Janet M. Hartley

Janet M. Hartley is a professor of International History and co-head of the Russia Studies Programme at the London School of Economics.

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:

• HY114: Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wide World c. 1500-1800 (taught jointly with other members of the Department)
• HY221: The History of Russia, 1689-1825

Her 2014 work has been focused on the history of Siberia from the Cossacks' explorations of it in the sixteenth century onwards.

Works

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) Charles Whitworth: Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great (2002) Russia-1762-1815: Military Power, the State and the People (Greenwood Press, 2008) 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)