige online] * Fitzpatrick, Sheila. ''The Russian Revolution''. (Oxford University Press, 1982), 208 pages. {{ISBN|0-19-280204-6}} * Gregory, Paul R. and Robert C. Stuart, ''Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure'' (7th ed. 2001) * Hosking, Geoffrey. ''The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within'' (2nd ed. Harvard UP 1992) 570 pages * Kennan, George F. ''Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin'' (1961) [https://archive.org/details/russiawestmentor00geor online] * Kort, Michael. ''The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath'' (7th ed. 2010) 502 pages * Kotkin, Stephen. ''Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878β1928'' (2014); vol 2 (2017) * Library of Congress. ''Russia: a country study'' edited by Glenn E. Curtis. (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1996). [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html online] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120711211231/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html |date=11 July 2012 }} * Lincoln, W. Bruce. ''Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914β1918'' (1986) * [[Moshe Lewin|Lewin, Moshe]]. ''Russian Peasants and Soviet Power''. (Northwestern University Press, 1968) * McCauley, Martin. ''The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union '' (2007), 522 pages. * Moss, Walter G. ''A History of Russia''. Vol. 2: Since 1855. 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2005. * [[Alec Nove|Nove, Alec]]. ''An Economic History of the USSR, 1917β1991''. 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1993. {{ISBN|0-14-015774-3}}. * Ofer, Gur. "Soviet Economic Growth: 1928-1985," ''Journal of Economic Literature'' (1987) 25#4: 1767β1833. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2726445 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111080035/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2726445 |date=11 November 2020 }} * Pipes, Richard. ''A concise history of the Russian Revolution'' (1995) [https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof00pipe online] * Regelson, Lev. ''Tragedy of Russian Church. 1917β1953.'' http://www.regels.org/Russian-Church.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217102721/http://www.regels.org/Russian-Church.htm |date=17 February 2015 }} * Remington, Thomas. ''Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. * Service, Robert. ''A History of Twentieth-Century Russia''. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-674-40348-7}}. * Service, Robert. ''Stalin: A Biography'' (2004), along with Tucker and Kotkin, a standard biography * Steinberg, Mark D. ''The Russian Revolution, 1905β1921'' (Oxford Histories, 2017). * Tucker, Robert C. ''Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879β1929'' (1973); ''Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1929β1941.'' (1990)along with Kotkin and Service books, a standard biography; [https://web.archive.org/web/20000707012840/http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books] ===Post-Soviet era=== * [[Ronald Asmus|Asmus, Ronald]]. ''A Little War that Shook the World : Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West''. NYU (2010). {{ISBN|978-0-230-61773-5}} * Cohen, Stephen. ''Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia''. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, 320 pages. {{ISBN|0-393-32226-2}} * Gregory, Paul R. and Robert C. Stuart, ''Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure'', Addison-Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2001. * {{cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul Robert Magocsi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0mKRsElYNkC |title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples |year=2010 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-4426-1021-7 |access-date=27 June 2023 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423152843/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0mKRsElYNkC |url-status=live }} * Medvedev, Roy. ''Post-Soviet Russia A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era'', Columbia University Press, 2002, 394 pages. {{ISBN|0-231-10607-6}} * Moss, Walter G. ''A History of Russia''. Vol. 2: ''Since 1855''. 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2005. Chapter 22. * Smorodinskaya, Tatiana, and Karen Evans-Romaine, eds. ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture'' (2014) [https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Contemporary-Russian-Culture-Encyclopedias/dp/0415758629/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330023255/https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Contemporary-Russian-Culture-Encyclopedias/dp/0415758629 |date=30 March 2022 }}; 800 pp covering art, literature, music, film, media, crime, politics, business, and economics. * [[Angela Stent|Stent, Angela]]. ''The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century'' (2014) {{refend}} ===Atlases, geography=== * Blinnikov, Mikhail S. ''A geography of Russia and its neighbors'' (Guilford Press, 2011) * Barnes, Ian. ''Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia'' (2015), copies of historic maps * Catchpole, Brian. ''A Map History of Russia'' (Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1974), new topical maps. * Channon, John, and Robert Hudson. ''The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia'' (Viking, 1995), new topical maps. * Chew, Allen F. ''An Atlas of Russian History: Eleven Centuries of Changing Borders'' (Yale UP, 1970), new topical maps. * Gilbert, Martin. ''Routledge Atlas of Russian History'' (4th ed. 2007) [https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Russian-History-Historical-Atlases/dp/0415394848/ excerpt and text search] [https://archive.org/details/atlasofrussianhi00mart online] * Henry, Laura A. ''Red to Green: environmental activism in post-Soviet Russia'' (2010) * Kaiser, Robert J. ''The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR'' (1994). * Medvedev, Andrei. ''Economic Geography of the Russian Federation'' by (2000) * Parker, William Henry. ''An historical Geography of Russia'' (University of London Press, 1968) * Shaw, Denis J. B. ''Russia in the Modern World: A New Geography'' (Blackwell, 1998) of Finland. ===Historiography=== * Baron, Samuel H., and Nancy W. Heer. "The Soviet Union: Historiography Since Stalin." in Georg G. Iggers and Harold Talbot Parker, eds. ''International handbook of historical studies: contemporary research and theory'' (Taylor & Francis, 1979). pp. 281β94. * {{cite book|editor=Boyd, Kelly|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing vol 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA1025|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|pages=1025β41|isbn=9781884964336}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Confino | first1 = Michael | title = The New Russian Historiography and the OldβSome Considerations | journal = History & Memory | year = 2009 | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 7β33 | doi = 10.2979/his.2009.21.2.7 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/317174|via=Muse |jstor=10.2979/his.2009.21.2.7| s2cid = 145645042 }} * {{cite journal | last1 = Cox | first1 = Terry | year = 2002 | title = The New History of the Russian Peasantry | journal = Journal of Agrarian Change | volume = 2 | issue = 4| pages = 570β86 | doi = 10.1111/1471-0366.00046 | bibcode = 2002JAgrC...2..570C }} * David-Fox, Michael et al. eds. ''After the Fall: Essays in Russian and Soviet Historiography'' (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2004) * {{cite journal | last1 = Dmytryshyn | first1 = Basil | year = 1980 | title = Russian expansion to the Pacific, 1580β1700: A Historiographical Review | url = https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/5095/1/KJ00000113075.pdf | journal = Slavic Studies | volume = 25 | pages = 1β25 }} * Firestone, Thomas. "Four Sovietologists: A Primer." ''National Interest'' No. 14 (Winter 1988β9), pp. 102β107 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027135 on the ideas of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephen F. Cohen, Jerry F. Hough, and Richard Pipes.] * Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Revisionism in Soviet History" ''History and Theory'' (2007) 46#4 pp. 77β91 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4502285 online], covers the scholarship of the three major schools, totalitarianism, revisionism, and post-revisionism. * {{cite book |last=Halperin|first=Charles J.|year=1987| title=Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History |pages=222 |publisher=Indiana University |isbn=9781850430575}} (e-book). * {{cite book |title=Medieval Russia: 980β1584 |last=Martin |first=Janet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRCc3TtL9bIC |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521368322 |access-date=11 October 2015 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423152842/https://books.google.com/books?id=sRCc3TtL9bIC |url-status=live }} (digital printing 2004) * {{cite book |last=Martin |first=Janet |editor-last=Freeze |editor-first=Gregory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GNeFDyRSp0wC |title=Russia: A History |chapter=From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2009b |pages=1β30 |isbn=978-0-19-150121-0}} (third edition) * {{cite journal | last1 = Martin | first1 = Russell E | year = 2010 | title = The Petrine Divide and the Periodization of Early Modern Russian History | journal = Slavic Review | volume = 69 | issue = 2| pages = 410β425 | jstor=25677105| doi = 10.1017/S0037677900015060 | s2cid = 164486882 }} * {{cite journal | last1 = Orlovsky | first1 = Daniel | year = 1990 | title = The New Soviet History | journal = Journal of Modern History | volume = 62 | issue = 4| pages = 831β50 | jstor=1881065 | doi=10.1086/600602| s2cid = 144848873 }} * Sanders, Thomas, ed. ''Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State'' (1999). * Suny, Ronald Grigor. "Rehabilitating Tsarism: The Imperial Russian State and Its Historians. A Review Article" ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 31#1 (1989) pp. 168β179 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/178799 online] * Topolski, Jerzy. "Soviet Studies and Social History" in Georg G. Iggers and Harold Talbot Parker, eds. ''International handbook of historical studies: contemporary research and theory'' (Taylor & Francis, 1979. pp. 295β300. * {{cite journal | last1 = Winkler | first1 = Martina | year = 2011 | title = Rulers and Ruled, 1700β1917 | journal = Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History | volume = 13 | issue = 4| pages = 789β806 | doi = 10.1353/kri.2011.0061 | s2cid = 145335289 }} ===Primary sources=== * Kaiser, Daniel H. and Gary Marker, eds. ''Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-1860s'' (1994) 464 pages [https://www.amazon.com/Reinterpreting-Russian-History-Readings-860-1860s/dp/0195078586/ excerpt and text search]; primary documents and excerpts from historians * Vernadsky, George, et al. eds. ''Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917'' (3 vol 1972) * [http://soviethistory.msu.edu/ Seventeen Moments in Soviet History] (An on-line archive of primary source materials on Soviet history.)
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