The above lubok is a selection from this collection of prints: Russkii narodnyi lubok 1860-kh - 1870-kh g.g. ; al'bom. For more digitized popular Russian prints see also this collection of prints on NYPL's Digital Collections: Russkiia narodnyia kartinki.

The above print comes from this series of chromolithographs available on NYPL's Digital Collections: Drevnosti rossiiskago gosudarstva (1849-1853).

Episode Twenty-Nine: Readings and Resources 

General History of the Period

Laura Engelstein, Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2017).

D.C.B. Lieven, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015).

Dominic Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: the March to World War I and Revolution (Tantor Audio, 2015).

Joshua A. Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Vera Shevzov, Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2004).

S.A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Paul W. Werth, The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014).

People

Miranda Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010).

Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Modern Library, 2012).

Matthew Rendle, Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Robert Service, The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (Pegasus Books, 2017).

Douglas Smith, Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).

Soviet Posters

Nina Baburina et al, eds., The Soviet Political Poster, 1917/1980: From the USSR Lenin Library Collection (Viking Penguin, 1985).

Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin (University of California Press, 1997).

Alla Rosenfeld, ed., Early Soviet Posters of the Revolutionary Era, 1917-1927 (Merrill C. Berman Collection, 2019).

​Stephen White, The Bolshevik Poster (Yale University Press, 1988).

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