James Cracraft is an historian of Russia who is
professor emeritus
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of history at the
University of Illinois
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. He was a
Guggenheim Fellow
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in 1999.
James Cracraft.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
Selected publications
* ''The Church Reform of Peter the Great''. Stanford University Press
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, 1971.
* ''For God and Peter the Great: The Works of Thomas Consett, 1723-1729''. East European Monographs 96/Columbia University Press, 1981. (Editor)
* ''The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide''. University of Chicago Press
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, 1983. (Editor, joint author)
* ''The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture''. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
* ''Peter the Great Transforms Russia''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991. (Editor, joint author.)
* ''Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. (Editor, joint author.)
* ''The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery''. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
* ''The Revolution of Peter the Great''. Harvard University Press
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, 2003.
* ''Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present''. Cornell University Press
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, 2003. (Co-editor with Daniel Rowland, joint author.)
* ''The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture''. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
* ''Two Shining Souls: Jane Addams, Leo Tolstoy, and the Quest for Global Peace''. Lexington Books, 2012.
See also
* Lindsey Hughes
References
External links
*http://www.jamescracraft.org/
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
Historians of Russia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Illinois faculty
Independent scholars
21st-century American male writers
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