Core Reading:

Kahan, Arcadius. “The Costs of ‘Westernization’ in Russia: The Gentry and the Economy in the Eighteenth Century.” Slavic Review, vol. 25, no. 1, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 1966, pp. 40–66.

https://doi.org/10.2307/2492650.

Rasmussen, Karen. “Catherine II and the Image of Peter I.” Slavic Review, vol. 37, no. 1, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 1978, pp. 51–69.

https://doi.org/10.2307/2494906.

Waugh, Daniel Clarke. “We Have Never Been Modern: Approaches to the Study of Russia in the Age of Peter the Great.” Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 49, no. 3, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, pp. 321–45.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41050779.

Further Reading:

ANISIMOV, EVGENII V. “PROGRESS THROUGH VIOLENCE FROM PETER THE GREAT TO LENIN AND STALIN.” Russian History, vol. 17, no. 4, Brill, 1990, pp. 409–18.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/24656393.

Griffiths, David M. “Catherine II: The Republican Empress.” Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 21, no. 3, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1973, pp. 323–44.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41047623.

Hudson, Hugh D. “A Failure of Modernization: Police Reform, The ‘Common Good,’ and Serfdom In Eighteenth-Century Russia.” Russian History, vol. 42, no. 3, Brill, 2015, pp. 249–71.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/24657898.

Martin, Russell E. “The Petrine Divide and the Periodization of Early Modern Russian History.” Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 2, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2010, pp. 410–25.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25677105.