[3] A translation with Grazyna Drabik of Andrzej Bobkowski's Wartime Notebooks: France, 1940–1944, was released in November 2018.
[5] Following graduation, she accepted a position at Cornell University, the second woman to be hired by the History Department there.
[5] While teaching at Cornell, Engelstein completed her first book, which "analyzed patterns of working-class behavior in the course of the revolution of 1905 in Moscow.
[5] The same year, she began completing the research for her second book, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia,[5] which was published in 1992.
[6] Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History described Engelstein as one of "the most important figures in the field of Russian history" with an "incisive mind" and "analytical acuity," adding that she had "played a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of the complex interplay of social, cultural, intellectual, and political forces in the late imperial period.