Janet M. Hartley

Janet Margaret Hartley FRHS is an emeritus professor of international history at the London School of Economics.^[1]

Early life

Janet Hartley was born in 1954. She studied history at University College, London, before completing her doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.

Career

Hartley is a specialist in Russian history, in particular the comparison of Russia and the West from the seventeenth century onwards and why Russia became one of the "Great Powers" in the nineteenth century.^[2][3] Much of her research has also focused on the history of Siberia and its people.^[4]

Selected publications

• The Study of Russian History from British Archive Sources (editor) (1986)
• Guide to Documents and Manuscripts in the United Kingdom relating to Russia and the Soviet Union (1987)
• Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment (editor with R. Bartlett), (1990)
• Alexander I (1994)
• Finland and Poland in the Russian Empire: A Comparative Study (editor with M. Branch) (1995)
• Britain and Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (editor with M. Anderson et al.) (1998)
• A Social History of the Russian Empire 1650-1825 (1999)^[5][6]
• Charles Whitworth: Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great (2002)
• Russia-1762-1815: Military Power, the State and the People (Greenwood Press, 2008)^[7][8]
• Russian History and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (editor), includes a piece by her on ‘The Army and Prisoners’ (2013)
• Siberia: a History of the People (2014)^{[9][10][11][12]}
• The Volga: A History (Yale University Press, 2020)^[13]

References

1. Hartley, Janet. "Emeritus professor Janet Hartley". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
2. "Professor Janet Hartley". Lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
3. "INTERVIEW: Editor Theodora Clarke speaks to Janet Hartley, author of Siberia: A History of the People - Russian Art + Culture". Russianartandculture.com. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
4. "Janet Hartley". Worldhistory.columbia.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
5. Marker, Gary (14 October 2017). "Review of A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825, ; The Russian Peasantry, 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made". Social History. 26 (2): 251–253. JSTOR 4286784.
6. "Potter on Hartley, 'A Social History of the Russian Empire 1650-1825' - H-Russia - H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
7. "Russia, 1762-1825". Abc-clio.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
8. LeDonne, John P. (1 December 2008). "Russia, 1762–1825: Military Power, the State, and the People.(Studies in Military History and International Affairs.)". The American Historical Review. 113 (5): 1626–1627. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1626. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
9. . Yale University Press. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
10. Payne, Tom (31 July 2014). "Siberia: a History of the People by Janet M Hartley, review: 'not the most colourful account'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
11. "Siberia: A History of the People by Janet M Hartley, book review: A". Independent.co.uk. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
12. Bennett, Vanora (20 July 2014). "Siberia: A History of the People by Janet M Hartley". Thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
13. Abdessamad, Farah (21 February 2021). "The Volga: A History of Russia's Greatest River by Janet M Hartley". Asianreviewofbooks.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.