About the Author

Donald J. Raleigh, Pardue Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author, editor, or translator of numerous books and articles, including most recently, The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romano

Reviews

... makes a further contribution towar pushing regional history into the mainstream of Soviet studies.-- "History: Reviews of New Books"

... stimulating provocations that call for further research.-- "The Russian Review"

Provincial Landscapes is the first book published in the west devoted to offering regional narratives of the Soviet historical experience. . . . It provides a fascinating glimpse of the fluctuating balance of relations between the periphery and the center in the Soviet Union from the revolution to the end of the Stalin era.-- "Slavic Review"

Aside from its general interest to students of Soviet history, this compilation should also be fascinating to those concerned with the purpose and execution of local history, particularly urban-rural relations. . . . an important contribution to the field of local history . . . essential reading for Sovietologists seeking an alternative from central, urban, national history.-- "Australian Slavonic and East European Studies"

It is impossible within the framework of a book review to describe, much less, engage, the many insights and ideas raised by the essays in this volume. By looking at important chapters of [Russia's] history from a local perspective, we often can see important issues and developments more clearly than from the perspective of the capital, where 'high politics' gets mixed in and sometimes muddies the water. This book provides many such insights and will repay careful reading by a range of scholars.-- "American Historical Review"