Daily Life in Imperial Russia

GRETA BUCHER is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy. Her research interests include Russian, Soviet and East European historymen's history, and early modern European history. She is author of Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945-1953 (2006) and has written and edited several chapters, articles and translated works.

• ChronologyIntroduction: Early History through Peter the Great1.Modernizing Russia2.The Elites: Princes, Boyars, and Gentry3.The Peasantry4.The Church and the Towns5.Lifestyle, Traditions, and Rituals6.Conclusion: Radicals and RevolutionGlossaryBibliography

…a pleasure to read. Because its interpretations of various stages and aspects of Russian history are short, balanced, well-informed, and unified by an emphasis on social history, it could be valuable as a supplementary reading in an undergraduate course or as a resource for college-level instructors preparing to teach the Russian history survey…