Kimball Essays

Ways of Seeing History

Two Perspectives on Begriffsgeschichte [History of Meaning]: Francis Bacon and Reinhart Koselleck

Two Women, Olga and Anna, & Christianization of Rus’

Tarkovsky's film "Andrei Rublev"

On two Eisenstein films = "Aleksandr Nevskii" & "Ivan the Terrible"

The Stroganov Family

Petrov's film "Peter the First"

Russia and Japan Expand to their Pacific Frontiers, 1697-1898

Alexander Herzen and the Native Lineage of the Russian Revolution

Intelligentsia

Petrashevtsy

Aleksei Nikolaevich Pleshcheev

Russian Civil Society and Political Crisis, 1859-1863

Tsarist State & Origins of Revolutionary Opposition in the 1860s

Culture of Terrorism in Imperial Russia

The Russian Peasant Obshchina in the Political Culture of the Era of Great Reforms: A Contribution to Begriffsgeschichte

Conspectus and translation of passages from Boris Nikolaevskii's “Russkie knigi v bibliotekakh K. Marksa i F. Engel'sa”

The Village Kabak [tavern] as an Expression of Russian Civil Society, 1855-1905

Pre-Soviet Russian Concepts of Civil Society and Their Legacy

Miliukov on the Feudal Origins of Progressive Europe

Intellectuals and Public Culture: Some Parallels in the Russian and American Experiences

Klimov's film "Agoniia" [Rasputin]

The Meaning of Victory in World War Two: The Soviet Search for a Usable Past

Getting Behind the Headlines: Dissent

James Madison and Post-Soviet Russia

NATO Expansion

Suggested Model for a Research Report

The Place of Honors in Publicly Financed Higher Education