HIS 346: History of Russia from Kyivan Rus through the February Revolution of 1917.

This guide provides a collection of library resources, databases, archival materials, and digital sources relating to the history of Russia from the Kyivan Rus' through the February Revolution in 1917.

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Russian History. Brill, Began with Vol 1, no. 1 (1974)., 1974. 

Kritika. Bloomington. Print began with new ser., vol. 1, no.1 (2000). 

 

ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. JSTOR
JSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. 
 
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts journal articles and dissertations on world history from 1450 to present excluding the United States and Canada.

HathiTrust
Offers millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. 

Project MUSE - Premium Collection
Project Muse provides access to the full-text of over 40 of the Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly journals. 
 
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes a wide range of social science journals and periodicals with full-text coverage beginning in January 1995.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
 A comprehensive reference work in the fields of international relations and international studies, combining updated and previously existing articles from the ISA's International Studies Encyclopedia.

Gale in Context: World History 
Offers a history encyclopedia of events, cultures, religions, wars, and people.

Millar, James R. Encyclopedia of Russian History. Cengage Gale, 2003.

Raffensperger, Christian. Reimagining Europe Kievan Rus' in the medieval world. Harvard University Press, 2012. 

Kollmann, Nancy Shields. The Russian Empire 1450-1801. Oxford University Press, 2017. 

Hanak, Walter K. The nature and image of princely power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054: a study of sources. Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013. 

Witzenrath, Cristoph. The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725: Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia. De Gruyter, 2022. 

Kappeler, Andreas., Clayton Alfred. The Russian empire: a multiethnic history. Routledge, 2013. 

Dukes, Paul. A history of the Urals: Russia's crucible from early empire to the post-Soviet era. ProQuest, 2015. 

Kamenskii, Aleksandr; Griffiths, David Mark. The Russian Empire in the eighteenth century: searching for a place in the world. NetLibrary, Inc. 1997. 
 

Voltaire. The history of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great, By M. de Voltaire. London, 1763. 

Cross, Anthony. In the lands of the Romanovs: an annotated bibliography of first-hand English language accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917). Open Book Publishers, 2014. 

Obolensky, Chloe. The Russian Empire: a portrait in photographs. Random House, 1979.