A history of beekeeping and the honeybee in contested Eastern European landscapes : Empires of the bee / Catherine B. Clay.

Prologue: Land, People, and the Honeybee in Prehistory
Part I: Premodern Bee-Centered Landscapes
Political Economies of Wax and Honey in the Rise of Rus and Muscovy from the 8th to the 15th Centuries
The Honeybee and Religiosity: The Hum of Human-Bee Interaction in Prehistory, Kievan Rus, and Muscovy
Part II: Transitions: Early Modern Muscovy and Imperial Russia
Beekeeping and Early Modern Empire, 1550-
An Imperial Russian Bee Culture, 1550-
Part III: Modern Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia
Beekeeping and Bee Culture in the Late Empire to the Great War
The Sovietization of Beekeeping: "The Most Powerful in the World"
Aftermath: Bee Culture in Contemporary Public History.