History of the Soviet Union since 1917

University of Illinois
History 328
Prof. Diane P. Koenker
Fall 2002


Bibliography

1. General Works

A. Survey Works

Black, Cyril E., ed., The Transformation of Russian Society. 1967.
Cohen, Stephen F., Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. 1985.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, History (Short Course). 1976 (1939).
Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society. 1993.
Kenez, Peter. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, 1999
Kennan, George F., Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin. 1960.
Lapidus, Gail Warshovsky, Women in Soviet Society. 1978.
Nation, Craig, Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991. 1992.
Nove, Alec, An Economic History of the USSR. 1969.
Schapiro, Leonard, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1971 (2nd ed.).
Suny, Ronald Grigor, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States. 1997.
Ulam, Adam B., Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-67. 1968.

B. General Studies

Allworth, Edward A., The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present, a Cultural History. 1990.
Atkinson, Dorothy, Alexander Dallin, Gail Lapidus, eds., Women in Russia. 1978.
Bennigsen, Alexandre, and Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay, Islam in the Soviet Union. 1967.
Brown, Edward J., Russian Literature since the Revolution. 1982 (rev. ed.).
Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine D. Worobec, eds., Russia's Women.: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. 1991.
Curtiss, J.S., The Russian Church and the Soviet State 1917-1950. 1965.
Davies, R.W., Mark Harrison, and Stephen Wheatcroft, eds., The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945. 1993.
Edelman, Robert, Serious Fun.: A History Of Spectator Sport in the USSR. 1993.
Edmondson, Linda, ed., Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union. 1992.
Engel, Barbara Alpern, and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, eds., A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History. 1997.
Fisher, Ralph T., Jr., Pattern for Soviet Youth: A Study of the Congresses of the Komsomol, 1918-1954. 1959.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, and Yuri Slezkine, eds. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War, 2000.
Gitelman, Zvi Y., Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics. 1972.
Graham, Loren, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union. 1974 (1966).
Halfin, Igal. From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia. 1999.
Hovannisian, Richard G., The Republic of Armenia. 2 vols., 1976-1982.
Kelly, Catriona, and David Shepherd, eds. Russian Cultural Studies: A Reader. 1998.
Kelly, Catriona, and David Shepherd, eds. Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940. 1998.
Kenez, Peter, Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953. 1992.
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. 1998.
Olcott, Martha Brill, The Kazakhs. 1987.
Pospielovsky, Dimitry, The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime 1917-1982. 1984. 2 vols.
Raun, Toivo U., Estonia and the Estonians. 1987.
Rigby, T.H., Communist Party Membership in the USSR, 1917-1967. 1968.
Rorlich, Azade-Ayse, The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience. 1986.
Senn, Alfred E., The Emergence of Modern Lithuania. 1959.
Starr, S. Frederick, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union. 1983.
Stites, Richard, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900. 1992.
Suny, Ronald Grigor, Armenia in the 20th Century. 1983.
Suny, Ronald Grigor, The Making of the Georgian Nation. 1988.
Swietochowski, Tadeusz, Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. 1995.
Von Geldern, James, and Richard Stites, ed., Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore, 1917-1953, 1995.
Vucinich, Alexander, Empire of Knowledge: The Academy of Science of the USSR (1917-1970). 1984.

C. Reference Works

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES), annual to 1992 and on-line from 1989.
Arans, David, ed., How We Lost the Civil War: A Bibliography of Emigre Memoirs of the
Revolution and War, 1917-1923. 1988.
Batalden, Stephen K., and Sandra L. Batalden, The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics. 1997, 2nd ed..
Brown, Archie, John Fennell, Michael Kaser, and H.T. Willetts, eds., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. 1982.
Cassels, Alan, ed., Soviet Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials. 1991.
Channon, John, with Rob Hudson, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia. 1995.
Clem, Ralph S., ed., Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses. 1985.
Croucher, Murlin, compiler, Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks. 1992.
Frame, Murray, comp., The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921: A Bibliographic Guide to Works in English. 1995.
Index to Slavic Review 1965-1979. 1980.
Index to the Slavic Review and Predecessors 1941-1964. 1965.
Jackson, George, and Robert Devlin, eds., Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. 1989.
Katz, Z., R. Rogers, and F. Harned, Handbook of Major Soviet Nationalities,
Pierce, R.A., Soviet Central Asia: A Bibliography. 1966.
Scheitz, Edgar, comp., Dictionary of Russian Abbreviations. 1986.
Slavonic and East European Review Index 1932-1969. 1969.
Sullivan, Helen F., and Robert H. Burger, Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Publications 1986-1991. 1994.
Ukraine Concise Encyclopedia. 1963-71 (2 vols.).

2. Revolution and Civil War

A. Secondary Works

Acton, Edward, Rethinking the Russian Revolution. 1990.
Acton, Edward, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg, eds., A Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1997.
Adams, Arthur E., The Bolsheviks in the Ukraine: The Second Campaign, 1918-19. 1963.
Avrich, Paul, Kronstadt 1921. 1970.
Brovkin, Vladimir. Between the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922. 1994.
Brovkin, Vladimir N., The Mensheviks After October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship. 1987.
Browder, Robert P., and Alexander F. Kerensky, eds., The Russian Provisional Government, 1917. Documents. 1961.
Chamberlin, William H., The Russian Revolution. 1935.
Clements, Barbara Evans, Bolshevik Women. 1997.
Figes, Orlando, Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921).1989.
Figes, Orlando, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924. 1996.
Frankel, Edith Rogovin, Jonathan Frankel, and Baruch Knei-Paz, eds., Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917. 1992.
Galili, Ziva, Menshevik Leaders of the Petrograd Soviet in 1917: Between Social Realities and Political Strategies. 1990.
Getzler, Israel, Kronstadt, 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy. 1983.
Gray, Camilla, The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922. 1962.
Harding, Neil, Leninism. 1996.
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917. 1981.
Hovannisian, Richard, Armenia on the Road to Independence. 1967.
Kenez, Peter, Civil War in South Russia. 2 vols. 1971, 1977.
Kennan, George F., Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920. 2 vols. 1967.
Kerensky, Alexander, Russia and History's Turning Point. 1965.
Koenker, Diane P., William G. Rosenberg, and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds., Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History. 1989.
Koenker, Diane P., and William G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917. 1989.
Koenker, Diane, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution. 1981.
Lih, Lars T., Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921. 1990.
Malle, Sylvana, The Economic Organisation of War Communism 1918-1921. 1987.
Mally, Lynn, Culture of the Future: The Proletcult Movement in Revolutionary Russia. 1990.
Mawdsley, Evan, The Russian Civil War. 1987.
McAuley, Mary, Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd 1917-1922. 1991.
Pares, Bernard, The Fall of the Russian Monarchy. 1939.
Pipes, Richard, The Formation of the Soviet Union. 1968.
Rabinowitch, Alexander, Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. 1968.
Rabinowitch, Alexander, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. 1976.
Radkey, Oliver H., The Agrarian Foes of Bolshevism. 1958.
Radkey, Oliver Henry, The Sickle under the Hammer: The Russian Socialist Revolutionaries in the Early Months of Soviet Rule. 1963.
Raleigh, Donald J., Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov. 1986.
Rigby, T.H., Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922. 1979.
Rosenberg, William G., Liberals in the Russian Revolution. 1974.
Saul, Norman E., Sailors in Revolt: The Russian Baltic Fleet in 1917, 1978.
Schapiro, Leonard, The Origin of the Communist Autocracy.: Political Opposition in the Soviet State 1917-1922. 1977 (2nd ed.).
Service, Robert, Lenin: A Political Life. 3 vols. 1985, 1991, 1995.
Smith, S.A., Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories. 1983.
Smith, S.A. The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. 2002.
Steinberg, Mark D., and Vladimir M. Khrustalev, eds., The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution. 1995.
Steinberg, Mark D. Voices of Revolution, 1917. 2001.
Stites, Richard, Abbott Gleason, and Peter Kenez, eds., Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. 1985.
Suny, Ronald Grigor, The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution. 1972.
Trotsky, Leon, The History of the Russian Revolution. 1980. Max Eastman, trans.
Von Geldern, James, Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920. 1993.
Wade, Rex A., Red Guards and Workers' Militias in the Russian Revolution. 1984.
Wade, Rex A. The Russian Revolution, 1917. 2000.
Wildman, Allan K., The End of the Russian Imperial Army. 2 vols., 1980, 1987.

B. Memoirs

Babel, Isaac, 1920 Diary. H.T. Willetts, trans. 1995.
Berberova, Nina, The Italics Are Mine. 1969.
Chernov, Victor, The Great Russian Revolution. 1966 (1936). Philip E. Mosely, trans. and abridged.
Denikin, A.I., The Russian Turmoil. 1922.
Dotsenko, Paul. The Struggle for a Democracy in Siberia, 1917-1920. Eyewitness Account of a Contemporary. 1983.
Dune, Eduard, Notes of a Red Guard. Diane P. Koenker and S.A. Smith, eds. and trans. 1993.
Goldman, Emma, My Disillusionment in Russia. 1970.
Golder, Frank, War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia. 1992.
Got'e, Iurii Vladimirovich, Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got'e. Terence Emmons, ed. and trans. 1988.
Nabokov, V.D., V.D. Nabokov and the Russian Provisional Government, 1917. 1976.
Paustovsky, Konstantin, The Story of a Life. 1967. Joseph Barnes, trans.
Reed, John, Ten Days That Shook the World. 1960.
Shklovsky, Viktor, A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922. 1970. Richard Sheldon, trans.
Sukhanov, N.N., The Russian Revolution 1917. 1984.


C. Fiction

Biely, Andrey, St. Petersburg. 1959. John Cournos, trans.
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The White Guard. 1971. Michael Glenny, trans.
Furmanov, Dmitrii. Chapaev. 1923.
Gladkov, F.V., Cement. 1969. A.S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh, trans.
Iskander, Fazil, Sandro of Chegem. 1983. Susan Brownsberger, trans.
Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago. 1958. Max Hayward, trans.
Sholokhov, Mikhail, And Quiet Flows the Don.

3. NEP

A. Secondary Works

Ball, Alan M., And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. 1993.
Bukharin, N.I., and E.O. Preobrazhensky, The ABC of Communism. 1969 (1922).
Bukharin, Nikolai, Historical Materialism. 1969.
Carr, E.H., Socialism in One Country, 1924-26. 3 vols. 1958-1964.
Carr, E.H., The Interregnum, 1923-1924. 1969.
Carr, E.H., with R.W. Davies, Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929. 2 vols. 1969-1971.
Carrere d'Encausse, Helene, The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930. 1992. Nancy Festinger, trans.
Chase, William J., Workers, Society and the Soviet Stale: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918-1929. 1987.
Clark, Katerina, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution, 1995.
Coopersmith, Jonathan, The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926. 1992.
Daniels, Robert V., The Conscience of the Revolution. 1960.
Danilov, Viktor, Rural Russia under the New Regime. 1988. trans. Orlando Figes.
David-Fox, Michael, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. 1997.
Deutscher, Isaac, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929. 1959.
Erlich, Alexander, Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928. 1960.
Farnsworth, Beatrice, Alexandra Kollontai. 1980.
Fischer, Louis, The Soviets in World Affairs, 1917-1929. 1951 (1930).
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1934. 1979.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites, eds., Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. 1991.
Goldman, Wendy Z., Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. 1993.
Gorsuch, Anne. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents. 2000.
Holmes, Larry E., The Kremlin and the Schoolhouse: Reforming Education in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931. 1991.
Husband, William. Godless communists : atheism and society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. 2000.
Jacobson, Jon, When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics. 1994.
Kenez, Peter, The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization,
1917-1929. 1985.
Lewin, Moshe, Lenin's Last Struggle. 1968.
Maguire, Robert A., Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s. 1968.
Mally, Lynn. Revolutionary Acts:Amateur Theatre and the Soviet State. 2000.
Martin, Terry. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. 2001.
Massell, Gregory J., The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929. 1974.
Naiman, Eric, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology. 1997.
Peris, Daniel., Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless, 1998.
Phillips, Laura L. Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929. 2000.
Siegelbaum, Lewis H., Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929. 1992.
Starr, S. Frederick, Melnikov: Solo Architect in Mass Society. 1976.
Stites, Richard, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. 1988.
Stites, Richard, The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. 1978.
Taylor, R., The Politics of the Soviet Cinema, 1917-1929. 1979.
Trotsky, Leon, Literature and Revolution. 1957.
Trotsky, Leon, Problems of Everyday Life. 1973.
Tucker, Robert C., Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879-1929. 1973.
Tumarkin, Nina, Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia. 1983.
Uldricks, Teddy J., Diplomacy and Ideology: Origins of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1930. 1979.
Von Hagen, Mark, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930. 1990.
Ward, Chris, Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy: Shop Floor Culture and State Policy 1921-1929. 1990.
Wood, Elizabeth. The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. 1997.
Young, Glennys, Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village. 1997.
Youngblood, Denise J., Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and the Soviet Society in the 1920s. 1992.

B. Fiction

Bogdanov, Alexander, Red Star. 1984.
Olesha, Yuri, Envy and Other Works. 1981. Andrew R. McAndrew, trans.
Tarasov-Rodionov, A.I., Chocolate. 1973 (1932).
Zamiatin, Eugene, We. 1924. Gregory Zilboorg, trans.
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, Scenes from the Bathhouse, and Other Stories.

4. Stalin Period

A. Secondary Works

Andrle, Vladimir, Workers in Stalin's Russia: Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy. 1988.
Bailes, Kendall E., Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin. 1978.
Barber, John, and Mark Harrison, The Soviet Home Front 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. 1991,
Bonnell, Victoria E., Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. 1997.
Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. 2000.
Clark, Katerina, The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual. 1981.
Cohen, Stephen F., Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution. 1973.
Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933: Report to Congress. 1988.
Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror. 1968.
Davies, R.W., The Industrialization of Soviet Russia. 2 vols. 1979.
Davies, R.W., The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-30. 1980.
Davies, R.W., The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929-1930. 1980.
Davies, R. W., The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929-1930, 1989.
Davies, Sarah, Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 1934-1941. 1997.
Deutscher, Isaac, Stalin. 1966.
Deutscher, Isaac, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929-1940. 1963.
Djilas, Milovan, The New Class. 1957.
Dunham, Vera, In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. 1976.
Dunmore, Timothy, Stalin's Command Economy. 1980.
Erickson, John, The Road to BerIin. 1983.
Erickson, John, The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany. 1984 (1976).
Fainsod, Merle, Smolensk under Soviet Rule. 1958.
Filtzer, Donald, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization: The Formation of Modern Soviet Production Relations, 1928-1941. 1986.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. 1992.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, ed., Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931. 1978.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. 1999.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. 1994.
Getty, J. Arch, and Roberta T. Manning, eds., Stalinist Terror. 1993.
Getty, J. Arch, and Oleg V. Naumov, eds. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. 1999.
Goldman, Wendy Z. Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia. 2002.
Gorodetsky, Gabriel. Grand Illusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. 1999.
Graham, Loren R., The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party 1927-1932. 1967.
Harris, James. The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System. 1999.
Harrison, Mark, Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938-45. 1985.
Holmes, Larry. Stalin's School: Moscow's Model School No. 25, 1931-1937. 1999.
Holmgren, Beth, Women's Works in Stalin's Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelshtam. 1993.
Huskey, Eugene, Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State: Origins and Development of the Bar 1917-1939. 1986.
Joravsky, David, The Lysenko Affair. 1970.
Kotkin, Stephen, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. 1995.
Krementsov, Nikolai, Stalinist Science. 1997.
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, Stalin's Industrialization: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932. 1988.
Lahusen, Thomas. How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia. 1997.
Lewin, Moshe, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization. 1968. Irene Nove, trans., 1985.
Lewin, Moshe, The Making of the Soviet System.- Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. 1985
Liber, George O., Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934. 1992.
Mace, James, Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine 1918-1933. 1983.
Mastny, Vojtech, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. 1996.
Mastny, Vojtech, Russia's Road to the Cold War. 1979.
McCagg, William O., Jr., Stalin Embattled 1943-1948. 1978.
McCannon, John. Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939. 1998.
Medvedev, Roy A., Let History Judge. 1973.
Moskoff, William, The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II. 1990.
Naimark, Norman M., The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949. 1995.
Nekrich, Aleksandr M., The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the 2nd World War. 1978. George Saunders, trans.
Nekrich, Alexander, Twenty-Two June 1941.
Osokina, Elena. Our Daily Bread : Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941. 2001.
Petrone, Karen, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin, 2000.
Rapoport, Vitaly N., and Yuri Alexeev, High Treason: Essays in the History of the Red Army. 1985. Bruce Adams, trans.
Rosenberg, William G., and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, eds., Social Dimensions of Russian Industrialization. 1993.
Salisbury, Harrison E., The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. 1969.
Siegelbaum, Lewis H., Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941. 1988.
Siegelbaum, Lewis H., and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life. 2001.
Simpkin, Richard, Deep Battle: The Genius of Marshal Tukhachevskii. 1986.
Slezkine, Yuri, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. 1994.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago. 3 vols. 1973-1978. Harry Willetts and Thomas P. Whitney, trans.
Stites, Richard, ed., Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. 1995.
Taubman, William, Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War. 1982.
Taylor, Richard, and Derek Spring, eds., Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. 1993.
Timasheff, Nikolai, The Great Retreat. 1946.
Trotsky, Leon, The Revolution Betrayed.: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? 1972 (1937).
Tucker, Robert C., Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941. 1990.
Tucker, Robert C., and Stephen F. Cohen, eds., The Great Purge Trial. 1965.
Tucker, Robert C., ed., Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. 1977.
Tumarkin, Nina, The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia. 1994.
Viola, Lynne, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. 1995.
Weiner, Amir, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution . 2001.
Weiner, Douglas R., Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. 1988.
Werth, Alexander, Russia at War 1941-1945. 1964.

B. Memoirs

Allilueva, Svetlana, Twenty Letters to a Friend. 1967.
Berezhkov, Valentin. History in the Making: Memoirs of World War II Diplomacy. 1983.
Bialer, Seweryn, ed., Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II. 1984 (1969).
Bonner, Elena, Mothers and Daughters. 1992. Antonina W. Bouis, trans.
Burrell, George, An American Engineer Looks at Russia, 1932.
Ciliga, Anton. The Russian Enigma. 1940.
Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin. 1962.
Fischer, Markoosha. My Lives in Russia. 1944.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, Memoirs 1921-1941. 1966.
Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna, Journey Into the Whirlwind. 1967. Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward, trans.
Ginzburg, Eugenia, Within the Whirlwind. 1981. Ian Boland, trans.
Hindus, Maurice, Red Bread. 1988 [1931].
Kopelev, Lev, Ease My Sorrows: A Memoir. 1983.
Kopelev, Lev, Education of a True Believer. 1980.
Kopelev, Lev, To Be Preserved Forever. 1977. Anthony Austin, trans.
Körber, Lili. Life in a Soviet Factory. 1933.
Larina, Anna. This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Bukharin's Widow, 1991.
Lyons, Eugene, Assignment in Utopia, 1937.
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, Hope Abandoned. 1974. Max Hayward, trans.
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, Hope Against Hope. 1971. Max Hayward, trans.
Paustovsky, Konstantin, Years of Hope. 1968. Manya Harari and Andrew Thomson, trans.
Petrov, Vladimir, Escape from the Future. 1973 (1952).
Robinson, Robert, with Jonathan Slevin. Black on Red: A Black American's 44 Years inside the Soviet Union. 1988.
Rosenberg, Suzanne. A Soviet Odyssey. 1988.
Rukeyser, Walter. Working for the Soviets: an American Engineer in Russia. 1932.
Scott, John, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. 1973 (1942).
Shostakovich, Dmitri, and Solomon Volkov, Testimony. 1979. Antonina W. Bouis, trans.
Smith, Andrew. I Was a Soviet Worker. 1936.
Weissberg, Alexander. The Accused. 1951.
Witkin, Zara, An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: the Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934. 1991.
Yakir, Pyotr, A Childhood in Prison. 1972.

C. Fiction

Abramov, Fyodor, Two Winters and Three Summers. 1984. D.B. Powers and Doris C. Powers, trans.
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita. 1967. Michael Glenny, trans.
Chukovskaia, Lydia, Sophia Petrovna. 1988. Aline Werth, trans., rev. and amended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. corrected version of "The Deserted House".
Fadeyev, K., The Young Guard. 1951.
Kataev, Valentin, Time, Forward! 1976 (1933).
Leonov, L., Soviet River. 1932.
Nekrasov, Victor, Front-Line Stalingrad. 1964. David Floyd, trans.
Rybakov, Anatoli, Children of the Arbat. 1988. Harold Shukman, trans.
Rybakov, Anatoli, Heavy Sand. 1982. Harold Shukman, trans.
Shalamov, Varlam, Kolyma Tales. 1982. John Glad, trans.
Sholokhov, Mikhail, Virgin Soil Upturned. 1931.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, Cancer Ward. 1969. Nicholas Bethell and David Burg, trans.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 1963. Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley, trans.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The First Circle. 1969. Thomas P. Whitney, trans.
Trifonov, Iurii, House on the Embankment.
Voinovich, Vladimir, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. 1977. Richard Lourie, trans.

5. Post-Stalin

A. Secondary Works

Aslund, Anders, Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform. rev. ed. 1992.
Attwood, Lynne, The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex Role Socialization in the USSR. 1991.
Azrael, Jeremy, Managerial Power and Soviet Politics. 1966.
Barker, Adele Marie, ed. Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev. 1999.
Beissinger, Mark, Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power. 1988.
Bennigsen, Alexandre A., and S. Enders Wimbush, Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary, Strategy for the Colonial World. 1979.
Boym, Svetlana, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. 1994.
Breslauer, George W., Khrushchev and Brezhnev As Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics. 1982.
Brine, Jenny, Maureen Perrie, and Andrew Sutton, eds., Home, School, and Leisure in the Soviet Union. 1980.
Brown, Archie. The Gorbachev Factor. 1996.
Brown, Deming, The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature: Prose Fiction 1975-1991. 1993.
Brown, Deming, Soviet Russian Literature since Stalin. 1978.
Brudny, Yitzhak. Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991. 1998.
Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict. 1967.
Buckley, Mary, ed., Post-Soviet Women: from the Baltic to Central Asia. 1997.
Buckley, Mary, Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union. 1989.
Carrere d'Encausse, Helene, Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt. 1980.
Cohen, Stephen F., and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers. 1989.
Colton, Timothy J. Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. 1995.
Cook, Linda J., The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. 1993.
Dawisha, Karen, and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval. 1994.
Filtzer, Donald, Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991. 1994.
Gati, Charles, The Bloc That Failed. 1990.
Gill, Graeme, The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1994.
Gorbachev, M.S., Perestroika. 1987.
Grant, Bruce, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas, 1995.
Gray, Francine DuPlessix, Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope. 1990.
Heer, Nancy Whittier, Politics and History in the Soviet Union. 1971.
Holland, Barbara, ed., Soviet Sisterhood. 1985.
Hosking, Geoffrey, Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction since Ivan Denisovich. 1980.
Hosking, Geoffrey, The Awakening of the Soviet Union. 1990.
Jones, Ellen, Red Army and Society: A Sociology of the Soviet Military. 1985.
Josephson, Paul R., New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. 1997.
Kaiser, Robert J., The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR. 1994.
Karklins, Rasma, Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspective from Below. 1985.
Kotkin, Stephen, Steeltown, USSR. 1991.
Kozlov, Vladimir. Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years. 2001.
Lahusen, Thomas, with Gene Kuperman, eds., Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. 1993.
Lane, Christel, The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Society, the Soviet Case. 1981.
Lawton, Anna, Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time. 1992.
Lewin, Moshe, The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation. 1988.
Lieven, Dominic, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Path to Independence . 2nd ed. 1994.
Lubin, Nancy, Labour and Nationality in Soviet Central Asia: An Uneasy Compromise. 1986.
Mamonova, Tatyana, ed., Women and Russia: Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union. 1984. Rebecca Park and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, trans.
Marples, David, Ukraine under Perestroika. 1992.
McCauley, Martin, Khrushchev and the Development of Soviet Agriculture: The Virgin Lands Program 1953-1964. 1976.
Medvedev, Roy A., and Zhores A. Medvedev, A Question of Madness. 1971.
Medvedev, Roy A., and Zhores A. Medvedev, Khrushchev: The Years in Power. 1978.
Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper, Media and the Russian Public. 1981.
Ramet, Sabrina Petra, ed., Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. 1992.
Reddaway, Peter, Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union. 1972.
Remnick, David, Lenin's Tomb. 1993.
Remnick, David, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, 1997.
Ries, Nancy, Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika. 1997.
Riordan, James, Sport in Soviet Society. 1980.
Ryback, Timothy W., Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 1989.
Rywkin, Michael, Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia. 1982.
Saunders, George, ed., Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition. 1974.
Shatz, Marshall S., Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective. 1981.
Solchanyk, Roman, Ukraine: The Road to Independence. 1994.
Suny, Ronald Grigor, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. 1994?.
Tompson, William J., Khrushchev: A Political Life. 1995.
Weiner, Douglas R., A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. 1998.
White, Stephen, After Gorbachev. 1993.
Zubkova, Elena, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957. 1998.
Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. 1996.

B. Memoirs

Amalrik, Andrei, Involuntary Journey to Siberia. 1970.
Bukovsky, Vladimir. To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter. 1979.
Burlatsky, Fedor. Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring. 1991.
Dobrynin, Anatoly, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents. 1995.
Gorbachev, Mikhail. Memoirs. 1996.
Gromyko, Andrei. Memories. 1989.
Khanga, Yelena, with Susan Jacoby, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. 1992.
Khrushchev, N. S., Khrushchev Remembers. 1970.
Khrushchev, N.S., Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes. Jerrold L. Schecter, ed. and trans., with Vyacheslav V. Luchkov. 1990.
Khrushchev, N.S., Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. 1976.
Ligachev, Egor, Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin. 1993.
Sakharov, Andrei, Memoirs. 1992. Richard Lourie, trans.

C. Fiction

Aitmatov, Chingiz, and Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, The Ascent of Mount Fuji. 1975. Nicholas Bethell, trans.
Aksyonov, Vasili, The Burn. 1984.
Aksyonov, Vassily, The Island of Crimea. 1983. Michael Henry Heim, trans.
Baranskaya, Natalya, A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories. 1989. Pieta Monks, trans.
Ehrenburg, Ilya, The Thaw. 1955.
Erofeev, Venedikt, Moscow to the End of the Line. 1984.
Erofeyev, Victor, Russian Beauty, 1993. Trans. Andrew Reynolds.
Goscilo, Helena, ed., Lives in Transit: Recent Russian Women's Writing.
Makine, Andrei, Dreams of My Russian Summers, 1997. Trans. from French, Geoffrey Strachan.
Pelevin, Victor. The Life of Insects. 1997.
Pelevin, Victor. Homo Zapiens. 2001.
Rasputin, Valentin, Farewell to Matyora. 1979. Antonina W. Bouis, trans.
Tolstaya, Tatyana, On the Golden Porch. 1990. Antonina W. Bouis, trans.
Tolstaya, Tatyana. Sleepwalker in a Fog.1992.
Voinovich, Vladimir, The Ivankiad. 1977. David Lapiza, trans.
Voinovich, Vladimir, Moscow 2042. 1992.

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