14 (1990): 593–607; Serhii Plokhy,The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities
in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006),The
Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001),
andThe Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012); Faith Hillis,Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine
and the Invention of a Russian Nation(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013).
Social history of Rus’lands includes Kateryna Dysa,Witchcraft Trials and Beyond: Volhynia,
Podolia and Ruthenia, 17–18th Centuries(New York: Central European University Press,
2011) and Natalie Kononenko,Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing(Armonk,
NY, and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998).
On the Baltics: Andrejs Plakans,A Concise History of the Baltic States(Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 2011); Edward C. Thaden and Marianna Forster Thaden,
Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1710– 1870 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984);
Andres Kasekamp,A History of the Baltic States(Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Fascinating study of multi-ethnic community in Vilnius: David Frick,Kith, Kin, and
Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno(Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2013).
On the Jews in the Commonwealth and Russia: Antony Polonsky,The Jews in Poland and
Russia(Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010); Gershon David Hundert,
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity(Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004); Alexei Miller,“The Romanov Empire and the
Jews,”in hisThe Romanov Empire and Nationalism: Essays in the Methodology of Historical
Research, English edn. rev. and enlarged (Budapest: Central European University Press,
2008), 93–137. Classics include Salo W. Baron,A Social and Religious History of the Jews,
Vol. 16:Poland-Lithuania 1500– 1650 , 2nd rev. edn. (New York, London: Columbia
University Press, 1976); Bernard D. Weinryb,The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic
History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800(Philadelphia: Jewish
Publication Society of America, 1973).
On expansion into the Black Sea steppe: Roger P. Bartlett,Human Capital: The Settlement
of Foreigners in Russia, 1762– 1804 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979);
D. J. B. Shaw,“Southern Frontiers in Muscovy, 1550–1700,”in James H. Bater and
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1983), 1: 117–42; Carol Belkin Stevens,Soldiers on the Steppe: Army Reform and Social
Change in Early Modern Russia(DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995);
Brian L. Davies,Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia’s Turkish Wars
in the Eighteenth Century(London: Continuum, 2011).
An English translation of Catherine II’sInstructionof 1767 is Vol. 2 of Paul Dukes,Russia
under Catherine the Great, 2 vols. (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners,
1977); on population is article 265.
On Crimea, see Edward Lazzerini,“The Crimea under Russian Rule: 1783 to the Great
Reforms,”in Michael Rywkin, ed.,Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917(London:
Mansell, 1988), 123–38; Kelly Ann O’Neill,“Between Subversion and Submission:
The Integration of the Crimean Khanate into the Russian Empire, 1783–1853,”
Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2006 and her“Rethinking Elite Integration:
The Crimean Murzas and the Evolution of Russian Nobility,”Cahiers du monde russe
51 (2010): 397–418. On slavery: Liubov Kurtynova-D’Herlugnan,The Tsar’s Abolitionists:
The Slave Trade in the Caucasus and its Suppression(Leiden: Brill, 2010); Christoph
Witzenrath, ed.,Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History, 1200– 1860
(Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).126 The Russian Empire 1450– 1801