1st Edition
Adventures in Russian Historical Research Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at... Read more
Chapter 1 My Historical Research in the Soviet Union, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky; Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Inquiries, Samuel H. Baron; Chapter 3 Discovering Rural Russia, Priscilla Roosevelt; Chapter 4 Catherine the Great and the Rats, John T. Alexander; Chapter 5 Exploration and Adventure in the Two Capitals, Richard Stites; Chapter 6 Leningrad, 1966–1967, S. Frederick Starr; Chapter 7 Adventures and Misadventures, Hugh Ragsdale; Chapter 8 Reclaiming Peter the Great, James Cracraft; Chapter 9 Prisoner of the Zeitgeist, Laura Engelstein; Chapter 10 Of Outcomes Happy and Unhappy, Bruce W. Menning; Chapter 11 A Journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov, Donald J. Raleigh; Chapter 12 Romancing the Sources, Nancy Shields Kollmann; Chapter 13 Russian History from Coast to Coast, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter; Chapter 14 Friends and Colleagues, Eve Levin; Chapter 15 Within and Beyond the Pale, RobertWeinberg; Chapter 16 Mysteries in the Realms of History and Memory, Cathy A. Frierson; Chapter 17 A Historian of Science Works from the Bottom Up, Paul R. Josephson; Chapter 18 Orthodoxies and Revisions, Nadieszda Kizenko; Chapter 19 Post-Soviet Improvisations, Golfo Alexopoulos; Chapter 20 Hits and Misses in the Archives of Kazakhstan, Steven A. Barnes;
Biography
Samuel H. Baron, Cathy A. Frierson
