Thirty-two eminent historians and social scientists cover the last two centuries of Russian history in this rich collection of essays. The range and high quality of the contributions reflect the broadening of social and cultural directions that has characterized 'new history; issues of the Russian borderland, especially Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia, receive a prominent treatment as a key part of Russian and Soviet history. Too, studies in this volume show sensitivity to the multicultural nature of Russian society and culture. Top authority in Russian history, Alfred J. Rieber taught at leading US universities before joining Central European University.
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ABOUT THE HONOREE
Alfred J. Rieber is Professor of History at the Central European University. He is the author of several books on Soviet and Russian history, including Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia, The Politics of Autocracy, and Stalin and the French Communist Party. He has edited, among other books, Perestroika at the Crossroads and Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950. Shorter articles have appeared in a wide variety of American, Russian, French, German and Hungarian publications. For 30 years he was a Professor in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania and for 12 years its Chair.
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The authors whose work is represented in this volume have come to know Al Rieber at different times and under different circumstances. Yet the volume coheres through the humanity of the man and his work. He has dedicated his academic career to extending a variety of borders, not only those of geography but also those of the academy. Whether joining the first US—Soviet exchange in 1958 or taking on the new venture as Chair of History at the Central European University in Budapest in 1995, he embodied the spirit of adventure born from his grandfather’s tales and Saturday afternoons at the movies.
The Dnieper/Dnepr/Dnipro River has run through this book, not as a border but as a center of cultures. Rusalki climb its banks in the Habsburg Empire, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Empire and Europe writes or sings about them. The river seems to deposit its sediment on those societies even as the name is changed to preserve national identities. Periodization, although implied in this volume’s divisions, nonetheless is also a border crossed through the work attracted here. Throughout his career, Rieber has managed to appear on both sides of the major border of Slavic studies, the Russian/Soviet divide—and also when least expected. So the chronological groupings of individual essays should not obscure their contribution to the whole as persistent factors are what Rieber has identified and elaborated.
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