Samuel H Baron, Cathy Frierson

Adventures in Russian Historical Research

Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

This work brings together the reflections of 20 specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, and the first post-Soviet decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780765611970
• ISBN-10: 076561197X
• Artikelnr.: 21816597

Autorenporträt

Samuel H. Baron, Cathy A. Frierson

Inhaltsangabe

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