Russia

Barbara Heldt reveals that the brave Russian Cossack, Aleksandrov, was in fact a woman, Nadezhda Durova, who had renounced her unhappy female self.

Edward Acton outlines the historiography of the Russian Revolution.

The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile. 

According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been suggested.