The Imperial Russian Project: Autocratic Politics, Economic Development, and Social Fragmentation

"Alfred Rieber belong to the first generation of postwar Russian experts in the United States, yet sixty years later he is still going strong, producing research of great originality and powerful insight. This collection of articles – too rich for a review to do justice – prsents a searching and distinctive interpretation of the evolution of Imperial Russia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century."

Geoffrey Hosking, University College London, Journal of Modern History, September 2019

"The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society." Richard Wortman, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

"The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society. Rieber places these developments in the context of the abiding limits to progress: uncompromising autocratic authority, the backwardness of the economy, poorly articulated social boundaries and identities, as well as the vastness of the empire."

Richard Wortman, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

"Alfred Rieber’s collected volume is a work of profound scholarship, impressive acumen, and sweeping erudition. All the essays included in it address major and highly debatable issues of the history of imperial Russia."

Mikhail Dolbilov, associate professor of History, University of Maryland