Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861

"Russia’s Age of Serfdom brings together an enormous volume of recent research and distills it in a way that is at once elegantly written and deeply informative. Wirtschafter’s chapters on institutional and social history are among the clearest and most compelling assessments of the dynamics of Russian society that I have ever seen. Her book will be appreciated by specialists and students alike."
–Gary Marker, State University of New York at Stony Brook