Prior to the Russian Revolution Of 1917 , Kornilov was a history professor at the Polytechnicum Of Peter The Great in Saint Petersburg and author of a definitive history of 19th century Russia. He specialized in the reign of Alexander II Of Russia and the life of Mikhail Bakunin . In 1917, he served as secretary of the Central Committee of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party and chairman of the party's Petrograd Committee.
After the Russian Civil War (1918-1920) Kornilov taught at the renamed Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd and continued his work on Bakunin.
- ''Modern Russian History: Being an authoritative and detailed history of Russia from the Age of Catherine The Great to the Present'', in 2 volumes, 679pp, trans. by Alexander S. Kaun, New York, Knopf, 1917. Reprinted as:
- --- ''Modern Russian History: from the Age of Catherine the Great to the End of the 19th Century'', Knopf, 1943, 1951, 1952, 1970.
- ---''19th Century Russia: From the Age of Napoleon to the Eve of Revolution'', edited and abridged by Robert Bass, New York, Capricorn Books, 1966, 428pp.
- ''Krest'anskaya reforma''. Saint Petersburg, Tipo-lit. F. Vaijsberga i P. Gershunina, 1905, 271p.
- ''Krest'anskij stroj'', 1905
- ''Ocherki po istorii obshchestvennago dvizheniya i krestyanskago dela v Rossii'', Saint Petersburg, 1905, 473pp.
- ''Obshchestvennoe dvizheniie pri Aleksandre II, 1855-1881: istoricheskie ocherki'', Moscow, zhurnala "Russkaya mysl'" , 1909, 263pp.
- ''Molodye gody Mikhaila Bakunina: iz istorīi russkago romantizma'', Moscow, Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikovykh, 1915, 718p.
- ''Russkaya politika v Pol'she so vremeni razdelov do nachala XX veka: istoricheskij ocherk'', Petrogad, Ogni, 1915, 93p.
- ''Semejstvo Bakuninykh'', Izd. M. i S. Sabashnikovykh, 1915 , 2 volumes.
- ''Kurs istorii Rossii devytnadtsatogo weka'', in 3 volumes, 1918, reprinted in 1969.
- ''Gody stranstvij Mikhaila Bakunina'', Leningrad, Gos. izd-vo, 1925, 590p.
- ''Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921'', eds. Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, William G. Rosenberg, Indiana University Press, 1997, p.754, ISBN 0253333334
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