Chester Dunning

Biographic Data

ID346748
NAMEChester Dunning
GIVEN NAMESChester
FAMILY NAMEDunning
SIGNATUREDUNNING C
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University
ORCID0000-0001-8655-3025
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR26
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • C harles J. H alperin . Ivan the Terrible

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLEThe American Historical Review2021

    Ivan IV (1530–84), a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, was one of the most infamous rulers in Russian history. Ivan had himself proclaimed Russia’s first tsar in 1547, and he founded the Russian Empire by conquering Kazan and Astrakhan, remnants of the Golden Horde on the lower Volga River. Ivan’s administrative, legal, and military reforms laid the foundation for the emergence of a powerful Russian state. During the 1560s and early 1570s, however, Tsar Iv…

  • Introduction

    Chester Dunning, Gyula Szvák et al.ARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2016

  • Afterwords

    Chester Dunning, Igor Tyumentsev et al.ARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2016

  • Introduction

    Chester Dunning, Gyula Szvák et al.ARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2015

  • Introduction

    Chester Dunning, Gyula Szvák et al.ARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2015

  • Were muscovy and castile the first fiscal-military states

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2014

    In this article Chester Dunning examines recent scholarship about John Brewer‘s model of the development of the early modern „fiscal-military“ state and the possibility of applying Brewer‘s model to sixteenth-century Russia and Castile (Spain). He concludes that Muscovy and Castile were probably the first “fiscal-military” states

  • Russia in a Scholar’s Life

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLEQuaestio Rossica2013

    Chester Dunning, professor of History and Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Liberal Arts, Department of History, Texas A&M University, College Station has authored a paper answering the aforementioned questions. His freethinking, professionalism and talent of a narrator draw the reader’s attention. His attitude towards Russia which is both critical and constructive, based on the scholar’s knowledge of Russian research schools and respect to the …

  • The Rarities of Russia (1662)

    Chester DunningARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2013

    In 1662 a pamphlet was published in London under the title The Rarities of Russia . Although it was ostensibly written by a merchant named William White, internal evidence reveals that it was written by John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost . It is well known that Milton penned a study of Russia during the 1640s, but his Moscovia manuscript remained unpublished during the poet’s lifetime. When a little book finally appeared in print in 1682 as…

  • Lost Chapters of John Milton's Moscovia

    Chester DunningARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2011

    This article examines The Rarities of Russia, a long overlooked pamphlet describing Russian commodities that was published in London in 1662, and argues that it was ghostwritten by the great poet and pamphleteer John Milton at a time when he lived in fear of assassination and was forbidden to publish anything due to his past support of the English Revolution and his service as Oliver Cromwell's Latin Secretary. The pamphlet appears to consist of …

  • A "Singular Affection" for Russia

    Chester DunningARTICLERussian History2007

  • Moving Beyond Absolutism

    Norman S Smith, Chester DunningARTICLERussian History2006

  • The Uncensored Boris Godunov

    Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, Chester Dunning et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2006

  • The Transfigured Kingdom

    Chester DunningARTICLEThe American Historical Review2005

    As a child, Peter the Great organized “play regiments” that helped enthrone him and ended up becoming a Russian Praetorian Guard. Peter also created another famous (or infamous) “play institution,” the “Most Comical and All-Drunken Council”—frequently described as nothing more than a private club composed of the tsar's advisors and drinking buddies. The council's lewd rituals mocking the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches definitely scandaliz…

  • Russia's First Civil War

    Walter C Uhler, Chester Dunning et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2002

    The Time of was a period of great upheaval in Russian history. It began when the ancient ruling dynasty died out in 1598 and Boris Godunov defeated rival boyars to become the tsar. For more than a decade thereafter, Russia was plagued by dynastic struggle, devastating famine, widespread uprisings, and invasion by Polish and Swedish armies. The Time of finally ended in 1613 with the establishment of the Romanovs as the ruling dynasty. Russia's sta…

  • Rethinking the Canonical Text of Pushkin’s Boris Godunov

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLEThe Russian Review2001

  • Who Was Tsar Dmitrii

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLESlavic Review2001References: 9

    In this article, Dunning challenges traditional scholarship concerning the identity and character of Tsar Dmitrii (reigned 1605-06), better known as the "False Dmitrii"-the only tsar ever raised to the Russian throne by means of a military campaign and popular uprisings. Usually dismissed as a frivolous impostor who was despised by his subjects for being a tool of Polish intervention in Russia's Time of Troubles, Tsar Dmitrii turns out to have be…

  • The Preconditions of Modern Russia's First Civil War

    Chester DunningARTICLERussian History1998

  • Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia

    Chester Dunning, Maureen PerrieARTICLEThe Russian Review1997

  • Does Jack Goldstone's Model of Early Modern State Crises Apply to Russia

    Open AccessChester DunningARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…1997Cited by: 1References: 36

    In 1991 Jack A. Goldstone published an important book,Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, in which he boldly charted a new way to explain the basic causes of revolution throughout Eurasia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Goldstone attempts to explain the periodic waves of early modern state crises, rebellions, and civil wars in widely divergent cultures and geographic settings by developing an intriguing model of st…

  • The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm

    Chester Dunning, Conrad Bussow et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1995

    The disturbed state of the Russian Realm Prince Fedor Ivanovitch concerning Tsar Boris Fedorovich, and how he came to rule Fedor Borisovich, son of Boris Fedorovich the first Dmitry and his reign what befell the Governor of Sandomir and the Poles after the Tsar's murder how the Muscovites dealt with the Tsaritsa and her father what happened to the murdered Dmitry and his champion Lord Peter Fedorovich Basmanov, and also to the 2,135 Poles, who wi…

  • Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 . Lindsey Hughes

    Chester DunningARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1993

  • Cossacks and the Southern Frontier in the Time of Tr o uBles

    Chester Dunning, Chester S L DunningARTICLERussian History1992

  • The Fall of Sir Thomas Overbury and the Embassy to Russia in 1613

    Chester DunningARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1991

  • R. G. Skrynnikov, the Time of Troubles, and the "First Peasant War" in Russia

    Chester Dunning, Chester S L Dunning et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1991Cited by: 1

  • The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy

    Daniel Rowland, Jacques Margeret et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1984