This collection of the best new and recent work on historical consciousness and practice in late Imperial Russia assembles the building blocks for a fundamental reconceptualization of Russian history and history writing.

Thomas Sanders

Preface l. Introduction: A Most Narrow Present I. The Evolution of Historical Consciousness and Practice in Russia from the Eighteenth Century Through the 1920s 2. The Idea of Autocracy Among Eighteenth-Century Russian Historians 3. In the Forge of Criticism: M.T. Kachenovskii and Professional Autonomy in Pre-Reform Russia 4. The Third Opponent: Dissertation Defenses and the Public Profile of Academic History in Late Imperial Russia 5. Inventing the State School of Historians, 1840-1995 6. Kliuchevskii's Pupils 7. The St. Petersburg School of History and Its Fate 8. On the Problem of Russia's Separate Path in Late Imperial Historiography 9. Remembrance of Things Past: Historians and History in Russia Abroad Part II. The Individual Practitioners Russian Historiography 10. Christianity, Science, and Progress in Sergei M. Solov' ev's History of Russia 11. Kliuchevskii's View of the Flow of Russian History 12. The Idea of Development in Miliukov's Historical Thought 13. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kizevetter 14. Sergei Fedorovich Platonov (1860-1933): A Life for Russia Ukrainian Historiography 15. Mykola Kostomarov As a Historian 16. Introduction to Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History ofUkraine-Rus' 17. Volodymyr Antonovych: Ukrainian Populist Historiography and the Cultural Politics of Nation Building Part III. Non-Russian Historical Visions 18. On Russian-Jewish Historiography 19. The Emergence of a Modem Central Asian Historical Consciousness 20. The Development of a Ukrainian National Historiography in Imperial Russia Part IV. Concluding Essays 21. Toward a New Paradigm? 22. Russian History at a Turning Point: Notes from a Benevolent Distance