Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present)

This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1991 to present. It specifically excludes topics related to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union; see Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union for information on this subject. This bibliography is restricted to works about Russian history, and specifically excludes items such modern travel logs and guide books, popular culture, etc.[a]

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.

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.

Eastern European studies

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Topical works

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The arts

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  • Shkandrij, M. (2001). Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press.

Democracy and elections

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  • Fish, M. S. (2005). Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[1][2][3]

Economics

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Empire

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  • Grigas, A. (2016). Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.[4]
  • Grinëv, A. V. (2020). Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov's Era, 1799–1818 (R. L. Bland, Trans.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.[5]
  • Miller, C. (2021). We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.[6]
  • Rigby, T. (1978). The Soviet Regional Leadership: The Brezhnev Generation. Slavic Review, 37(1), pp. 1–24.

Energy

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  • Balmaceda, M. M. (2021). Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union (Woodrow Wilson Center Series). New York: Columbia University Press.[7]

Environment

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  • Gustafson, T. (2021). Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.[8]

Foreign relations

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  • Ohanyan, A. (Ed.). (2018). Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.[9]
  • Orenstein, M. A. (2019). The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[10]
  • Zloch-Christy, I. (2010). East-West Financial Relations: Current Problems and Future Prospects (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[11][12]

Gender and family

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LGBTQ

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  • Bækken, H. (2019). Law and Power in Russia: Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices. New York: Routledge.[13]

Government

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Nationalism

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Religion

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Russo-Ukrainian War

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This section primarily covers the period from 2014–present.

  • Brands, H. (Ed.). (2024). War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Clark, E., & Vovk, D. (Eds.). (2020). Religion During the Russian Ukrainian Conflict. New York: Routledge.
  • D'Anieri, P. (2019). Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[16]
  • Galeotti, M. (2019). The Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine. Osprey. (Osprey Elite Series).
  • Grigas, A. (2016). Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.[17]
  • Hansen, A., Rogatchevski, A., Steinholt, Y., & Wickström, D. (2019). A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag; distributed by Columbia University Press.[18]
  • Menon, R., Rumer, E. B., & Chasman, D. (2015). Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order. MIT Press.[19][20]
  • Plokhy, S. (2023) The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. W. W. Norton.
  • Wood, E., Pomeranz, W., Merry, E. W., & Trudolyubov, M. (2015). Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine. New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Columbia University Press.[21]

Other

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  • MacWilliams, B. (2014). With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Wegren, S. K. (with A. Nikulin and I. Trotsuk). (2020) Russia's Food Revolution: The Transformation of the Food System (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series). New York: Routledge.[6]

Vladimir Putin

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Works below should strictly follow the guidelines for this bibliography. To avoid abuse, works here should have independent English language academic journal reviews, be published by a major independent company or organization, or reviews by major English language publications (e.g. New York Times, The Atlantic). This section is specifically for biographies; for topical studies see the appropriate section.

  • Sakwa, R. (2007, 2nd ed.) Putin: Russia's Choice. Routledge.
  • Short, P. (2022). Putin: His Life and Times. Bodley Head.

Boris Yeltsin

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  • Aron, L. (2000). Boris Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life. New York: HarperCollins.[22][23]
  • Colton, T. J. (2011). Yeltsin: A Life. New York: Basic Books.
  • Ellison, H. J. (2006). Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation. Seattle: University of Washington Press.[24][25]

Works by Boris Yeltsin

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  • Yeltsin, B. (1990). Against the Grain: An Autobiography (M. Glenny, Trans.; First Edition). New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Yeltsin, B. (1994). The Struggle for Russia. New York: Crown Publishing Group.

Historiography, identity and memory studies

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Memory studies

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Other studies

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Reference works

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Below are reference works related to the history of Russia for background and context.

  • Kievan Rus. (2016). Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Auty, R., Obelensky, D., et al. (2010). Companion to Russian Studies (Vol. 1, An Introduction to Russian History; Vol.2, Russian Language and Literature; Vol. 3, An Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Barnes, I., & Lieven, D. (2015). Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
  • Brown, A. et al. (1982). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Channon, J., & Hudson, R. (1995). The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. New York: Penguin.
  • Gilbert, M. (2007). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th edition). London: Routledge.
  • Ivan Katchanovski, Kohut, Z. E., Nebesio, B. Y., & Yurkevich, M. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. (Second edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
  • Langer, L. N. (2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.
  • Lerski, H. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
  • Magocsi, P. R. (2017). Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[29]
  • Millar, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vols.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference.
  • Wieczynski, Joseph L. et all. (Ed.). The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (1976–...). Academic International Press.

Academic journals

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Below is a list of academic journals dealing with Eastern European and Slavic history referenced in this bibliography.


See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ Memoirs and diaries with a clear historical importance as shown by academic citations and publishing are included in a section.

Citations

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  1. ^ Willerton, John P. (2007). "Reviewed work: Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics, M. Stephen Fish; Voting for Russia's Governors: Regional Elections and Accountability under Yeltsin and Putin, Andrew Konitzer". Europe-Asia Studies. 59 (1): 172–175. JSTOR 20451335.
  2. ^ Prasad, Monica (2006). "Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics. By M. Steven Fish. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005". American Journal of Sociology. 112: 301–303. doi:10.1086/507799.
  3. ^ Baev, Pavel (2006). "Reviewed work: Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics, Steven M. Fish". Journal of Peace Research. 43 (3): 352. JSTOR 27640329.
  4. ^ Marples, David R. (2019). "Reviewed work: BEYOND CRIMEA: THE NEW RUSSIAN EMPIRE, Agnia Grigas". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (3/4): 515–517. JSTOR 48585332.
  5. ^ "Book Reviews". The Russian Review. 80 (3): 510–549. 2021. doi:10.1111/russ.12329. S2CID 26990304.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Book Reviews". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 363–398. 1 April 2022. doi:10.1111/russ.12367. ISSN 0036-0341.
  7. ^ Orttung, R. (2022). "Book Reviews: Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID 248954384.
  8. ^ Henry, L. A. (2022). "Book Reviews: Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID 248954384.
  9. ^ Forney, Andrew (2021). "Reviewed work: Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond, Anna Ohanyan". Strategic Studies Quarterly. 15 (3): 142–144. JSTOR 48618302.
  10. ^ Davydov, Andrey (2019). "Reviewed work: THE LANDS IN BETWEEN: RUSSIA VS. THE WEST AND THE NEW POLITICS OF HYBRID WAR, Mitchell A. Orenstein". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (3/4): 517–520. JSTOR 48585333.
  11. ^ Roucek, Libor (1992). "Reviewed work: Eastern Europe in the World Economy, L. Csaba; Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, M. Friedlander; East-West Financial Relations. Current Problems and Future Prospects, I. Zloch-Christy". The Slavonic and East European Review. 70 (2): 380–381. JSTOR 4210992.
  12. ^ Bartlett, David (1995). "Reviewed work: East-West Financial Relations: Current Problems and Future Prospects., Iliana Zloch-Christy; Eastern Europe in a Time of Change: Economic and Political Dimensions., Iliana Zloch-Christy". Slavic Review. 54 (2): 555–557. doi:10.2307/2501729. JSTOR 2501729.
  13. ^ Hendley, K. (2022). "Book Reviews: Law and Power in Russia: Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID 248954384.
  14. ^ White, James M. (2018). "Reviewed work: Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture, Amy Singleton Adams, Vera Shevzov". The Slavic and East European Journal. 62 (4): 750–751. JSTOR 45408780.
  15. ^ Guney, F. S. (2022). "Book Reviews: Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID 248954384.
  16. ^ Lennon, Olena (2019). "Reviewed work: UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: FROM CIVILIZED DIVORCE TO UNCIVIL WAR, Paul d'Anieri". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (3/4): 512–514. JSTOR 48585331.
  17. ^ Marples, David R. (2019). "Reviewed work: BEYOND CRIMEA: THE NEW RUSSIAN EMPIRE, Agnia Grigas". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 36 (3/4): 515–517. JSTOR 48585332.
  18. ^ Raykoff, Ivan (2020). "A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations. By Arve Hansen, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt, and David-Emil Wickström. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 203. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2019. Distributed by Columbia University Press. 247 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Illustrations. Tables. $40.00, paper". Slavic Review. 79 (3): 670–671. doi:10.1017/slr.2020.178. ISSN 0037-6779 – via Cambridge Core.
  19. ^ Legvold, Robert (2015). "Reviewed work: Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post—Cold War Order, RAJAN MENON, EUGENE B. RUMER". Foreign Affairs. 94 (5): 193. JSTOR 24483774.
  20. ^ d'Anieri, Paul (2016). "Ukraine, Russia, and the West: The Battle over Blame". The Russian Review. 75 (3): 498–503. doi:10.1111/russ.12087. JSTOR 43919447.
  21. ^ Delwaide, Jacobus (2017). "Reviewed work: ROOTS OF RUSSia's WAR IN UKRAINE, Elizabeth A. Wood, William E. Pomeranz, E. Wayne Merry, Maxim Trudolyubov". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 35 (1/4): 550–553. JSTOR 44983564.
  22. ^ "Somebody's Hero". New York Times. 19 March 2000. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  23. ^ Åslund, Anders (2001). "Reviewed work: Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life, Leon Aron; My Six Years with Gorbachev, Anatoly S. Chernyaev, Robert D. English, Elizabeth Tucker". Political Science Quarterly. 116 (4): 662–664. doi:10.2307/798240. JSTOR 798240.
  24. ^ Chaisty, Paul (2007). "Reviewed work: Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation, Herbert J. Ellison". Slavic Review. 66 (4): 786–787. doi:10.2307/20060435. JSTOR 20060435. S2CID 164483175.
  25. ^ Anderson, Richard D. (2007). "Reviewed work: Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation, Herbert J. Ellison". Political Science Quarterly. 122 (4): 689–690. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb01699.x. JSTOR 20202953.
  26. ^ Pearce, J. C. (2022). "Book Reviews: The Future of Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia". The Russian Review. 81 (3): 566–598. doi:10.1111/russ.12378. S2CID 248954384.
  27. ^ "Book Reviews". The Russian Review. 81: 146–198. 2022. doi:10.1111/russ.12354. S2CID 245412060.
  28. ^ Sunderland, Willard (2021). "Reviewed work: The Volga: A History of Russia's Greatest River, Hartley, Janet M". The Slavonic and East European Review. 99 (4): 761–763. doi:10.1353/see.2021.0094. JSTOR 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.99.4.0761.
  29. ^ Kotenko, Anton (2020). "Reviewed work: Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas, Paul Robert Magocsi, Paul Robert Magocsi; Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition, Magocsi Paul Robert". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 37 (1/2): 225–228. JSTOR 48627244.