Name Janet Hartley | ||
Books Siberia: A History of the People, Russia - 1762‑1825, A social history of the Russi, Charles Whitworth: Diplomat, Alexander I | ||
Janet M. Hartley is a professor of International History and co-head of the Russia Studies Programme at the London School of Economics.
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Career
Hartley has specialised for thirty five years in the study of Russian history. In particular she has focused upon similarity and divergence between Russian and the West from the seventeenth century onwards; why it became one of the 'Great Powers' in the nineteenth century (particularly after the Great Northern War) in spite of the existence of aspects that were 'backward'; the existence of serfdom up to the emancipation of the serfs and the existence of specific groups such as the Cossacks.
As part of her career she has taught the following undergraduate courses at the LSE:
Her 2014 work has been focused on the history of Siberia from the Cossacks' explorations of it in the sixteenth century onwards.