Gary Marker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Marker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Marker |
| SIGNATURE | MARKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9799-2019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe, by Nancy S. Kollmann
Vivliofika and the World 2024
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine the field of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies is in something akin to crisis mode, which has produced deep and thought-provoking reflections on how or whether the field needs to be reconceptualized (or “decolonized” as some have framed it). This essay examines the nature of ourown journal, Вивлиофика, and its modest renaming, against the backdrop of this current rethinking. Itdiscusses these issues, fi…
Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power, 1450–1725, by Paul Bushkovitch
In his long and prodigious scholarly career, Paul Bushkovitch’s scholarship has time and again enriched our field with its depth of research, signature sharp insight, and mastery of sources. Let me venture that, with the publication of this book, he has outdone himself. This is quite simply a brilliant piece of work, exhaustively researched, consistently thought-provoking and articulated with crystal-clear prose, one that will immediately become …
A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, by Andrey V. Ivanov
The Gender Troubles of Feofan Prokopovich
This essay constitutes a close reading of the works of Feofan Prokopovich that touch upon gender and womanhood. Interpretively it is informed by Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble , specifically by her model of gender-as-performance. Prokopovich’s writings conveyed a negative characterization of holy women and Russian women of power, a combination of glaring silences and Scholastic dual codes that in toto denied the association of womanhood with…
Offord Derek, RJEOUTSKI Vladislav, Argent Gesine, The French Language in Russia. A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History
This massive volume constitutes an exhaustive, multi-thematic, intensively researched, and richly informative study of the use and place of French in eighteenth- and nineteenth century Russia. It has already received several well-deserved positive reviews and award (The 2019 Marc Raeff Prize from the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association). The title deems it a social, political, cultural and literary history, and the volume follows throu…
Paradigms of Eighteenth-Century Russian Education, or is It Time to Move beyond Secularization
This essay considers the evolution of the historiography of eighteenth-century Russian education, emphasizing recent shifts in the dominant paradigm of secularization. It identifies three wide vectors (1) the place of the state as prime institution builder; (2) the pace of standardization; (3) the problem of “reflexivity,” or laying bare the assumptions underlying scholarly narratives. The paradigm of secularization overlooks crucial aspects of R…
How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks, written by Irina Reyfman
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 1923-2011
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Scriptural Pieces: A Muscovite Publishing History of Books of the Bible
Anthony Cross — Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People
Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia
presents an ambitious and revisionist analysis of the relationship of state and society in Muscovy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which significantly advances our understanding of early modern Russian history.Kollmann shares a growing consensus that while Muscovite autocratic theory claimed a monopoly of power, in practice geography, scant resources, and poor communications inhibited the state, as elsewhere in Europe, from exerci…
The Enlightenment of Anna Labzina: Gender, Faith, and Public Life in Catherinian and Alexandrian Russia
In recent years the historiography of Catherinian Russia has made small but perceptible strides toward engendering or at least toward discussing women as historical subjects outside the specific context of the household. Beginning with Brenda Meehan's 1976 article "Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule," most attention has focused, appropriately, on female rule and the question of how a patriarchal culture accommodated itself to the …
The creation of journals and the profession of letters in the eighteenth century
Most studies on the history of Russian journals concentrate, appropriately enough, on their intellectual and literary side: on ideas of the editors and authors, running debates among various publications, critiques of governmental policy, and the place of specific journals and journalists in educated society. At times, however, this focus on ideas and personalities is left floating in something of a sociological void insofar as it neglects the re…
Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
V. O. Kliuchevskii: Historian of Russia
Kliuchevskii was born the son of a village priest near the provincial town of Penza.In tsarist
Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain during the Reign of Catherine II
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
Istoriia Rossii. Dialog rossiiskikh i amerikanskikh istorikov: Materialy rossiisko-amerikanskoi nauchnoi konferentsii (g. Saratov, 18-22 maia 1992 goda)
Who Rules the Word? Public School Education and the Fate of Universality in Russia, 1782-1803
The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press
In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Arguing that this prosperous industry both expressed …
Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia
Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy: A Reconsideration
For well over a century scholars with a variety of concerns have inquired into the level of literacy in pre-Petrine Russia with mixed success at best. The problem is well known: The array of sources upon which historians of other cultures typically rely to estimate levels of literacy-parish records, wills, service records, and tax lists-either do not exist for pre-Petrine Russia or do not provide the volume of data necessary for computing literac…
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply diverged from Western experiences but that proved to be highly significant for Russian society. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology …
Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia
The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press
In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Arguing that this prosperous industry both expressed …
The Enlightenment of Anna Labzina: Gender, Faith, and Public Life in Catherinian and Alexandrian Russia
In recent years the historiography of Catherinian Russia has made small but perceptible strides toward engendering or at least toward discussing women as historical subjects outside the specific context of the household. Beginning with Brenda Meehan's 1976 article "Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule," most attention has focused, appropriately, on female rule and the question of how a patriarchal culture accommodated itself to the …
Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy: A Reconsideration
For well over a century scholars with a variety of concerns have inquired into the level of literacy in pre-Petrine Russia with mixed success at best. The problem is well known: The array of sources upon which historians of other cultures typically rely to estimate levels of literacy-parish records, wills, service records, and tax lists-either do not exist for pre-Petrine Russia or do not provide the volume of data necessary for computing literac…
Primers and Literacy in Muscovy: A Taxonomic Investigation
The Slavic primer has long been accepted as the basic first text of Muscovite primary education, mastery of which was essential to learning to read. Archival research, so we are told, has shown that over a third of a million primers were printed in Muscovy during the second half of the seventeenth century and tens of thousands more were printed by other East Slavic presses.' In principle, students who began instruction with the primer were expect…
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
"Russia and the "Printing Revolution: Notes and Observations
In recent years the history of early printing in Western Europe has received renewed attention from scholars with an interest not only in elucidating the internal evolution of printing, but also in demonstrating the relevance of this development for history in general. Indeed, some historians of printing now argue that the advent of movable type was a major landmark of the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. This proposit…
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply diverged from Western experiences but that proved to be highly significant for Russian society. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology …
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870 . Edward C. Thaden
Boevoi pochin rossiiskogo proletariata
Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800
Ocherki istorii russkoi kul'tury XVIII veka
Primers and Literacy in Muscovy: A Taxonomic Investigation
The Slavic primer has long been accepted as the basic first text of Muscovite primary education, mastery of which was essential to learning to read. Archival research, so we are told, has shown that over a third of a million primers were printed in Muscovy during the second half of the seventeenth century and tens of thousands more were printed by other East Slavic presses.' In principle, students who began instruction with the primer were expect…
Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia
Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy: A Reconsideration
For well over a century scholars with a variety of concerns have inquired into the level of literacy in pre-Petrine Russia with mixed success at best. The problem is well known: The array of sources upon which historians of other cultures typically rely to estimate levels of literacy-parish records, wills, service records, and tax lists-either do not exist for pre-Petrine Russia or do not provide the volume of data necessary for computing literac…
Who Rules the Word? Public School Education and the Fate of Universality in Russia, 1782-1803
The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press
In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits of publishers and editors, writers and readers. Arguing that this prosperous industry both expressed …
Istoriia Rossii. Dialog rossiiskikh i amerikanskikh istorikov: Materialy rossiisko-amerikanskoi nauchnoi konferentsii (g. Saratov, 18-22 maia 1992 goda)
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
V. O. Kliuchevskii: Historian of Russia
Kliuchevskii was born the son of a village priest near the provincial town of Penza.In tsarist
Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain during the Reign of Catherine II
The creation of journals and the profession of letters in the eighteenth century
Most studies on the history of Russian journals concentrate, appropriately enough, on their intellectual and literary side: on ideas of the editors and authors, running debates among various publications, critiques of governmental policy, and the place of specific journals and journalists in educated society. At times, however, this focus on ideas and personalities is left floating in something of a sociological void insofar as it neglects the re…
Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia
presents an ambitious and revisionist analysis of the relationship of state and society in Muscovy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which significantly advances our understanding of early modern Russian history.Kollmann shares a growing consensus that while Muscovite autocratic theory claimed a monopoly of power, in practice geography, scant resources, and poor communications inhibited the state, as elsewhere in Europe, from exerci…
The Enlightenment of Anna Labzina: Gender, Faith, and Public Life in Catherinian and Alexandrian Russia
In recent years the historiography of Catherinian Russia has made small but perceptible strides toward engendering or at least toward discussing women as historical subjects outside the specific context of the household. Beginning with Brenda Meehan's 1976 article "Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule," most attention has focused, appropriately, on female rule and the question of how a patriarchal culture accommodated itself to the …
Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People
Anthony Cross — Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
History (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Soviet and Russian History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (7 works)