Russia’s Eighteenth Century in Recent US Historiography
Journal: RussianStudiesHu
Year: 2022

Eighteenth-century Russian studies in the US has witnessed a number of notable shifts over the past two decades, including a movement away from grand narratives and overdetermined teleologies, the emergence of new areas of concentration, new approaches to old questions, and-most significantly-the collapse of the Russia/West antinome in historiography. This article highlights five vectors in which some of the most original work is currently taking place: the multiplicity of blurred boundaries; th