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NOTE ON BOOKSTHE following list of suggestions is intended for those who do not knowRussian. For those who do, apart from the Russian originals of booksmentioned below, two very useful, comprehensive manuals, with goodbibliographies and maps, are: Istoriya S.S.S.R., vol. i, s drevnyeishikhvremen do kontsa XVIII v. (ed. by V. I. Lebedev, B. D. Grekov, andS. V. Bakhrushin; Moscow, 1939), 1 and P. I. Lyashchenko, Istoriyanarodnogo khozyaistva S.S.S.R. (vol. 1, Moscow, 1939; especially fullon 1750-1917).All the books mentioned below, as also those which have beenreferred to in the footnotes to this book, were published in GreatBritain, unless otherwise stated.Those books marked with an asterisk are suggested as specially,though not only, suitable for introductory purposes.1. GEOGRAPHY, ETC.P. Cameina d'Almeida, Etats de la Baltique: Russie (Paris, 1932;vol. 5 of Giographie universelle, ed. by P. Vidal de la Blache andL. Gallois; covers the whole of the U.S.S.R.; admirable descriptivegeography, with excellent illustrations and useful historical andeconomic references); M. Slonim, Les onze ripubhques sovittiques(Paris, 1937; outline of economic and historical geography); L.Niederle, * La race slave (Paris, 2nd ed., 1916; brief outline by thegreat Czech Slavic scholar).2. OUTLINE HISTORIESR. Beazley, N. Forbes, and G. A. Birkett, ' Russia from the Varangiansto the Bolsheviks (1918); Sir Bernard Pares, A History of Russia (2nded., 1937); S. F. Platonov, ' History of Russia (New York, 1925;somewhat abridged version of the last Russian ed. (1916); goes downto 1881; by a great Russian scholar); S. R. Tompkins, Russia throughthe Ages; from the Scythians to the Soviets (New York, 1940); G.Vernadsky, * A History of Russia (New Haven, 2nd ed., 1930). Pares,Tompkins, and Vernadsky include the Soviet period.3. LONGER COMPREHENSIVE HISTORIESV. O. Klyuchevsky, A History of Russia (5 vols., 1911-31; thegreatest work of one of the greatest historians of any country; originallypublished in Russian 1904-21; very brief on the nineteenth century;the translation is bad); P. Milyukov, C. Seignobos, and L. Eisenmann,Histoire de Russie (3 vols., Paris, 1932-33; vol. 1 up to 1725, vol. 2,1725-1855, vol. 3, 1855-1932; by various Russian emigres scholars,1 I believe that the second volume, covering 1801 to 1937, was publishedin Moscow in 1941, but I have not seen a copy.451