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Adventures in Russian historical research : reminiscences of American scholars from the Cold War to the present / edited by Samuel H. Baron and Cathy A. Frierson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Research.
- Russia--History--Research--United States.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union--History--Research--United States.
- Soviet Union.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. My Historical Research in the Soviet Union: Half-Empty or Half-Full? / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky 3
- 2. A Tale of Two Inquiries / Samuel H. Baron 21
- 3. Discovering Rural Russia: A Forty-Year Odyssey / Priscilla Roosevelt 37
- 4. Catherine the Great and the Rats / John T. Alexander 49
- 5. Exploration and Adventure in the Two Capitals / Richard Stites 61
- 6. Leningrad, 1966-1967: Irrelevant Insights in an Era of Relevance / S. Frederick Starr 73
- 7. Adventures and Misadventures: Russian Foreign Policy in European and Russian Archives / Hugh Ragsdale 91
- 8. Reclaiming Peter the Great / James Cracraft 103
- 9. Prisoner of the Zeitgeist / Laura Engelstein 115
- 10. Of Outcomes Happy and Unhappy / Bruce W. Menning 127
- 11. A Journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov / Donald J. Raleigh 139
- 12. Romancing the Sources / Nancy Shields Kollmann 153
- 13. Russian History from Coast to Coast / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter 165
- 14. Friends and Colleagues / Eve Levin 177
- 15. Within and Beyond the Pale: Research in Odessa and Birobidzhan / Robert Weinberg 191
- 16. Mysteries in the Realms of History and Memory / Cathy A. Frierson 203
- 17. A Historian of Science Works from the Bottom Up / Paul R. Josephson 217
- 18. Orthodoxies and Revisions / Nadieszda Kizenko 229
- 19. Post-Soviet Improvisations: Life and Work in Rural Siberia / Golfo Alexopoulos 243
- 20. Hits and Misses in the Archives of Kazakhstan / Steven A. Barnes 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765611961
- OCLC:
- 51342716
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