Adventures in Russian historical research : reminiscences of American scholars from the Cold War to the present / edited by Samuel H. Baron and Cathy A. Frierson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My historical research in the Soviet Union: half-empty of half-full? / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky -- A tale of two inquiries / Samuel H. Baron -- Discovering rural Russia: a forty-year odyssey / Prisvilla Roosevelt -- Catherine the great and the rats / John T. Alexander -- Exploration and adventure in the two capitals / Richard Stites -- Leningrad, 1966-1967: irrelevant insights in an era of relevance / S. Frederick Starr -- Adventures and misadventures: Russian foreign policy in European and Russian archives / Hugh Ragsdale -- Reclaiming Peter the great / James Cracraft -- Prisoner of the Zeitgeist / Laura Engelstein -- Of outcomes happy and unhappy / Bruce W. Menning -- A journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov / Donald J. Raleigh -- Romancing the sources / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- Russian history from coast to coast / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter -- Friends and colleagues / Eva Levin -- Within and beyond the pale: research in Odessa and Birobidzhan / Robert Weinberg -- Mysteries in the realms of history and memory / Cathy A. Frierson -- A historian of science works from the bottom up / Paul R. Josephson -- Orthodoxies and revisions / Nadieszda Kizenko -- Post-Soviet improvisations: life and work in rural Siberia / Golfo Alexopoulos -- Hits and misses in the archives of Kazakhstan / Steven A. Barnes.