19. Russia’s hold on Persia. [Forum, 1900, 29: 147-153.]
20. Russian railway policy in Asia. [Long in Fortnightly Review, 1899, 72: 914-925, with map.]
21. Territorial expansion in the East. [Wallace, chap. 38; Noble, chap. 10; Schierbrand, chap. 1.]
22. The Siberian railroad. [See A. L. A. Catalogue, or use one of the following periodical articles: Norman in Scribner’s, 1900, 28: 515-541; Davidson in Century, 1904, 67: 940 ff.; Kinloch in Monthly Review, 1901, 2: 60-71, with map, and with special reference to trade possibilities; Mikhailoff, in North Amer. Rev., 1900, 170: 593-608; Colquhoun in Monthly Review, 1900, 1: Nov., 40-55, with two maps.]
23. Choose one of the more important states (Turkey, Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, Greece) and
(a) Trace its political history during the century. [Seignobos, chaps. 20, 21.]
(b) Study its recent commerce. [Statesman’s Year-Book.]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Though no history of Russian commerce has appeared in English, there are many good books on the history and conditions of the Russian Empire; and a considerable number have been published within a few years. For bibliography see the A. L. A. Catalogue and recent issues of the American Historical Review; a more complete bibliography, with chronological classification, will be found in Skrine, pp. 347-358. Compare, also, A. L. Morse, Reading list on Russia, Univ. of State of N. Y., State Library Bulletin, Jan., 1899, Bibliography, nos. 15-17. References to articles on Russian commerce in the first half of the century, in English and American periodicals, will be found in Homans, Cyclopedia, p. 1659.
Mavor, *Economic History of Russia, London, 1914, 2 vol., is a monumental work, particularly valuable for its study of institutional development. The history of Russia in the nineteenth century is treated by Seignobos, adequately for most purposes; more fully by Skrine, Expansion of Russia, London, 1900 (N. Y., Macmillan), in the Cambridge Historical Series.