上記の目的を達成するため、次の3冊を、章を選びながら読む。
Leonard Friesen, Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists 1774—1905 (Harvard University Press, 2008)
Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Darius Staliunas, Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century (Academic Studies Press, 2016)