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A review on Russian nationalismEs damaging impact on the relationship between church and the state, the role of Sergii, problem of mixed marriages are given. In the case of the diocese of Finland, the Russian churchEs efforts to strengthen its own confessional bonds served only to make them more brittle.

Simon Dixon, School of History, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT Richard Hellie, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia 1600-1725. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, [...]

Thomas Sanders (ed.), Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999, xiv + 521 pp., $97.95. REQUIRED TO ABSORB [...]

Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998, xii + 237 pp., $39.95. THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE WEEKLY [...]

Olga E. Glagoleva, Working with Russian Archival Documents: A Guide to Modern Handwriting, Document Forms, Language Patterns, and Other Related Topics. Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University [...]

Catherine Boris Gasparov, Alexander Ospovat & Mark Von Hagen (eds), Kazan, Moscow, St Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian EmpirelKazan', Moskva, Peterburg: Rossiiskaya imperiya vzglyadom iz raznykh uglov. Moscow: OGI, [...]

This book draws together English translations of 11 essays by Russian historians, corrected, and in the case of V. A. Fedorov's chapter on Alexander I, substantially revised since their first [...]

Readers of the stream of articles on Russian royal ritual that has flowed from the pen of Richard Wortman over the past decade (several of them, happily, published in Russia [...]

B. N. Chicherin lamented in his memoirs that his ideas had never been satisfactorily assimilated or developed. Would he think differently today? The reissue in 1990 of Chicherin's illegal pamphlet [...]

In The Shaping of Liberal Politics in Revolutionary France: A Comparative Perspective (Princeton: U. P., 1990; pp. xiv + 248. 32.50 £), Anne Sa'adah combines the methodologies of political history [...]

There is no doubt that Rasputin matters. His case serves to illuminate three contexts vital to our understanding of the last years of the Russian old regime: the court (or [...]

This impressive biography may be read on three different, though interrelated, levels - as a study of the enigmatic tsar's life and personality, as a history of his brief reign [...]

Why was Russian entrepreneurship so weak? What prevented the formation of a Russian middle class? Following Speranskii's dictum that 'without knowledge of the laws, the history of the state can [...]