Introduction: The seventeenth century: The disturbing legacy of the time of troubles / Chester S.L. Dunning
The Russian Eighteenth Century: The revolution of Peter the Great / James Cracraft
Masks and masquerades at the court of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1742) / Jelena Pogosjan
Russia's "first" scientist: the (self- )fashioning of Mikhail Lomonosov / Steven A. Usitalo
Andrei Bolotov: Portrait of an enlightened seigneur / Colum Leckey
Did Catherine the Great and Grigorii Potemkin wed? Some myths, facts, and observations on secret royal marriages / Douglas Smith
The Russian Nineteenth Century: The invention of "Russianness" in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century / Alexander M. Martin
Starts and stops: the development of official diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States / William Benton Whisenhunt
The Decembrist pavel pestel and the roots of Russian republicanism / Patrick O'Meara
Economic backwardness in geographical perspective: Russia's nineteenth century / Susan P. McCaffray
The trial of Vera Zasulich / Ana Siljak
The Zemstvo in late Imperial Russia: social and political change in the countryside / Thomas E. Porter
Soviet Russia: Popular aspirations, the new politics, and the October revolution / Rex A. Wade
The Jewish question in the Soviet Union, 1917-1953 / Jeffrey Veidlinger
Aviation cinema in Stalin's Russia: conformity, collectivitiy, and the conflict with fascism / Scott W. Palmer
Political loyalties in Leningrad during the "Great Patriotic War" / Richard Bidlack
Empire besieged: postwar politics (1945-1953) / Kees Boterbloem
Khrushchev: the impact of personality on politics / William Taubman
Late-Soviet prerequisites for Post-Soviet disasters: reflections / Sergei Arutiunov
Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse: stirrings of accountable government? / Martha Merritt.