Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815394969 ISBN 13: 9780815394969

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Reading Russian Sources is an accessible and comprehensive guide that introduces students to the wide range of sources that can be used to engage with Russian history from the early medieval to the late Soviet periods.

Divided into two parts, the book begins by considering approaches that can be taken towards the study of Russian history using primary sources. It then moves on to assess both textual and visual sources, including memoirs, autobiographies, journals, newspapers, art, maps, film and TV, enabling the reader to engage with and make sense of the burgeoning number of different sources and the ways they are used. Contributors illuminate key issues in the study of different areas of Russia’s history through their analysis of source materials, exploring some of the major issues in using different source types and reflecting recent discoveries that are changing the field. In so doing, the book orientates students within the broader methodological and conceptual debates that are defining the field and shaping the way Russian history is studied.

Chronologically wide-ranging and supported by further reading, along with suggestions to help students guide their own enquiries, Reading Russian Sources is the ideal resource for any student undertaking research on Russian history.

About this title

About the Author

George Gilbert is lecturer in modern Russian history at the University of Southampton, UK. As well as editing the present volume, his publications include The Radical Right in late Imperial Russia (2016), and he has published in English and Russian on a variety of articles on different aspects of the social, cultural and political history of the late Imperial period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815394969
• ISBN 13: 9780815394969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Gilbert George