Volume 17, Number 5 · October 7, 1971
Backward History in a Backward Country
By Martin Malia
The Rise of the Romanovs
by Vasili Kliuchevsky, translated by Liliana Archibald
St. Martin's Press, 371 pp., $12.50
Russia in World History, Selected Essays
by M.N. Pokrovsky, translated by Roman Szporluk, translated by Mary Ann Szporluk
University of Michigan Press, 241 pp., $7.95
Russia in the Era of Peter the Great
by L. Jay Oliva
Prentice-Hall, 184 pp., $2.45 (paper)
The Tsars: From Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II, 1533-1917
by Ronald Hingley
Macmillan, 320 pp., $10.95
The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs
by John Bergamini
Putnam's, 512 pp., $10.00
The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty
by E.M. Almedingen
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 333 pp., $5.95
Years of the Golden Cockerel: The Last Romanov Tsars, 1814-1917
by Sidney Harcave
Macmillan, 515 pp., $12.50
The Cossacks
by Philip Longworth
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 409 pp., $8.95
Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
Dell, 601 pp., $1.25 (paper)
Nine books on Russian history: seven recent and originally written in English, two very old and translated from the Russian; yet the older are by far the more worthy of attention today. The books by the 'populist' Kliuchevsky, whose views were formed during the 1870s, and the Marxist Pokrovsky, whose creative work appeared during the decade after the Revolution of 1905, still suggest the significant debate in Russian history.
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