Maureen Perrie (born 1946) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

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of Russian History at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

, 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 The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' people, Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians. In 882, Prin ...

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). Volumes * Vol. 1. ''From Early Rus' to 1689'' edited by Maureen Perrie, covering Russian history before Peter th ...

''. 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 Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar of all Russia, Tsar and Grand Prince of all R ...

'', 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