Cynthia H Whittaker

Biographic Data

ID3596028
NAMECynthia H Whittaker
GIVEN NAMESCynthia H
FAMILY NAMEWhittaker
SIGNATUREWHITTAKER C H
AFFILIATIONSBaruch College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX2

  • Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825

    Tamara Machmut-Jhashi, Cynthia H Whittaker et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2007

    This text was created by a team of leading historians in collaboration with the New York Public Library, tracing Russia's development from an insular, medieval, liturgical realm centered on Old Muscovy, into a modern, secular, world power embodied in cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. Featuring eight essays and 120 images from the Library's distinguished collections, it is both an engagingly written work and a striking visual object. Anyone interested …

  • No-Title

    Cynthia H WhittakerARTICLESlavic Review1994

  • Samoderzhavie i reformy

    Cynthia H Whittaker, Cynthia Whittaker et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1993

  • The Reforming Tsar

    Open AccessCynthia H WhittakerARTICLESlavic Review1992Cited by: 8References: 6

    Don't lead the people to expect miracles. It is necessary to expunge from people's minds a belief in the "good tsar," in the assumption that someone at the top will impose order and organize change-Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988The idea of the "good tsar" originated in Muscovite times and obviously has since become a commonplace of Russian political culture. However, Gorbachev's statement does not really define a "good tsar" but what should instead be c…

  • Catherine the Great

    Cynthia H Whittaker, John T AlexanderARTICLEThe Russian Review1990Cited by: 1

  • Zhenskii vopros v Rossii v 50-60 gg. XIX v

    Cynthia H Whittaker, G A TishkinARTICLEThe Russian Review1987

  • Alexander Pushkin

    Paul Debreczeny, Cynthia H Whittaker et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1987

  • The Origins of Modern Russian Education

    Ben Eklof, Бен Эклоф et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1987Cited by: 3

    As minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei Uvarov was one of the most important statesmen in nineteenth-century Russia. But, because he has often been labeled as a reactionary and sycophant, his ideas and policies have tended to be dismissed as examples of the bankruptcy of the Russian cold regime. Whittaker's intellectual biography, based on research in Russia and Finland, offers a striking reinterpretation o…

  • Epigrams and Satirical Verse

    Sam Driver, Alexander Pushkin et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1986

  • The Origins of Modern Russian Education

    James T Flynn, Cynthia H WhittakerARTICLEThe Russian Review1986Cited by: 2

  • Government and Elite in 19th Century Russia

    Cynthia H Whittaker, Nicholas V RiasanovskyARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1980

  • From Promise to Purge

    Cynthia H WhittakerARTICLEPaedagogica Historica1978Cited by: 1

    (1978). FROM PROMISE TO PURGE : THE FIRST YEARS OF ST. PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 148-167

  • The Ideology of Sergei Uvarov

    Cynthia H WhittakerARTICLEThe Russian Review1978Cited by: 2

  • The Women's Movement during the Reign of Alexander II

    Cynthia H WhittakerARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1976Cited by: 1

  • The American Bibliography of Russian and East European Studies for 1964

    Robert W Simmons, Fritz T Epstein et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1967

  • Materialien zu einer slawistischen Bibliographie

    Robert W Simmons, Irmgard Mahnken et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1966