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Department of History

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Russia and Eastern Europe

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Catherine Evtuhov

Cultural Gradient

Research Interests:

Imperial Russia
Ideas, culture, religion, local history


Selected Publications:

Evtuhov, Catherine and Stephen Kotkin. The Cultural Gradient: the Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2002.
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Evtuhov, Catherine. The Cross & the Sickle: Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy, 1890-1920. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.








David M. Goldfrankhistory russia


Research Interests:

Medieval and early modern Russia
Russian intellectual and foreign policy
Eastern Europe

Selected Publications:

David Goldfrank, Nil Sorsky: The Authentic Writings. (Cistercian Studies No. 221 (Kalamazoo, 2008).

Evtuhov, Catherine, David Goldfrank, Lindsey Hughes and Richard Stites. A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 2004.

David M. Goldfrank. The Origins of the Crimean War (Origins of Modern Wars). Longman Group, 1994.



Andrzej Kaminski

Research Interests:

Early Modern East Central Europe
Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

Selected Publications:

Andrzej Kaminski. Republic versus Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia in the Late Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.



Richard Stites

Research Interests:

Modern Russia
Cultural and social history


Selected Publications:

Richard Stites. Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

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Richard Stites. Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.









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