Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)

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This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its borderlands from the Mongol invasions until 1613. Book entries may have references to reviews published in academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.

Works included are referenced positively in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert, or have significant scholarly journal reviews. This list specifically excludes unpublished and self published works and works published without or with minimal editorial oversight.

Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter length bibliographies. The External Links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

A limited number of English translations of significant primary sources are included along with references to larger archival collections.

This bibliography uses APA style citations.

General works[]

General works on Russian history which have significant content about pre-1917 history.

• Billington, J. (2010). The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture. New York: Vintage.^[1]
• Blum, J. (1971). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[2][3]
• Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape. Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.^[4][5]
• Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[6][7]
• Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York, NY: Random House.
• Christian, D. (1998). A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia: A History (Revised edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia’s North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[12][13]
• Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.^[14]
• Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[a]
• Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Riasanovsky, N. V. (2018). A History of Russia (9th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press
• Thompson, J. M., & Ward, C. J. (2017). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present (8th edition). London, UK: Routledge.

Period works (1223–1613)[]

• Alef, G. (1983). Rulers and Nobles in 15th-Century Muscovy. London, UK: Variorum.
• Birnbaum, H., Flier, M. S., & Rowland, D. B. (1984). Medieval Russian Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Black, J. (Ed.). (1999). The Development of Russian Military Power, 1453–1815. In European Warfare, 1453–1815. New York: Macmillan.
• Lohr, E. & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2002). The Military and Society in Russia 1450-1917: 1450-1917. Leiden: Brill.^{[19][20][21][22]}
• Martin, J. (2007). Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Cambridge University Press.^[23][24]
• Meyendorff, J. (1997). Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian Relations in the Fourteenth Century. St Vladimirs Seminary Press.^[25][26]
• Ostrowski, D., & Poe, M. T. (Eds.). (2011). Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745. London, UK: Routledge.^[27][28]
• Pelenski, J. (1998). The Contest for the Legacy of Kievan Rus’. New York, NY: East European Monographs, Columbia University.^[29][30]
• Presniakov, A. E. (1970). The Formation of the Great Russian State. A Study of Russian History in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries. (A. E. Moorhouse, Trans.) Chicago: Quadrangle Books.^[31]

Mongols[]

• Allsen, T. (1981). Mongol Census Taking in Rus', 1245-1275. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 5(1), 32–53.
• Allsen, T. (2001). Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[32][33][34]
• Fennell, J. (2017). The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304. London, UK: Routledge.^[35][36][37]
• Halperin, C. (1987). Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History. Indiana University Press.^[38][39][40]
• Inalcik, H. (1979). The Khan and the Tribal Aristocracy: The Crimean Khanate under Sahib Giray I. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 445–466.
• Langer, L. (2017). Rus’ and the Mongol Decimal System. Russian History, 44(4), 515–533.
• Martin, J. (1992). Muscovite Frontier Policy: The Case Of The Khanate Of Kasimov. Russian History, 19(1/4), 169–179.
• Morgan, D. (1986). The Mongols. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishers.^[41][42]
• Ostrowski, D. (1990). The Mongol Origins of Muscovite Political Institutions. Slavic Review, 49(4), 525–542.
• Pritsak, O. (1967). Moscow, the Golden Horde, and the Kazan Khanate from a Polycultural Point of View. Slavic Review, 26(4), 577–583.
• Sverdrup, C. F. (2020). The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube’etei. London: Helion and Company.^[43]
• Vernadsky, G. (1973). The Mongols and Russia (A History of Russia, Vol.3). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Zdan, M. B. (1957). The Dependence of Halych-Volyn' Rus' on the Golden Horde. The Slavonic and East European Review, 35(85), 505–522.

Muscovite[]

• Alef, G. (1966). The Adoption of the Muscovite Two-Headed Eagle: A Discordant View. Speculum, 41(1), 1-21.
• Alef, G. (1983). Rulers and Nobles in 15th-Century Muscovy. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
• Alef, G. (1986). The Origins of Muscovite Autocracy: The Age of Ivan III. Berlin: Osteuropa-Institut.<^[44]
• Brown, P. (1983). Muscovite Government Bureaus. Russian History, 10(3), 269–330.
• Brown, P. (2009). How Muscovy Governed: Seventeenth-Century Russian Central Administration. Russian History, 36(4), 459–529.
• Backus, O. P. (1957). Motives of West Russian nobles in deserting Lithuania for Moscow, 1377-1514. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.^[45][46][47]
• Croskey, R. M. (1987). Muscovite Diplomatic Practice in the Reign of Ivan III. New York: Garland.^[48][49]
• Crummey, R. O. (1987). The Formation of Muscovy 1304—1613. London, UK: Routledge.^[50][51]
• Crummey, R. (1987). New Wine In Old Bottles? Ivan Iv And Novgorod. Russian History, 14(1/4), 61–76.
• Davies, B. (1987). The Town Governors In The Reign Of Ivan IV. Russian History, 14(1/4), 77-143.
• Fennell, J. (1968). The Emergence of Moscow 1304-1359. London: Harvill Secker#Secker & Warburg.^[52][53][54]
• Halperin, C. (2012). Simeon Bekbulatovich and Mongol Influence on Ivan IV's Muscovy. Russian History, 39(3), 306–330.
• Halperin, C. J. (2000). Muscovite Political Institutions in the 14th Century. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 1(2), 237–257.
• Halperin, C. J. (2002). Muscovy as a Hypertrophic State: A Critique. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(3), 501–507.
• Keenan, E. (1967). Muscovy and Kazan: Some Introductory Remarks on the Patterns of Steppe Diplomacy. Slavic Review, 26(4), 548–558.
• Keenan, E. (1986). Muscovite Political Folkways. The Russian Review, 45(2), 115–181.
• Kivelson, V. (2002). Muscovite "Citizenship": Rights without Freedom. The Journal of Modern History, 74(3), 465–489.
• Kollmann, N. S. (1986). Ritual and Social Drama at the Muscovite Court. Slavic Review, 45(3), 486–502.
• Kollmann, N. S. (1987). Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345-1547. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.^{[55][56][57][58]}
• Kollmann, N. S. (1986). Consensus Politics: The Dynastic Crisis of the 1490s Reconsidered. The Russian Review, 45(3), 235–267.
• Kotilaine, J., & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2004). Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Russia. London, UK: Routledge.^[59][60]
• Martin, J. (1992). Muscovite Frontier Policy: The Case of the Khanate of Kasimov. Russian History, 19(1/4), 169–179.
• Ostrowski, D. (1990). The Mongol Origins of Muscovite Political Institutions. Slavic Review, 49(4), 525–542.
• Ostrowski, D. (1998). Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304–1589. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[61][62][63][64][65][66]}
• Pelenski, J. (1967). Muscovite Imperial Claims to the Kazan Khanate. Slavic Review, 26(4), 559–576.
• Pelenski, J. (1979). The Sack of Kiev of 1482 in Contemporary Muscovite Chronicle Writing. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 638–649.
• Pelenski, J. (1983). The Emergence of the Muscovite Claims to the Byzantine-Kievan "Imperial Inheritance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 7, 520–531.
• Raba, J. (1976). The Authority of the Muscovite Ruler at the Dawn of the Modern Era. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 24(3), neue folge, 321–344.

Tsardom of Russia[]

• Bogatyrev, S. (2007). Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church. The Slavonic and East European Review, 85(2), 271–293.
• Bushkovitch, P. (2014). The Testament of Ivan the Terrible. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 15(3), 653–656.
• Fennell, J. (1987). Ivan IV As A Writer. Russian History, 14(1/4), 145–154.
• Grobovsky, A. N. (1969). The "Chosen Council" of Ivan IV: A Reinterpretation. Brooklyn, N.Y: T. Gaus' Sons.^[67][68][69]
• Halperin, C. (2003). Ivan IV and Chinggis Khan. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 51(4), neue folge, 481–497.
• Halperin, C. (2007). Ivan IV's Insanity. Russian History, 34(1/4), 207–218.
• Hellie, R. (1987). What Happened? How Did He Get Away With It?: Ivan Groznyi's Paranoia And The Problem Of Institutional Restraints. Russian History, 14(1/4), 199–224.
• Hunt, P. (1993). Ivan IV's Personal Mythology of Kingship. Slavic Review, 52(4), 769–809.
• Khodarkovsky, M. (1999). Of Christianity, Enlightenment, and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1500–1800. Journal of Modern History, 71(2), 394–430.
• Kleimola, A. (1987). Ivan The Terrible And His "Go-Fers": Aspects Of State Security In The 1560s. Russian History, 14(1/4), 283–292.
• Miller, D. (1967). The Coronation of Ivan IV of Moscow. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 15(4), neue folge, 559–574.
• Miller, D. (1994). Creating Legitimacy: Ritual, Ideology, And Power In Sixteenth-Century Russia. Russian History, 21(3), 289–315.
• Perrie, M. (1987). The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[70][71][72]
• Pouncy, C. (2006). Missed Opportunities and the Search for Ivan the Terrible. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 7(2), 309–328.
• Rowland, D. (1990). Did Muscovite Literary Ideology Place Limits on the Power of the Tsar (1540s-1660s)?. The Russian Review, 49(2), 125–155.
• Waugh, D. (1987). The Unsolved Problem Of Tsar Ivan IV's Library. Russian History, 14(1/4), 395–408.
• Yaşar, M. (2016). The North Caucasus between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Muscovy: The Beginnings, 1552-1570. Iran & the Caucasus, 20(1), 105–125.

Time of Troubles[]

• Dunning, C. S. L. (1995). Crisis, Conjuncture, and the Causes of the Time of Troubles. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 19, 97-119.
• Dunning, C. S. L. (2001). Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press.^{[73][74][75][76][77]}
• Dunning, C. S. L. (2003). Terror in the Time of Troubles. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 4(3), 491–513.
• Perrie, M. (1982). Popular Socio-Utopian Legends' in the Time of Troubles. The Slavonic and East European Review, 60(2), 221–243.
• Perrie, M. (1995). Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^{[78][79][80][81]}
• Platonov, S. F. (1970). The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crisis and Social Struggle in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Muscovy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.^[82][83]

Religion[]

• Bremer, T. (2013). Cross and Kremlin: A Brief History of the Orthodox Church in Russia (E. W. Gritsch, Trans.; Translation edition). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.^[84]
• Bogatyrev, S. (2007). Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church. The Slavonic and East European Review, 85(2), 271–293.
• Bushkovitch, P. (1992). Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^{[85][86][87][88]}
• Challis, N., & Dewey, H. (1987). Basil The Blessed, Holy Fool Of Moscow. Russian History, 14(1/4), 47–59.
• Clucas, L. (Ed.). (1988). The Byzantine Legacy in Eastern Europe. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs.^[89][90]
• Franklin, S. (2002). Byzantium-Rus-Russia: Studies in the translation of Christian culture. Ashgate/Variorum.
• Gruber, I. (2012). Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^{[91][92][93][94][95]}
• Hunt, P. (1993). Ivan IV's Personal Mythology of Kingship. Slavic Review, 52(4), 769–809.
• Daniel H. Kaiser. (2006). Church Control over Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Russia. The Russian Review, 65(4), 567–585.
• Khodarkovsky, M. (1996). "Not by Word Alone": Missionary Policies and Religious Conversion in Early Modern Russia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38(2), 267–293.
• Khodarkovsky M. & Geraci R. (Eds.), (2001). Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^{[96][97][98][99]}
• Meyendorff, P. (1991). Russia, Ritual, and Reform: The Liturgical Reforms of Nikon in the 17th Century: Liturgical Reforms of Nikon in the Seventeenth Century. St Vladimirs Seminary Press.^[100]
• Romaniello, M. (2007). Mission Delayed: The Russian Orthodox Church after the Conquest of Kazan. Church History, 76(3), 511–540.
• Shepard, J. (2017). The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia. London, UK: Routledge.^[101][102]
• Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press
• Thyret, I. (2001). Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.^{[103][104][105][106]}
• Weickhardt, G. (2012). Muscovite Law on Monasteries. Russian History, 39(1/2), 13–41.

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Biographies[]

Ivan the Great[]

• Fennell, J. L. I. (1963). Ivan The Great Of Moscow. New York: Macmillan.^{[107][108][109]}
• Grey, I. (1964). Ivan III and the Unification of Russia. London, UK: English Universities Press.^[110]

Ivan the Terrible[]

• Bogatyrev, S. (2007). Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church. The Slavonic and East European Review, 85(2), 271–293.
• Cherniavsky, M. (1968). Ivan the Terrible as Renaissance Prince. Slavic Review, 27(2), 195–211.
• Keenan, E. (2006). How Ivan Became "Terrible". Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 28(1/4), 521–542.
• Macnee, C. (1971). Ivan the Terrible. Fortnight, (10), 2-2.
• Madariaga, I. de, (2006). Ivan the Terrible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Perrie, M., & Pavlov, A. (2016). Ivan the Terrible. London: Routledge.

Other biographies[]

• Barbour, P. L. (1967). Dimitry, Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of All Russia, 1605 –1606. London: Macmillan.^{[111][112][113]}
• Hughes, D. L. (1990). Sophia, Regent of Russia: 1657-1704. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^{[114][115][116]}
• Longworth, P. (1984). Alexis: Tsar of All the Russias. New York: Vintage.^{[117][118][119]}

Other works[]

• Lubimenko, I. (1914). The Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth with the Russian Czars. The American Historical Review, 19(3), 525–542.
• Neuberger, J. (2014). Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible as History. The Journal of Modern History, 86(2), 295–334.

Historiography[]

• Confino, M. (2009). The New Russian Historiography, and the Old—Some Considerations. History and Memory, 21(2), 7-33.
• Filiushkin, A. I. (2002). Post-Modernism and the Study of the Russian Middle Ages. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(1), 89–109.
• Graham, H. (1987). How Do We Know What We Know About Ivan The Terrible? (A Paradigm). Russian History, 14(1/4), 179–198.
• Halperin, C. (1982). Soviet Historiography on Russia and the Mongols. The Russian Review, 41(3), 306–322.
• Karpovich, M. (1943). Klyuchevski and Recent Trends in Russian Historiography. Slavonic and East European Review. American Series, 2(1), 31–39.
• Kivelson, V. A. (2002). On Words, Sources, and Historical Method: Which Truth about Muscovy? Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(3), 487–499.
• Kollmann, N. S. (2001). Convergence, Expansion, and Experimentation: Current Trends in Muscovite History-Writing. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2(2), 233–240.
• Kollmann, N. (1987). The Grand Prince In Muscovite Politics: The Problem Of Genre In Sources On Ivan's Minority. Russian History, 14(1/4), 293–313.
• Mazour, A. (1937). Modern Russian Historiography. The Journal of Modern History, 9(2), 169–202.
• Miller, D. (1986). The Kievan Principality in the Century before the Mongol Invasion: An Inquiry into Recent Research and Interpretation. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 10(1/2), 215–240.
• Thaden, E. (1987). Ivan IV In Baltic German Historiography. Russian History, 14(1/4), 377–394.
• Vernadsky, G., & Pushkarev, S. G. (1978). Russian Historiography: A History. Belmont, MA: Nordland Publishing.

Primary Sources[]

A limited number of English language translated primary sources referred to in the above works.^[b]

• Cross, S. H. (2012). The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text (O. P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America.
• Kaiser, D. H., & Marker, G. (1994). Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings, 860-1860s (First Edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Zenkovsky, S. A. (Ed.). (1963). Medieval Russia’s epics, chronicles, and tales (First edition). New York, NY: E. P. Dutton.

Reference works[]

• Kievan Rus. (2016). Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Auty, R., Obelensky, D., & et al. (2010). Companion to Russian Studies (Vol. 1, An Introduction to Russian History; Vol.2, Russian Language and Literature; Vol. 3, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Barnes, I., & Lieven, D. (2015). Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
• Brown, A. et al. (1982). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Channon, J., & Hudson, R. (1995). The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Penguin.
• Gilbert, M. (2007). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th edition). London: Routledge.
• Katchanovski, I., Kohut, Z. E., Nebesio, B. Y., & Yurkevich, M. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
• Langer, L. N. (2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
• Lerski, H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• Millar, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vols.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference.

Academic journals[]

The list below contains journals referenced in this bibliography and which have substantial contributions about Russian history.

• Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1967–Present): Brill Online.
• Central Asian Survey (1982–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Contemporary European History (1992-2014): JSTOR.
• East European Quarterly (1967-2008, 2015–Present): Central European University.
• Journal of Baltic Studies (1970–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography (2008–Present): Brill Online.
• Journal of Slavic Military Studies (1988–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• (1976-2012): Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
• Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2000–Present): Georgetown University, Project Muse.
• The Polish Review (1942-1945, 1956-2019): The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, JSTOR.
• The Russian Review (1941–Present): Wiley Online, Wiley Online Library, JSTOR.
• Russian Studies in History (formerly Soviet Studies in History) (1962-1992, 1992–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies (2001-2019): Berghahn, Taylor Francis Online.
• The Slavic and East European Journal (1957–Present): American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, JSTOR.
• Slavic Review (1961–Present): University of Illinois, JSTOR.
• Slavonic and East European Review (1922-1927, 1928–Present): UCL School of Slavonic And East European Studies, JSTOR.

Further reading[]

Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to Russian history.

• Langer, L. N. (2001). Bibliography. In Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
• Perrie, M. (2006). Bibliography. (2006). In M. Perrie (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia (The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 1, pp. 663–721). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[c]
• Poe, M. (1995). Foreign Descriptions of Muscovy: An Analytic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Bloomington, IN: .

See also[]

• Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus'
• Bibliography of Russian history (1613–1917)
• Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War
• Bibliography of Russia during World War I
• Bibliography of the Soviet Union (disambiguation)

References[]

Notes[]

Citations[]

External links[]

• Everyday life and microhistory in Russia: A selected bibliography of critical studies. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Janet Martin—Bibliography. (2015). Russian History, 42(1), 3–8.