Klyuchevsky and the Course of Russian History
A historical pioneer of the 'longue durée' who found his own liberal vision of a European Russia clouded by the contradictions and pessimism of his own times.
Russia
May 1945: The Soviet View
John Erickson reflects on how the Russians commemorate their role in bringing peace to Europe.
The Soviet Union
Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.
Stalin’s Russia
Christopher Read explores the historiography of Russia under Joseph Stalin.
Nadezhda Durova: Russia's Cavalry Maid
Barbara Heldt reveals that the brave Russian Cossack, Aleksandrov, was in fact a woman, Nadezhda Durova, who had renounced her unhappy female self.
Reading History: The Russian Revolution
Edward Acton outlines the historiography of the Russian Revolution.
Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.
The 17th Century 'Renaissance' in Russia: Western Influences on Art and Architecture
According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been suggested.