Richard Stites is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also directs the Center for Research on World History. He received his B.A. from Colorado College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, and is a specialist in modern Russian history, especially Soviet history and Russian women's history
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His books include Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (1988); Europe in the Age of Catherine the Great (1996); The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism (1993); Peasant Nationalism and Social Protest in Russia: The Decisive Years, 1905-1907 (1980); The Guardians: A New History of the Romanovs (1982); The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (1992); The Romanovs: Rulers of an Empire (2000).