Alfred J Rieber

Biographic Data

ID800092
NAMEAlfred J Rieber
GIVEN NAMESAlfred J
FAMILY NAMERieber
SIGNATURERIEBER A J
AFFILIATIONSCentral European University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS50
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Why Russian History

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEAb imperio2025

    This ego-histoire piece was written by Alfred J. Rieber in September 2003 to be published in Russian translation in Ilya Gerasimov, Sergei Glebov, Alexander Kaplunovsky, Marina Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov (Eds.), Novaia imperskaia istoriia postsovetskogo prostranstva (Kazan, 2004). Резюме: Это автобиографическое эссе было написано Альфредом Рибером в 2003 г. для публикации в русском переводе в сборнике Новая имперская история постсоветского прос…

  • Between Tsar and People

    Harley Balzer, John E Bowlt et al.BOOKBetween Tsar and People2021

  • Tracking a Revolutionary

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberARTICLEThe Russian Review2021

  • Spies and Scholars

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2021

    When Russia acquired Siberia, its leaders possessed little knowledge about the geography and peoples of the longest land frontier in the world. This book examines the process by which they sought to acquire that knowledge from the seventeenth throughout much of the nineteenth century. The narrative is constructed on the theoretical frame of “the knowledge regimes” developed by John L. Campbell and Ove Kay Pederson in The National Origins of Polic…

  • Academic Freedom in Danger. Fact Files on the 'CEU Affair

    Open AccessBalázs Trencsényi, Alfred J Rieber et al.ARTICLEComparative Southeast European…2017

    In the beginning of April this year, the Hungarian Parliament passed two amendments to the existing educational law, which in their particular formulation targeted specifically the renowned Central European University in Budapest and sought to undermine the legal basis of its existence in Hungary. In four contributions leading academics and a PhD student of the History Department of the Central European University place the latest events in conte…

  • Perestroika at the Crossroads

    Alfred J Rieber, Alvin Z RubinsteinBOOKPerestroika at the Crossroads2016

    The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism and the nationality problem, and foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, East…

  • Frontiers in History

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Molotov

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2015

    Geoffrey Roberts has undertaken the formidable task of refuting the interpretation of Vyacheslav Molotov as an inveterate Cold Warrior and replacing it with a more subtle picture. Most of the book is devoted to a review of Molotov's diplomatic career under Iosif Stalin's heavy hand. This is familiar ground. Roberts passes quickly over Molotov's life and activities before 1939 while reminding us that Molotov was a faithful supporter of Stalin in a…

  • The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberBOOKStruggle for the Eurasian…2014

    This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late medieval/early modern period to their collapse in the early twentieth century. He charts how these empires expanded alon…

  • Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands

    Alfred J RieberBOOKStruggle for the Eurasian…2014

  • Manfred Kittel, Vertreibung der Vertriebenen? Der historische deutsche Osten in der Erinnerungskultur der Bundesrepublik (1961–1982)

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2008

    July 01 2008 Manfred Kittel, Vertreibung der Vertriebenen? Der historische deutsche Osten in der Erinnerungskultur der Bundesrepublik (1961–1982). Alfred J. Rieber Alfred J. Rieber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Alfred J. Rieber Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Journal of Cold War Studies (2008) 10 (3): 202–203. https://…

  • Elliott D. Mossman, 1942-2007

    Open AccessAlfred J Rieber, Alfred RieberARTICLESlavic Review2007

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  • Stalin

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Journal Article Stalin: A Biography Get access Stalin: A Biography. By SERVICE ROBERT W. (London: Macmillan, 2004; pp. xviii + 715. £25). Alfred J. Rieber Alfred J. Rieber Central European University, Budapest Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1505–1507, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel319 Published: 01 December 2006

  • Imperial Rule

    Sebastian Balfour, Selim Deringil et al.BOOKImperial Rule2004

    Renowned academics compare major features of imperial rule in the 19th century, reflecting a significant shift away from nationalism and toward empires in the studies of state building. The book responds to the current interest in multi-unit formations, such as the European Union and the expanded outreach of the United States. National historical narratives have systematically marginalized imperial dimensions, yet empires play an important role. …

  • The Crack in the Plaster

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2004References: 3

  • Civil Wars in the Soviet Union

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEKritika2003

    Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History - Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2003 (New Series)

  • Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950

    Matthew Frank, Alfred J RieberARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2002Cited by: 1

    Journal of Refugee Studies new materials from recently opened soviet archives are presented by a number of Russian scholars, and help illuminate political and diplomatic hidtory of immediate post war world the book is of greatest interest in revealing products of limited culture contact between residual ethnic groupings present in Russian and Anglophone academia: a fleeting exchange of ideas across a set of prevailing intellectual differences. - …

  • Repressive population transfers in central, eastern and South‐Eastern Europe

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEJournal of Communist Studies2000Cited by: 3References: 15

    In the modern period the repressive transfer of populations in the region should be distinguished from specific pressures of modernization. Different types should be carefully identified whenever possible. Four major factors have been responsible for the higher levels of repressive transfers in the region than in the rest of Europe. There was a longer period of instability due to exposure of nomadic incursions from Asia which in one form or anoth…

  • Gorbachev

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2000

    Journal Article Gorbachev: On My Country and My World Get access Gorbachev: On My Country and My World by Mikhail Gorbachev. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. 300 pp. $29.95. Alfred J. Rieber Alfred J. Rieber Central European University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 3, Fall 2000, Pages 452–453, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658131 Published: 15 February …

  • Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914

    Alfred J Rieber, Peter GatrellARTICLEThe Russian Review1997Cited by: 3

    This book provides an economic historian's perspective on major questions that confront all students of Russian history: how stable were the economic and administrative structures of late-imperial Russia, and how well prepared was Russia for war in 1914? The decade following the Russo-Japanese War witnessed profound changes in the political system and in the industrial economy. The regime faced challenges to its authority from industrialists, cau…

  • After the USSR

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1997Cited by: 2

    Journal Article After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States, by Anatoly M. Khazanov Get access After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States by Anatoly M. Khazanov. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 311 pp. $24.95. Alfred J. Rieber Alfred J. Rieber Central European University, Budapest-Warsaw Search for other works by this author on…

  • Structures of Society

    Alfred J Rieber, Elise Kimerling WirtschafterARTICLEThe Russian Review1996

  • The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914

    Alfred J Rieber, Dominic LievenARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

  • Politics and Technology in Eighteenth-Century Russia

    Open AccessAlfred J RieberARTICLEScience in Context1995

    The Argument The question posed by this paper is why the Russian autocracy failed to pursue successfully Peter the Great's conscious policy of creating a society dominated by technique and competitive with technological levels achieved by Western Europe. The brief answer is that Peter's idea of a cultural revolution that would create new values and institutions hospitable to the introduction of technology clashed with powerful interests within so…

  • Russian Imperialism

    Alfred J RieberARTICLEThe Russian Review1994Cited by: 2

    T hese three richly suggestive essays give strong and hopeful promise that future studies of Russian imperialism will be informed as much by culture as by diplomatic and military history. By their substance and eloquence they challenge the traditional reliance on geopolitics as the dominant explanatory model of Russian foreign policy. At the very least they contribute to the modest body of scholarly literature that proposes geoculture as an alter…