Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union

This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about Stalinism and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available.

Works included below are referenced positively in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or notable publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert or have significant scholarly journal reviews. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin has an extensive bibliography; Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928^[1][2] contains a 52-page bibliography and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941^[3][4] contains a 50-page bibliography covering both the life of Stalin and Stalinism in the Soviet Union.^[a] See Further Reading for several additional book and chapter length bibliographies worth consulting.

The period covered is 1924–1953, beginning approximately with the death of Lenin and ending approximately with the death of Stalin. This bibliography does not include the de-Stalinisation period.^[b]

Topics include the post-Lenin period of Stalin's consolidation of power from 1924 to 1926 and closely related topics such as the Soviet involvement in World War II, biographies of prominent individuals associated with the Stalinist era and the expansion of Stalinism during the immediate post World War II era. This bibliography does not include fiction, newspaper articles (expect in references), photo collections, or films created during or about Stalinism or the Stalinist Era.

This bibliography uses APA style citations.

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General surveys of Soviet history[]

These works contain significant overviews of the Stalinist era.

• Cohen, S. F. (2011). Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[5][6]
• Figes, O. (2015). Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
• Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B. (1986). Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.^[7][8]
• Hosking, G. (1987). The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[9][10][11]
• Kort, M. G. (2019). The Soviet Colossus (8th Edition). London, UK: Routledge.^[12]
• Kenez, P. (2017). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Lewin, M. (2016). The Soviet Century. (G. Elliot, Ed.). New York, NY: Verso.^[13][14]
• Malia, M. (1995). Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917–1991. New York, NY: Free Press.^[15][16]
• Mccauley, M. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Routledge.^[17][18]
• Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991 (3rd Edition). London, UK: Arkana Publishing.
• Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[c][19][20]
• ——. (2013). The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.^[21]

Period surveys and monographs (1924-1953)[]

• Angotti, T. (1988). The Stalin Period: Opening up History. Science & Society, 52(1), pp. 5–34.
• Antonov-Ovseenko, A. (1983). The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row.^[22]
• Armstrong, J. A. (1961). The Politics of Totalitarianism : The Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1934 to the Present. New York, NY: Random House.^[23]
• Hoffmann, D. L.. (2018). The Stalinist Era. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kuromiya, H. (2007). Stalin and His Era. The Historical Journal, 50(3), pp. 711–724.
• McCagg, W. O. (1978). Stalin Embattled: 1943-1948. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.^[24][25]
• Pipes, R. (1997, orig. ed. 1954). The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism 1917–1923, Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Shearer, D. (2018). Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66(2), pp. 188–217.
• Smith, S. A. (2017). Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Chapters 5-7). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[26][27]
• Smele, J. (2016). The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World (Chapter 6 and Conclusion). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^{[28][29][30][31]}
• Tucker, R. C. (1992). Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941. New York, NY: Norton.^[32][33]

Postwar era[]

• Hahn, W. G. (1982). Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[34][35]
• Kirschenbaum, L. (2011). Remembering and Rebuilding: Leningrad after the Siege from a Comparative Perspective. Journal of Modern European History, 9(3), pp. 314–327.
• Ruble, B. (1983). The Leningrad Affair and the Provincialization of Leningrad. The Russian Review, 42(3), pp. 301–320.
• Werth, A., & Salisbury, H. E. (1971). Russia: The Postwar Years. London, UK: Hale.
• White, E. (2007). After the War Was over: The Civilian Return to Leningrad. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(7), pp. 1145–1161.
• Zubkova, Elena. (2004). The Soviet Regime and Soviet Society in the Postwar Years: Innovations and Conservatism, 1945–1953. Journal of Modern European History, 2(1), pp. 134–152.

Social history[]

• Bettelheim, C., & Pearce, B. (1978). Class Struggles in the USSR: Second Period 1923-1930. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press.^[36]
• Campeanu, P., & Vale, M. (1988). The Genesis of the Stalinist Social Order. International Journal of Sociology, 18(1/2), pp. 1–165.
• Caroli, D., & Williams, R. (2003). Bolshevism, Stalinism, and Social Welfare (1917-1936). International Review of Social History, 48(1), pp. 27–54.
• Cohen, S. F. (1986). Stalin's Terror As Social History. The Russian Review, 45(4), pp. 375–384.
• Davies, S. (1997). "Us against Them": Social Identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41. The Russian Review, 56(1), pp. 70–89.
• ———. (1999). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[37][38][39][40]}
• Edele, M. (2011). Stalinist Society: 1928–1953. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[41][42]
• ———. (2014). The New Soviet Man as a "Gypsy": Nomadism, War, and Marginality in Stalin's Time. Region, 3(2), pp. 285–307.
• Figes, O. (2008). The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York, NY: Picador.^[43][44]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1979). Stalin and the Making of a New Elite, 1928-1939. Slavic Review, 38(3), pp. 377–402.
• ———. (1984). The Russian Revolution and Social Mobility: A Re-examination of the Question of Social Support for the Soviet Regime in the 1920s and 1930s. Politics & Society, 13(2), pp. 119–141.
• ———. (1989). War and Society in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor before, during, and after World War II. International Labor and Working-Class History, (35), pp. 37–52.
• ———. (1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press.^[45][46][47]
• Ginsburgs, G. (1957). The Soviet Union and the Problem of Refugees and Displaced Persons 1917- 1956. The American Journal of International Law, 51(2), pp. 325–361.
• Hoffmann, D. L. (2011). Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[48][49]
• Kiaer, C. (2008). Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^[50][51][52]
• Lewin, M. (1976) Society and the Stalinist State in the Period of the Five Year Plans. Social History, 1(2), pp. 139–175.
• ———. (1994). The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. New York, NY: New Press.^[53][54]
• Lorimer, F. (1979). The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press.^[55][56]
• Mawdsley, E., & White, S. (2004). The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[57][58]
• Noskova, O. G. (1996) The Social History of Industrial Psychology in Russia. Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 34(4), pp. 8–25.
• Nove, A. (1983). The Class Nature of the Soviet Union Revisited. Soviet Studies, 35(3), pp. 298–312.
• Siegelbaum, L. H. (1994). Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[59][60]
• Zubkova, E., & Ragsdale, H. (2015). Russia After The War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957. London, UK: Routledge.^[61][62]

Culture[]

• Barber, J. (1981). Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928–1932. London, UK: Macmillan.^[63][64]
• Baumgartner, M. and Buehler, K. (2017). The Revolution is Dead - Long Live the Revolution: From Malevich to Judd, From Deineka to Bartana. New York, NY: Prestel/Random House.
• Clark, K. (2001). Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[65][66][67]
• Enteen, G. (1989). The Stalinist Conception of Communist Party History. Studies in Soviet Thought, 37(4), pp. 259–274.
• Feinstein, E. (2007). Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York, NY: Knopf.^[68]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1971). The Emergence of Glaviskusstvo. Class War on the Cultural Front, Moscow, 1928–29. Soviet Studies, 23(2), pp. 236–253.
• ———. (1976). Culture and Politics under Stalin: A Reappraisal. Slavic Review, 35(2), pp. 211–231. doi:10.2307/2494589.
• ———. (1990). Cultural Revolution in Russia: 1928–1931. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^[69][70]
• ———. (1992). The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^{[d][71][72][73][74]}
• Günther, H. (2003). The Culture of the Stalin Period. New York, NY: Macmillan.^[75][76]
• Hellbeck, J. (2016). Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[77][78]
• Kirkwood, M. (Ed.) (1990). Language Planning in the Soviet Union. New York City, NY: St. Martin's Press.
• Kutulas, J. (1995). . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.^[79][80]
• Rolf, M. (2009). A Hall of Mirrors: Sovietizing Culture under Stalinism. Slavic Review, 68(3), pp. 601–630.
• Stites, R. (1992). Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[81][82]
• Strong, J. W. (1990). Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publications.^[83]
• Tromly, B. (2014). Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life Under Stalin and Khrushchev. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[84][85][86]

Education[]

• Fitzpatrick, S. (2002). The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917 – 1921. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———. (2002). Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[87][88][89]

Nationality policy[]

• Blank, S. (1994). The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin as Commissar of Nationalities, 1917–1924. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Carrère d’Encausse, H. (Festinger, N., Trans.) (1992). The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917–1930. New York City, NY: Holmes & Meier.
• Hirsch, F. (2005). Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Martin, T. (2001). The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Smith, J. (2013). Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Suny, R. G. (1993). The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Religion[]

• Bemporad, E. (2013). Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Bociurkiw, B. R. (1996). The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950). Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.^[90][91]
• Curtiss, J. S. (1963). The Russian Church and the Soviet State, 1917-1950. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
• Halevy, Z. (1976). Jewish Students in Soviet Universities in the 1920s. Soviet Jewish Affairs, 6(1), pp. 56–70.
• King, R. (1975). Religion and Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Brigham Young University Studies, 15(3), pp. 323–347.
• Miner, S. M. (2003). Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.^[92][93][94]
• Pospielovsky, D. (1984). The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.^[95][96]
• Tumarkin, N. (1981). Religion, Bolshevism, and the Origins of the Lenin Cult. The Russian Review, 40(1), pp. 35–46.
• Weinryb, B. (1979). Stalin's Zionism. Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 46/47, pp. 555–572.
• Wheeler, G. (1977). Islam and the Soviet Union. Middle Eastern Studies, 13(1), pp. 40–49.

The arts and Socialist Realism[]

• Bullitt, M. (1976). Toward a Marxist Theory of Aesthetics: The Development of Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. The Russian Review, 35(1), pp. 53–76.
• Conquest, R. (1979). The Pasternak Affair: Courage of Genius: A Documentary Report. New York, NY: Octagon Books.^[97][98]
• Demaitre, A. (1966). The Great Debate on Socialist Realism. The Modern Language Journal, 50(5), pp. 263–268.
• Dobrenko, E. A., & Jonsson-Skradol, N. (2018). Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin. New York, NY: Anthem Press.^[e]
• Dovšenko, O. (1973). Alexander Dovzhenko: The Poet as Filmmaker. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press.^[99][100]
• Dunham, V. S., Sheldon, R., & Hough, J. F. (1990). In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.^[101][102]
• Groys, B. (2014). The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. (C. Rougle Trans.) New York, NY: Verso Books.^[103][104]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (2002). The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917 – 1921. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Horvath, R. (2006). The Poet of Terror: Dem'ian Bednyi and Stalinist Culture. The Russian Review, 65(1), pp. 53–71.
• James, C. V. (2014). Soviet Socialist Realism: Origins and Theory. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.^[105][106]
• Krylova, A. (2001). “Healers of Wounded Souls”: The Crisis of Private Life in Soviet Literature, 1944–1946. The Journal of Modern History, 73(2), pp. 307–331.
• Maguire, R. A. (2000). Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.^{[107][108][109]}
• Masing-Delic, I. (2012). From Symbolism to Socialist Realism: A Reader. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.
• McSmith, A. (2015). Fear and the Muse Kept Watch: The Russian Masters from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein Under Stalin. New York, NY: The New Press.
• Petrov, P. M. (2015). Automatic for the Masses: The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.^[110]
• Pouncy, C. (2005). Stumbling Toward Socialist Realism: Ballet In Leningrad, 1927-1937. Russian History, 32(2), pp. 171–193.
• Robin, R. (1992). Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.^{[111][112][113]}
• Youngblood, D. J. (1991). Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.^[114][115]

Women and children[]

• Alexopoulos, G. (2009). Exiting the Gulag after War Women, Invalids, and the Family. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 57(4), pp. 563–579.
• Engel, B. (1987). Women in Russia and the Soviet Union. Signs, 12(4), pp. 781–796.
• Fitzpatrick, S., & Slezkine, Y. (2018). In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Lapidus, G. W. (1979). Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.^[116][117]
• Waters, E. (1992). The Modernisation of Russian Motherhood, 1917–1937. Soviet Studies, 44:1, pp. 123–135.

Terror, famine and the Gulag[]

• Applebaum, A. (2003). Gulag: A History. New York, NY: Doubleday.^[118][119]
• ———. (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. New York, NY: Doubleday.^[120][121]
• ———. (2017). Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York, NY: Doubleday.^{[122][123][124]}
• Baberowski, J. Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[125]
• Barnes, S. A. (2011). Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^{[126][127][128]}
• Bell, W. (2015). Sex, Pregnancy, and Power in the Late Stalinist Gulag. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 24(2), pp. 198–224.
• Birstein, V. J. (2011). SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon: Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII. London: Biteback Publishing.^[129]
• Bollinger, M. J. (2008). Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the Role of the West. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press.
• Cameron, S. I. (2018). The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.^[130]
• Carrère, E. H., & Ionescu, V. (1982). Stalin: Order through Terror. London, UK: Addison-Wesley Longman.
• Conquest, R. (1970). The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. New York, NY: Macmillan.
• ———. (1973). The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. New York, NY: Collier Books.^[f]
• ———. (1985). Inside Stalin's Secret Police: NKVD Politics, 1936-1939. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.
• ———. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London, UK: Pimlico.^{[131][132][133]}
• Corthorn, P. (2005). Labour, the Left, and the Stalinist Purges of the Late 1930s. The Historical Journal, 48(1), pp. 179–207.
• Davies, S. (1998). The Crime of "Anti-Soviet Agitation" in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 39(1/2), pp. 149–167.
• ———. (1999). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[37][38][39][40]}
• Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2009). The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933. London, UK: Macmillan.^{[134][135][136]}
• Dobrenko, V. (2010). Constructing the Enemy: Stalin’s Political Imagination and the Great Terror. Russian Journal of Communication, 3(1-2), pp. 72–96.
• Dolot, M. (1990). Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Draskoczy, J. S. (2014). Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.^[137]
• Dobson, M. (2012). Stalin's Gulag: Death, Redemption and Memory. The Slavonic and East European Review, 90(4), pp. 735–743.
• Ellman, M. (2003). The Soviet 1937-1938 Provincial Show Trials Revisited. Europe-Asia Studies, 55(8), pp. 1305–1321.
• Gamache, R. (2013). Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor. New York, NY: Welsh Academic Press.
• Getty, J. A. (1985). Origins of the Great Purges. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———., & Manning, R. (Eds.). (1993). Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———. (2002). "Excesses Are Not Permitted": Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s. The Russian Review, 61(1), pp. 113–138.
• ———., Naumov, O. V., & Sher, B. (2002). The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Goldman, W. (2005). Stalinist Terror and Democracy: The 1937 Union Campaign. The American Historical Review, 110(5), pp. 1427–1453.
• Graziosi, A. (2004). The Soviet 1931-1933 Famines and the Ukrainian Holodomor: Is a New Interpretation Possible, and What Would Its Consequences Be?. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 27(1/4), 97-115.
• ———., Hajda, L., & Hryn, H. (2013). After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
• Hagenloh, P. (2009). Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
• Harris, J. (2017). The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Hryn, H. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and its Soviet Context. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.^[138]
• Jansen, M., & Petrov, N. (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press.^[139][140]
• Khlevniuk, O., & Belokowsky, S. (2015). The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as One Interrelated Whole. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 16(3), pp. 479–498.
• Khlevniuk, O. (2004). The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
• Kindler, R. (2014). Famines and Political Communication in Stalinism. Possibilities and Limits of the Sayable. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 62(2), pp. 255–272.
• Klid, B., & Motyl, A. J. (Eds.). (2012). The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
• Kuromiya, H. (2007). The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Manning, R. (2009). Political Terror or Political Theater: The "Raion" Show Trials of 1937 and the Mass Operations. Russian History, 36(2), pp. 219–253.
• McDermott, K. (2007) Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8(3-4), pp. 609–622.
• ———. (1995). Stalinist Terror in the Comintern: New Perspectives. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(1), pp. 111–130.
• ———., & Stibbe, M. (2012). Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
• Naimark, N. M. (2012). Stalin's Genocides. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Nekrich, A. M. (1978). The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Tragic Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War. New York: Norton.
• Nolan, C. (1990). Americans in the Gulag: Detention of US Citizens by Russia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1944-49. Journal of Contemporary History, 25(4), pp. 523–545.
• Parrish, M. (1996). The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport, CT: Praeger.^[141][142]
• Pringle, R. W. (2008). SMERSH: Military Counterintelligence and Stalin's Control of the USSR. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 21(1), pp. 122–134.
• Rayfield, D. (2004). Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him. New York, NY: Random House.
• Rimmel, L. (1997). Another Kind of Fear: The Kirov Murder and the End of Bread Rationing in Leningrad. Slavic Review, 56(3), pp. 481–499.
• Rubenstein, J., & Naumov, V. P. (2005). Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Shatz, M. (1984). Stalin, the Great Purge, and Russian History: A new look at the "New Class". Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Shearer, D. R. (2009). Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• ———., & Chaustov, V. N. (2015). Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• ———. (2018). Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66(2), pp. 188–217.
• Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York, NY: Basic Books.^[143][144]
• Solzhenitsyn, A. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (3 vols.). (various publishers and translations).^[145]
• Vatlin, A. I. U., Bernstein, S., & Khlevniuk, O. V. (2016). Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Viola, L. (2009). The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Viola, L. (2017). Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[146]
• Werth, N. (2007). Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Wheatcroft, S. (2012). The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(6), pp. 987–1005.

Agriculture and the peasantry[]

• Brower, D. (1977). Collectivized Agriculture in Smolensk: The Party, the Peasantry, and the Crisis of 1932. The Russian Review, 36(2), pp. 151–166.
• Conquest, R. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London, UK: Pimlico.^{[131][132][133]}
• Cox, T. M. (1979). Rural Sociology in the Soviet Union: Its History and Basic Concepts. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers.^[147][148]
• Danilov, V. P. (1988). Rural Russia Under the New Regime. London, UK: Hutchinson.^[149][150]
• ———., Ivnitskii, N. A., Kozlov, D., Shabad, S., & Viola, L. (2008). The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[151][152]
• Davies, R. W. (1980). The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930. London, UK: Palgrave.^[153]
• ———, & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2009). The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933. London, UK: Macmillan.^{[134][135][136]}
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1994). Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^{[154][155][156][157]}
• Huhn, U. (2017). Reconciling Failure and Success: Soviet Elites and the Collectivized Village. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65(3), pp. 362–400.
• Joravsky, D. (2010). Lysenko Affair. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.^{[g][158][159]}
• Lewin, M., Nove, I., Biggart, J., & Nove, A. (1968). Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization. New York, NY: Norton.^[160][161]
• Reese, R. (1996). Red Army Opposition to Forced Collectivization, 1929-1930: The Army Wavers. Slavic Review, 55(1), pp. 24–45.
• Shanin, T. (1972). The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society: Russia 1910–1925. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.^{[162][163][164]}
• Thorniley, D., & Gardiner, K. (2016). Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party 1927–39. London: Palgrave Macmillan.^[165][166]
• Volin, L. (1970). A Century of Russian Agriculture: From Alexander II to Khrushchev. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[167][168]
• ———. (1999). Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[169][170]
• ———. (2011). The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[171][172]
• Yesdauletova, A; Yesdauletov, A; Aliyeva, S; Kakenova, G. (2015). Famine and Kazakh Society in the 1930s. The Anthropologist, 22(3), pp. 537–544.

Industrialization and urbanization[]

• Allen, R. C. (2009). Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[173][174]
• Davies, R. W. (1980). The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930. London, UK: Palgrave.^[153]
• DeHaan, H. (2016). Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.^[175][176]
• Figes, O. (2008). The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York, NY: Picador.^[43][44]
• Holloway, D. (2008). Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[177][178]
• Gregory, P., & Markevich, A. (2002). Creating Soviet Industry: The House That Stalin Built. Slavic Review, 61(4), pp. 787–814.
• Keys, B. (2009). An African-American Worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: Race and the Soviet Experiment in International Perspective. The Historian, 71(1), pp. 31–54.
• Kotkin, S. (1997). Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.^{[179][180][181]}
• Kuromiya, H. (1990). Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[182][183][184]}
• Oushakine, S. (2014). "Against the Cult of Things": On Soviet Productivism, Storage Economy, and Commodities with No Destination. The Russian Review, 73(2), pp. 198–236.
• Ruder, C. A. (2019). Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space. London: I.B. Tauris.^[185]
• Shearer, D. R. (2018). Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[186][187]
• Siegelbaum, L. (1984). Soviet Norm Determination in Theory and Practice, 1917-1941. Soviet Studies, 36(1), pp. 45–68.
• Siegelbaum, L. H., & Suny, R. G. (1994). Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[188][189]
• Smith, S. A. (1997). Russian Workers and the Politics of Social Identity. The Russian Review, 56(1), pp. 1–7.
• Stone, D. (2005). First Five-Year Plan and the Geography of Soviet Defence Industry. Europe-Asia Studies, 57(7), pp. 1047–1063.
• Zubovich, K. (2020). The Fall of the Zariad´e: Monumentalism and Displacement in Late Stalinist Moscow. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21(1), pp. 73–95

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• Biggart, J. (1981). "Anti-Leninist Bolshevism": The Forward Group of the RSDRP. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 23(2), pp. 134–153.
• Brandenberger, D., & Dubrovsky, A. (1998). 'The People Need a Tsar': The Emergence of National Bolshevism as Stalinist Ideology, 1931-1941. Europe-Asia Studies, 50(5), pp. 873–892.
• Campeanu, P. (2016). Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society. London, UK: Routledge.
• Conquest, R. (1992). Stalin: Breaker of Nations. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
• Daniels, R. V. (1960). The Conscience Of The Revolution: Communist Opposition In Soviet Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^{[190][191][192][193]}
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• Daniels, R. V. (1991). The Left Opposition as an Alternative to Stalinism. Slavic Review, 50(2), pp. 277–285.
• Fitzpatrick, S. (2006). Stalinism: New Directions. London, UK: Routledge.
• Gaido, D. (2011). Marxist Analyses of Stalinism. Science & Society, 75(1), pp. 99–107.
• Gellately, R. (2016). Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Geyer, M., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2009). Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[194][195][196]}
• Gregor, A. J. (2009). Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Hoffmann, D. L. (Ed.). (2002). Stalinism: The Essential Readings. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Kershaw, I., & Lewin, M. (1997). Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Losurdo, D. (2004). Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism. Historical Materialism. 12(2), pp. 25–55.
• Mccauley, M. (2015). Stalin and Stalinism. New York, NY: Routledge.
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• Pauley, B. F. (2015). Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Plamper, J. (2012). The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[197]
• Pons, S., & Smith, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[h]
• Reichman, H. (1988). Reconsidering "Stalinism". Theory and Society, 17(1), pp. 57–89.
• Reiman, M. (1987). The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the "Second Revolution". Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Schull, J. (1992). The Ideological Origins of “Stalinism” in Soviet Literature. Slavic Review, 51(3), pp. 468–484.
• Suny, R. G. (2020). Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment. New York: Verso.
• Van Ree, E. (1994). Stalin's Bolshevism: The First Decade. International Review of Social History, 39(3), pp. 361–381.
• Von Laue, T. (1983). Stalin in Focus. Slavic Review, 42(3), pp. 373–389.
• White, E. (2007). The Socialist Revolutionary Party, Ukraine, and Russian National Identity in the 1920s. The Russian Review, 66(4), pp. 549–567.
• Wood, A. (2005). Stalin and Stalinism. London, UK: Routledge.

Stalin and Lenin[]

• Gellately, R. (2007). Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. New York, NY: Knopf.^[198][199]
• Gerratana, V. (1977). Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism'. New Left Review, (103).
• McNeal, R. (1959). Lenin's Attack on Stalin: Review and Reappraisal. American Slavic and East European Review, 18(3), pp. 295–314.
• Service, R. (2000). Lenin: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
• Volkogonov, D. (1994). Lenin: Life and Legacy. London, UK: HarperCollins.

Stalin and Trotsky[]

• Deutscher, I. (2015). The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. New York, NY: Verso.^[i]
• Felshtinsky, Y. (1990). Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and the Left Opposition in the USSR 1918-1928. Cahiers Du Monde Russe Et Soviétique, 31(4), pp. 569–578.
• Getty, J. A. (1986). Trotsky in Exile: The Founding of the Fourth International. Soviet Studies, 38(1), pp. 24–35.
• McNeal, R. (1961). Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalin. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 5, pp. 87–97.
• Volkogonov, D. (1996). Trotsky, the Eternal Revolutionary. New York, NY: Free Press.

Propaganda[]

• Berkhoff, K. C. (2012). Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.^[200][201]
• Bonnell, V. E. (1999). Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.^[202][203]
• Brandenberger, D. (2012). Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927–1941. Yale University Press.^[204][205]
• Davies, S. (1999). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934–1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^{[37][38][39][40]}
• Thompson, E. (1991). Nationalist Propaganda in the Soviet Russian Press, 1939-1941. Slavic Review, 50(2), pp. 385–399.
• Westerman, F., Garrett, S., & Westerman, F. (2011). Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia. New York, NY: The Overlook Press.

Soviet territories[]

For Terror and Famine related works, see Terror, Famine and the Gulag section.

• Blaulvelt, T. K. & Smith, J. (Eds.) (2016). Georgia After Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power. London: Routledge.
• Boyanin, Y. (2011). The Kyrgyz of Naryn in the Early Soviet Period: A Study Examining Settlement, Collectivisation and Dekulakisation on the Basis of Oral Evidence. Inner Asia, 13(2), pp. 279–296.
• Edgar, A. (2006). Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet "Emancipation" of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective. Slavic Review, 65(2), pp. 252–272.
• Edgar, A. L. (2004). Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Forestier-Peyrat, E. (2017). Soviet Federalism at Work: Lessons from the History of the Transcaucasian Federation, 1922–1936. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65(4), pp. 529–559.
• Gross, J. T. (2002). Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[206][207]
• Kasekamp, A. (2017). Chapter 6: Between Anvil and Hammer. In A History of the Baltic States. New York, NY: Macmillan Education.
• Kassymbekova, B. (2016). Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.^[208][209]
• King, C. (2012). The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[210]
• Kotljarchuk, A., & Sundström, O. (2017). Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Huddinge: Södertörn University.
• Kuromiya, H. (2002). Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[211][212]
• Mark, S. G. (1998). Stalinism and the Demise of Old Siberia. Nationalities Papers, 26(4), pp. 777–784.
• Marples, D. R. (1992). Stalinism in Ukraine: In the 1940s. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.^[213]
• Marshall, A. (2010). The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. New York City, NY: Routledge.
• Mote, V. (2003). Stalin’s Railway to Nowhere: ‘The Dead Road’ (1947–1953). Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies, 3(1), pp. 48–63.
• Nahaylo, B., & Swoboda, V. (1990). Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London, UK: Hamilton.^[214][215]
• Northrop, D. (2004). Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[216][217]
• Plokhy, S. (2017). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York, NY: Basic Books.^[218]
• Rieber, A. (2001). Stalin, Man of the Borderlands. The American Historical Review, 106(5), pp. 1651–1691.
• Saparov, A (2015). From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh. New York City, NY: Routledge.
• Scott, E. (2017). Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Sirutavičius, V. (2015). National Bolshevism or National Communism: Features of Sovietization in Lithuania in the Summer of 1945 (The First Congress of the Intelligentsia). The Hungarian Historical Review, 4(1), pp. 3–28.
• Stronski, P. (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.^[219][220]

Foreign policy[]

• Carley, M. (1996). 'A Fearful Concatenation of Circumstances': The Anglo-Soviet Rapprochement, 1934-6. Contemporary European History, 5(1), pp. 29-69.
• Gati, C. (1984). The Stalinist Legacy in Soviet Foreign Policy. Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 35(3), pp. 214-226.
• Gellately, R. (2016). Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[221]
• McDermott, K. (1995). Stalinist Terror in the Comintern: New Perspectives. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(1), pp. 111–130.
• McDermott, K., & Agnew, J. (1997). The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.^[222][223]
• Rieber, A. J. (2015). Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[224]
• Snyder, T., & Brandon, R. (2014). Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Staklo, V. A. (2008). Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.^[225][226]
• Ulam, A. B. (1974). Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-73. New York: Praeger. online.^[227]
• Zubok, Vladislav and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: from Stalin to Khrushchev (Harvard UP, 1996) online

Government[]

• Bailes, K. E. (2016). Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Dunmore, T. (1984). Soviet Politics, 1945-53. London, UK: Macmillan Press.
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1979). Stalin and the Making of a New Elite, 1928-1939. Slavic Review, 38(3), pp. 377–402.
• ———. (2015). On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Getty, J. A. (2013). Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Gill, G. (1990). The Origins of the Stalinist Political System. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gorlizki, Y., & Chlevnjuk, O. V. (2008). Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[228]
• Hahn, W. G. (2019). Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Lampert, N. (2016). Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Manning, R. T. (1984). Government in the Soviet Countryside in the Stalinist Thirties: The Case of Belyi Raion in 1937. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Nation, R. C. (2018). Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.^[229][230]
• Rassweiler, A. (1983). Soviet Labor Policy in the First Five-Year Plan: The Dneprostroi Experience. Slavic Review, 42(2), pp. 230–246.
• Rigby, T. H., Brown, A., Reddaway, P., & Schapiro, L. (1983). Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro. London, UK: Macmillan.
• ———. (1988). Staffing USSR Incorporated: The Origins of the Nomenklatura System. Soviet Studies, 40(4), pp. 523–537.
• Rosenfeldt, N. E. (1978). Knowledge and Power: The Role of Stalin's Secret Chancellery in the Soviet System of Government. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.

Party[]

• Cohn, E. (2015). The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Gregor, R. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 2: The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
• McNeal, R. H. (1971). The Decisions of the CPSU and the Great Purge. Soviet Studies, 232, pp. 177–185.
• ———. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3: The Stalin Years 1929-1953. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
• Rigby, T. H. (1968). Communist Party Membership in the USSR, 1917-1967. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Schapiro, L. (1985). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Methuen Publishing.

Judicial[]

• Rittersporn, G. (1984). Soviet Officialdom and Political Evolution: Judiciary Apparatus and Penal Policy in the 1930s. Theory and Society, 13(2), pp. 211–237.

Economy[]

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• Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR. New York, NY: Penguin Books.^{[234][235][236]}

The Soviet Armed Forces[]

• Clark, P. (1981). Changsha in the 1930: Red Army Occupation. Modern China, 7(4), pp. 413–444.
• Erickson, J. (2001). The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History, 1918-1941. London, UK: Routledge.
• Glantz, D. M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
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• ———. (2005). Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War: 1941-1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
• Hill, A. (2019). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Hooton, E. R. (2013). Stalin's Claws, From the Purges to the Winter War: Red Army Operations before Barbarossa, 1937–1941. West Sussex, UK: Tattered Flag Press.^[237]
• Kavalerchik, B., Lopukhovsky, L., & Orenstein, H. (2017). The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Military.
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• Krylova, A. (2014). Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Mark, J. (2005). Remembering Rape: Divided Social Memory and the Red Army in Hungary 1944-1945. Past & Present, (188), pp. 133–161.
• Merridale, C. (2006). Culture, Ideology and Combat in the Red Army, 1939-45. Journal of Contemporary History, 41(2), pp. 305–324.
• Merridale, C. (2007). Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
• Nikolaieff, A. (1947). The Red Army in the Second World War. The Russian Review, 7(1), pp. 49–60.
• Reese, R. R. (1996). Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925–1941. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
• Reese, R. (1996). Red Army Opposition to Forced Collectivization, 1929-1930: The Army Wavers. Slavic Review, 55(1), pp. 24–45. doi:10.2307/2500977.
• Reese, R. R. (2011). Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
• Roberts, C. (1995). Planning for War: The Red Army and the Catastrophe of 1941. Europe-Asia Studies, 47(8), pp. 1293–1326.
• Statiev, A. (2010). Penal Units in the Red Army. Europe-Asia Studies, 62(5), pp. 721–747.
• Von, H. M., & Gilbert S. (1993). Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Whitewood, P. (2015). The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

The Soviet Union and war[]

The beginning of the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc[]

Eastern Bloc
Republics of the USSR Armenia Azerbaijan Byelorussia Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Kirghizia Latvia Lithuania Moldavia Russia Tajikistan Turkmenia Ukraine Uzbekistan
Allied states Afghanistan Albania (until 1961) Angola Benin Bulgaria China (until 1961) Congo Cuba Czechoslovakia East Germany Ethiopia Grenada Hungary indonesia Kampuchea Laos Mongolia Mozambique North Korea Poland (until 1989) Romania Somalia (until 1977) South Yemen Vietnam (North Vietnam, PRG) Yugoslavia (until 1948)
Related organizations Warsaw Pact Comecon Cominform World Federation of Trade Unions World Federation of Democratic Youth
Dissent and opposition Anti-Soviet partisans Albania Bulgaria Croatia Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Serbia Ukraine Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Operation Jungle Soviet occupation Protests and uprisings Plzeň 1953 East Germany 1953 Georgia 1956 Poznań 1956 Hungary 1956 Novocherkassk 1962 Prague 1968 Invasion Moscow Czechoslovakia 1976–92 Romania 1977 Poland 1980–89 Kazakhstan 1986 Brașov 1987 Tbilisi 1989 Baku 1990 Lithuania 1991 Riga 1991
Cold War events Marshall Plan Czechoslovak coup Tito–Stalin split Berlin Blockade Korean War Secret Speech Sino-Soviet split Soviet–Albanian split De-satellization of Communist Romania Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War Cuban intervention in Angola Afghan War 1980 Moscow Olympics 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Gulf War
Decline Singing Revolution Polish Round Table Agreement Revolutions of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall January Events Barricades in Latvia Breakup of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Wars End of the Soviet Union Post-Soviet conflicts Fall of communism in Albania Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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• Applebaum, A. (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York, NY: Doubleday.
• Avey, P. (2012). Confronting Soviet Power: U.S. Policy during the Early Cold War. International Security, 36(4), pp. 151–188.
• Babiracki, P. (2015). Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
• Barghoorn, F. (1949). The Soviet Union between War and Cold War. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 263, pp. 1–8.
• Evangelista, M. (1982). Stalin's Postwar Army Reappraised. International Security, 7(3), pp. 110–138.
• Gaddis, J. L. (1989). Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins. Diplomatic History, 13(2), pp. 191–212.
• Gaddis, J. L. (2007). The Cold War: A New History. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
• Gordin, M. D. (2013). Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Hasanli, J. (2011). Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945–1953. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Holtsmark, S. G., Neumann, I. B., & Westad, O. A. (2016). The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lebow, K. (2016). Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Linz, S. (1985). Foreign Aid and Soviet Postwar Recovery. The Journal of Economic History, 45(4), pp. 947–954.
• Mastny, V. (2010). The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Miller, D. (2012). The Cold War: A Military History. London, UK: Pimlico.
• Naimark, N. M. (2004). Stalin and Europe in the Postwar Period, 1945–53: Issues and Problems. Journal of Modern European History, 2(1), pp. 28–57.
• Nolan, C. (1990). Americans in the Gulag: Detention of US Citizens by Russia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1944-49. Journal of Contemporary History, 25(4), pp. 523–545.
• Oberender, A. (2012). Stalin's Postwar Foreign Policy. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 13(4), pp. 937–949.
• Roberts, G. (1994). Moscow and the Marshall Plan: Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947. Europe-Asia Studies, 46(8), pp. 1371–1386.
• Seabury, P. (1968). Cold War Origins, I. Journal of Contemporary History, 3(1), pp. 169–182.
• Szaynok, B. (2002). The Anti-Jewish Policy Of The USSR In The Last Decade Of Stalin's Rule And Its Impact On The East European Countries With Special Reference To Poland. Russian History, 29(2/4), pp. 301–315.
• Thomas, B. (1968). Cold War Origins, II. Journal of Contemporary History, 3(1), pp. 183–198.
• Westad, O. A. (1993). Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Westad, O. A. (2011). Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
• Westad, O. A. (2019). . New York, NY: Basic Books.

Historiography[]

• Avrich, P. (1960). The Short Course and Soviet Historiography. Political Science Quarterly, 75(4), pp. 539–553.
• Alexopoulos, G., Tomoff, K., Hessler, J., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2011). Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Beilharz, P. (1985). Trotsky as Historian. History Workshop, (20), pp. 36–55.
• Eley, G. (1986). History with the Politics Left Out-Again? The Russian Review, 45(4), pp. 385–394.
• Getty, J., & Manning, R. (Eds.). (1993). Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kenez, P. (1986). Stalinism As Humdrum Politics. The Russian Review, 45(4), pp. 395–400. doi:10.2307/130469.^[j]
• Kennan, G. (1971). The Historiography of the Early Political Career of Stalin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 115(3), pp. 165–169.
• Lak, Martijn (2015). Contemporary Historiography on the Eastern Front in World War II. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 28(3), pp. 567–587.
• McNeal, R. (1966). The Study of Bolshevism: Sources and Methods. International Journal, 21(4), pp. 521–526.
• Meyer, A. (1986). Coming to Terms with the Past... and with One's Older Colleagues. The Russian Review, 45(4), pp. 401–408.
• Morozova, I. (2005). Contemporary Azerbaijani Historiography on the Problem of "Southern Azerbaijan" after World War II. Iran & the Caucasus, 9(1), pp. 85–120.
• Naimark, N. (2004). Stalin and Europe in the Postwar Period, 1945–53: Issues and Problems. Journal of Modern European History, 2(1), pp. 28–57.
• Ryan, J., & Grant, S. (Eds.). (2020). Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Siegelbaum, L., & Suny, R. G. (1993). Making the Command Economy: Western Historians on Soviet Industrialization. International Labor and Working-Class History, (43), pp. 65–76.
• Suny, R. G. (2017). Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution. New York, NY: Verso.
• Tucker, R. C. (2017). Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. London, UK: Routledge.
• Viola, L. (2002). The Cold War in American Soviet Historiography and the End of the Soviet Union. The Russian Review, 61(1), pp. 25–34.

Reference works[]

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union. (1994). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kasack, W. & Atack, R. (1988). Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Minahan, J. (2012). The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
• Smith, S. A. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[239][240]
• Vronskaya, J. & Čuguev, V. (1992). The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union: Prominent people in all fields from 1917 to the present. London, UK: Bowker-Saur.

Other works[]

• Cohen, S. F. (2011). Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.^[241][242]
• David-Fox, M., Holquist, P., & Martin, A. M. (2012). Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as entangled histories, 1914–1945. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.^{[243][244][245]}
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• Kern, G. (1974). Solzhenitsyn's Portrait of Stalin. Slavic Review, 33(1), pp. 1–22.
• Knight, A. (2001). Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.^[246]
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• Weitz, E. (2002). Racial Politics without the Concept of Race: Reevaluating Soviet Ethnic and National Purges. Slavic Review, 61(1), pp. 1–29.

Legacy[]

• Ali, T. (2012). The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books.
• Cohen, S. F. (1973). Stalin's Revolution Reconsidered. Slavic Review, 32(2), pp. 264–270.
• Gugushvili, A., Kabachnik, P., & Gilbreath, A. H. (2016). Cartographies of Stalin: Place, Scale, and Reputational Politics. The Professional Geographer, 683, pp. 356–367.
• Gugushvili, A., & Kabachnik, P. (2019). Stalin on Their Minds: A Comparative Analysis of Public Perceptions of the Soviet Dictator in Russia and Georgia. International Journal of Sociology, 49(5-6), pp. 317–341.
• Medvedev, R. A., & Shriver, G. (1989). Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.^{[251][252][253]}

Biographies[]

Joseph Stalin[]

• Conquest, R. (1991). Stalin: Breaker of Nations. New York, NY: Viking Press.
• Davies, S., & Harris, J. (Eds.). (2005). Stalin: A New History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Deutscher, I. (1996). Stalin: A Political Biography. London, UK: Penguin.
• Khlevniuk, O. V., & Favorov, N. S. (2015). Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.^[k]
• Kotkin, S. (2014). Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York, NY: Penguin Books.^{[254][255][256][257]}
• ———. (2017). Stalin. (Vol. 2). Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941. New York, NY: Penguin Books.^[258][259]
• Kuromiya, H. (2013). Stalin. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.^[260][261]
• Laqueur, W. (2002). Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations. New York, NY: Scribner.^[262]
• Medvedev, Z. A., Medvedev, R. A., & Dahrendorf, E. (2006). The Unknown Stalin. London, UK: I.B. Tauris.
• Montefiore, S. (2004). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. New York, NY: Knopf.^{[l][263][264][265]}
• ———. (2007). Young Stalin. New York, NY: Knopf.^[266]
• Rubenstein, J. (2016). The Last Days of Stalin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Service, R. W. (2006). Stalin: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.^[267]
• Suny, R. G. (2020). Stalin: Passage to Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. excerpt

Other[]

• Cohen, S. F. (1980). Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[268][269]
• Feinstein, E. (2007). Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York, NY: Knopf.
• Getty, J. A., & Naumov, O. V. (2008). Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist. New Haven (Conn.: Yale University Press.^[270]
• Jansen, M., & Petrov, N. (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press.^[139][140]
• Khlevniuk, O. (Nordlander, D., Trans.) (1995). In Stalin's Shadow: The Career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze. Aramonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
• Knight, A. (1993). Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[271][272]
• Roberts, G. (2011). Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.^[273][274]
• Roberts, G. (2012). Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. New York, NY: Random House.^[275]

Memoirs and literary accounts[]

• Alliluyeva, S. (2016). Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir. New York, NY: Harper Perennial. ^[m]
• Allilueva, S. (2017). Only One Year: A Memoir. New York, NY: Harper Perennial. ^[n]
• Ginzburg, L. (2016). Notes from the Blockade. London, UK: Random House.^[o]
• Grossman, V. (2012). Life and Fate (R. Chandler, Trans.). New York, NY: NYRB Classics.^[p]
• Scott, J. (1989). Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.^{[q][276][277]}
• Solzhenitsyn, A. (1962/1963). One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.^[r]
• Werth, A. (1961). Russia At War, 1941-1945.^[s]
• Zhukov, G. (1971) The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (J. Cape, Trans.). London: Cape.^[t]

Gulag and purge survivor memoirs

• Ginzburg, E. (2014). Journey Into the Whirlwind. San Diego, CA: Helen & Kurt Wolff Books.
• Mandelʹshtam, N. (2011). Hope Abandoned and Hope Against Hope. Various.
• Shalamov, V., & Rayfield, D. (2018). Kolyma Stories. New York, NY: New York Review Books.
• Rossi, Jacques (2018). Fragments of Lives: Chronicles of the Gulag (Antonelli-Street trans.). Prague: Karolinum.
• Solomon, Michel (1971). Magadan. New York: Auerbach.

English language translations of primary sources[]

Joseph Stalin[]

Collected Works by Joseph Stalin

• The Collected Works of J. V. Stalin, 16 vols. 1901-1952. (1953–54). Collection Index and Text
• Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. (1941-1945). Collection Index and Text.
• Correspondence with Winston S. Churchill and Clement R. Attlee. (1941-1945). Collection Index and Text.
• Josef Stalin Internet Archive. Collection Index and Text
• War Speeches, Orders of the Day and Answers to Foreign Press Correspondents During the Great Patriotic War. (1941-1945). Collection Index and Text.
• Lih, L. T., Naumov, O. V., & Khlevniuk, O. V. (1996). Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Individual works by Joseph Stalin

• Briefly About Disagreements in the Party. (1905). Text.
• Anarchism or Socialism?. (1906-7). Text.
• Marxism and the National Question. (1913). Text.
• Report to Comrade Lenin by the Commission of the Party Central Committee and the Council of Defence on the Reasons for the Fall of Perm. (1919). Text.
• Our Disagreements. (1921). Text.
• Thirteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B). (1924). [Thirteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B) Text].
• On the Death of Lenin. (1924). Text.
• The Foundations of Leninism. (1924). Text.
• Trotskyism or Leninism?. (1924). Text.
• The October Revolution & the Tactics of the Russian Communists. (1924). Text.
• The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1925). Text.
• Concerning Questions of Leninism. (1926). Text.
• The Social-Democratic Deviation in our Party. (1926). Text.
• Reply to the Report on “The Social-Democratic Deviation in our Party”. (1926). Text.
• The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.. (1926). Text.
• The Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now. (1927). Text.
• The Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1927). Text.
• The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission. (1928). Text.
• Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.). (1928). Text.
• Results of the July Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.). (1928). Text.
• The Right Danger in the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1928). Text.
• Industrialisation of the country and the Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1928). Text.
• The National Question and Leninism. (1929). Text.
• The Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1929). Text.
• Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R.. (1929). Text.
• Dizzy with Success. (1930). Text.
• Anti-Semitism. (1931). Text.
• Some Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism. (1931). Text.
• The Results of the First Five-Year Plan. (1933). Text.
• Work in the Countryside. (1931). Text.
• Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1934). Text.
• Marxism Versus Liberalism. (1934). Text.
• Remarks on a Summary of the Manual of the History of the USSR. (1934). Text.
• . (1934). [ Text].
• Remarks on a Summary of the Manual of the Modern History. (1934). Text.
• Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard. (1936). Text.
• On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R. (1936). Text.
• Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers. (1937). Text.
• Dialectical and Historical Materialism. (1938). Text.
• History of the C.P.S.U.(B) (Short Course). (1939). Text.
• Report on the Work of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.). (1939). Text.
• Radio Broadcast. (July 3, 1941). Text.
• On the Allied Landing in Northern France. (1944). Text.
• Stalin's Address to the People (Victory Speech). (May 9, 1945). Text.
• Coexistence, American-Soviet Cooperation, Atomic Energy, Europe. (1947). Text.
• Berlin Crisis, the U.N. and Anglo-American Aggressive Policies, Churchill. (1948). Text.
• Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR. (1952). Text.

Other works[]

Collections

• The Making of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1950 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
• The Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-1959 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
• Cold War Origins Document Collection. The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
• Documents related to Stalin and the Cold War (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
• Applebaum, A., & Miller, J. A. (2014). Gulag Voices: An Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press.^[u]
• Bidlack, R., Lomagin, N., & Schwartz, M. (2014). The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Daniels, R. V. (Ed.). (2001). A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev (3rd Edition). Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
• Stalin, J., Kaganovich, L. M. (2003). The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36. (Davies, R. W. et al. Eds.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Storella, C. J., Sokolov, A. K. (2013). The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Individual works

• The Five Year Plan - Originally published February 1930. From Marxists Internet Archive (2008)
• Brandenberger, D., & Zelenov, M. (2019). Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Tukhachevsky, M. (1936). Marshal Tukhachevsky on the Red Army. The Slavonic and East European Review, 14(42), pp. 694–701.

Government documents

• The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (August, 1939). Fordham University.
• Secret Supplementary Protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact (September, 1939). The Wilson Center.
• Gregor, R. (Ed.). (1974). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Vol. 2, The Early Soviet Period, 1917-1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
• McNeal, R. H. (Ed.). (1974). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3: The Stalin Years 1929-1953. Toronto, ON: Toronto University Press.

Further reading[]

Bibliographies[]

Bibliographies contain English and non-English language entries unless noted otherwise.

Bibliographies of Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

• Applebaum, A. (2003). Bibliography. In Gulag: A History. New York, NY: Doubleday.
• Applebaum, A. (2012). Bibliography. In Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. New York, NY: Doubleday.
• Applebaum, A. (2017). Selected Bibliography. In Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York, NY: Doubleday.
• Brandenberger, D. (2012). Notes. In Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Egan, D. R., & Egan, M. A. (2007). Joseph Stalin: An Annotated Bibliography of English-language Periodical Literature to 2005. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press.^[278]
• Figes, O. (2015). A Short Guide To Further Reading. In Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.^[v]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1994). On Bibliography and Sources. In Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[53][54][55][56]
• ———. (1999). Bibliography. In Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.^[w]
• ———. (2006). Further Reading. In Stalinism: New Directions. London, UK: Routledge.^[x]
• ———. (2015). Bibliography. In On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.^[y]
• ———, & Viola, L. (2016). A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Getty, J. A., Naumov, O. V., & Sher, B. (2002). Notes. In The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Getty, J. A. (2013). Notes. In Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Hill, A. (2017). Bibliography. In The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kotkin, S. (2014/2017). Bibliography. In Stalin (Vol. 1 Paradoxes of Power, Vol. 2 Waiting for Hitler, Vol. 3 forthcoming). New York, NY: Penguin Books. ^[z]
• Kutulas, J. (1995). Selected Bibliography. In The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• McNeal, R. H. (1967). Stalin's Works: An annotated bibliography. Palo Alto, CA: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Shearer, D. R. (2018). Bibliography. In Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Bibliographies of Russian (Soviet) history containing significant material on the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union

• Edelheit, A. J., & Edelheit, H. (1992). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: A selected bibliography of sources in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.^[279]
• Grierson, P. (1969). Books on Soviet Russia: 1917 - 1942 ; a Bibliography and a Guide to Reading. Twickenham, UK: Anthony C. Hall.
• Horecky, P. L. (1971). Russia and the Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to Western-language Publications. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
• Kenez, P. (2016). Soviet History: A Bibliography. In A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy (3rd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.^[aa]
• Schaffner, B. L. (1995). Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its Predecessors and Successors. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
• Spapiro, D. (1962). A Select Bibliography of Works in English on Russian History,1801-1917. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Simmons, E. J. (1962). Russia: Selective and Annotated Bibliography. The Slavic and East European Journal, 6(2), pp. 148–158. doi:10.2307/3086102

Bibliographies of primary source documents

• Figes, O. (2008). The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York, NY: Picador.^[ab]

Journals[]

The list below contains journals frequently referenced in this bibliography.

Journals related to Russian (Soviet) history

• Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1967–Present): Brill Online.
• Central Asian Survey (1982–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Contemporary European History (1992-2014): JSTOR.
• East European Quarterly (1967-2008, 2015–Present): Central European University.
• Journal of Baltic Studies (1970–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography (2008–Present): Brill Online.
• Journal of Slavic Military Studies (1988–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• (1976-2012): Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
• Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2000–Present): Georgetown University, Project Muse.
• The Polish Review (1942-1945, 1956-2019): The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, JSTOR.
• Revolutionary Russia (1988–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• The Russian Review (1941–Present): Wiley Online, Wiley Online Library, JSTOR.
• Russian Studies in History (formerly Soviet Studies in History) (1962-1992, 1992–Present): Taylor Francis Online.
• Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies (2001-2019): Berghahn, Taylor Francis Online.
• Studies in Soviet Thought (1961-2016): JSTOR.
• The Slavic and East European Journal (1957–Present): American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, JSTOR.
• Slavic Review (1961–Present): University of Illinois, JSTOR.
• Slavonic and East European Review (1922-1927, 1928–Present): UCL School of Slavonic And East European Studies, JSTOR.
• Soviet Studies (1949-1992): JSTOR.
• Studies in Comparative Communism (1968-1992): Science Direct Online.
• Politics, Religion & Ideology (formerly Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions) (2000–Present): Taylor Francis Online

Lists of journals related to Russian (Soviet) history

• Related Journals in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. From Slavic Review.

Journals related to the Cold War

• Cold War History (2000–Present): Taylor Francis
• Journal of Cold War Studies (1999–Present): MIT Press, Project Muse

See also[]

• Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
• Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
• Index of Soviet Union-related articles
• Anti-Stalinist left
• Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism
• Mass killings under Communist regimes
• Timeline of Russian history

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Bibliographic Research Guide to Soviet History (Harvard University). Compiled by Andrea Graziosi, (University of Naples).
• Selected Bibliography of English-language Print Resources for Russia (Yale University).
• Bibliography: Dissent in the Soviet Union. (Indiana University at Bloomington).
• Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Oxford Academic).
• Forced Labor Camps - Selected Bibliography. Edited by Katalin Dobo. (Central European University).