This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its borderlands from the Mongol invasions until 1613. The sections "General Surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles.

Works listed here are cited in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly sources. Each is published by an academic or major press, written by a recognized expert, or substantially reviewed in scholarly journals; borderline cases are omitted. A selection of primary sources are included. Many of the books below carry their own bibliographies; see the Further reading section for other bibliographies, and the External links section for historical sites, academic sites, and museums.

Citations follow APA style. Book have citations to academic journal or mainstream published reviews when available. For books only partly about the subject, relevant chapter or section titles are provided when useful and available. Translators of the original-language edition are included when possible. In cases where a title or name has appeared with more than one English spelling, the most recent published form is used and a footnote documents any earlier title under which the work appeared.

General works

Period works (12231613) Alef, G. (1983). Rulers and nobles in 15th-century Muscovy. Variorum. Birnbaum, H., Flier, M. S., & Rowland, D. B. (1984). Medieval Russian culture. University of California Press. Black, J. (1999). The development of Russian military power, 1453–1815. In J. Black (Ed.), European warfare, 1453–1815. Macmillan. Lohr, E., & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2002). The military and society in Russia, 1450–1917. Brill. Martin, J. (2007). Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Cambridge University Press. Meyendorff, J. (1997). Byzantium and the rise of Russia: A study of Byzantino-Russian relations in the fourteenth century. St Vladimir's Seminary Press. Ostrowski, D., & Poe, M. T. (Eds.). (2011). Portraits of old Russia: Imagined lives of ordinary people, 1300–1745. Routledge. Pelenski, J. (1998). The contest for the legacy of Kievan Rus'. East European Monographs, Columbia University. Presniakov, A. E. (1970). The formation of the great Russian state: A study of Russian history in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries (A. E. Moorhouse, Trans.). Quadrangle Books.

Mongols

Allsen, T. (1981). Mongol census taking in Rus', 1245–1275. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 5(1), 32–53. Allsen, T. (2001). Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia. Cambridge University Press. Fennell, J. (1983, 2014, 2017). The crisis of medieval Russia, 1200–1304. Routledge. Halperin, C. (1987). Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol impact on medieval Russian history. Indiana University Press. Inalcik, H. (1979). The khan and the tribal aristocracy: The Crimean Khanate under Sahib Giray I. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 445–466. Langer, L. (2017). Rus' and the Mongol decimal system. Russian History, 44(4), 515–533. Martin, J. (1992). Muscovite frontier policy: The case of the Khanate of Kasimov. Russian History, 19(1/4), 169–179. Morgan, D. (1986). The Mongols. Blackwell. Ostrowski, D. (1990). The Mongol origins of Muscovite political institutions. Slavic Review, 49(4), 525–542. Pritsak, O. (1967). Moscow, the Golden Horde, and the Kazan Khanate from a polycultural point of view. Slavic Review, 26(4), 577–583. Sverdrup, C. F. (2020). The Mongol conquests: The military operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei. Helion. Vernadsky, G. (1973). The Mongols and Russia (A history of Russia, Vol. 3). Yale University Press. Zdan, M. B. (1957). The dependence of Halych-Volyn' Rus' on the Golden Horde. The Slavonic and East European Review, 35(85), 505–522.

Muscovite

Alef, G. (1966). The adoption of the Muscovite two-headed eagle: A discordant view. Speculum, 41(1), 1–21. Alef, G. (1983). Rulers and nobles in 15th-century Muscovy. Ashgate Publishing. Alef, G. (1986). The origins of Muscovite autocracy: The age of Ivan III. Osteuropa-Institut. Brown, P. (1983). Muscovite government bureaus. Russian History, 10(3), 269–330. Brown, P. (2009). How Muscovy governed: Seventeenth-century Russian central administration. Russian History, 36(4), 459–529. Backus, O. P. (1957). Motives of West Russian nobles in deserting Lithuania for Moscow, 1377–1514. University of Kansas Press. Croskey, R. M. (1987). Muscovite diplomatic practice in the reign of Ivan III. Garland. Crummey, R. O. (1987). The formation of Muscovy, 1304–1613. Routledge. Crummey, R. (1987). New wine in old bottles? Ivan IV and Novgorod. Russian History, 14(1/4), 61–76. Davies, B. (1987). The town governors in the reign of Ivan IV. Russian History, 14(1/4), 77–143. Fennell, J. (1968). The emergence of Moscow, 1304–1359. Secker & Warburg. Halperin, C. (2012). Simeon Bekbulatovich and Mongol influence on Ivan IV's Muscovy. Russian History, 39(3), 306–330. Halperin, C. J. (2000). Muscovite political institutions in the 14th century. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 1(2), 237–257. Halperin, C. J. (2002). Muscovy as a hypertrophic state: A critique. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 3(3), 501–507. Keenan, E. (1967). Muscovy and Kazan: Some introductory remarks on the patterns of steppe diplomacy. Slavic Review, 26(4), 548–558. Keenan, E. (1986). Muscovite political folkways. The Russian Review, 45(2), 115–181. Kivelson, V. (2002). Muscovite "citizenship": Rights without freedom. The Journal of Modern History, 74(3), 465–489. Kollmann, N. S. (1986a). Consensus politics: The dynastic crisis of the 1490s reconsidered. Russian Review, 45(3), 235–267. Kollmann, N. S. (1986b). Ritual and social drama at the Muscovite court. Slavic Review, 45(3), 486–502. Kollmann, N. S. (1987). Kinship and politics: The making of the Muscovite political system, 1345–1547. Stanford University Press. Kotilaine, J., & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2004). Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and social change in seventeenth-century Russia. Routledge. Martin, J. (1992). Muscovite frontier policy: The case of the Khanate of Kasimov. Russian History, 19(1/4), 169–179. Ostrowski, D. (1990). The Mongol origins of Muscovite political institutions. Slavic Review, 49(4), 525–542. Ostrowski, D. (1998). Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-cultural influences on the steppe frontier, 1304–1589. Cambridge University Press. Pelenski, J. (1967). Muscovite imperial claims to the Kazan Khanate. Slavic Review, 26(4), 559–576. Pelenski, J. (1979). The sack of Kiev of 1482 in contemporary Muscovite chronicle writing. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 3/4, 638–649. Pelenski, J. (1983). The emergence of the Muscovite claims to the Byzantine-Kievan "imperial inheritance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 7, 520–531. Raba, J. (1976). The authority of the Muscovite ruler at the dawn of the modern era. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 24(3), Neue Folge, 321–344.

Tsardom of Russia

Bogatyrev, S. (2007). Reinventing the Russian monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the dynasty, and the church. The Slavonic and East European Review, 85(2), 271–293. Bushkovitch, P. (2014). The testament of Ivan the Terrible. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 15(3), 653–656. Bushkovitch, P. (2021). Succession to the throne in early modern Russia: The transfer of power, 1450–1725. Cambridge University Press. Fennell, J. (1987). Ivan IV as a writer. Russian History, 14(1/4), 145–154. Grobovsky, A. N. (1969). The "chosen council" of Ivan IV: A reinterpretation. T. Gaus' Sons. Halperin, C. (2003). Ivan IV and Chinggis Khan. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 51(4), Neue Folge, 481–497. Halperin, C. (2007). Ivan IV's insanity. Russian History, 34(1/4), 207–218. Hellie, R. (1987). What happened? How did he get away with it? Ivan Groznyi's paranoia and the problem of institutional restraints. Russian History, 14(1/4), 199–224. Hunt, P. (1993). Ivan IV's personal mythology of kingship. Slavic Review, 52(4), 769–809. Khodarkovsky, M. (1999). Of Christianity, enlightenment, and colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1500–1800. The Journal of Modern History, 71(2), 394–430. Kleimola, A. (1987). Ivan the Terrible and his "go-fers": Aspects of state security in the 1560s. Russian History, 14(1/4), 283–292. Miller, D. (1967). The coronation of Ivan IV of Moscow. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 15(4), Neue Folge, 559–574. Miller, D. (1994). Creating legitimacy: Ritual, ideology, and power in sixteenth-century Russia. Russian History, 21(3), 289–315. Perrie, M. (1987). The image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian folklore. Cambridge University Press. Pouncy, C. (2006). Missed opportunities and the search for Ivan the Terrible. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 7(2), 309–328. Rowland, D. (1990). Did Muscovite literary ideology place limits on the power of the tsar (1540s–1660s)?. The Russian Review, 49(2), 125–155. Waugh, D. (1987). The unsolved problem of Tsar Ivan IV's library. Russian History, 14(1/4), 395–408. Yaşar, M. (2016). The North Caucasus between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Muscovy: The beginnings, 1552–1570. Iran & the Caucasus, 20(1), 105–125.

Time of Troubles

Dunning, C. S. L. (1995). Crisis, conjuncture, and the causes of the Time of Troubles. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 19, 97–119. Dunning, C. S. L. (2001). Russia's first civil war: The Time of Troubles and the founding of the Romanov dynasty. Penn State University Press. Dunning, C. S. L. (2003). Terror in the Time of Troubles. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 4(3), 491–513. Perrie, M. (1982). Popular socio-utopian legends in the Time of Troubles. The Slavonic and East European Review, 60(2), 221–243. Perrie, M. (1995). Pretenders and popular monarchism in early modern Russia: The false tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge University Press. Platonov, S. F. (1970). The Time of Troubles: A historical study of the internal crisis and social struggle in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Muscovy. University Press of Kansas.

Topical works Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups Kappeler, A., Kohut, Z. E., Sysyn, F. E., & von Hagen, M. (Eds.). (2003). Culture, nation, and identity: The Ukrainian-Russian encounter, 1600–1945. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.

Religion and philosophy Bogatyrev, S. (2007). Reinventing the Russian monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the dynasty, and the church. The Slavonic and East European Review, 85(2), 271–293. Bremer, T. (2013). Cross and Kremlin: A brief history of the Orthodox Church in Russia (E. W. Gritsch, Trans.). Eerdmans. Bushkovitch, P. (1992). Religion and society in Russia: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Oxford University Press. Challis, N., & Dewey, H. (1987). Basil the Blessed, holy fool of Moscow. Russian History, 14(1/4), 47–59. Clucas, L. (Ed.). (1988). The Byzantine legacy in Eastern Europe. East European Monographs. Franklin, S. (2002). Byzantium-Rus-Russia: Studies in the translation of Christian culture. Ashgate/Variorum. Gruber, I. (2012). Orthodox Russia in crisis: Church and nation in the Time of Troubles. Northern Illinois University Press. Gudziak, B. A. (2001). Crisis and reform: The Kyivan metropolitanate, the patriarchate of Constantinople, and the genesis of the Union of Brest (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies). Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Hunt, P. (1993). Ivan IV's personal mythology of kingship. Slavic Review, 52(4), 769–809. Ivanov, A. A. (2020). A spiritual revolution: The impact of reformation and enlightenment in Orthodox Russia. University of Wisconsin Press. Kaiser, D. H. (2006). Church control over marriage in seventeenth-century Russia. The Russian Review, 65(4), 567–585.