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Annotated Bibliography for
Soviet Russia 1917–1953
[ADVANCED HIGHER]
Faith Geddes
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Foreword
Since the introduction of the policy of glasnost or ‘openness’ in 1985, a great
deal of new evidence about the period 1917–1953 has emerged from Soviet
archives. Many new works by Russian and Western historians and updated
editions of older ones have been published. The emphasis in this bibliography
is on recent works, and the list is far from exhaustive. There is no implication
that the new evidence has rendered earlier works obsolete, or that works that
have been omitted are of less value. Many of the works included have
bibliographies on specific topics and attention has been drawn to some that
are particularly useful.
The bibliography in this booklet is divided into three parts:
Section 1 lists basic texts and study guides suitable for students.
Section 2 lists works more suitable for teachers or dissertation purposes.
Section 3 covers other sources, such as periodicals, audio-visual and
electronic media.
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CONTENTS
Section 1:
Section 2:
Section 3:
Texts/study guides recommended for students
General
Leading figures
Russia before the Revolution
The revolutionary period 1917–1924
The Stalinist period
Foreign policy
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Works more suitable for teachers or dissertation purposes
General
Communism
Leading figures
Russia before the Revolution
The revolutionary period 1917–1924:
General
1917–1918
The Civil War
Changing economic policy from War Communism
to New Economic Policy
Stalinism
Industrialisation and collectivisation
Purges/the Terror
Policies towards national minorities
Economic and social history
Culture
Religion
Foreign policy:
General
World War Two
Cold War
Other sources
Journals/periodicals
Audio-visual
The Internet
Useful websites
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Dukes, Paul, A History of Russia c.882 –1996, 3rd edn, Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1998
Clear introduction to the long view which sets out political, economic and
cultural aspects and examines current interpretations.
Hosking, Geoff rey, A History of the Soviet Union 1917 –1991,
Londo n: Fontana, 1992
Useful introduction tracing evolution of the Soviet political system.
Kenez, P, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the
End, Cambridge: CUP, 1999
Concise examination of political, social and cultural developments from
1917 to 1991. Useful bibliography.
McAuley, Mary, Sovi et Politics 1917 –1991, Oxf ord: OUP, 1992
Concise analysis of key political developments.
McCauley, Martin, The Soviet Union 1917 –1991, 2nd edn, London:
Longman, 1993
Riasnovsky, Nicholas V, A History of Russi a, 6th edn, New York:
OUP, 2000
One-volume history from the origins of the Kievan state to the 1990s,
drawing on primary sources and interpretative works by historians.
Leading figures
Laver, J, Lenin: Liberator or Oppressor? , London: Hodde r &
Stoughton, 1994, ‘Personalities and Pow ers’ series
A short thematic biography investigating the issues raised by his life, work
and achievements, bringing together conflicting views by contemporaries
and historians.
Laver, J, Joseph Stal in. From Revolutionary to Despot , London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1993, ‘Personalities and Pow ers’ series
A short thematic biography investigating the issues raised by his life, work
and achievements, bringing together conflicting views by contemporaries
and historians.
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Lynch, Michael, Trot sky: The Perm anent Revolutionary , London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, ‘Personalities and Pow ers’ series
A short thematic biography investigating the issues raised by his life, work
and achievements, bringing together conflicting vie ws by contemporaries
and historians.
Williams, Beryl, Lenin, London: Longman, 2000, ‘Prof iles in
Pow er’ series
A one-volume concise study of Lenin, his role in the Russian Revolution,
and his years in power, 1917–24. Update evaluation of recent debate in
Russia and the West, and use of new documents.
Russia before the Revolution
Hosking, Geoff rey, Russian People and Em pire 1552 –1917, London:
HarperCollins, 1997
Standard text; good starting point on Russia under the Tsars.
Hutchinson, J F, Late Im perial Russia, 1890 –1917, London:
Longman, 1999,
‘Seminar Studies’ series
Includes text, useful documents and bibliography.
Wood, Alan, The Ori gins of the Russian Revolution 1861 –1917, 2nd
edn, London and New York: Routledge, 1993, ‘Lancaster
Pamphlets’ series
A concise analysis, including an examination of the views of ‘orthodox’
and ‘revisionist’ historians.
The revolutionary period 1917–1924
Daborn, John, Russia: Revolution and Counter -Revolution 1917 –
1924, Cambridge: CUP, 1995, ‘Topics in H istory’ series
Includes selection of primary and secondary sources; narrative and
analysis to place the sources in context; questions on skills in evaluating
historical evidence.
Darby, Graham, The Russian Revolution , London: Longman, 1998,
‘Longman Histo ry in Depth’ series
Includes a basic narrative and a discussion of the issues.
Figes, Orlando, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 –
1924, London: Pimlico, 1997
Long but readable history of the revolutionary period.
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Kow alski, R, The Russian Revolution, 1917 –1921, London:
Routledge, 1997, ‘Sources in History’ seri es
Includes a useful guide to latest debate and documentary material, with a
selection of primary source material; addresses the key question of
whether the Revolution was a Bolshevik coup, or a popular movement.
Lynch, Michael, Reaction and Revolutions: Russia 1881 –1924,
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, ‘Access to History’ series
Includes narrative and analysis of the revolutionary period; introduces the
key historical debates of the topic. The text is highlighted with primary
sources. Study guide sections contain hints on note taking, essay writing,
and source-based questions. No bibliography, but some suggestions for
further reading included.
McCauley, Martin (ed), The Russian Revolution and the Soviet
State: 1917–1921, London: Macmillan, 1988
Useful documents.
McColgan, Martin, Russia 1881–1921: From Tsarism to
Comm unism , London: Longman, 1994
Revised Higher textbook with focus on ideology, identity and authority.
Key issues are addressed.
Marples, D, Leni n’s Revolution 1917 –21, London: Longman, 2000,
‘Seminar Studies’ series
Includes text, useful documents and bibliography.
Phillips, Steve, Lenin and the Russian Revolution , London:
Heinemann, 2000, ‘Advanced Hi story’ series
Section 1 includes narrative and explanation, with extra notes, biography
boxes as well as definitions in the margin and summary boxes. Section 2
includes analysis and historians’ interpretations of the material covered.
Advice is given on answering exam questions.
Read, Christopher, From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and
their Revolution 1917 –21, London: UCL Press, 1995
Useful basic introduction with clear discussions of the latest
historiography.
Service, Robert, The Russian Revolu tion 1900–1927, 3rd edn,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999, ‘St udies in European History’ series
Introduction to recent research in an integrated study covering political,
social and economic factors. Information from both Western and Russian
sources has been condensed. Key recurrent themes are emphasised.
Guides to interpretations at start of chapters.
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Wood, Anthony, The Russian Revolution , London: Longman, 1999,
‘Seminar Studies i n History’
A concise history which sets the Revolution in context, examinin g the
state under Nicholas II and the impact of the First World War. The core of
the text covers the events of 1917 and their immediate consequences. The
period up to 1921 is also examined. Useful section on documents.
The Stalinist period
Gill, Graeme, Stalini sm , 2nd edn, Basingst oke: Macmillan, 1990,
‘Studies in European History’ series
Short introduction to recent research based on Soviet archives, providing a
thematic account of the nature of Stalinism. It surveys the arguments
about the origins of the Stalinist phenomenon and discusses the ways in
which its economic, social, cultural and political faces changed over time.
Grant, Jim, Stalin and the Soviet Union , London: Longman, 1998,
‘Longman History in Depth’ series
Includes a basic narrative and a discussion of the issues.
Lee, Stephen and Lang, Sean (eds), Stalin and the Soviet Union ,
London: Routledge, 1999, ‘Questions and Analysis in History’
series
Offers new interpretations of recently uncovered archives, examining
Stalin’s domestic and foreign policy. Guide to essay writing and
document-based questions.
Lynch, Michael, Stalin and Khruschev: The USSR 1924 –64, London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1990, ‘ Access to Hist ory’ series
Study guide with hints on note-taking, document study and essay writing.
McCauley, Martin, St alin and Stalinism , London: Longman, 1995,
‘Seminar Studies i n History’ series
A new edition, offering a concise assessment of the period. Includes a
revised text, expanded documents section and useful updated bibliog raphy
mainly on works published since 1980. Re-examines Stalinism in light of
the latest research findings from Russian archives. Considers the debate
between the ‘totalitarian’ interpretation of Stalinism and that of the
‘social’ historians in the 1980s.
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Maw dsley, Evan, The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929 –1953,
Manchester: MUP, 1998
Includes chapters on ideology, politics, economic development, social
change, the nationalities, culture, external relations and the Great Terror;
newly available documents; bibliography of recent publications. Stresses
the connection between internal and external policy, and the influence of
ideology on both.
Phillips, Steve, Stalinist Russia , London: H einemann, 2000,
‘Advanced History’ series
Section 1 includes narrative and explanation, with extra notes, biography
boxes as well as definitions in the margin and summary boxes. Section 2
includes analysis and historians’ interpretations of the material covered.
Advice given on answering exam questions.
Thomas, David and McAndrew , Mark, Russia: Soviet Union 1917 –
45: From Tsar to Stal in , London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997
Study guide to essays and source-based questions.
Ward, Chris, Stalin’s Russia , 2nd edn, London: Edw ard Arnold,
1999
Comprehensive textbook survey covering the whole period. Lays out
many of the debates and provides an evaluation of the key issues. Includes
source references, end of chapter suggestions for further reading and a
useful glossary.
Wood, Alan, Stalin and Stalinism , London: Routledge, 1990,
‘Lancaster Pamphlet s’ series
Concise analysis.
Foreign policy
Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline, Russia and the World, 1917 –1991, London:
Edw ard Arnold, 1998
A general history survey of all the main phases of foreign policy, with
attention given to major events such as the impact of World War Two on
Russia, and the emergence of the Cold War. Highlights the importance of
technological, strategic and domestic factors in the making of foreign
policy.
McCauley, Martin, The Origins of the Col d War 194 1–1949, 2nd
edn, London: Longm an, 1995, ‘Seminar St udies in History’ seri es
Revised and expanded text in the light of recent events. Explores key
questions about who was responsible, and the attitude of Stalin.
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McCauley, Martin, Russia, Am erica and the C old War 1940–1991,
London: Longman, 1998, ‘Seminar Studies in History’ series
Follow-up volume to The Origins of the Cold War, which tracks US/Soviet
relations throughout the Cold War.
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SECTION 2
General
Brow n, Archie (ed), Cam bridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the
form er Soviet Union , Cambridge: CUP, 1994
Useful background work.
Brow n, Archie (ed), The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary ,
London: Weidenf eld & Nicolson, 1990
Carr, E H, The Russi an Revol ution From Lenin to Stalin, 1917 –
1929, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979
Summarises his fourteen-volume A History of Soviet Russia.
Channon, John, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia , London:
Penguin, 1995
Christian, D, Im perial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the
Challenge of Moderni ty , Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997
Readable text; useful source material.
Cohen, S, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History
since 1917, New York and O xf ord: OUP, 1985
Davies, R W, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution ,
Basingstoke: Macmi llan, 1989, and Soviet History in the Yeltsin
Era, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997
Useful discussion of new material and re-interpretations from postglasnost Russia.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, The Russian Revolution , 2nd edn, O xf ord:
OUP, 1994
Concise introduction to and analysis of the period 1917–37; clear account
of key events of the Russian Revolutions; revised and updated to include
impact of Stalinism; considers the social dimension; emphasises new
documents from recently opened archives.
Glenny, M and Stone, N, The Other Russia: The Experience i n
Exile, London: Faber & Faber, 1991
Oral history from three generations of emigres.
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Gooding, J, Rulers and Subjects: Governm ent and People in Russia
1801–1991, London: Edw ard Arnold, 1996
Heller, Mikhail and Nekrich, Aleksandr, Utopia in Power: The
History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present , New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1986
Documented anti-Soviet views of the Soviet system from the inside.
Hosking, Geoff rey and Service, Robert (eds), Reinterpreting Russia ,
London: Edw ard Arnold, 1999
Hough, J F and Fainsod, M, How Russia is Ruled , Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1953
Still a valuable account of the Soviet political system.
Kochan, Lionel and Keep, John, The Making of Modern Russia.
From Kiev Rus’ to the collapse of the Soviet Union , 3rd edn,
London: Penguin, 1997
Concentrates on the modern period. A straightforward introduction which
gives weight to economic, geographical and cultural as well as political
and military factors.
McCauley, Martin, The Longm an Com panion to Russia since 1914 ,
London: Longman, 1998
Mow bray, Stephen A de, Key Facts in Soviet History , Vol. 1, 1917 to
22 June 1941 , London: Pinter Publishers, 1990
Reese, R, The Soviet Military Experience: A His tory of the Soviet
Arm y 1917–1991, London and New York: Routledge, 2000
Clear narrative using recent disclosures from Soviet archives. Places the
Soviet army into social, political and international contexts. Includes
discussion of the origins of the Red Army, the Civil War, effects of
collectivisation and industrialisation and the Second World War.
Rigby, T H, Comm unist Party Mem bership in the USSR 1917 –67,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968
Useful for understanding the character of the Soviet Communist Party.
Sakaw a, Richard, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917 –1991,
London: Routledge, 1999, ‘Sources in Hist ory’ series
Comprehensive overview drawing on a wide range of sources including
eye-witness accounts, official documents and newly available materials.
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Schapiro, Leonard, The Com m unist Party of the Soviet Union , 2nd
edn, London: Eyre & Spottisw oode, 1970
Still a valuable history of the Soviet Union.
Service, Robert, A Hi story of Twentieth -Century Russia , London:
Penguin, 1998
General survey using material that has become available in documentary
collections, memoirs and archives in the 1990s. Treats 1917 to 1991 as a
single period, with analysis of political, economic and social factors.
Suny, R G, The Soviet Experim e nt. Russia, the USSR and t he
Successor States , O xford: OUP, 1998
Communism
Bukharin, N and Preobrazhensky, E, The ABC of Comm unism ,
Harmondsw orth: Penguin, 1969
The 1919 party programme with explanation and introduction by E H Carr,
including Lenin’s speeches and letters.
Daniels, Robert V (ed), A Docum entary History of Comm unism , Vol.
1, Com m unism in Russia , revised edn, Hanover and London:
University Press of New England, 1984
Elster, John, Karl Marx: a reader , Cambri dge: CUP, 1986
Harding, Nei l, Lenini sm , Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1996
Contains an excellent guide to the contents of each volume of Lenin’s
Collected Works.
Hunt, R, The Theory and Practice of Com munism , London: Penguin,
1969
Kolakow ski, L, Main Currents of Marxism , Vols. 1 and 2, O xf ord:
OUP, 1981
McLellan, David, Karl Marx. A Biography , 3rd edn, Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1996
McLellan, David, Marxism after Marx. An Introduction , 3rd edn,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998
Updated version of a classic account of twentie th-century Marxism.
Mills, C Wright, The Marxists, Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1977
Summary of the Marxist background with useful documents by leading
theorists and rulers, including Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and
Khrushchev.
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Leading figures
General
McCauley, Martin, Who’s Who in Russia since 1900 , London:
Routledge, 1997
A reference guide which examines leading personalities from 1900 to the
1990s.
Volkogonov, D, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Em pire: Political
leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev , London: HarperCollins, 1999
Use of archive material.
Wolf e, Beertram D, Three Who Made A Revolution: A Biographical
History, Harmondsw orth: Penguin, 1984
On Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.
Bukhari n
Cohen, Stephen F, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A
Political Biography 1880 –1938, O xf ord: OUP, 1980
Kerensky
Abraham, Richard, Alexander Kerensky , London: Sidgw ick &
Jackson, 1987
Comprehensive analysis.
Lenin
Appignanesi, Richard and Zarate, Oscar, Lenin for Beginners ,
Cambridge: Icon, 1994
A useful starting point for Lenin’s life and political thought.
Clark, Ronald W, Lenin. The Man Behind the Mask , London:
Faber, 1988
Insight into Lenin as a human being rather than his political career.
Cliff , Tony, Lenin. Vol. 1 Building the party , London: Pluto, 1975;
Vol. 2 All power to the Soviets , 1976; Vol. 3 Revolution beseiged ,
1978; Vol. 4 The Bolsheviks and world revolution , 1979
Davies, R W, Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era , Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1997
Includes a discussion of recent works by post -Soviet Russian historians on
Lenin.
Deutscher, Isaac, Lenin’s Childhood , London: OUP, 1970
Fischer, Ernst, Lenin in his own words , London: Allen Lane, 1969
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Katkov, G and Shukman, H, Lenin’s Path to Power , London:
Macdonald, 1971
A short, critical study.
Krupskaya, Nadezhda, Mem oirs of Lenin , London: Panther, 1970
Lenin, V I, Collected Works , 45 vols, Moscow : Progress Publishers,
1960–1970
The period 1917–1923 is covered in volumes 24 to 45.
Lenin, V I, Selected Works , London: Law rence & Wishart, 196 9
A one-volume selection of Lenin’s writings including ‘What is to be
Done?’, ‘Two tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution’,
‘Imperialism’, ‘Tasks of the Proletariat’, ‘State and Revolution’, ‘Marxism
and Insurrection’, ‘The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky’
and ‘Our Revolution’.
Pipes, Richard (ed), The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archi ve ,
New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996
New insight into Lenin’s darker side. Contains documents from the Soviet
archives. Attempts to correct the myth and revise the image.
Rice, Christopher, Lenin: Portrait of a Professional Revolutionary ,
London: Cassell, 1990
On the private man and public politician.
Schapiro, Leonard and Reddaw ay, Peter, Lenin, the Man, the
Theorist, the Leader: A reappraisal , London: Pall Mall Press, 1967
Service, R, Lenin: A Political Life , 3 vols, Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1985, 1991, 1995
A standard work.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, Lenin in Zurich , London: Bodley Head,
1976
Ulam, Adam B, Lenin and the Bolshe viks: The intellectual and
political history of the trium ph of comm unism in Russia , new edn,
Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP , 1998
Volkogonov, D, Lenin: Life & Legacy , London: HarperCollins, 1995
Translated and edited by Harold Shukman
Based on unpublished documents in Russian archives.
Weber, Gerda and H ermann, Lenin: life and works , London:
Macmillan, 1980
‘Chronology Series’ of reference books using Lenin’s own words from
public and private writings.
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Trotsky
Cliff , Tony, Trotsky: towards October 1879 –1917, London:
Bookmarks, 1989; Trotsky: the Sword of t he Revolution 1917 –23,
1990; Fighting the rising Stalinist bureaucracy 1923 –27; The darker
the night the brighter the star 1927 –1940, 1993
Deutscher, Isaac, Prophet arm ed: Leon Trotsky, 1879 –1921,
London: OUP, 1987; Prophet unarm ed: Leon Trotsky, 1921 –29,
1987; Prophet outcast : Leon Trotsky, 1929 –40, 1979.
Long but readable three-volume biography.
King, David, Trotsky: a Photographic Biography , O xf ord: Basil
Blackw ell, 1986
Knei Paz, B, The Soci al and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky ,
Oxf ord: OUP, 1978
Trotsky, Leon, My Li fe: An Attem pt at an Autobiography , New
York: Pathf inder, 1994
Classic historical document.
Volkogonov, Dmitri, Trotsky, The Eternal Revolutionary , London:
HarperCollins, 1996
Major biography based on unpublished documents in Russian archives.
Stalin
Alliluyeva, Svetlana, Twenty Letters to a Friend , New York:
Harper, 1967
Bullock, Alan, Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives , 2nd edn, London:
HarperCollins, 1998
Conquest, R, Stalin: Breaker of Nations , London: Wei denf eld &
Nicolson, 1991
Biography which puts the Stalinist phenomenon into a historical
perspective.
De Jonge, Alex, Stalin and t he shaping of t he Soviet Union , London:
Collins, 1986
Readable biography based on Russian and emigre sources.
Deutscher, Isaac, Stalin: a Political Biography , Harmondsw orth:
Penguin, 1972
Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin , New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1962
Important record of a few brief penetrations of Stalin’s behavio ur.
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Laqueur, Walter, Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations , London: Unwin
Hyman, 1990
Contains material published in the Soviet Union from 1986 to 1989.
Lew is, Jonathan and Whitehead, Peter, St alin: A Tim e for
Judgem ent, London: Thames Mandarin, 1991
Lih, L, et al (eds), St alin’s Letters to Molotov, 1925 –1936, New
Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1995
Interesting material with a long, thought -provoking introduction.
McNeal, Robert H, Stalin: Man and Ruler , New York: NYUP, 1990
Radzinskii, Edw ard, translated by H T Wi lletts, Stalin, London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1997
In-depth biography based on documents from Russia’s secret archives.
Richardson, Rosamond, The Long Shadow: Inside Stalin’s Fam ily ,
London: Flamingo, 1993
Shukman, Harold, St alin, Stroud: Sutton, 1999 ‘Pocket biography’
series
Slusser, Robert M, St alin in October: The Man Who Missed the
Revolution, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987
Useful on Stalin’s role in the Revolution.
Stalin, J, Problem s of Leninism , Moscow : Foreign Languages
Publishing House, 1953
Handy version of Stalin’s writings.
Stalin, J, Works, London: Law rence & Wishart, 1955
Trotsky, Leon, Stalin: An Appraisal of t he Man and his Influence ,
translated by C Malaluth, London: Hollis & Carter, 1947
Tucker, R, Stalin as Revolutio nary, 1879–1929: A Study i n History
and Personality , London: Chatto & Windus, 1974
Useful on Stalin’s rise to power.
Tucker, R, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928/9 –
1941, New York: Norton, 1990
Ulam, Adam B, Stalin: The Man and his Era , 2nd edn, Boston, MA:
Beacon Press, 1989
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Volkogonov, Dmitri, Stalin: Trium ph and Tragedy , London:
Weidenf eld & Nicolson, 1991 Edited and translated by Harold
Shukman
Glasnost-era ‘official’ biography, drawing on archival sources on Stalin’s
rise to power.
Russia before the Revolution
Geif man, Anna (ed), Russia under the Last Tsar. Opposition and
Subversion 1894 –1917, Oxf ord: Blackw ell, 1999
A collection of essays providing an overview of the issues, events and
personalities of the two decades before t he 1917 Revolution.
Lieven, D, Nicholas II, Em peror of all the Russias , London:
Pimlico, 1993
Readable biography of the last Tsar.
Paxton, J, The Longm an Com panion to Im perial Russia , London:
Longman, 1996
Pipes, Richard, Russia under the Old Regi m e , 2nd edn, London:
Penguin, 1990
An analysis of the Russian state, showing the Russian roots of Soviet
communism.
The revolutionary period 1917–1924
General
Acton, E, Rethinking the Russian Revol ution , London: Edw ard
Arnold, 1990
Analysis of the historiography of the Revolution.
Broido, Vera, Leni n and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of
Socialists under Bolshevism , Aldershot: Gow er, 1987
Buchanan, George, My Mission to Russia and Other Diplom atic
Mem ories, 2 vols, London: Cassell, 1923
Carr, E H, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 –23, 3 vols, New York:
Macmillan 1951 –53; The Interregnum 1923 –24, 1954
Chamberlin, W H, The Russian Revolution 1917 –1921, 2 vols,
London: Macmillan, 1935
Still an important narrative history of the Revolution.
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Clements, B E, Bolshevik Wom en, Cambridge: CUP, 1998
Frame, Murray, The Russian Revolution 1905 –1921: A
Bibliographic Guide t o Works in English , Westport, CT: Greenw ood
Press, 1995
Useful list of books and journal articles.
Kochan, Lionel, Russia in Revolution , Aylesbury: Paladin, 1970
Comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and ideological factors.
Lincoln, W B, Passage Through Arm ageddon: The Russians in War
and Revolution , 1914 –1918, New York and Oxf ord: OUP, 1994
Lockhart, R H Bruce, Mem oirs of a British Agent, London:
Macmillan, 1985
Personal account of travels and official mission to Moscow in 1918.
Pipes, R, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution , London:
Harvill, 1995
Pipes, R, The Russian Revolution, 1899 –1919, London: Fontana
Press, 1992
Comprehensive coverage of the political and military struggle for power.
Useful bibliography.
Pipes, R, Three ‘Whys’ of the Revolution , London: Pimlico, 1998
Pipes, R, Russia under the Bolshevik Regim e, 1919 –24, London:
Fontana Press, 1995
The Bolsheviks’ attempt to expand their authority throughout Russia and
outside. Useful bibliography.
Shukman, Harold (ed), Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian
Revolution, rev. edn, Oxf ord: Blackw ell, 1994
Useful reference book and introduction.
Suny, R G and Adam s, A E (eds), The Russian Revolution and
Bolshevik Victory , Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
D C Heath documents series.
Trotsky, Leon, History of the Russian Revolution , London:
Gollancz, 1965
White, J D, The Russi an Revol ution 1917 –21: A Short History,
London: Edw ard Arnold, 1994
Wolf e, Bertram D, An Ideology in Power: Reflections on the Russian
Revolution, London: Allen & Unw in, 1969
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1917–1918
Akhapkin, Yuri, First Decrees of Soviet Power , Law rence &
Wishart, 1970
Text of Soviet laws from October 1917 to mid 1918, including the 1918
Constitution.
Bone, Ann (trans), The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution:
Minutes of the Central Comm ittee of the Russian Social -Dem ocratic
Labour Party August 1917 –February 1918 , London: Pluto Press,
1974
Daniels, R V, Red Oct ober: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 , New
York: Scribner, 1967
Hasegaw a, T, The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917 , Seattle,
WA: University of Washington Press, 1981
Standard account.
Katkov, George, Russia 1917, London: Longman , 1967
Interesting account of the February 1917 Revolution.
Kerensky, Alexander, The Kerensky Mem oirs , London: Cassell,
1966
McDermid, J and Hil lyer, A, Midwives of t he Revolution: Fem ale
Bolsheviks and Wom en Workers in 1917 , London: UCL Press, 1999
Examines the contribution made by women in 1917 and their importance in
the formative years of communism.
Mohrenschildt, Dmitri von, The Russian Revolution of 1917 ,
Oxf ord: OUP, 1971
A collection of the memoirs of twenty-three participants.
Price, Morgan Philips, Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia
1916–18, Tania Rose (ed.), London: Pluto Press, 1997
Rabinow itch, A, The Bolsheviks Com e to Power: The Revol ution of
1917 in Petrograd , New York: Norton, 1976
Still a standard account.
Reed, John, Ten Days That Shook the Worl d , Harmondsw orth:
Penguin, 1977
Eye-witness account of the Bolshevik Revolution by American journalist.
Contains verbatim reports of speeches by leaders and comments by
bystanders. Introduction by A J P Taylor.
Robien, Lew is de, The Diary of a Diplom at in Russia 1917 –1918,
London: Michael Joseph, 1969
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Smith, S, Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917 –1918,
Cambridge: CUP, 1983
Sukhanov, N N, The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record ,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1 984
Narrative history of the revolution by a Menshevik.
Wheeler-Bennett, J W, Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace ,
London: Macmillan, 1938
The Civil War
Brovkin, V N, Behi nd the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political
Parties and Social Movem ents in R ussia, 1918–1922, Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1994
Contains new and differing interpretations of the Civil War period.
Butt, V P; Murphy, A B; Myshov, N A; Swain, Geoff rey (eds), The
Russian Civil War. Docum ents from the Soviet Archives ,
Basingstoke: Ma cmillan, 1996
Dune, Eduard M, Notes of a Red Guard . Edited and translated by
Diane Koenker and S A Smith, Urbana and Chicago, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 1993
Figes, Orlando, Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countrysi de
in Revolution 1917 –1921, O xf ord: OUP, 1989
Repercussions of the Civil War in rural areas.
Maw dsley, Evan, The Russian Civil War , London: Allen & Unw in,
1987
Covers military and political factors in the Bolshevik struggle to survive
after 1917.
Sw ain, Geoff rey, The Origins of the Russian Civil War , London:
Longman, 1996
An account and interpretation of the complex developments that preceded
the Civil War, concentrating in particular on February 1917 to November
1918.
Ullman, Richard H, Anglo-Soviet Relations 1917 –1921, Princeton,
NJ: PUP, 1968
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Changi ng econom ic policy from War Communism to New Econom ic
Policy
See also section on Economic and social history.
Carr, E H, The Bolshevik Revolution , Vol. 2, New York: Macmillan,
1952
Davies, R D (ed), From Tsarism to New Econom ic Policy: Continuity
and Change in the Econom y of the USSR , London: Macmillan, 1990
Pethybridge, Roger, One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forward:
Soviet Society and Pol itics under the New Econom ic Policy , Oxf ord:
OUP, 1990
Implementation of the NEP at a local level.
Stalinism
Brovkin, V, Russia af ter Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921 –
29, London: Routledge, 1998
A portrait of the 1920s and the rise of Stalinism.
Daniels, R V (ed), The Stalin Revol ution , B oston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin, 1990
D C Heath documents series.
Dunmore, T, Soviet Politics 1945 –1953, Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1984
Post-war Soviet politics with studies on major policy areas of industry,
agriculture, foreign affairs and culture.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila (ed), Stalinsim : New Di rect ions, London:
Routledge, 2000, ‘Rew riting Histories’ series
A reassessment of the Stalinist period which draws on the ‘totalitarian’
and ‘revisionist’ arguments, and also on new work by Russian, American
and European scholars.
Gill, Graeme, The Origins of the Stalinist Political System ,
Cambridge: CUP, 1990
General analysis.
Hahn, W G, Post-war Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the
Defeat of Moderation 1946 –53, Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1982
Keep, John, Last of Em pires: A History of the Soviet Un ion 1945 –
1991, O xf ord: OUP, 1996
Examines the central currents of political, cultural, social and economic
developments after 1945. Part 1 covers Stalin’s last years.
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Kershaw , Nazism, St alinism and Dictatorship , Cambridge: CUP ,
1997
Khrushchev, N S, Khrushchev Rem em bers , trans. S Talbott,
London: Book Club, 1971
Medvedev, Roy A, Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences
of Stalinism , rev. edn, Oxf ord: OUP, 1989
Expanded edition of analysis based on access to archives and new sources
by the Soviet historian.
Medvedev, Roy A, On Stalin and Stalinism , trans E de Kadt,
Oxf ord: OUP, 1979
Nove, Alec, Stalinism and after: The road t o Gorbachev , Boston,
MA, and London: Unwin Hyman, 1989
Nove, A (ed) , The Stalin Phenom enon , London: Weidenf eld &
Nicolson, 1993
Collections of essay partly based on new historical material.
Rigby, T H (ed), The Stalin Dictatorship: Khrushchev’s ‘ Secret
Speech’ and other Docum ents , Sydney: Sydney UP, 1968
Schecter, Jerrold L with Luchkon, Vyacheslav V (trans and ed),
Khrushchev Rem em bers, The Glasnost Tapes , Boston, MA: Little,
Brow n, 1990
Tucker, R C, Stalinism : Essays in Historical Interpretation , New
York: Norton, 1977
Industrialisation and collectivisation
See also section on Economic and social history.
Andrle, V, Workers i n Stalin’s Russia: Industrialisation and Social
Change in a Planned Econom y , Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester/Wheatsheaf , 1988
Carr, E H, Socialism in One Country, 1924 –26, 2 vols, London:
Macmillan, 1958 –59; Foundations of a Planned Econom y, 192 6–29,
3 vols; Vol. 1 parts 1 and 2 w ith R W Davi es, London: Macmillan,
1969–78
Conquest, R, A Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the
Terror-Fam ine, New York: OUP, 1990
Impact of collectivisation on the Ukraine and other areas.
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Davies, R W, The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia , Vol. 1, The
Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929 –
30, London: Macmillan, 1980; Vol. 2 , The Soviet Collective Farm ,
1929–30, London: Macmillan, 1981; Vol. 3, The Soviet Econom y in
Turm oil, 1929–30, London: Macmillan, 1989; Vol. 4, Crisis and
Progress in the Soviet Econom y, 1931 –33, B asingstoke: Macmillan,
1996; Vol. 5, w ith S Wheatcrof t, The Years of Hunger: Soviet
Agriculture and the Fam ine, 1931 –33
Five volumes on collectivisation and industrialisation with important
studies of the critical period of the late 1920s and early 1930s, now based
on archival sources.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Everyday Stalinism . Ordinary Life in
Extraordinary Tim es: Soviet Russia i n the 1930s , New York: OUP ,
1999
Focuses on day-to-day life in urban areas. Based on research in Soviet
archives.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Stalin’s Peasants. Resi stance and Survival i n
the Russian Village af ter Collectivisation , New York: OUP, 1994
Overview of history of collectivisation.
Kotkin, S, Magnetic Mountain. Stalinism as Civilization , Berkeley,
CA: University of Calif ornia Press, 1995
A case study based on the city of Magnitogorsk.
Kuromiya, H, Stalin’ s Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers
1928–1932, Cambri dge: CUP, 1988
Lew in, Moshe, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A St udy of
Collectivisation, London: Allen & Unw in, 1968
Still an important study of collectivisation.
Rosenberg W and Siegelbaum, L H (eds), The Social Dim ensions of
Soviet Industrialisa tion, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 1993
Useful collection of essays.
Siegelbaum, L H, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in
the USSR, 1935 –41, Cambridge: CUP, 1990
A social history of the movement within Stalinist politics , planning and
industrialisation.
Viola, Lynne, The Best Sons of t he Fat herland: Workers in the
Vanguard of Soviet Collectivisation , New York and O xf ord: OUP,
1987
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Purges/the Terror
Bacon, Edw in, The Gulag at War: Stalin’s forced Labour System in
the Light of the Archive , Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996
Repression after 1938, in particular data on prisoner numbers, conditions
in the camps and the contribution of the labour camp system to the Soviet
war economy. Based on new archival revelations.
Bardach, Janusz, Man is Wolf to Man: surviving Stalin’s gulag ,
London: Scribner, 1999
Boterbloem, Kees, Life and Death under Stalin. Kalinin Province
1945–1953, Montreal: McGill -Queens University Press, 1999
First Western scholar to have access to the records of the Kalinin province,
supplementing archival documentation with interviews of survivors.
Covering industry, agriculture, party affairs, repression and education, it
looks at the relationships between the political elite of the Communist
Party, its rank and file members, and the Russian population.
Conquest, Robert, Inside Stalin’s Secret Police: NKVD Politics,
1936–39, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985
Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror: A Reassessm ent , London:
Pimlico, 1992
Revised and updated edition of standard ‘totalitarian’ account of the
significance of the Terror.
Conquest, Robert, St alin and the Kirov Murder , London:
Hutchinson, 1989
Davies, S, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia. Terror, Propaganda
and Dissent, 1931 –1957, Cambridge: CUP, 1998
New study using NKVD materials.
Getty, J Arch, Origi ns of the Great Purges. The Soviet Com m unist
Party Reconsidered, 1933 –1938, Cambridge: CUP, 1986
A ‘revisionist’ reinterpretation of the Terror.
Getty, J Arch, and Manning, R T (eds), St alinist Ter ror: New
Perspectives, Cambridge, CUP, 1993
Contains important ‘revisionist’ case studies.
Ginzburg, Eugenia, Into the Whirlwind , London: Collins Harvill,
1989
Memoir of a victim of the purges.
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PUR PO S E S
Knight, Amy, Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant , Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1993
Kuromiya, H, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukranian Russian Borderland 1870s –1990s , Cambridge: CUP, 1999
Rapoport, I A L, Stal in’s War against the Jews: The Doctors’ Plot
and the Soviet Solution , London: Fourt h Estate, 1991
Well documented work.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ,
London: Harvill Press, 1991
Classic novel of life in the Gulag.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archi pelago (1918 –56),
London: Harvill Press, 1999
Abridged single volume from original three volumes. Based on the
testimony of over 200 survivors and his own recollections of labour camps
and internal exile.
Thurston, Robert W, Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934 –1941,
New Haven, CT, and Lon don: Yale UP, 1996
Appraisal of the Stalinist regime and its interaction with Russian society
during the terror of the 1930s. Uses material from newly opened archives.
Example of the ‘revisionalist’ school and its ongoing debate.
Zarod, Kazimierez, I nside Stalin’s Gulag: A true story of survival ,
Lew es: Book Guild, 1990
Policies towards national minorities
Conquest, Robert, The Nation Killers. The Soviet Deportation of
Nationalities, London: Macmillan, 1970
Standard work.
Kaiser, Robert, The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the
USSR, Princeton, NJ: PUP, 1994
Kochan, Lionel (ed), The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917 , O xf ord:
OUP, 1978
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PUR PO S E S
Nahaylo, Bohdan and Sw oboda, Victor, Soviet Disunion: A History
of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR , London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1990
Draws on a wide range of documentary evidence, including Soviet and
Western sources, writings and testimony of exiled dissidents.
Pipes, R, The Form ation of the Soviet Union: Com m unism and
Nationalism 1917 –1923, Cambri dge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1984
Reid, Anna, Borderland. A Journey through the History of the
Ukraine, London: Phoenix, 1978
Author combines historical research and own experiences.
Simon, G, Nationalism and Policy towards the Nationalities in the
Soviet Union: From Totalitarian Dictatorship to Post -Stalinist
Society, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991
Smith G, Nationalities of the Form er Soviet Union , London:
Longman, 1991
Smith, G, The Nationalities Question in the USSR , 1990
Essays provide useful background and include Great Russian nationalism.
Smith, Jeremy, The Bolsheviks and t he National Question 1917 –23,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999
Explores Bolshevik attempts to promote the development of minority
nationalities in the Soviet context through a combination of political,
cultural and educational measures. Looks at the disputes surrounding the
creation of the Soviet Union, using new material from Soviet archives.
Suny, R G, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism , Revolution, and
the Collapse of the Soviet Union , Stanf ord, CA: Stanf ord University
Press, 1993
Overview.
Economic and social history
Andrle, V, A Social History of Twentieth -Century Russia, London:
Edw ard Arnold, 1994
Good coverage of debates.
Channon, J, The Russian a nd Soviet Peasantry 1880 –1991, London:
Longman
Cooper, M Perrie and Rees, E A (eds) , Soviet History 1917 –45,
Basingstoke: Macmillan
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PUR PO S E S
Davies, R W, Soviet Econom ic Developm ent from Lenin to
Khrushchev, Cambridge: CUP, 1998
Davies, R W; Harrison M and Wheatc rof t S (eds), The Econom ic
Transform ation of the Soviet Union 1913 –45, Cambri dge: CUP,
1994
Excellent overview with useful articles.
Dunmore, T, The Stal inist Comm and Econom y: The Soviet State
Apparatus and Economic Policy , 1945–53, London: Macmillan, 1 980
Edmondson, L and Waldron P (eds), Econom y and Society in Russia
and the Soviet Union, 1860 –1930, Basingst oke and London:
Macmillan, 1992
Essays.
Eklof , B, School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia ,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993
Farnsw orth, B an d Viola, L (eds), Russian Peasant Wom en , New
York and O xf ord: O UP, 1992
Goldman, W, Wom en, the State and Revolut ion: Fam ily Policy and
Social Life, 1917 –1936, Cambri dge: CUP, 1993
Gregory, P, Before Comm and: An Econom ic History of Russia from
Em ancipation to the First Five -Year Plan, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1995
Ilic, M, Wom en Workers in the Soviet Inter -war Econom y,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999
Examines changes in official Soviet policy towards the labour protection
of women workers from 1917 to 1941.
Lew in, M, The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in t he Social
History of Interwar Russia , London: Methuen, 1985
General interpretation.
Moon, D, The Russian Peasantry 1600 –1930. The World the Peasants
Made, London: Longman, 1999
Nove, A, An Econom ic History of the USSR, 1917 –1991, 3rd edn,
New York: Penguin, 1992
Still the standard work, beginning with an analysis of the economy of
imperial Russia.
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PUR PO S E S
Rees, E A, Decision-Making in the Stalini st Comm and Econom y,
1932–37, Basingst oke: Macmillan, 1997
Culture
Brooks, Jef f rey, Thank you Com rade Stalin. Soviet Public Culture
from Revolution to Cold War , Princeton, NJ: PUP, 2000
Brow n, M, Art under Stalin , O xf ord: Phaidon, 1991
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet
Union, 1921 –1934, Cambridge: CUP, 1979
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in
Revolutionary Russia , Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992
Geldern, J von and Stites, R (eds), Mass Culture in Soviet Russi a ,
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995
Anthology with a good introduction.
Gunther, H, The Culture of the Stalin Peri od , Basingstoke,
Macmillan, 1990
Useful articles; sections on popular culture and everyday life, art,
literature, architecture and film.
Stites, R, Russian Popular Culture: Entert ainm ent and Society since
1900, Cambridge: CUP, 1992
Terras, V, A History of Russian Literature , New Haven, CT: Yale
UP, 1991
Up-to-date survey.
Religion
Curtiss, J S, The Russian Church and the Soviet S tate, 1917–1950,
Boston, MA: Little, Brow n, 1953
Fletcher, W C, The Russian Ort hodox Church Underground 1917 –
70, London: OUP, 1971
Kolarz, W, Religion in the Soviet Union , London: Macmillan, 1961
Ware, T, The Russian Orthodox Church , Harmondsw orth: Peng uin,
1963
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Foreign policy
General
Debo, R K, Survival and Consolidation: the Foreign Policy of Soviet
Russia, 1918–1921, Montreal: McGill –Queen’s University Press,
1992
Ellman, B A, Diplom acy and Deception. The Secret History of Soviet
Diplom atic Relatio ns 1917–1997, M E Sharpe, 1998
Gorodetsky, G (ed), Soviet Foreign Policy 1917 –1991: A
Retrospective, London: Frank Cass, 1994
Collection of articles.
Harrison, M, Soviet Planning in Peace and War 1938 –45,
Cambridge: CUP, 1985
Haslam, J, Soviet Foreign Policy 1930–33: The Im pact of the Great
Depression, London: Macmillan, 1982; The Soviet Union and the
Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933 –39, 1984
Standard works on the pre-war period.
McDermott, K and Agnew , J, The Com intern: A History o f
International Comm unism from Lenin to Stalin , London:
Macmillan, 1996
General survey.
Roberts, Geof f rey, The Soviet Union and t he Origins of the Second
World War, London: Macmillan, 1995
Incorporates new material.
Samuelson, Lennart, Plans for Stal in’s War Machine. Tukhachevskii
and Military-Econom ic Planning, 1925 –1941, Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1999
Analysis of military dimensions of Soviet long -term economic and military
reconstruction plans, with a framework for estimating the Soviet war economic preparedness. Based on recently opened archives.
Tolstoy, Nikolai, Stalin’s Secret War , London: Cape, 1981
Examines the mainsprings of Soviet policy, both internal and external,
between 1938 and 1945.
Ulam, Adam, Expansi on and Coexistence: Soviet Fo reign Policy
1917–1973, 2nd edn, New York: Praeger, 1974
Slightly dated standard book.
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World War Two
Barber, J D and Harrison, M, The Soviet Hom e Front 1941 –45: a
Social and Econom ic History of the USSR i n World War II , London:
Longman, 1991
A concise introduction which summarises recent research.
Beevor, Anthony, Stalingrad, London: Penguin, 1999
A new narrative history.
Collier, Richard, The War that Stalin Won: Tehran – Berlin,
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983
Erikson, John and Di lks, D (eds), Barbarossa: the Axis and the
Allies, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1994
Collection of post-glasnost articles.
Erickson, John, Stali n’s War with Germ any: The Road to Stalingrad ,
1993; The Road to Berlin , 1983, London: Weidenf eld & Nicolson
Detailed accounts of the whole military history.
Glant z, D M and House, J, When Titans Cl ashed: How the Red Arm y
Stopped Hitler, Law rence, KA: Kansas University Press, 1995
Useful short account of the war.
Gorodetsky, Gabriel, Grand Delusion: Stal in and the Germ an
Invasion of Russia, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale Universi ty
Press, 1999
Draws on new documentation of Soviet archives.
Kershaw , I and Lew in, M, Stalinism and Nazism , 1997
Linz, S, The Im pact of World War II on the Soviet Union , Totow a,
NJ: Row man & Allanheld, 19 85
Moskkof f , W, The Bread of Affliction : The Food Supply in the USSR
During World War II , Cambridge: CUP, 1990
On wartime food supply, hunger and suffering.
Nation, R C, Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security
Policy 1917–91, Ithaca, NY: Co rnell University Press, 1992
Overy, Richard, Russia’s War , London: Penguin, 1998
Overview of the Soviet Union’s struggle against Germany as regards the
political and military situation and social and economic aspects of the
conquest. Includes sections on 1917–37 and 1937–41. Summary of
present state of debate. Bibliography.
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PUR PO S E S
Read, Ant hony, The Deadly Em brace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi
Soviet Pact, 1939 –41, London: Michael Joseph, 1988
Rees, Law rence, War of the century: When Hitler fought Stalin ,
London: BBC, 1999
Shukman, Harold (ed), Stalin’s Generals , London: Weidenf eld &
Nicolson, 1993
Collection of new biographies.
Suvorov, V, Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? ,
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990
Zhukov, G K, Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, London: Sphere,
1971
Zhukov, G.K, Mem oirs, London: Cape, 1971
Cold War
Edmonds, Robin, The Big Three: Churchill , Roosevelt and Stalin in
Peace and War, London: Penguin, 1992
Gaddis, J L, We Now Know: Rethinki ng Cold War History , Oxf ord:
OUP, 1997
Gori, Francesca and Pons, S (eds), The Soviet Union and Europe in
the Cold War 1943 -53, London: Macmillan, 1996
Hollow ay, D, Stalin and the Bom b: The Soviet Union and Atom ic
Energy 1939–1956, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994
Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline, Stalin’s Cold War; Soviet Strategies in
Europe 1943-1956, Manchester: MUP, 1995.
Narrative and analysis of the start of the Cold War from a Soviet
viewpoint. Based on access to new sources. Bibliography.
Leff er, M P and Painter, D S (eds ), Origins of the Cold War: An
International History , London and New York: Routledge, 1994
Mastny, Vojtech, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity , New York:
OUP, 1997
Nogee, J and Donaldson, R, Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War
II, 1992
Clear background survey of the whole period.
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PUR PO S E S
Pearson, Raymond, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Em pire ,
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997
Describes and explains the creation, maintenance and demise of the Soviet
regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe.
Raack, R C, Stalin’s Drive to the West 1938 –45: The Origins of the
Cold War, Stanf ord, CA: Stanf ord UP, 1995
Roberts, Geof f rey, The Soviet Union i n World Politics , London:
Routledge, 1999
Short survey of Soviet foreign policy and international relations from 1945
to the end of the Cold War and the break up of the USSR. Summarises
historical and political controversies about foreign policy and brings the
latest research to bear on these debates. Guide to further reading and
research.
Zubok, V and Pleshakov, C, Inside the Kr emlin’s Cold War ,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996
New Russian research based on archives and documentary publications.
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O TH E R SO U RC E S
SECTION 3
Journals/periodicals
Modern History Review , O xf ord: Philip Allan
New Perspective , Bedf ord: Sempringham
Has an on-line version
On twentieth-century Russian history:
Cold War International History Project Bul letin
Europe- Asia Studies , Abington: Carf ax
Has an on-line version. Formerly Soviet Studies, Oxford: Blackwell
Journal of Slavic Military Studies , London: Frank Cass
Revolutionary Russia , London: Frank Cass
Specialises in articles on the revolutionary period.
Russian Review
In North America.
Russian Studies in Hi story (f ormerly Soviet Studies in History)
Work by Russian scholars appears in translation.
Slavic Review
An American journal, with an on-line version.
Slavonic and East European Review ( SEER), London: University
of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Audio-visual
Clearvue PC/ Apple CD -ROM, The Ideas of Karl Mar x
Traces his life and ideas.
REM Win + Mac CD- ROM, Perspectives: The Cold War
Eyewitness account as told by correspondents from The Times and Sunday
Times. Includes contemporary newspaper articles, photographs and
illustrations.
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BLP, Operation Barbaro ssa
Investigates the background and build up of the attack as well as the
invasion itself. 52 minutes.
BLP, Germ any 1945 –1961
Documentary about the birth of the Cold War. 51 minutes.
Castlevision, The Russian Revolution
Rare film of the 1917 Revolution and events which led to the rise of Lenin
and the fall of the Tsars.
Cromw ell Productions Ltd, The Russian Front 1941 –45
A four-part series telling the story of the war on the Eastern Front, with
historical analysis, archive footage and illustrative grap hics. 4 x 48
minutes.
Granada Learning, Russia: Revolution and Em pire
Traces the fall of the Tsars to the rise of Gorbachev, using archive film,
eye-witness accounts and location filming. 45 minutes.
Granada Learning, Red Em pire: The History of the Soviet Union
TV history of the Soviet Union, tracing its development from the fall of
the Tsars to the rise of Gorbachev. Includes eyewitness accounts and
location filming. Includes a comprehensive ‘fact file’. Seven programmes
of 51 minutes.
IBP Films in London in association w ith Victory Series in Russi a.
‘Russia’s War’, a series of ten 52 -minute documentaries
All aspects of the war are covered, using new materials made available
from film sources and archive records in the former Soviet Union and
testimony from survivors.
REM, Zhukov
Looks at the career of Zhukov with particular reference to the Battle of
Berlin.
Sussex videos: Warw ick History Series:
The Decline of Tsarism
Stalin: Terror and Transformation
Approximately 30 minutes each, with teacher notes.
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The Internet
The amount of information available via the internet is vast but should be
used selectively. Much of the material on the net consists of digital
diarrhoea. Time should therefore be taken to go through what is there. This
is particularly true of a topic such as Soviet Russia.
One method of ‘surfing’ is to use a search engine such as ‘Hotbot’ and then
examine what students come up with on their menu. Alternatively call up
various university websites.
Useful search engines
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Yahoo = http://www.yahoo.com/
Hotbot = http://www.hotbot.lycos.com/
Clearinghouse = http:/ /www .clearinghouse.net/
Alta Vista = http://www .altavista.com/
Useful websites
The following sites are particularly helpful for aspects of the period on Soviet
Russia.
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/
A useful chronology of Russian and Soviet history with links to other
relevant sites.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/index.htm.
A site with Trotsky’s works.
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2163/1918.html
Interesting material on the Bolsheviks and the workers’ movement.
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