Maureen Perrie (born 1946) is a British

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of Russian History at the

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, and a lecturer in Russian History at the centre for Russian and East European Studies at the

.Perrie, Maureen, ed. ''Cambridge History of Russia''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Career

The main focus of Perrie's research and studies has been Russian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Perrie, Maureen, ed. ''Cambridge History of Russia''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. She is one of the editors of the three-volume ''

The Cambridge History of Russia ''The Cambridge History of Russia'' is a multi-volume survey of Russian history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The volumes are: * Vol. 1. ''From Early Rus' to 1689'' edited by Maureen Perrie, covering Russian history before Pe ...

''. In addition, from 2001 to 2004, Perrie served as president of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). She is currently serving as the vice-president of BASEES.

Works

Books

*''The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist- Revolutionary Party: from its Origins through the Revolution of 1905-1907'', 1976 *''The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore'', 1987 *''Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: the False Tsars of the Time of Troubles'', 1995 *''The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia'', 2001 *(with Andrei Pavlov) '' Ivan the Terrible'', 2003 *(ed.) ''Cambridge History of Russia''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 3 vols.

Articles

*"Folklore as Evidence of Peasant Mentalite" *"The Sovialist Revolution" *"Correspondence" *"The Russian Peasant Movement of 1905-1907: Its Social Composition and Revolutionary Significance"

References

External links

Homepage at the University of Birmingham
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perrie, Maureen British historians Historians of Russia Academics of the University of Birmingham 1946 births Living people British women historians