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 empire from 1613 until 1917. It specifically excludes topics related to the Russian Revolution (see Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War for information on these subjects). Book entries may have references to reviews published in academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.
A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. 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.
Inclusion criteria
Works included are referenced 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 as shown by scholarly reviews and have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.
Citation style
This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Russian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.
If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.
When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.
General works on Russian history which have significant content about this bibliography's timeframe of history.
- Ascher A. (2017). Russia: A Short History. (3rd Revised Ed.). London: Oneworld Publications.[1]
- Auty R., Obolensky D. D. (Ed.) (1980-1981). Companion to Russian Studies (3 vols.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Bartlett, R. P. (2005). A History of Russia. — Basingstoke; N. Y.: Palgrave Macmillan. (Macmillan Essential Histories).[2][3]
- Billington, J. (2010). The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture. New York: Vintage.[4]
- Blum, J. (1971). Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.[5][6]
- Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape. Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[7][8]
- Borrero, M. (2004) Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Facts on File.[9]
- Boterbloem, K. (2018) A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. (2nd Ed.) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.[10]
- Boterbloem, K. (2020) Russia as Empire: Past and Present. London: Reaktion Books.[11]
- Breyfogle, N., Schrader, A., Sunderland W. (2007) Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History. London: Routledge.[12]
- Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[13][14][15][16]
- Chatterjee, Choi. (2022) Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach. London: Bloomsbury Academic.[17]
- 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.[18][19][20][21]
- Clarkson, J. D. (1961). A History of Russia. New York: Random House.[22][23]
- Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Dmytryshyn, B. (1967, 1973, 1997). Medieval Russia: A Source Book 2: 850-1700. San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.[24][25]
- Dmytryshyn, B. (1977). A History of Russia. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.[26][27]
- Dukes, P. (1998) A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary. New York: McGraw-Hill.[28][29][30][31]
- Figes, O. (2022). The Story of Russia. New York: Metropolitan Books.[32]
- Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[33][34][35][36][37]
- Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia: A History (Revised edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.[38]
- Gleason A. (Ed.). (2009). A Companion to Russian History. — Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History).[39][40][41]
- Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.[42]
- Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[a]
- Moss W. G. (1955, 2d ed. 2003-2005) A History of Russia (2 Vols). London: Anthem Press.
- Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.[43][44][45][46]
- Poe, M. T. (2003) The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.[47][48][49][50]
- Riasanovsky, N. V. (2018). A History of Russia (9th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[51]
- Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press.
- Ward, C. J., & Thompson J. M. (2021). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present. (9th Ed.). New York: Routledge.
A limited number of English language primary sources referred to in the above works.[b]
- Herzen, A. (1968). My Past and Thoughts: The memoirs of Alexander Herzen (4 vols.) (C. Garnett, Trans.). New York: Knopf.
- Steller, G. W. (2020). Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition. (Translated and annotated by M. A. Engel and K. E. Willmore). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[218]
Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to Russian history.
- Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.