Colum Leckey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1204366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colum Leckey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colum |
| FAMILY NAME | Leckey |
| SIGNATURE | LECKEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Piedmont Virginia Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Birth of the Thick Journal
Review of A. G. Gotovtseva, "Sie est' naipolezneishee dlia rossiiskogo obshchestva": Zhurnal "Ezhemesiachnye sochineniia" kak rossiiskii integratsionnyi prosveshchencheskii proiekt serediny XVIII veka. Moscow: Izdatel’skii Dom IaSK, 2018. 369 p. ISBN: 9785907117358
Geographical Endeavor in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Review of: Denis J. B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring, and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613-1825. London: University College London Press, 2024. xvii + 204 p. + xvii. (Open Access)
From Frontier to Borderland
This article examines the rise of borderland actors in Russia’s Orenburg province in the mid-eighteenth century. Established in the 1730s and the 1740s, the fortified line along the Iaik River became a hard border separating Russian-controlled Bashkiria and the Kazakh-Kalmyk steppes to the south. Using numerous case studies culled from the State Archive of the Orenburg Region, it considers the multi-national borderland communities (Tatar, Russian…
Forging a Unitary State
Reviewed by: Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850 by John LeDonne Colum Leckey (bio) John LeDonne, Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. ISBN 9781487506117 (hardcover) / 9781487542115 (paperback). For 40 years, John LeDonne has generated a massive body of work on the politics, administration, and foreign policy of the Russ…
Enterprising Empires
Reviewed by: Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia by Matthew P. Romaniello Colum Leckey (bio) Matthew P. Romaniello. Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia. xvi + 291 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 9781108497572. In Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia, Matthew Romaniello explores the interlocking commercial histories of Brit…
Imagining Russian Regions
Reviewed by: Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Susan Smith-Peter Colum Leckey (bio) Susan Smith-Peter. Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-35351-0. The entangled histories of provincial Russia and serfdom have stimulated a long line of scholarship. From the 1960s through the 1980s, monogra…
The Eurasianist Turn in Russian Studies
Envisioning Imperial Space
This article analyzes the construction of cultural identity in the 18th-century Volga-Ural region through the works of the historian and geographer Petr Ivanovich Rychkov (1712–77). Rychkov produced a variety of works that collectively offer a valuable perspective on the interplay of provincial and imperial narratives on Russia’s southeastern frontier. Central to the analysis are his three major works: Orenburg History (1744); Orenburg Topography…
A History of the Urals
The elusive empire
Matthew Romaniello’s study of the mid-Volga region adds to the growing literature on provincial administration, frontier assimilation, and empire-building in tsarist Russia. Hailed by contemporarie
What is Prosveshchenie? Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers Revisited
Scholars have long regarded Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers as an essential source for eighteenth-century Russia's literary and intellectual life. Beyond providing valuable information on hundreds of authors, the Dictionary also clarifies the meaning of enlightenment (prosveshchenie) for Novikov and his generation. This article examines the Dictionary's application and understanding of prosveshchenie in the broad contex…
Patronage and Public Culture in the Russian Free Economic Society, 1765-1796
Founded in 1765, the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society was one of imperial Russia's first and most prestigious public associations. Historians have long recognized the society's significance for the empire's agrarian history, but only recently have scholars begun to pay attention to its contributions to Russian public culture. Focusing on the society's daily activities and public practices under Catherine II, this article argues that the organ…
Provincial Readers and Agrarian Reform, 1760s-70s
Since the founding of the Free Economic Society, no small effort and labor have been spent on publishing useful advice and instructions, but the desired effect is nowhere to be found. In this locale I have observed that only recently have they begun to learn to use potatoes. They spin and weave cotton (for which a factory in Kazan has already been built) and stockings and caps are knit from it. Many homes here already use goat hair. And this year…
David Riazanov and Russian Marxism
Patronage and Public Culture in the Russian Free Economic Society, 1765-1796
Founded in 1765, the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society was one of imperial Russia's first and most prestigious public associations. Historians have long recognized the society's significance for the empire's agrarian history, but only recently have scholars begun to pay attention to its contributions to Russian public culture. Focusing on the society's daily activities and public practices under Catherine II, this article argues that the organ…
Provincial Readers and Agrarian Reform, 1760s-70s
Since the founding of the Free Economic Society, no small effort and labor have been spent on publishing useful advice and instructions, but the desired effect is nowhere to be found. In this locale I have observed that only recently have they begun to learn to use potatoes. They spin and weave cotton (for which a factory in Kazan has already been built) and stockings and caps are knit from it. Many homes here already use goat hair. And this year…
David Riazanov and Russian Marxism
Provincial Readers and Agrarian Reform, 1760s-70s
Since the founding of the Free Economic Society, no small effort and labor have been spent on publishing useful advice and instructions, but the desired effect is nowhere to be found. In this locale I have observed that only recently have they begun to learn to use potatoes. They spin and weave cotton (for which a factory in Kazan has already been built) and stockings and caps are knit from it. Many homes here already use goat hair. And this year…
Patronage and Public Culture in the Russian Free Economic Society, 1765-1796
Founded in 1765, the St. Petersburg Free Economic Society was one of imperial Russia's first and most prestigious public associations. Historians have long recognized the society's significance for the empire's agrarian history, but only recently have scholars begun to pay attention to its contributions to Russian public culture. Focusing on the society's daily activities and public practices under Catherine II, this article argues that the organ…
What is Prosveshchenie? Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers Revisited
Scholars have long regarded Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers as an essential source for eighteenth-century Russia's literary and intellectual life. Beyond providing valuable information on hundreds of authors, the Dictionary also clarifies the meaning of enlightenment (prosveshchenie) for Novikov and his generation. This article examines the Dictionary's application and understanding of prosveshchenie in the broad contex…
The elusive empire
Matthew Romaniello’s study of the mid-Volga region adds to the growing literature on provincial administration, frontier assimilation, and empire-building in tsarist Russia. Hailed by contemporarie
A History of the Urals
Envisioning Imperial Space
This article analyzes the construction of cultural identity in the 18th-century Volga-Ural region through the works of the historian and geographer Petr Ivanovich Rychkov (1712–77). Rychkov produced a variety of works that collectively offer a valuable perspective on the interplay of provincial and imperial narratives on Russia’s southeastern frontier. Central to the analysis are his three major works: Orenburg History (1744); Orenburg Topography…
The Eurasianist Turn in Russian Studies
Imagining Russian Regions
Reviewed by: Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Susan Smith-Peter Colum Leckey (bio) Susan Smith-Peter. Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-35351-0. The entangled histories of provincial Russia and serfdom have stimulated a long line of scholarship. From the 1960s through the 1980s, monogra…
Enterprising Empires
Reviewed by: Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia by Matthew P. Romaniello Colum Leckey (bio) Matthew P. Romaniello. Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia. xvi + 291 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 9781108497572. In Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia, Matthew Romaniello explores the interlocking commercial histories of Brit…
Forging a Unitary State
Reviewed by: Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850 by John LeDonne Colum Leckey (bio) John LeDonne, Forging a Unitary State: Russia's Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650–1850. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. ISBN 9781487506117 (hardcover) / 9781487542115 (paperback). For 40 years, John LeDonne has generated a massive body of work on the politics, administration, and foreign policy of the Russ…
Birth of the Thick Journal
Review of A. G. Gotovtseva, "Sie est' naipolezneishee dlia rossiiskogo obshchestva": Zhurnal "Ezhemesiachnye sochineniia" kak rossiiskii integratsionnyi prosveshchencheskii proiekt serediny XVIII veka. Moscow: Izdatel’skii Dom IaSK, 2018. 369 p. ISBN: 9785907117358
Geographical Endeavor in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Review of: Denis J. B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring, and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613-1825. London: University College London Press, 2024. xvii + 204 p. + xvii. (Open Access)
From Frontier to Borderland
This article examines the rise of borderland actors in Russia’s Orenburg province in the mid-eighteenth century. Established in the 1730s and the 1740s, the fortified line along the Iaik River became a hard border separating Russian-controlled Bashkiria and the Kazakh-Kalmyk steppes to the south. Using numerous case studies culled from the State Archive of the Orenburg Region, it considers the multi-national borderland communities (Tatar, Russian…
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