Books, recommended for the first two lectures of the course of Professor Andrey Zubov in English.

REASONS FOR THE RUSSIAN CATASTROPHE OF THE XXth CENTURY AND POSSIBILITIES TO OVERCOME IT.

The mistakes of development of Russia in the XV - XIX centuries this resulted in the failure of the
development of Prerevolutionary Russia.

1.       Richard Pypes. Russia under the Old Regime. N.Y. 1974

2.       Richard Pipes. Europe since 1500. 1971

3.       Dmitry Obolensky. The Byzantine  Commonwealth. East Europe 500-1453. L., 1974.

4.       George Vernadsky. The Russian History. Yale, 1969.

5.       Geoffery Hosking. Russia and the Russians. Oxford, 2011.

6.       Philip Longworth. Russia’s Empires: Their Rise and Fall from Prehistory to Putin. 2005.

7.       Vera Tolz. Russia: Inventing a Nation. 2001.

8.       Marshall Poe. The Russian Moment in World History. 2003.

9.       Janet Martin. Medieval Russia, 980-1584. 1995.

10.   Robert O.Crummey. The Formation of Moscovy. 1304-1613. 1987.

11.   Nancy Shields Kollmann. By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia. 1999.

12.   Iver B.Neumann. Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International
Relations. 1996.

13.   Peter Kolchin Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Harvard University Press,
1990.

14.   Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. Russia’s Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861. 2008.

15.   Dominic Lieven. The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. 2000.

16.   Andreas Kapeler. The Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History. 2001.

17.   Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, Larissa Sakharova (eds.) Russia’s Great Reforms. 1855-1881. 1994.

18.   Hans Rodger. Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, 1881-1917. 1983.