Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Master Bibliography
2 February 2011
Avdeev A., Blum, A, Troitskaia, I., and H. Juby “Peasant Marriage in Nineteenth-Century
Russia” Population (English Edition) 59:6 (2004) 721-764.
Avrich, Paul. Russian Rebels: 1600-1800. W.W. Norton & Company, 1972.
A case study involving four famous Russian rebels who, in their time, amassed
popular sentiment and forces that threatened the Muscovite state at various historical
stages.
Baron, Nick and Peter Gatrell. “Population Displacement, State-Building, and Social
Identity in the Lands of the Former Russian Empire, 1917-1923” Kritika 4:1 (2003) 51-
100.
Nick Baron and Peter Gatrell's article examining the effect of population
displacement on the formulation of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union's sense of
'identity' and mission of nation-building provides in-depth theoretical and primary source
evaluation in order to demonstrate the fallacy of looking at populations solely as
'sedentary' or 'itinerant'. Far from being powerless, refugees caught in the swirling
confusion of post-war Eastern Europe made significant contributions to the definition of
'homeland', 'place', 'exile', 'nation', 'state', etc... This, in turn, prompted ruling authorities
in the new nation-states to evaluate what comprised their 'core' citizenry, an articulation
that spurred and clarified policies of assimilation or alienation of minority populations.
An excellent and very thorough approach to a topic that drew increasing attention in the
last decade, Gatrell and Baron's work brings new questions to the study of forming
nation-states and a theoretical approach that definitely deserves more study and
implementation.
Bartlett, Roger. ed. Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia: Communal
Forms in Imperial and Early Soviet Society. St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Baudrillard, Jean. Selected Writings, ed. Michael Posner. Stanford: Stanford University
Press.
Belletto, Steven. “The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security
State” American Quarterly 61:2 (2009) 333-357.
Game Theory promised the advent of a manageable, predictable nuclear world in
the 1950's, a soothing salve for the anxiety experienced by American policymakers with
the rise of massive nuclear stockpiles and hair-trigger alerts. Belletto explores how this
branch of mathematics impacted American culture through novels and films produced in
that era, noting that while initial efforts linked the management of nuclear war to
elements familiar in poker, later writers and filmmakers would probe the uncertainty and
'rational' madness the Game Theory Narrative provided, exemplified best in books and
movies like Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove, respectively. Ultimately Belletto concludes
that one lasting legacy of the Game Theory Narrative was the reduction of the so-called
'third world' nations into mere pieces to be played in the geo-political game between the
US and the USSR.
Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Berend, Ivan, T. Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II.
University of California Press: Berkeley, California, 2001.
Russian merchants, long held in low social standing amidst the larger society,
increasingly engaged with the larger European markets during the course of the
eighteenth centuries, facilitating the need for 'letter-writing' manuals (pis'movnik)
designed to instruct a typical merchant in the ways of a successful businessman.
Specifically analyzing one pis'movnik by Petr Bogdanovich, Bernstein shows how the
content within (ranging from standardized 'form' letters for business transactions, to
ethical behavior guidelines, and even epistle on the necessity in maintaining a good
'reputation') followed in the traditions of other manuals across Europe, in that they helped
establish standards in language and behavior. Whereas other manuals targeted youths or
young women, Bogdanovich addressed his pis'movnik to merchants in a sincere attempt
to provide this social class a means to excel and advance in Russia. An interesting article
that provides a very specific example analyzed against the larger backdrop of European
trends with similar 'manuals'.
Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change.
London: Routledge, 1998.
Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
Seminal work of Russian intellectual history that, while dated, still provides a
solid foundational survey of art, religion, and political ideals that circulated throughout
the Russian domains throughout the centuries.
Blitstein, Peter A. “Cultural Diversity and the Interwar Conjecture: Soviet Nationality
Policy in Context” Slavic Review 65:2 (2006) 273-293.
Opening his article with the question of 'how does knowledge circulate and
information spread?' Alain Blum brings an overall perspective to the issues presented
throughout the special edition of Kritika, focused on information circulation. Analyzing
the movement of ideas in imperial and international space, as opposed to framing the
inquiry along national lines, the great shifts in Russian/Soviet history can be seen as
pivotal moments when knowledge producers transformed their disciplines to either reach
out and incorporate foreign scholarship and ideals or reject the same foreign ideas under
specific Russian internal and isolationist terms. Yet, wether or not ideas were accepted or
rejected there occurred a reinterpretation, or reconfiguration, of established beliefs in the
face of such ideas and their circulatory potential among the knowledge producers. When
looking at Russia, one can find evidence of not only international circulation practices but
also intra-national practices that relied upon the distinctive differences between sections
of empire, as locals contributed to the debates regarding topics such as the nature of
Russian Imperial identity and Pan-Slavism. In this light, acts of instilling nationalism or
engaging in translation of materials directly informs the circulation/counter-circulation
process, a process that moves away from the traditional analysis of elite viewpoints and
more towards a holistic approach that incorporates all levels of interaction between
disciplines, individuals, and the production of knowledge among diverse sources.
Blum, Jerome. Lord and Peasant in Russia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1961.
Brovkin, Vladimir. Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1994.
Bruno, Andy. “Russian Environmental History: Direction and Potentials” Kritika 8:3
(2007) 635-650.
Writing a review essay that both surveys the current scholarship surrounding
Russian environmental history and the potential these materials point towards, Andy
Bruno makes a convincing case that while Russian historians have already made
significant contributions to the larger field, further work in the various 'strands' elaborated
is still needed. The works reviewed in the essay are noted by Bruno for having achieved
a level of maturity despite the relative lack in breadth of the Russian environmental field.
Of particular mention are (then) future works that highlight 'frontier' environmental
history, a 'strand' that puts the human/nature interaction during imperial expansion into
greater focus. While some works engage in periodization, placing somewhat of a
distinction between Imperial and Soviet Russian practices, Bruno suggests that looking at
the historical narrative as a larger whole would facilitate more accurate discernment of
'shifts' in environmental practices. An excellent essay that provides a wonderful
summary and outlook on the potential of this still developing field.
Bucur, Maria and Nancy Wingfield, eds. Staging the Past: The Politics of
Commemoration in Hapsburg Central Europe, 1848 to Present. West Lafayette, Indiana:
Purdue University Press, 2001.
Burds, Jeffrey. Peasant Dreams and Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian
Village, 1861-1905. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Bushkovitch, Paul “The Epiphany Ceremony of the Russian Court in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries” Russian Review 49:1 (1990) 1-17.
___. Religion and Society in Russia Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cadiot, Juliette. “Searching for Nationality: Statistics and National Categories at the End
of the Russian Empire, 1897-1917” Russian Review 64 (2005) 440-455.
Throughout the history of Imperial Russia there occurred only once an attempt to
conduct a census of the peoples living across the vast domain. Juliette Cadiot, using the
debates surrounding the interpretation of census data, argues that imperial statisticians
essentially used the data to argue for and against conceptions of the essential
characteristics of Russian nationality. When the Bolsheviks assumed power, they would
use this data and the outcome of the debates discussed above to shape their own
interpretation of the model Soviet citizen. Questions over how religious belief and
mother tongue contributed to the conception of identity eventually led Imperial Russian
authorities to rely upon qualities associated with the 'Great Russian' tradition as the
defining markers of nationality (essentially moving away from the 'estate' conception of
identity), a sharp divide from earlier efforts in the 18th and early 19th century that
attempted to define imperial nationality as more broad and inclusive.
Clements, Barbara Evans, Engel, Barbara Alpern, and Wororbec, Christine D., eds.
Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, and Transformation. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1991.
Clowes, Edith W, Kassow, Samuel D, and James L. West, eds. Between Tsar and People:
Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia. Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Crews, Robert. “Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in
Nineteenth-Century Russia” American Historical Review 108:1 (2003) 50-83.
Davis, Nathaniel “The Number of Churches Before And After The Khrushchev
Antireligious Drive” Slavic Review 50:3 (1991) 612-620.
Dewey, John. The Problems of Men. New York: Philosophical Library, 1946.
Dukes, Paul. The Making of Russian Absolutism: 1613-1801. Longman: New York, 1990.
Dunning, Chester. “Who Was Tsar Dmitrii?” Slavic Review 60:4 (2001) 705-729.
Edgar, Adrienne L. “Genealogy, Class, and 'Tribal Policy' in Soviet Turkmenistan, 1924-
1934” Slavic Review 60:2 (2001) 266-288.
Eikert, Gregory. The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East
Central Europe. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1996.
Engel, Barbara Alpern. “Russian Peasant Views of City Life, 1861-1914” Slavic Review
52:3 (1993) 446-459.
Engelstein, Laura. Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2009.
A collection of essays around the central topic of the Russian states interaction
with liberalistic forces permeating around Europe since the 17th century. Engelstein aims
to “explore the tensions...between the liberal paradigm and the conservative anti-liberal
state” over the span of seven chapters, grouped into three 'sections' exploring
westernizing modernization, religious resistance and the Slavophile influence on defining
the role Russians played in the larger global cultural landscape. Each chapter is an essay
related only by theme to its compatriots, making the collection one that is easily digested
in chunks relevant to the readers interest. Covering a diverse range of topics among the
essays, Engelstein demonstrates her considerable breadth of knowledge on the culture
and workings of Russian intellectual life and its shaping of the liberal discourse
circulating throughout the empire.
___. Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Farnsworth, Beatrice and Lynne Viola, eds. Russian Peasant Women. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1992.
Fennell, John. A History of the Russian Church to 1448 New York: Longman, 1995.
Field, Daniel, Rebels in the Name of the Tsar. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1976.
Figes, Orlando. Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-
1921. Phoenix Press: London. 2001.
Fitzpatric, Anne Lincoln The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-1890 New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage Books: New
York. 1995.
___. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Vintage Books: New
York. 1994.
___. Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975. New York: Picador, 2003.
___. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979. New York:
Palgrave MacMillian, 2008.
____. The Parish Clergy in 19th Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, and Counter-Reform.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Franklin, Simon. Writing, Society, and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300 Cambridge
University, 2002.
Furst, Juliane. “Not a Question of Faith- Youth and Religion in the Post-War Years”
Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 52 (2004) 557-570.
Gatrell, Peter. Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History. New York:
Pearson, 2005.
Geldern, James von. “Life In-Between: Migration and Popular Culture in Late Imperial
Russia” Russian Review 55:3 (1996) 365-383.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International
Publishers, 1971.
Heinzen, James W. “Professional Identity and the Vision of the Modern Soviet
Countryside: Local Agricultural Specialists at the End of the NEP, 1928-1929” Cahiers
du Monde russe 39:1 (1998) 9-25.
Hoch, Steven. Serfdom and Social Control in Russia. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1986.
___. “Did Russia's Emancipated Serfs Really Pay Too Much for Too Little Land?
Statistical Anomalies and Long-Tailed Distributions” Slavic Review 63:2 (2004) 247-274.
Hyde, Lewis. Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux. 2010.
Many authors concern themselves with the current debate over copyright, yet only
Lewis Hyde brings in the words of the oft misquoted American founding fathers to point
towards a conception of the cultural commons capable of fostering both capitalist and
cultural motivations. Looking at what the commons actually means in both historical and
contemporary definitions, Hyde makes the argument that 'ownership' of intellectual
property possesses profound impacts on personal identity formation. How we as a people
relate to our cultural products directly correlates to the forms of expression and
innovation brought about by society- thus the claim that Newton 'stood on the shoulders
of giants' (the intellectual works of those before him) to achieve his key mathematical
breakthroughs. Very interesting analysis that uses foundational aspects central to ideas of
'American Exceptionalism' and identity to make a larger case for reformulation of a
protected and accessible cultural commons.
Ivantis, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 1992.
The pervasiveness of folk belief, much of it pagan in origin, found within Russian
culture provides a rich backdrop for interpreting custom and meaning encountered in the
study of peasant behaviors. Linda J. Ivantis' work on the Folk Beliefs of average Russian
peasants provides a superb starting point for scholars of literature and history to learn
about the complex intertwining of folk belief and Eastern Orthodoxy. The first half of the
work covers beliefs held by peasants regarding interactions with the spirit world, while
the second half presents translations of folk tales or narratives that center the explanation
of beliefs in actual peasant words. Using a mix or ethnographic data gathered in the
Russian lands over the course of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries and Soviet
interpretations of these works, Ivantis produces a work that illuminates the larger picture
of Russian culture by highlighting the peasant use of folk belief.
Jaats, Indrek. “The Komi, Ethnic Stereotypes, and Nationalities Policy in Late Imperial
Russia” Russian Review 68 (2009) 199-220.
Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg To Gates.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Kahan, Arcadius. “The Costs of “Westernization” in Russia: The Gentry and the
Economy in the Eighteenth Century,” in Michael Cherniavsky, ed. The Structure of
Russian History. Random House. 1970.
Kenney, Padraic. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 2003.
Kingston-Mann, Esther and Mixer, Timothy with assistance from Jeffery Buds. Peasant
Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921. Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1990.
Kolchin, Peter Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1987.
Kollmann, Nancy S. “The Quality of Legal Mercy in Early Modern Legal Practice”
Kritika 7:1 (2006) 5-22.
Kubik, Jan. The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power. 1994.
Ladurie, Le Roy. Carnival in Romans. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1979.
LeDonne, John P. Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political
Order, 1700-1825. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Lefebvre, Geogres. The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France. New
York: Schocken Books, 1989.
Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
Copyright and culture are central concerns of Lessig in this work contemplating
the impact current policies regarding intellectual property will have on a generation of
digital users whose very remixing acts criminalize them in the eyes of the law. Exploring
the cultural delivery system created under the previous media generation (RO, or read-
only, culture) to the possibility for new cultural delivery in the digital generation (RW, or
read-write, culture) Lessig maps out the potential for new hybrid commercial models,
based on user participation in remixing of cultural products, to come into being. This, in
turn, will foster legal reforms allowing RW culture to flourish, guaranteeing amateurs the
right to remix and professionals the right to profit off (or share) their creations. An
excellent general summary of the issues pertaining to public culture and copyright today.
Levin, Eve. Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700. Cornell, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Mamedov, Mikail. “'Going Native' in the Caucasus: Problems of Russian Identity, 1801-
64” 67 (2008) 275-295.
Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia 980-1584. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
A survey text that covers the social, political, and ethnographic developments
encompassing the territory of the, then, growing Russian state. Beginning with Price
Vladimir I and concluding with the reign of Ivan IV, Martin draws on broad themes to
unite her interpretation of such a long period. Underlying the expansion of both Kievian
Rus and Muscovy, Eastern Orthodoxy became the cornerstone of identity for both entities
with only the Mongol Hordes arrival to herald the decline of the former and the eventual
rise and domination of the latter. Use of the church as a means to secure and project
power meant that Muscovite princes, and later tsars, could lay claim to unquestionable
authority, allowing the Ruirikid dynasty to greatly expand their territorial base and
conduct expensive campaigns against regional opponents. Funding these expeditions
proved largely unsustainable, leading to the imposition of serfdom and eventual
bankruptcy of the state when Ivan IV died.
Martin, Terry. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalisms in the Soviet
Union, 1923-1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Marker, Gary. “The Enlightenment of Anna Labzina: Gender, Faith, and Public Life in
Catherinian and Alexandrian Russia” Slavic Review 59:2 (2000) 369-390.
Mastny, Vojtech and Malcolm Byrne, eds. A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the
Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991. Budapest: CEU Press, 2005.
Medovoi, Leerom. Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. Durham, North
Carolina: Duke University Press, 2005.
Melton, Edgar. “Enlightened Seigniorialism and Its Dilemmas in Serf Russia, 1750-
1830” Journal of Modern History 62:4 (1990)
Moch, Leslie Page. Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650 2nd
Edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003.
While most considered rural populations of historic Western Europe to be rather
sedentary, Leslie Moch sets out in her work to demonstrate that not only were
populations consistently on the move but also that migration patterns have not been
spurred by urbanization or industrialization, rather they are extensions of older traditions
in human behavior. Examining three centuries (mid-seventeenth to the late-twentieth),
Moch outlines the changes brought about by differing landholding patterns, employment
demands, demographic patterns and the changing location of capital. Focusing on times
of peace and looking at movements of both sexes, four models of migration (local,
circular, chain and career) characterize the behavior of peasants, among others, during the
three centuries examined. Moch's work is sufficiently large in scope that it creates
convincing arguments that move beyond the case study and attempt to engage in 'big
picture' analysis, yet also focused enough to not get lost in the bewildering amount of
facts, figures and locales presented.
Moon, David. The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made. New
York: Longman, 1999.
___. “The Inventory Reform and Peasant Unrest in Right-Bank Ukraine in 1847-48” The
Slavonic and East European Review 79:4 (2001) 653-697.
___. “Estimating the Peasant Population of Late Imperial Russia from the 1897 Census:
A Research Note” Europe-Asia Studies 48:1 (1996) 141-153.
Murphy, Brian. Rostov in the Civil War, 1917-1920. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Mironov, Boris. A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917. Westview Press, 2000.
Nemes, Robert. “The Politics of the Dance Floor: Culture and Civil Society in
Nineteenth-Century Hungary” Slavic Review 60:4 (2001) 802-823.
Newlin, Thomas. “Rural Ruses: Illusion and Anxiety on the Russian Estate, 1775-1815”
Slavic Review 57:2 (1998)
Norcia, Megan A. “Puzzling Empire: Early Puzzles and Discarded Maps as Imperial
Heuristics” Children's Literature 37 (2009) 1-32.
Opel, Andy and Smith, Jason. “Zootycoon: Capitalism, Nature, and the Pursuit of
Happiness” Ethics and the Environment 9:2 (2004) 103-120.
Peris, Daniel. “'God is Now on Our Side': The Religious Revival on Unoccupied Soviet
Territory during World War II” Kritika 1:1 (2000) 97-118.
___. Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1998.
Perrie, Maureen. “Folklore as Evidence of Peasant Mentalite: Social Attitudes and Values
in Russian Popular Culture,” Russian Review 48:2 (April 1989)
Platonov, S.F. The Time of Troubles. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas,
1985.
Popkins, Gareth. “Code versus Custom? Norms and Tactics in Peasant Volost Court
Appeals, 1889-1917” Russian Review 59:3 (2000) 408-424.
Pouncy, Carolyn Johnston, ed and trans. The Domostroi. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1994.
Sixteenth century edicts and maxims for Russian household order and deportment
appropriate for the time comprise the subject matter of the Domostroi. As such, the
material presented within present a picture of desired moral and civil obligations citizens
of the still young Muscovy were supposed to uphold. It stressed obedience to family and
the tsar, cleanliness and orderliness, the roles of women and men in daily life, and
generally covered topics considered important in running a (then) modern household.
Prown, Jules David. “The Promise and Perils of Context” American Art 11:2 (1997) 20-
27.
Material culture analysis, pioneered by Prown, promises to bring greater depth
and understanding to humanistic endeavors by engaging with artifacts to probe their
larger connection to the milieu of their production. Looking at the (then) recent turn
towards contextualization and identity, Prown argues that this movement demonstrates
the ability of art to serve a window to understanding the past and present, as having
access to analysis of an objects form allows one to view a 'culture's dream world'. As an
extension, everyday objects can become 'constructed artifacts' if the viewer so chooses,
meaning that material culture analysis has potential to cover much more than simply
aesthetic art.
___. “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method”
Winterthur Portfolio 17:1 (1982) 1-19.
The original article that brought material culture analysis to the fore across
multiple disciplines. Prown establishes the role material, or artifacts, from a period or
peoples, plays in an interpretation of the culture that produced said items. Instead of
approaching the artifact with an inward interpretation process (as common in Art
History), Prown advocates using ones physical senses first to evaluate the actual details of
the object, divorced from any per-conceived notions on use or function. The viewer then
moves on to analyzing potential subject matter of the object- the depiction of art, a coat
of arms on a flag, a book meant to teach proper writing style, etc... Only then should one
engage with the relationship the object holds with the viewer. Using this method,
researchers can now utilize non-standard artifacts to help inform their inquiry into a
particular era or location.
Ralston, W.R.S. The Songs of the Russian People: Second Edition. London: Ellis &
Green, 1872.
Radkey, Oliver H. The Unknown Civil War in Soviet Russia: A Study of the Green
Movement in the Tambov Region, 1920-1921. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution
Press, 1976.
Raj, Kapil. Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge
in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
___. “Colonial Encounters and the Forging of New Knowledge and National Identities:
Great Britian and India, 1760-1850” Osiris 15 (2000) 119-134.
Randall, Adrian and Charlesworth, Andrew, eds. Moral Economy and Popular Protest:
Crowds, Conflict, and Authority. London: Macmillian, 2000.
Randolph, John W. “The Singing Coachman or, The Road and Russia's Ethnographic
Invention in Early Modern Times” Journal of Early Modern History 11:1-2 (2007) 33-61.
Roshwald, Aviel. Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia,
and the Middle East, 1914-1923. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Scheiner, Irwin. “The Mindful Peasant: Sketches for a Study of Rebellion” Journal of
Asian Studies 32:4 (1973)
___. “Containing the Spectacle of Punishment: The Russian Autocracy and the Abolition
of the Knout, 1817-1845” Slavic Review 56:4 (1997)
Scott, James C. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in
Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, 1976.
___. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Yale University
Press, 1985.
Schorske, Carl E. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Vintage Books,
1981.
Shore, Marci. Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism,
1918-1968. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Singh, Hira. Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and
Paramount Power. London: Attamira Press, 1998.
Sippel, Patricia. “Popular Protest in Early Modern Japan: The Bushu Outburst” Harvard
Journal of Asian Studies 37:2 (1977) 273-322.
Smith-Peter, Susan. “The Russian Provincial Newspaper and its Public, 1788-1864” Carl
Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies 1908 (2008)
___. “Educating Peasant Girls for Motherhood: Religion and Primary Education in Mid-
Nineteenth Century Russia” Russian Review 66 (2007) 391-405.
Solomon, Susan Gross. “Circulation of Knowledge and the Russian Locale” Kritika 9:1
(2008) 9-26.
Stone, David R. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933.
Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Looking at the period just after the conclusion of the Russian Civil War, David
Stone argues that the Soviet Union acquired a highly militarized economic and
ideological composition that would, in theory, prepare the communist forces for the
inevitable 'future war' with the capitalist west. While the Civil War exhausted both
population and land, by 1933 the Soviet Union possessed one of the most advanced
military’s in the world, thanks in large part to advanced theory in understanding the
nature of 'total war' conflicts (with no separate 'front' and 'rear', as mobility allows for
forces to strike anywhere) and highly integrated civil and military spheres. However,
with the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, the Soviet economy went to a permanent 50/50
split between military and civilian needs as Red Army influence in economic matters
reached its apogee; this would have detrimental effects on the Soviet economy in the
coming decades.
Suny, Ronald and Arthur Adams, eds. The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory, 3rd
Edition. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company,1990.
Todorova, Maria. “The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality, and the Study of
Eastern European Nationalism” Slavic Review 64:1 (2005) 140-164.
Tolz, Vera. “Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms in Late Imperial and Early
Soviet Russia” Kritika 10:2 (2009) 261-190.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of the Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation
of an American Myth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Viola, Lynne. Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant
Resistance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
While Lenin predicated the Bolshevik Revolution on the idea that Russia would
spark the proletarian revolution, in reality the policies and goals of the mid to late 20's
reflected a much more sobered look at the stark rural nature of the Soviet countryside.
When Stalin came to power and advocated a policy of collectivization in the name of
Soviet modernization, peasants across the land engaged in various forms of protest,
forming a 'culture of resistance' investigated by Viola in this work. Use of rumor
equating the Communist to the Anti-Christ and the collective farm to a den of evil, along
with sophisticated use of stereotypes of women and peasants in general and the threat of
'terror', gave the peasant a resilience to Soviet demands. The work is split into two parts;
the first looks at the relations between the state and peasants between 1917-1930, while
the second outlines specific elements that comprised the peasant culture of resistance.
Viola should be commended for such an in depth treatment of peasant behavior resisting
a full scale remaking of their social existence, and her treatment of the peasant as mobile,
capable, and willing to fight the central authorities adds understanding to the longer
tradition of peasant resistance as a whole.
Vitarbo, Gregory. “Nationality Policy and the Russian Imperial Officer Corps, 1905-
1914” Slavic Review 66:4 (2007) 682-701.
___. “Witchcraft in the Central Balkans II: Protection Against Witches” Folklore 100:2
(1989) 221-236.
Wade, Rex. The Russian Revolution, 1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000.
Wandycz, Piotr, S. The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe form the
Middle Ages to the Present 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 2001.
Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-
1914. Stanford, Connecticut: Stanford University Press, 1976.
___. “Due Process and Equal Justice in the Muscovite Codes” Russian Review 51:4
(1992) 463-480.
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