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The history graduate program emphasizes scholarship that balances specific focus with broad perspective. Faculty members inspire students to adopt a wide-ranging historical outlook, fostering a profound comprehension of past events. During their studies, students acquire essential skills for pioneering research in the field. Dynamic academic environments within the department and university promote cross-disciplinary discussions among students, faculty, and guest scholars. Dedicated faculty advisors guide each student's progress while meticulously supervising dissertation research and writing. The department's strong emphasis on career preparation helps students evolve into skilled historians and educators. Princeton's Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European history studies concentrate on the 17th to 20th centuries, with particular expertise in Imperial Russia, the Soviet era, contemporary Russia, Poland, and Baltic nations. Department scholars investigate diverse subjects including political comparisons, artistic and political modernism, biological and nuclear conflict, authoritarian systems, and Holocaust studies.