Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

by Baron,Samuel H.

• ISBN13: 9780765611963
• ISBN10: 0765611961
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Author Biography

John T. (Jay) Alexander is Professor of History and Russian and East European Studies at the University of Kansas Golfo Alexopoulos is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida in Tampa Steven A. Barnes is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University Samuel H. Baron, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill James Cracraft is Professor of History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History at Yale University Cathy A. Frierson is Class of 1941 Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire Paul R. Josephson is Associate Professor of History at Colby College Nadieszda Kizenko is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany Nancy Shields Kollmann is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University Eve Levin has been a member of the faculty at Ohio State University since 1983 Bruce W. Menning is Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Hugh Ragsdale, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama Donald J. Raleigh is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Sidney Hellman Professor of European History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley Priscilla Roosevelt is currently heads a nonprofit organization assisting Russians in their efforts to preserve and enhance the utilization of surviving historic houses in rural Russia S. Frederick Starr, currently chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Richard Stites is Professor of History at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Robert Weinberg teaches at Swarthmore College Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona

Table of Contents

About the Editors and Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Samuel H. Baron
Cathy A. Frierson
My Historical Research in the Soviet Union: Half-Empty or Half-Full?	3	(18)
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
A Tale of Two Inquiries	21	(16)
Samuel H. Baron
Discovering Rural Russia: A Forty-Year Odyssey	37	(12)
Priscilla Roosevelt
Catherine the Great and the Rats	49	(12)
John T. Alexander
Exploration and Adventure in the Two Capitals	61	(12)
Richard Stites
Leningrad, 1966--1967: Irrelevant Insights in an Era of Relevance	73	(18)
S. Frederick Starr
Adventures and Misadventures: Russian Foreign Policy in European and Russian Archives	91	(12)
Hugh Ragsdale
Reclaiming Peter the Great	103	(12)
James Cracraft
Prisoner of the Zeitgeist	115	(12)
Laura Engelstein
Of Outcomes Happy and Unhappy	127	(12)
Bruce W. Menning
A Journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov	139	(14)
Donald J. Raleigh
Romancing the Sources	153	(12)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
Russian History from Coast to Coast	165	(12)
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Friends and Colleagues	177	(14)
Eve Levin
Within and Beyond the Pale: Research in Odessa and Birobidzhan	191	(12)
Robert Weinberg
Mysteries in the Realms of History and Memory	203	(14)
Cathy A. Frierson
A Historian of Science Works from the Bottom Up	217	(12)
Paul R. Josephson
Orthodoxies and Revisions	229	(14)
Nadieszda Kizenko
Post-Soviet Improvisations: Life and Work in Rural Siberia	243	(12)
Golfo Alexopoulos
Hits and Misses in the Archives of Kazakhstan	255	(10)
Steven A. Barnes
Index	265