Readings

[Cracraft] = Cracraft, James, ed. Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia. D. C. Heath and company, 1993. ISBN: 9780669214970.

[Gibian] = Gibian, George, ed. The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780140151039.

[Tolstoy] = Tolstoy, Leo. Hadji Murad. Orchises Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780914061540. [Preview with Google Books]

Also see Russian History Docs

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction to the Course
2	Introduction to the Russian Empire and the Muscovite Heritage	[Cracraft] "Major Problems." pp. 4–21. Pipes, Richard. "The Environment and Its Consequences." In Russia under the Old Regime. Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780140247688. [Cracraft] Kollmann, Nancy. "Intro," and "Muscovite Patrimonialism." pp. 36–46.
3	Understanding Serfdom and the Social Structure	[Cracraft] Hellie, Avvakum. "Summary on serfdom," "Documents–Introduction," "The Ulozhenie of 1649," and "The Life (1673)." pp. 57–78.
4	Peter the Great and the Petrine Reforms	[Cracraft] Anisimov, Evgenii V. "Peter I," and "Petrine Reform Legislation." pp. 81–99, 109–16 and 123–5. [Gibian] Pushkinm Alexander. "In Bronze Horseman (Introduction)." pp. 8–11. Optional Kaiser, Daniel, and Gary Marker, eds. Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-1860s. Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 226–9, and 232–7. ISBN: 9780195078589. (essays on the Table of Ranks)
5	From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great	[Cracraft] Anisimov, Evgenii V. "Empire of the Nobility," "Peter III's Manifesto Emancipating the Nobility (1762)," and "Count Shcherbatov Laments Corruption 1730–62." pp. 127–46, and 150–65.
6	Catherine the Great as Woman and Ruler	[Cracraft] de Madariaga, Salvador. "Catherine as Woman and Ruler," "Catherine's Instruction (1767)," "Charter to the Nobility," and "Potemkin Urges Annexation of the Crimea." pp. 166–79, 197–212, and 249–51.
7	Critics and Rebels in the 18th Century	[Cracraft] Raeff, Marc. "Pugachev Rebellion." [Cracraft] Radishchev, Aleksander. "Shcherbatov Laments Corruption (1787)" and "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790)."
8	Bureaucratic Monarchy, 1796–1825	[Cracraft] Raeff, Marc. "Raeff on the constitutionalism of Alexander I," pp. 255-68. [Cracraft] Karamzin, Nikolay. "Karamzin's Memoir (1811)." [Cracraft] von Haxthausen, August. "Von Haxthausen on the peasant commune (1844)." Czartoryski, Adam. "Description of Alexander I and His Reforms" from Readings in Modern European History, edited by James Harvey Robinson and Charles Beard. Ginn and Company, 1908.
9	The Decemberists, Nicholas I, and High Society	[Cracraft] Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. "Riasanovsky on Nicholas I." [Cracraft] de Custine, Marquis. "Marquis de Custine (1839)." [Gibian] Pushkin, Alexander. "19th Century Russian Reader: Pushkin poems (1825–28)." pp. 6–8. Lermontov, Mikhail. A Hero of Our Time (1840). Everyman's Library, 1992. pp. 132–3. ISBN: 9780679413271. (More Recent Version) Pavlova, Karolina. "Strange the Way We Met (1854)." Excerpt from A Double Life (1848). Barbary Coast Books, 1996. pp. 281–92. ISBN: 9780936041094. (More Recent Version)
10	Bureaucracy in Literature	[Gibian] Gogol, Nikolai. "The Overcoat (1842)." pp. 199–232.
11	The Institution of Serfdom	Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780674920989. Be sure to note the key terms on the first page of the reading. Obrok was a payment to the lord in money; barshchina was a payment in labor or kind.
12	Serfdom in Literature	[Gibian] Aksakov, Sergei, and Ivan Goncharov. "Kurolesov (1856)," and "Oblomov's Dream (1849)." pp. 241–73, and 293–333.
13	Alexander II and the Great Reforms	Freeze, Gregory. "Reform and Counter Reform." In Russia: A History. Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 170–99. ISBN: 9780198605119. [Cracraft] Wcislo, Frank. "Dilemmas of Emancipation." [Cracraft] "The Emancipation Reform of 1861."
14	The Aftermath of the Reforms	[Cracraft] "MacKenzie-Wallace on mir and zemstvo (1877)." [Gibian] Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail. "The Story of How One Peasant Fed Two Generals (1869)." pp. 608–15. Optional Gaudin, Corinne. "Ideologies of Authority and Institutional Settings." Chapter 1 in Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia. 2007, pp. 14–46. ISBN: 9780875803708.
15	Revolutionary Dreams and Reaction	[Cracraft] Wortman. "Towards the Rule of Law." pp. 316–27. Dmytryshyn, Basil. "The Catechism of a Revolutionary (1868)." and "Demands of Narodnaia Volia [People's Will] (1879)." Imperial Russia: A Source Book, 1700–1917. Harcourt School, 1990, pp. 350–9. ISBN: 9780030334191. [Cracraft] "Vera Figner on assassination (1881)," and "Manifesto of Alexander III Affirming Autocracy (1881)." pp. 381–9, and pp. 360–81. Pipes, Richard. "Towards the Police State." In Russia under the Old Regime. Penguin Books, 1997. pp. 390–7. ISBN: 9780140247688. [Cracraft] Pearson, Thomas S. "The Failure of Reform." [Cracraft] Pobedonostsev, Konstantin. "Reflections (1896)."
16	Exploration and Empire-Building	[Cracraft] Kappeler, Andread. "Multi-Ethnic Empire." "Russification," [Cracraft] Thaden, Edward, E. "Russification." [Cracraft] Gorchakov, Alexander. "Gorchakov Circular (1864)." [Cracraft] Urusov, Lev. "Urusov on Russian Anti-Semitism (1907)."
17	War and Peace in the Caucasus	[Tolstoy] pp. 125.
18	Industrialization and Radicalization	[Cracraft] Gurko's, V. I. "Critique of Sergei Witte in his years as Minister of Finance (before 1906)." pp. 468–79.
19	Research Paper Presentations
20	Industrialization and Innovation—A Challenge for Russia
21	The Revolution of 1905	Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924. Penguin Books, 1998, pp. 157–92. ISBN: 9780140243642. [Cracraft] "The October Manifesto (1905)," "Father Gapon (1905)," "Lenin (1905)," and "Breshkovskaia (1920)."
22	The Constitutional Monarchy and World War I	Steinberg, Mark, and Vladimir M. Khrustalev. "Nicholas and Alexandra, An Intellectual Portrait." In Fall of the Romanovs. Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 1–37. ISBN: 9780300070675. Acton, Edward, Dominic Lieven, et al. "Russia, Europe and World War I." In Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914–1921. Bloomsbury, 2009, pp. 37–47. ISBN: 9780340763650. Dmytryshyn, Basil. "Durnovo's Memorandum." In Imperial Russia: A Source Book. Harcourt School, 1990, pp. 491–509. ISBN: 9780030334191.
23	The February Revolution	Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. "The February Revolution." In Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution. Edited by Edward Acton. Bloomsbury, 2001, pp. 48–61. ISBN: 9780340763650. Dmytryshyn, Basil. "Abdication of Nicholas II and Grand Duke Michael." In Imperial Russia: A Source Book. Harcourt School, 1990, pp. 524–5. ISBN: 9780030334191. Suny, Ronald. "Order No. 1," and "Related Documents." In The Structure of Soviet History: Essay and Documents. Oxford University Press, 2002, 32–6. ISBN: 9780195137040.
24	From February to October	Kolonitskii, Boris and Allan Wildman. "Kerensky," and "The Breakdown of the Imperial Army in 1917." In Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution. Edited by Acton. Bloomsbury, 2001, pp. 69–79, and 138–48. ISBN: 9780340763650. Lenin, Vladimir. "April Theses," and "Tsereteli and Lenin's Exchange Words (June 1917)." In The Structure of Soviet History: Essay and Documents, edited by Ronald Grigor Suny. Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 38–43. ISBN: 9780195137040. View the website "The Deepening of the Russian Revolution, 1917."
25	The October Revolution	Rabinowitch, Alexander. "The October Revolution." In Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution. Edited by Edward Acton. Bloomsbury, 2001, pp. 81–91. ISBN: 9780340763650. Lenin, Vladimir. "Letter to the Central Committee." In The Structure of Soviet History: Essay and Documents, edited by Ronald Grigor Suny. Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 45–7. ISBN: 9780195137040.
26	Review

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