My Books
The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth
Aleksei Evstaf´ev’s 1852 book, The Great Republic Tested by the Touch of Truth, is an early work in English by a native of Ukraine who identified as a Russian. Drawing from his years of Russian diplomatic service in the United States, Evstaf´ev presented a critique of American democracy as well as Russian despotism, preferring British constitutional monarchy instead.
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians.
Regionalism and Modern Europe: Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present.
Russia's Regional Identities: The Power of the Provinces
Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralized regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy.
Imagining Russian Regions, Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia
"In the eighteenth century, the Romanov dynasty cut its vast empire into new provincial subdivisions. These provinces remained the basic territorial units of the Russian Empire until its collapse in 1917, and they were associated with a variety of ambitions.