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Primary document in a source
book
1. P.N. Miliukov, “Stupidity or Treason?” in
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, ed.
Ronald Kowalski (New York: Routledge,
1997), 33.
2. Petr Chaadaev, “Philosophical Letter,” in
Derek Offord, Nineteenth-Century Russia:
Opposition to Autocracy (New York:
Longman, 1999), 25.
3. Miliukov, “Stupidity,” 35.
Internet database, primary
11.Count von Moltke, “The Coronation of
Tsar Alexander II (1855),” Internet
Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham
University.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mod
sbook39.html [accessed July 7, 2009].
12. Von Moltke, “Coronation.”
Book, by author or editor
9. Daniel T. Orlovsky, The Limits of Reform:
The Ministry of Internal Affairs in Imperial
Russia, 1802-1881 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1981), 22.
10. Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and
James L. West, eds., Between Tsar and
People: Educated Society and the Quest for
Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991),
18.
Scholarly article (print or
database)
8. Sarah Stein, “Faces of Protest:
Yiddish Cartoons and the 1905
Revolution,” Slavic Review 61,
no. 4 (Winter 2002): 733.
Internet site (secondary)
16. “History and Culture of Russia,” Geographia,
http://www.geographia.com/russia/rushis1.html
[accessed July 7, 2009].
MERSH (signed encyclopedia
article)
22. John B. Smith, “Franco-Russian
Treaties-of 1891-1894,” in Modern
Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet
History, ed. Joseph Wieczynski, vol. 11
(Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International
Press, 1977), 19.
Book review
13.Thomas F. Remington, review of The
Logic of Economic Reform in Russia, by
Jerry F. Hough, Slavic Review 61, no. 4
(Winter 2002): 870.
14. Ibid., 871.