Alfred J. Rieber is a premier historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is University Professor Emeritus at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alfred Rieber belong to the first generation of postwar Russian experts in the United States, yet sixty years later he is still going strong, producing research of great originality and powerful insight. This collection of articles - too rich for a review to do justice - prsents a searching and distinctive interpretation of the evolution of Imperial Russia from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. -- Geoffrey Hosking, University College London * Journal of Modern History, September 2019 * The articles of The Imperial Russian Project contribute to a remarkable global interpretation of Russian history that brings together economic change, the evolution of a cultivated and competent officialdom, and the relations between state and society. -- Richard Wortman * <em>Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History</em> *