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Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union , written by Eric Lohr

Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union , written by Eric Lohr Eric Lohr, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union . Cambridge, MA , and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. viii, 278 pp. $59.95. The monograph has fallen on hard times. Only a few people seem to want to read them anymore, and even fewer presses are willing to publish them. Convinced the end is nigh, many historians have already packed their bags and decamped for the biography section. Thankfully, though, every now and then a wonderful embodiment of the form comes along to rekindle our faith. Eric Lohr’s study of Russian citizenship is just such a book. Short, erudite, intensely researched yet clear and accessible, and, most importantly, focused on exactly the sort of complex topic our monograph-averse editors usually tell us to avoid, it is a model of serious, compelling scholarship. And it’s also clear proof that the monograph per se is not the problem. The problem is the way we write monographs. Most of us don’t write them very well, but Lohr does so masterfully. The focus of the book is what Lohr calls “the Russian citizenship tradition” – that is, how Russian governments have defined and sought to manage “membership in the state” since the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union , written by Eric Lohr

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 49 (4): 494 – Jan 1, 2015

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Brill
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Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
ISSN
0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/22102396-04904016
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Eric Lohr, Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union . Cambridge, MA , and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. viii, 278 pp. $59.95. The monograph has fallen on hard times. Only a few people seem to want to read them anymore, and even fewer presses are willing to publish them. Convinced the end is nigh, many historians have already packed their bags and decamped for the biography section. Thankfully, though, every now and then a wonderful embodiment of the form comes along to rekindle our faith. Eric Lohr’s study of Russian citizenship is just such a book. Short, erudite, intensely researched yet clear and accessible, and, most importantly, focused on exactly the sort of complex topic our monograph-averse editors usually tell us to avoid, it is a model of serious, compelling scholarship. And it’s also clear proof that the monograph per se is not the problem. The problem is the way we write monographs. Most of us don’t write them very well, but Lohr does so masterfully. The focus of the book is what Lohr calls “the Russian citizenship tradition” – that is, how Russian governments have defined and sought to manage “membership in the state” since the

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