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GRADUATE READING LIST FOR IMPERIAL RUSSIA History Department University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2020) Note: students are not of course expected to read all these works! This reading list is intended as a resource, from which students will build their own individualized reading lists, focusing on nodes of interest for their dissertation topic and teaching. ORGANIZATION 1. Overviews and general studies 2. Early Modern and Muscovite Russia 3. Peter the Great 4. XVIII Century 5. Pre-Reform Russia: 1801-1861 6. Post-reform Russia: 1861-1905 7. Revolution and War, 1905-1917 1. Overviews and General Studies of Particular Aspects of Russian History Afiani, V. Iu. Rossiia. Khronika osnovnykh sobytii. IX-XX veka. Moscow: Rosspen, 2002. Anisimov, E. Imperatorskaia Rossiia. Moscow-St. Petersburg: Piter, 2008. Billington, James. The Icon and the Axe. An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Black, Cyril. Ed. The Transformation of Russian Society. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Pres, 1967. Brumfield, William. A History of Russian Architecture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Burbank, Jane. “An Imperial Rights Regime: Law and Citizenship in the Russian Empire.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7, no. 3 (Summer 2006), 397-432. Cherniavsky, Michael. Ed. The Structure of Russian History. New York: Random House, 1970. Dixon, Simon. The Modernization of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Dukes, Paul. The Making of Russian Absolutism, 1612-1801. London: Longmans, 1982. Edie, James, James Scanlan, Mary-Barbara Zeldin. Eds. Russian Philosophy. 3 vols. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1976. Eroshkin, N. Istoriia gosudarstvennykh uchrezhdenii dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii. 3rd ed. Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1983; many other editions. Fedotov, G. P. The Russian Religious Mind. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1966. Figes, Orlando. Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. New York: Picador, 2002. Florovsky, George. Puti russkogo bogosloviia. Paris: YMCA Press, 1937. (English translation as: Ways of Russian Theology, 2 vols. (1979)). Freeze, Gregory L. Ed. Russia: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Fuller, William. Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 . New York: Free Press, 1992. Hartley, Janet M. A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825. London and New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. Hosking, Geoffrey, Russia and Russians: A History. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. Hughes, Lindsay. The Romanovs: Ruling Russia, 1613-1917. London: Humbledon Continuum, 2008. Kartashev, Anton Vladimirovich. Ocherki po istorii russkoi tserkvi. 2 vols. Paris: YMCA Press, 1959. Kappeler, Andreas. The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History. New York: Longman, 2001. [German original: Russland als Vielvölkerreich: Entstehung, Geschichte, Zerfall, Second edition (Munich: Beck, 1993)] Keep, John. Soldiers of the Tsar. Army and Society in Russia 1462-1874. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Kliuchevskii, V. O. Kurs russkoi istorii. (various editions.) Kornilov, Alexander Aleksandrovich. Modern Russian History. 2 vols. New York: Borzoi—A. A. Knopf, 1916-1917. (Original: Kurs istorii Rossii XIX veka. 3 vols. Moskva: Izd-vo M. i S. Sabashnikovykh, 1912-1914.) Kotkin, Stephen. “Mongol Commonwealth? Exchange and Governance across the Post- Mongol Space.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8, no. 3 (Summer 2007), 479-86. Magocsi, Paul Robert. A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Miliukov, Pavel. Ocherki po istorii russkoi kul’tury. 3 vols. Second (Jubilee) edition. Paris: Sovremennye zapiski, 1930-1937. Miller, A.; Schierle, I.; and Svizhkov, D. Eds. “Poniatiia o Rossii”: K istoricheskoi semantike imperskogo perioda. 2 vols. Moscow: NLO, 2012. Mironov, Boris (with Ben Eklof). The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. (Russian edition: Sotsial’naia istoriia Rossii perioda imperii (XVIII-nachalo XX V.): Genezis lichnosti, demokraticheskoi sem’i, grazhdanskogo obshchestva, i pravovogo gosudarstva. 3rd Revised and Expanded edition. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003.) Mirsky, D. S. A History of Russian Literature. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1973. Nol’de, Baron Boris E. L’ancien régime et la révolution russes. Paris, various editions. Nolde, Baron Boris E. La Formation de l’Empire Russe: Etudes, Notes, et Documents, 2 vols. Paris: Institut d’Etudes Slaves, 1952. Ovsianiko-Kulikovskii, Dmitrii Nikolaevich. Istoriia russkoi intelligentsia. Itogi russkoi khudozhestvennoi literatury XIX v. Mosocw: Izd. V. M. Sablina, 1907. Reprint ed., St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia pol’za, 1909-1911; also found in vols. 7-9 of Sobranie sochinenii (Hague: Mouton, 1969). Pintner, Walter and Don Rowney. Eds. Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Chapel Hill: University of Northern Carolina, 1980. Pipes, Richard. Russia Under the Old Regime. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1974. Pokrovskii, M. N. Ed. Istoriia Rossii v XIX veke. 9 vols. St. Petersburg: A. Granat and I. Granat, 1907-1911. Raeff, Marc. Imperial Russia, 1682-1825: The Coming of Age of Modern Russia. New York: Knopf, 1971. Raeff, Marc. Understanding Imperial Russia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Riasanovsky, Nicholas. With Mark Steinberg. A History of Russia. 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Rieber, Alfred. “Persistent Factors in Russian Foreign Policy: An Interpretive Essay.” In Imperial Russian Foreign Policy. Ed. Hugh Ragsdale. Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press, 1993. Rubinshtein, Nikolai Leonidovich. Russkaia istoriografiia. Moscow: Ogiz, Gospolitizdat, 1941. Schimmelenninck van der Oye, David, and Bruce W. Menning, eds. Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Seton-Watson, Hugh. The Russian Empire, 1801-1917. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Subtelny, Orest. A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991. Waldron, Peter. Governing Tsarist Russia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Walicki, Andrzej. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling. Russia’s Age of Serfdom: 1649-1861. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Zenkovsky, V. V. A History of Russian Philosophy. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. (Russian original: Istoriia russkoi filosofii. Paris: YMCA Press, 1948-1950. Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1976-. P. A. Zaionchkovskii, ed., Istoriia dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii v dnevnikakh i vospominaniiakh: annotirovannyi ukazatel' knig i publikatsii v zhurnalakh. 5 vols. Moscow: Nauka., 1976-1981. Sanders, Thomas. Ed. Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 2. Early Modern and Muscovite Russia Alef, Gustave. “Moscow and the Council of Florence,” Slavic Review 20, no. 3 (Oct. 1961). Alef, Gustave. “Muscovite Military Reforms in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century.” Forschungen zur osteuropaischen Geschichte. 18 (1973), 73-108. Alef, Gustave. Rulers and Nobles in Fifteenth-Century Muscovy. London: Variorium, 1983. Baron, Samuel H., and Nancy Shields Kollmann. Eds. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. Beik, William. “The Absolutism of Louis XIV as Social Collaboration.” Past and Present 188 (August 2005): 195-224. Berelowitch, A. “Plaidoyer pour la noblesse muscovite.” Cahiers du monde russe et sovietique, XXXIV/1-2 (1993). Blum, Jerome. Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. [1961] Bogatyrev, Sergei. The Sovereign and His Counsellors: Ritualised Consultations in Muscovite Political Culture. Helsinki: Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae, 2000. Brown, P. B. “Muscovite Government Bureaus,” Russian History 10 (1983). Bushkovich, Paul. “The Formation of National Consciousness in Early-Modern Russia.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 10 (1986), 355-76. Bushkovitch, Paul. The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Bushkovich, Paul. “Princes Cherkasskii or Circassian Murzas: The Kabardians in the Boyar Elite, 1560-1700.” Cahiers du monde russe 45, no. 1-2 (Jan.-June 2004), 9- 30. Bushkovitch, Paul. Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Cherniavsky, Michael. Ed. The Structure of Russian History. New York: Random House, 1970. Cherniavsky, Michael. “Ivan the Terrible as Renaissance Prince,” Slavic Review 27, no. 2 (June, 1968): 195-211 • Cf. Daniel Rowland, “Ivan the Terrible as Carolingian Prince,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 19 (1995), 594-606. Cherniavsky, Michael. “Khan or Basileus: An Aspect of Russian Medieval Political Theory,” Journal of the History of Ideas 20, no. 4 (Oct., 1959): 459-476; also found in The Structure of Russian History, ed. Michael Cherniavsky (New York: Random House, 1970), 65-79. Cherniavsky, Michael. “The Old Believers and the New Religion,” Slavic Review 25, no. 1 (March 1966): 1-39; also found in The Structure of
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    МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ КАЗАНСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ АРХИТЕКТУРНО-СТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ Кафедра иностранных языков RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE Методические указания для студентов направлений подготовки 270100.62 «Архитектура», 270200.62 «Реставрация и реконструкция архитектурного наследия», 270300.62 «Дизайн архитектурной среды» Казань 2015 УДК 72.04:802 ББК 81.2 Англ. К64 К64 Russian architecture=Русская архитектура: Методические указания дляРусская архитектура:Методическиеуказаниядля студентов направлений подготовки 270100.62, 270200.62, 270300.62 («Архитектура», «Реставрация и реконструкция архитектурного наследия», «Дизайн архитектурной среды») / Сост. Е.Н.Коновалова- Казань:Изд-во Казанск. гос. архитект.-строит. ун-та, 2015.-22 с. Печатается по решению Редакционно-издательского совета Казанского государственного архитектурно-строительного университета Методические указания предназначены для студентов дневного отделения Института архитектуры и дизайна. Основная цель методических указаний - развить навыки самостоятельной работы над текстом по специальности. Рецензент кандидат архитектуры, доцент кафедры Проектирования зданий КГАСУ Ф.Д. Мубаракшина УДК 72.04:802 ББК 81.2 Англ. © Казанский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет © Коновалова Е.Н., 2015 2 Read the text and make the headline to each paragraph: KIEVAN’ RUS (988–1230) The medieval state of Kievan Rus'was the predecessor of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and their respective cultures (including architecture). The great churches of Kievan Rus', built after the adoption of christianity in 988, were the first examples of monumental architecture in the East Slavic region. The architectural style of the Kievan state, which quickly established itself, was strongly influenced by Byzantine architecture. Early Eastern Orthodox churches were mainly built from wood, with their simplest form known as a cell church. Major cathedrals often featured many small domes, which has led some art historians to infer how the pagan Slavic temples may have appeared.