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| Peopling the Russian periphery: borderland colonization in Eurasian history N Breyfogle, A Schrader, W Sunderland Routledge, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
| Russians into Iakuts?“Going Native” and Problems of Russian National Identity in the Siberian North, 1870s-1914 W Sunderland Slavic Review 55 (4), 806-825, 1996 | 112 | 1996 |
| The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution W Sunderland Cornell University Press, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| The'colonization question': Visions of colonization in late imperial Russia W Sunderland Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 210-232, 2000 | 85 | 2000 |
| Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth Century W Sunderland Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| The ministry of Asiatic Russia: The colonial office that never was but might have been W Sunderland Slavic Review 69 (1), 120-150, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Peasant pioneering: Russian peasant settlers describe colonization and the eastern frontier, 1880s-1910s W Sunderland Journal of Social History 34 (4), 895-922, 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| Russia's people of empire: life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present SM Norris, W Sunderland Indiana University Press, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| Empire without Imperialism?: Ambiguities of Colonization in Tsarist Russia W Sunderland Ab imperio 2003 (2), 101-114, 2003 | 35 | 2003 |
| Peasants on the Move: State Peasant Resettlement in Imperial Russia, 1805-1830s W Sunderland The Russian Review 52 (4), 472-485, 1993 | 26 | 1993 |
| An Empire of Peasants. Empire-Building, Interethnic Interaction, and Ethnic Stereotyping in the Rural World of the Russian Empire, 1800–1850s W Sunderland Imperial Russia. New histories for the Empire, 174-198, 1998 | 25 | 1998 |
| Russian colonizations: An introduction NB Breyfogle, A Schrader Peopling the Russian Periphery, 17-34, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| What Is Asia to Us?: Scholarship on the Tsarist" East" since the 1990s W Sunderland Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 12 (4), 817-833, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Catherine’s dilemma: Resettlement and power in Russia, 1500s–1914 W Sunderland Globalising Migration History, 55-70, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| The USSR as a Multinational State from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin: Western Scholarship since 1991 S Willard Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. История, 142-158, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Empire in Boris Mironov's Sotsial´ naia istoriia Rossii W Sunderland Slavic Review 60 (3), 571-578, 2001 | 7 | 2001 |
| Baron Ungern, Toxic Cosmopolitan W Sunderland Ab Imperio 2005 (3), 285-298, 2005 | 6 | 2005 |
| The Greatest Emancipator: Abolition and Empire in Tsarist Russia W Sunderland The Journal of Modern History 93 (3), 566-598, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Russia's Great War and Revolution in the Far East: Re-imagining the Northeast Asian Theater, 1914–22 D Wolff, S Yokote, W Sunderland Slavica Publishers, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
