This monograph - based largely on memoirs, diaries, archival documents and other primary sources - represents a comprehensive social history of the Moscow merchants in the period between 1855 and 1905.

When we probe at the notion of integration itself more closely, we begin to see that it meant a variety of things. This dissertation challenges the notion that integration was consistently the goal of both imperial officials and the local elites. In Crimea, Catherine declared the local Muslim elite to be the equivalent of Russian nobles, granted them officer ranks, and appointed them to positions in the civil administration. But the empire-building experiment took place just as authorities began to move away from pre-modern multiethnic model, toward the imposition of Russian institutions and centrally-defined hierarchies. The Crimeans' response to this took a fascinating turn. They compiled service records and participated in noble assemblies. But they retained their cultural identity and constantly sought acceptance in imperial society on their own terms. Ultimately, they came to the conclusion that living in, let alone contributing to, the empire was simply not in their interests. By the 1840s, officials found that many Crimeans had long since emigrated, died, or lost interest in integration. Content with their status as unofficial nobles, they remained practitioners of a remarkably neutral, non-committal approach to the Russian empire-building project.

An article is included about Russian trade in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century/ Εμπεριέχεται άρθρο για το ρωσικό εμπόριο στην Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία κατά το 19ο αιώνα.

The book includes reflections on the relations between Christians and Ottomans in the Danubian principalities/ Το βιβλίο περιλαμβάνει σκέψεις σχετικά με τις σχέσεις χριστιανών και οθωμανών στις Παραδουνάβιες ηγεμονίες.

Historical essays on Georgia, written in Georgian/ Ιστορικά δοκίμια για τη Γεωργία, γραμμένα στα γεωργιανά. 

Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical perspective, this volume examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian culture that emerged in Odessa in the 19th century and persisted through the Soviet era and beyond. The book shows how the art of eminent Soviet-era figures such as Isaac Babel, Il'ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish culture into which they were born and which shaped their lives.

The present volume examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development. According to Russian law, women enjoyed the same property rights as men, so the principle of separate personal property in marriage made it possible for a woman to be independent in business matters. This study uses statistical information on female entrepreneurs from 1814 to 1900, and sociologically analyzes the data on a wide range of enterprises, from cottage industries to large-scale manufacturing operations. It also includes lively case histories which reveal the background to a number of family fortunes including instances of bankruptcy and property litigations between close family members.

Τhis study of the raznochintsy, drawing on a rich array of archival, legal, administrative, and public sources, shows how this important but elusive category functioned in Russian society from the time of Peter the Great to the late nineteenth century. Challenging the traditional image of a rigidly hierarchical social structure, the study indicates that there was much more mobility within imperial Russian society than historians have previously thought.

Η Οδησσός ιδρύθηκε το 1794 ως μια συνοριακή πόλη της Μαύρης θάλασσας για να μετατραπεί σύντομα σε ένα από τα πιο πολυσύχναστα λιμάνια της Ρωσίας. Έποικοι όλων των εθνικοτήτων αναζήτησαν την τύχη τους στην Οδησσό, μεταξύ των οποίων και Εβραίοι που προήλθαν από μια από τις πιο εύρωστες, πολυπληθέστερες και πολιτισμικά γόνιμες εβραϊκές κοινότητες της Ευρώπης. Η ιστορία της εβραϊκής Οδησσού εντοπίζει την άνοδο αυτή της κοινότητας από την ίδρυση της το 1794 έως τα πογκρόμ του 1881 που ξέσπασαν μετά τη δολοφονία του Αλέξανδρου ΙΙ. /Founded in 1794 as a frontier city on the Black Sea, Odessa soon grew to be one of Russia's busiest seaports. Settlers of all nationalities went there to seek their fortune, among them Jews who came to form one of the largest, wealthiest, and most culturally fertile Jewish communities in Europe. This history of Jewish Odessa traces the rise of that community from its foundation in 1794 to the pogroms of 1881 that erupted after the assassination of Alexander II. More a modern metropolis than any other Russian city with a significant Jewish population, Odessa offers a window into the diversity of Russian Jewish experience