Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
This is a select bibliography of post-World War II English-language books and journal articles about Stalinism, Joseph Stalin, and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. 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 contains a 52-page bibliography and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 contains a 50-page bibliography covering both the life of Stalin and Stalinism in the Soviet Union. See [|Further reading] for several additional book and chapter length bibliographies.
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Inclusion criteria
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.Topics include the post-Lenin period of Stalin's consolidation of power from 1924 to 1926 and closely related topics; for works on the Soviet involvement in World War II, see Bibliography of the Soviet Union during 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, photo collections, or films created during or about Stalinism or the Stalinist Era.
Works included are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert as shown by scholarly reviews and have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.
Citation style
This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Russian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.
When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.
General surveys of Soviet history
These works contain significant overviews of the Stalinist era.- Cohen, S. F.. Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Figes, O.. Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York: Metropolitan Books.
- Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B.. Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Hosking, G.. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Kort, M. G.. The Soviet Colossus. London: Routledge.
- Kenez, P.. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Lewin, M.. The Soviet Century.. New York: Verso.
- Malia, M.. Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917–1991. New York: Free Press.
- Mccauley, M.. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London: Routledge.
- Nove, A.. An Economic History of the USSR 1917–1991. London: Arkana Publishing.
- Suny, R. G... The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ——.. The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents. New York: Oxford University Press.
Period surveys and monographs (1924–1953)
- Angotti, T.. . Science & Society, 52, 5–34.
- Antonov-Ovseenko, A.. The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row.
- Armstrong, J. A.. The Politics of Totalitarianism : The Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1934 to the Present. New York: Random House.
- Hoffmann, D. L.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kuromiya, H.. . The Historical Journal, 50, 711–724.
- Kuromiya, H.. . The Historical Journal, 50, 711–724.
- McCagg, W. O.. Stalin Embattled: 1943–1948. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
- Pipes, R.. The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism 1917–1923, Revised Edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Shearer, D.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66, 188–217.
- Smith, S. A.. Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Smele, J.. The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Snyder, T., & Brandon, R... Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tucker, R. C.. Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928–1941. New York: Norton.
Postwar era
- Hahn, W. G.. Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946–53. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Kirschenbaum, L.. . Journal of Modern European History, 9, 314–327.
- Ruble, B.. . The Russian Review, 42, 301–320.
- Werth, A., & Salisbury, H. E.. Russia: The Postwar Years. London: Hale.
- White, E.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 59, 1145–1161.
- Zubkova, Elena.. . Journal of Modern European History, 2, 134–152.
Social history
- Bettelheim, C., & Pearce, B.. Class Struggles in the USSR: Second Period 1923–1930. New York: Monthly Review Press.
- Campeanu, P., & Vale, M.. . International Journal of Sociology, 18, 1–165.
- Caroli, D., & Williams, R.. . International Review of Social History, 48, 27–54.
- Cohen, S. F.. . The Russian Review, 45, 375–384.
- Davies, S.. . The Russian Review, 56, 70–89.
- ———.. Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934–1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Edele, M.. Stalinist Society: 1928–1953. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ———.. . Region, 3, 285–307.
- Figes, O.. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York: Picador.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. . Slavic Review, 38, 377–402.
- ———.. . Politics & Society, 13, 119–141.
- ———.. . International Labor and Working-Class History,, 37–52.
- ———.. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Galmarini, M.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Ginsburgs, G.. . The American Journal of International Law, 51, 325–361.
- Hoffmann, D. L.. Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Kiaer, C.. Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Lewin, M. . Social History, 1, 139–175.
- ———.. The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. New York: New Press.
- Lorimer, F.. The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press.
- Mawdsley, E., & White, S.. The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917–1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Noskova, O. G. . Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 34, 8–25.
- Nove, A.. ' Soviet Studies, 35, 298–312.
- Siegelbaum, L. H.. Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918–1929. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Weiner, A.. . The American Historical Review, 104, 1114–1155.
- Yekelchyk, S.. Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Zubkova, E., & Ragsdale, H.. Russia After The War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957. London: Routledge.
Culture
- Anderson, J. The Spatial Cosmology of the Stalin Cult: Ritual, Myth and Metanarrative. University of Glasgow.
- Barber, J.. Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928–1932. London: Macmillan.
- Baraban, E. V.. Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, 56, 17–41.
- Baumgartner, M. and Buehler, K.. The Revolution is Dead - Long Live the Revolution: From Malevich to Judd, From Deineka to Bartana. New York: Prestel/Random House.
- Clark, K.. Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Congdon, L.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Enteen, G.. . Studies in Soviet Thought, 37, 259–274.
- Feinstein, E.. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York: Knopf.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. The Emergence of Glaviskusstvo. Class War on the Cultural Front, Moscow, 1928–29. Soviet Studies, 23, 236–253.
- ———.. Culture and Politics under Stalin: A Reappraisal. Slavic Review, 35, 211–231..
- ———.. Cultural Revolution in Russia: 1928–1931. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- ———.. The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Glisic, I.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Günther, H.. The Culture of the Stalin Period. New York: Macmillan.
- Hellbeck, J.. Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Kirkwood, M. . Language Planning in the Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Kutulas, J.. The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and anti-Stalinism, 1930–1940. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Mulcahy, K. V.. . Journal of Aesthetic Education, 18, 69–83.
- Rolf, M.. . Slavic Review, 68, 601–630.
- Shkandrij, M.. Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press.
- Stites, R.. Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Strong, J. W.. Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publications.
- Tromly, B.. Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life Under Stalin and Khrushchev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Widdis, E.. Socialist Senses: Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject 1917–1940'. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Arts and Socialist realism
- Bullitt, M.. . The Russian Review, 35, 53–76.
- Conquest, R.. The Pasternak Affair: Courage of Genius: A Documentary Report. New York: Octagon Books.
- Demaitre, A.. . The Modern Language Journal, 50, 263–268.
- Dobrenko, E., & Naiman, E... . Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- Dobrenko, E. A., & Jonsson-Skradol, N.. Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin. New York: Anthem Press.
- Dovšenko, O.. Alexander Dovzhenko: The Poet as Filmmaker. Cambridge. Harvard University Press.
- Dunham, V. S., Sheldon, R., & Hough, J. F.. In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Groys, B.. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. New York: Verso Books.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Horvath, R.. . The Russian Review, 65, 53–71.
- James, C. V.. Soviet Socialist Realism: Origins and Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kettering, K. L.. Studies in the Decorative Arts, 7, 2–20. * Krylova, A.. . The Journal of Modern History, 73, 307–331.
- Maguire, R. A.. Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
- Masing-Delic, I.. From Symbolism to Socialist Realism: A Reader. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.
- McSmith, A.. Fear and the Muse Kept Watch: The Russian Masters from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein Under Stalin. New York: The New Press.
- Morson, G. S.. . The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38, 121–133.
- Petrov, P. M.. Automatic for the Masses: The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
- Pouncy, C.. . Russian History, 32, 171–193.
- Reid, S. E.. . The Russian Review, 60, 153–184.
- Reid, S. E.. . Slavic Review, 57, 133–173.
- Robin, R.. Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
- Senelick, L., & Ostrovsky, S... . New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Udovički-Selb, D.. . Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 68, 467–495.
- Youngblood, D. J.. Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Education
- Fitzpatrick, S.. The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- ———.. Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Pauly, M.. Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934. University of Toronto Press.
Nationality policy
- Blank, S.. The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin as Commissar of Nationalities, 1917–1924. Westport: Greenwood Press.
- Blitstein, P. A.. . Slavic Review, 65, 273–293.
- Carrère d'Encausse, H. . The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917–1930. New York: Holmes & Meier.
- Hirsch, F.. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Liber, G.. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Martin, T.. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Smith, J.. Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Suny, R. G.. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Religion
- Adams, A. S., & Shevzov, V... '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Arjakovsky, A., Ryan, J., & Williams, R.. '. University of Notre Dame Press.
- Bemporad, E.. Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Bociurkiw, B. R.. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
- Budnitskii, O., Engel, D., Estraikh, G., & Shternshis, A.. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History. New York: NYU Press.
- Curtiss, J. S.. The Russian Church and the Soviet State, 1917–1950. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
- Givens, J.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Halevy, Z.. . Soviet Jewish Affairs, ''6, 56–70.
- Husband, W. B.. . The Journal of Modern History, 70, 74–107.
- King, R.. . Brigham Young University Studies, 15, 323–347.
- Miner, S. M.. Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- Pinkus, B.. The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pospielovsky, D.. The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime, 1917–1982. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
- Rosenthal, B. G... The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. New York: Cornell University Press.
- Tumarkin, N.. . The Russian Review, 40, 35–46.
- Weinryb, B.. . Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 46/47, 555–572.
- Wheeler, G.. . Middle Eastern Studies, 13'', 40–49.
Gender and family
- Alexopoulos, G.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 57, 563–579.
- Bridger, S.. Women in the Soviet Countryside: Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Emery, J.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Engel, B.. . Signs, 12, 781–796.
- Engel, B. A.. Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Fitzpatrick, S., & Slezkine, Y.. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Friedman, R.. Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury.
- Goldman, W.. Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ilic, M... The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kaminsky, L.. . Central European History, 44, 63–91.
- Lapidus, G. W.. Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Qualls, K. D.. Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
- Reid, S. E.. . Slavic Review, 57, 133–173.
- Thurston, R. W.. . Soviet Studies, 43, 553–574.
- Waters, E.. . Soviet Studies, 44:1, 123–135.
Other topics
Terror, famine and the Gulag
- Applebaum, A.. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York: Doubleday.
- Baberowski, J. Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Brooke, C.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 54, 397–413.
- Carrère, E. H., & Ionescu, V.. Stalin: Order through Terror. London: Addison-Wesley Longman.
- Chaliand, G., & Blin, A.. . In The history of terrorism: From antiquity to ISIS. University of California Press.
- Cohen, S. F.. . The Russian Review, 45, 375–384.
- Conquest, R.. The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. New York: Macmillan.
- Davies, S.. Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934–1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Farnsworth, B.. . Slavic Review, 69, 944–970.
- Getty, J. A., & Manning, R... Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Getty, J. A.. . The Russian Review, 61, 113–138.
- Getty, J. A., Naumov, O. V., & Sher, B.. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Glad, B.. . Political Psychology, 23, 1–37.
- Goldman, W.. . The American Historical Review, 110, 1427–1453.
- Gross, J. T.. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Harris, J.. The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Haslam, J.. . The Historical Journal, 29, 395–418.
- Katchanovski, I.. . Europe-Asia Studies', 62, 973–997.
- McDermott, K.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 111–130.
- McDermott, K., & Stibbe, M.. Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Naimark, N. M.. Stalin's Genocides. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Paperno, I.. . Representations, 75, 89–118.
- Rimmel, L.. . Slavic Review, 56, 481–499.
- Rosefielde, S.. . Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 30, 321–331.
- Rubenstein, J., & Naumov, V. P.. Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Shearer, D. R.. . Cahiers du Monde russe, 39, 119–148.
- Shearer, D. R.. Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Shearer, D. R.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66, 188–217.
- Snyder, T.. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
- Tang, P. S. H.. . Studies in Soviet Thought, 35, 185–245.
- Thurston, R. W.. . Soviet Studies, 43, 553–574.
- Uldricks, T. J.. . Slavic Review, 36, 187–204.
- Wheatcroft, S.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 48, 1319–1353.
- Wheatcroft, S. G.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 52, 1143–1159.
Gulag
- Alexopoulos, G.. . Slavic Review, 64, 274–306.
- Alexopoulos, G.. . Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90, 363–393.
- Alexopoulos, G.. Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Applebaum, A.. Gulag: A History. New York: Doubleday.
- Baldaev, Danzig. Drawings from the Gulag. FUEL.
- Barnes, S. A.. Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Bell, W.. . Journal of the History of Sexuality, 24, 198–224.
- Bollinger, M. J.. Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the Role of the West. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
- Draskoczy, J. S.. Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin's Gulag. Boston: Academic Studies Press.
- Dobson, M.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 90, 735–743.
- Formakov, A.. Gulag Letters. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Jakobson, M.. Origins Of The Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934. University Press of Kentucky.
- Khlevniuk, O., & Belokowsky, S.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''16, 479–498.
- Khlevniuk, O.. The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven: Yale University Press
- Kis, O.. Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag' . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Nolan, C.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 25, 523–545.
- Nordlander, D. J.. . Slavic Review, 57, 791–812.
- Solzhenitsyn, A. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (3 vols.)..
- Viola, L.. The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Werth, N.. Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag.'' Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
Famine
- Applebaum, A.. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday.
- Bertelsen, O.. . Genocide Studies International, 11, 38–67.
- Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G.. Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
- Cameron, S. I.. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Conquest, R.. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London: Pimlico.
- Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G.. The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933. London: Macmillan.
- Dolot, M.. Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Ellman, M.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 57, 823–841.
- Ellman, M.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 59, 663–693.
- Gamache, R.. Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor. New York: Welsh Academic Press.
- Graziosi, A.. . Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 27, 97–115.
- Graziosi, A., Hajda, L., & Hryn, H.. After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
- Hryn, H.. Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and its Soviet Context. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
- Kindler, R.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 62, 255–272.
- Klid, B., & Motyl, A. J... The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
- Maksudov, S., & Olynyk, M. D.. . Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 30, 123–148.
- Wheatcroft, S.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 64, 987–1005.
Secret police and intelligence agencies
- Birstein, V. J.. SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon: Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII. London: Biteback Publishing.
- Conquest, R.. Inside Stalin's Secret Police: NKVD Politics, 1936–1939. Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.
- Hagenloh, P.. Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
- Jansen, M., & Petrov, N.. Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press.
- Parrish, M.. The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport: Praeger.
- Pringle, R. W.. . International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 21, 122–134.
- Rayfield, D.. Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him. New York: Random House.
- Shearer, D. R.. . Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 42, 505–534.
- Shearer, D. R., & Chaustov, V. N.. Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Vatlin, A. I. U., Bernstein, S., & Khlevniuk, O. V.. Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Purges and trials
- Chandler, R.. . New England Review, 34, 148–156.
- Clark, W. A.. . Russian History, 42, 377–424.
- Conquest, R.. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. New York: Collier Books.
- Corthorn, P.. . The Historical Journal, 48, 179–207.
- Davies, S.. . Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 39, 149–167.
- Dobrenko, V.. . Russian Journal of Communication, 3, 72–96.
- Ellman, M.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 55, 1305–1321.
- Getty, J. A.. Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Heilbrunn, J.. . World Affairs, 153, 87–101.
- Kang‑Bohr, Y.. . Europe‑Asia Studies, 57, 135–154.
- Khlevniuk, O., & Favorov, N. S.. . In Master of the house: Stalin and his inner circle. Yale University Press.
- Kocho‑Williams, A.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 86, 90–110.
- Kuromiya, H.. The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Manning, R.. . Russian History, 36, 219–253.
- McDermott, K. Stalinism 'From Below'?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8, 609–622.
- Shatz, M.. Stalin, the Great Purge, and Russian History: A new look at the "New Class". Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Shearer, D. R.. .
- Solomon, P. H.. . Slavic Review, 46, 391–413.
- Viola, L.. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Weitz, E. D.. . Slavic Review, 61, 1–29.
- Whitewood, P.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 93, 286–314.
Memory
- Jones, P.. . In Myth, memory, trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70. Yale University Press.
Ethnic cleansing
- Kim, A.. . The Historian, 74, 267–285.
- Martin, T.. . The Journal of Modern History, 70, 813–861.
- Morris, J.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 56, 751–766.
- Musial, B.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 48, 98–124.
- Nekrich, A. M.. The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Tragic Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War. New York: Norton.
- Weitz, E. D.. . Slavic Review, 61, 1–29.
Agriculture and the peasantry
- Bridger, S.. Women in the Soviet Countryside: Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Brower, D.. . The Russian Review, 36, 151–166.
- Conquest, R.. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London: Pimlico.
- Cox, T. M.. Rural Sociology in the Soviet Union: Its History and Basic Concepts. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers.
- Danilov, V. P.. Rural Russia Under the New Regime. London: Hutchinson.
- ———., Ivnitskii, N. A., Kozlov, D., Shabad, S., & Viola, L.. The War Against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Davies, R. W.. The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930. London: Palgrave.
- ———, & Wheatcroft, S. G.. The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933. London: Macmillan.
- ———, Tauger, M., & Wheatcroft, S.. Stalin, grain stocks and the famine of 1932-1933. Slavic Review, 54, 642–657.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Huhn, U.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65, 362–400.
- Joravsky, D.. Lysenko Affair. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Lewin, M., Nove, I., Biggart, J., & Nove, A.. Russian Peasants and Soviet Power: A Study of Collectivization. New York: Norton.
- Marples, D. R.. . Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, 27, 158–177.
- Reese, R.. . Slavic Review, 55, 24–45.
- Shanin, T.. The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society: Russia 1910–1925. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Swain, N.. Collective Farms which Work?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Tauger, M. B.. Natural disaster and human actions in the Soviet famine of 1931–1933. The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 1506, 67.
- ———.. Soviet Peasants and Collectivization, 1930-39: Resistance and adaptation. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 31, 427–456.
- ———.. The 1932 harvest and the famine of 1933. Slavic Review, 50, 70–89.
- Thorniley, D., & Gardiner, K.. Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party 1927–39. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Volin, L.. A Century of Russian Agriculture: From Alexander II to Khrushchev. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- ———.. Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ———.. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Yesdauletova, A; Yesdauletov, A; Aliyeva, S; Kakenova, G.. . The Anthropologist, 22, 537–544.
Industrialization and urbanization
- Allen, R. C.. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Davies, R. W.. The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929–1930. London: Palgrave.
- DeHaan, H.. Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Figes, O.. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York: Picador.
- Gregory, P., & Markevich, A.. . Slavic Review, 61, 787–814.
- Harrison, M.. Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State. Yale University Press.
- Ings, S.. Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
- Kotkin, S.. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Kuromiya, H.. Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Liber, G.. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Oushakine, S.. . The Russian Review, 73, 198–236.
- Ruder, C. A.. Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Shearer, D. R.. Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Siegelbaum, L.. . Soviet Studies, 36, 45–68.
- Stone, D.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 57, 1047–1063.
- Zubovich, K.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21, 73–95
Labor
- Fitzpatrick, S.. . International Labor and Working-Class History, 35, 37–52.
- Keys, B.. . The Historian, 71, 31–54.
- Siegelbaum, L. H., & Suny, R. G.. Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Smith, S. A.. . The Russian Review, 56, 1–7.
Energy
- Holloway, D.. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Stalinism and ideologies
- Barnett, V.. Europe-Asia Studies, 58, 457–466.
- Biggart, J.. . Canadian Slavonic Papers, 23, 134–153.
- Brandenberger, D., & Dubrovsky, A.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 50, 873–892.
- Campeanu, P.. Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society. London: Routledge.
- Conquest, R.. Stalin: Breaker of Nations. New York: Penguin Books.
- Daniels, R. V.. The Conscience Of The Revolution: Communist Opposition In Soviet Russia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Daniels, R. V.. The Stalin Revolution: Foundations of Soviet Totalitarianism. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.
- Daniels, R. V.. . Slavic Review, 50, 277–285.
- Donoso, A.. . Studies in Soviet Thought, 19, 113–141.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. . The Russian Review, 45, 357–373.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. Stalinism: New Directions. London: Routledge.
- Gaido, D.. . Science & Society, 75, 99–107.
- Gellately, R.. Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Geyer, M., & Fitzpatrick, S.. Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Gorlizki, Y.. . The Journal of Modern History, 74, 699–736.
- Greensmith, J.. In the Mind of Stalin. Barnsley: Pen and Sword History.
- Gregor, A. J.. Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
- Hoffmann, D. L... Stalinism: The Essential Readings. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Kennan, G. F.. . Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 79, 123–134.
- Kershaw, I., & Lewin, M.. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Liebich, A.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 247–264.
- Losurdo, D.. Historical Materialism. 12, 25–55.
- Mccauley, M.. Stalin and Stalinism. New York: Routledge.
- Medvedev, R. A.. On Stalin and Stalinism. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Naimark, N., Pons, S., & Quinn-Judge, S... The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Pauley, B. F.. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Plamper, J.. The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Pons, S., & Smith, S. A... The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Reichman, H.. . Theory and Society, 17, 57–89.
- Reiman, M.. The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the "Second Revolution". Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Schull, J.. Slavic Review, 51, 468–484.
- Suny, R. G.. Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment. New York: Verso.
- Tumarkin, M. M.. . Journal of Social History, 44, 1047–1061.
- Van Ree, E.. . International Review of Social History, 39, 361–381.
- Von Laue, T.. . Slavic Review, 42, 373–389.
- White, E.. . The Russian Review, 66, 549–567.
- Wood, A.. Stalin and Stalinism. London: Routledge.
Stalin and Lenin
- Gellately, R.. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. New York: Knopf.
- Gerratana, V.. . New Left Review,.
- McNeal, R.. . American Slavic and East European Review, 18, 295–314.
- Service, R.. Lenin: A Biography. Cambridge: Belknap Press.
- Volkogonov, D.. Lenin: Life and Legacy. London: HarperCollins.
Stalin and Trotsky
- Deutscher, I.. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. New York: Verso.
- Felshtinsky, Y.. . Cahiers Du Monde Russe Et Soviétique, 31, 569–578.
- Getty, J. A.. . Soviet Studies, 38, 24–35.
- McNeal, R.. . Canadian Slavonic Papers, 5, 87–97.
- Volkogonov, D.. Trotsky, the Eternal Revolutionary. New York: Free Press.
Propaganda and ideology
- Berkhoff, K. C.. Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Bowlt, J. E.. . The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 24, 35–63.
- Bonnell, V. E.. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Brandenberger, D.. Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927–1941. Yale University Press.
- Brunstedt, J.. The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Davies, S.. Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934–1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Dobrenko, E., & Naiman, E... . Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- Erley, M.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Fainberg, D.. Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Glisic, I.. ''. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Haslam, J.. . In The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II. Princeton University Press.
- Knight, A.. . Soviet Studies, 43, 749–763.
- Pisch, A.. . Canberra: ANU Press.
- Sériot, P.. . Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 35, 169–185.
- Thompson, E.. . Slavic Review, 50, 385–399.
- Thompson, R. J.. . Studies in Comparative Communism, 21, 99–128.
- Tucker, R. C.. . The American Historical Review, 84, 347–366.
- Westerman, F., Garrett, S., & Westerman, F.. Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin's Russia. New York: The Overlook Press.
Soviet territories
For Terror and Famine related works, see [|Terror, Famine and the Gulag] section.- Blauvelt, T. K.. Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba. London: Routledge.
- Blauvelt, T. K. & Smith, J. . Georgia After Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power. London: Routledge.
- Boyanin, Y.. . Inner Asia, 13, 279–296.
- Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G.. Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
- Edgar, A.. . Slavic Review, 65, 252–272.
- Edgar, A. L.. Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
- Forestier-Peyrat, E.. . Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65, 529–559.
- Glebov, S.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Gross, J. T.. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Kasekamp, A.. Chapter 6: Between Anvil and Hammer. In A History of the Baltic States. New York: Macmillan Education.
- Kassymbekova, B.. Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Keller, S.. Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Khalid, A.. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Khalid, A.. Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- King, C.. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kotljarchuk, A., & Sundström, O.. Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Huddinge: Södertörn University.
- Kuromiya, H.. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Liber, G.. Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mark, S. G.. . Nationalities Papers, 26, 777–784.
- Marples, D. R.. Stalinism in Ukraine: In the 1940s. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Marshall, A.. The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. New York City, NY: Routledge.
- Miller, C.. We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Nahaylo, B., & Swoboda, V.. Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London: Hamilton.
- Northrop, D.. Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Pauly, M.. Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Plokhy, S.. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books.
- Rieber, A.. . The American Historical Review, 106, 1651–1691.
- Saparov, A. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh. New York: Routledge.
- Scott, E.. Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Shkandrij, M.. . New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Sirutavičius, V.. . The Hungarian Historical Review, 4, 3–28.
- Stronski, P.. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups
- Kappeler, A., Kohut, Z. E., Sysyn, F. E., & von Hagen, M... Culture, nation, and identity: the Ukrainian-Russian encounter, 1600–1945. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
Foreign policy and external relations
- Carley, M.. . Contemporary European History, 5, 29–69.
- Gati, C.. . Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 35, 214–226.
- Gellately, R.. Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Gorodetsky, G.. The Precarious Truce: Anglo-Soviet Relations 1924-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Haas, M. L.. . In Frenemies: When Ideological Enemies Ally. Cornell University Press.
- Kocho‑Williams, A.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 86, 90–110.
- Large, J. A.. . Soviet Studies, 30, 212–236.
- Lynch, A.. The Soviet Study of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Materski, W.. . The Polish Review, 45, 331–345.
- McDermott, K.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 111–130.
- McDermott, K., & Agnew, J.. The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Rieber, A. J.. Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Snyder, T., & Brandon, R.. Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Staklo, V. A.. Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934–1939. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Stanisławska, S.. . The Polish Review, 20, 30–39.
- Ulam, A. B.. Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–73. New York: Praeger. .
- Zubok, Vladislav and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: from Stalin to Khrushchev
Government
- Armstrong, J. L.. . The Polish Review, 35, 51–65.
- Bailes, K. E.. Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917–1941. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Dunmore, T.. Soviet Politics, 1945–53. London: Macmillan Press.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. . Slavic Review, 38, 377–402.
- ———.. On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Getty, J. A.. Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Gill, G.. The Origins of the Stalinist Political System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Gorlizki, Y., & Chlevnjuk, O. V.. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Gorlizki, Y., & Khlevniuk, O.. Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Hahn, W. G.. Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Harrison, M.. Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Harrison, M.. Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Heinzen, J.. . Slavic Review, 66, 389–412.
- Heinzen, J.. The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Lampert, N.. Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Manning, R. T.. Government in the Soviet Countryside in the Stalinist Thirties: The Case of Belyi Raion in 1937. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Nation, R. C.. Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Rassweiler, A.. . Slavic Review, 42, 230–246.
- Rigby, T. H., Brown, A., Reddaway, P., & Schapiro, L.. Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro. London: Macmillan.
- ———.. . Soviet Studies, 40, 523–537.
- Rittersporn, G. T.. Stalinist simplifications and Soviet complications: Social tensions and political conflicts in the USSR, 1933-1953. Chur; New York: Harwood Academic Publishers.
- Rosenfeldt, N. E.. Knowledge and Power: The Role of Stalin's Secret Chancellery in the Soviet System of Government. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.
Party
- Belova, E., & Lazarev, V.. Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Cohn, E.. The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Gregor, R.. 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.. . Soviet Studies, 232, 177–185.
- ———.. 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.. Communist Party Membership in the USSR, 1917–1967. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Schapiro, L.. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. London: Methuen Publishing.
Judicial
- Rittersporn, G.. . Theory and Society, 13, 211–237.
Economy
- Davies, R. W.. The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929–1930. New York: Macmillan Press.
- Dohan, M.. . Slavic Review, 35, 603–635.
- Dunmore, T.. The Stalinist Command Economy: The Soviet State Apparatus and Economic Policy 1945–53. London: Macmillan.
- Gardner, R.. . International Economic Review, 25, 743–755.
- Gatrell, P. and Lewis, R.. . The Economic History Review, 45, pp. 743–754.
- Hanson, P.. Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR, 1945–1991. New York: Routledge.
- Hunter, H.. . Slavic Review, 32, 237–257.
- Nove, A.. An Economic History of the USSR. New York: Penguin Books.
- Stone, S.. Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Soviet Armed Forces
- Clark, P.. . Modern China, 7, 413–444.
- Erickson, J.. The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History, 1918–1941. London: Routledge.
- Glantz, D. M.. Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- ———.. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War: 1941–1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- Hill, A.. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Hooton, E. R.. Stalin's Claws, From the Purges to the Winter War: Red Army Operations before Barbarossa, 1937–1941. West Sussex, UK: Tattered Flag Press.
- Kavalerchik, B., Lopukhovsky, L., & Orenstein, H.. The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Military.
- Kolkowicz, R.. The Soviet Military and the Communist Party. London: Routledge.
- Krylova, A.. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Mark, J.. . Past & Present,, 133–161.
- Merridale, C.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 41, 305–324.
- Merridale, C.. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York: Metropolitan Books.
- Muir, M.. . Diplomatic History, 5, 337–351.
- Nikolaieff, A.. . The Russian Review, 7, 49–60.
- Reese, R. R.. Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925–1941. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- Reese, R.. . Slavic Review, 55, 24–45..
- Reese, R. R.. Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
- Roberts, C.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 47, 1293–1326.
- Statiev, A.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 721–747.
- Von, H. M., & Gilbert S.. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Whitewood, P.. The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
The beginning of the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc
- Applebaum, A.. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York: Doubleday.
- Avey, P.. . International Security, 36, 151–188.
- Babiracki, P.. 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.. . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 263, 1–8.
- Evangelista, M.. . International Security, 7, 110–138.
- Gaddis, J. L.. . Diplomatic History, 13, 191–212.
- Gaddis, J. L.. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books.
- Gordin, M. D.. Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Hasanli, J.. Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945–1953. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Holtsmark, S. G., Neumann, I. B., & Westad, O. A.. The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Lebow, K.. Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Linz, S.. . The Journal of Economic History, 45, 947–954.
- Mastny, V.. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Miller, D.. The Cold War: A Military History. London: Pimlico.
- Naimark, N. M.. Journal of Modern European History, 2, 28–57.
- Nolan, C.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 25, 523–545.
- Oberender, A.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, ''13, 937–949.
- Roberts, G.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 46, 1371–1386.
- Seabury, P.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 3'', 169–182.
- Szaynok, B.. . Russian History, 29, 301–315.
- Thomas, B.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 3, 183–198.
- Westad, O. A.. Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Westad, O. A.. Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
- Westad, O. A.. Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books.
Historiography
- Avrich, P.. . Political Science Quarterly, 75, 539–553.
- Alexopoulos, G., Tomoff, K., Hessler, J., & Fitzpatrick, S.. Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Beilharz, P.. . History Workshop,, 36–55.
- Edele, M.. Debates on Stalinism. Issues in Historiography. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Eley, G.. The Russian Review, 45, 385–394.
- Getty, J., & Manning, R... . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Kenez, P.. . The Russian Review, 45, 395–400.
- Kennan, G.. . Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 115, 165–169.
- Lak, Martijn. . The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 28, 567–587.
- McNeal, R.. . International Journal, 21, 521–526.
- Meyer, A.. . The Russian Review, 45, 401–408.
- Morozova, I.. . Iran & the Caucasus, 9, 85–120.
- Naimark, N.. . Journal of Modern European History, 2, 28–57.
- Ryan, J., & Grant, S... Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Siegelbaum, L., & Suny, R. G.. . International Labor and Working-Class History,, 65–76.
- Siegelbaum, L. H.. . Region, 1, 213–230.
- Suny, R. G.. Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution. New York: Verso.
- Tucker, R. C.. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. London: Routledge.
- Viola, L.. . The Russian Review, 61, 25–34.
Memory Studies
- Adler, N.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 57, 1093–1119.
- Bogumił, Z.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23, 315–338.
- Brunstedt, J.. The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Corbesero, S.. . Russian History, 38, 58–84.
- Friedla, K., & Nesselrodt, M... . Academic Studies Press.
- Jones, P.. . In Myth, memory, trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70. Yale University Press.
- Khrushcheva, N.. . World Policy Journal, 22, 67–73.
- Knight, A.. . Soviet Studies, 43, 749–763.
- Thompson, R. J.. . Studies in Comparative Communism, 21, 99–128.
- Weiner, A.. . The American Historical Review, 104, 1114–1155.
Other works
- Aronova, E.. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Cohen, S. F.. Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press.
- David-Fox, M., Holquist, P., & Martin, A. M.. Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as entangled histories, 1914–1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Gamache, R.. . Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 37, 287–322.
- Harris, J.. . Journal of Strategic Studies, 30, 513–545.
- Hartley, J. M.. '. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Kern, G.. . Slavic Review, 33, 1–22.
- Knight, A.. Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery. New York: Hill and Wang.
- Lenoe, M.. . The Journal of Modern History, 74, 352–380.
- Lenoe, M., & Prozumenščikov, M. J.. The Kirov Murder and Soviet History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Linkhoeva, T.. Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Pethybridge, R.. Social Prelude to Stalinism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Raeff, R.. Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Read, C.. The Stalin Years: A Reader. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Roberts, G.. Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Sudjic, D.. Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
- Sullivan, R.. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. New York: HarperCollins.
- Weitz, E.. . Slavic Review, 61'', 1–29.
Legacy
- Ali, T.. The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books.
- Cohen, S. F.. . Slavic Review, 32, 264–270.
- Gugushvili, A., Kabachnik, P., & Gilbreath, A. H.. . The Professional Geographer, 683, 356–367.
- Gugushvili, A., & Kabachnik, P.. . International Journal of Sociology, 49, 317–341.
- Medvedev, R. A., & Shriver, G.. Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Biographies
Joseph Stalin
- Conquest, R.. Stalin: Breaker of Nations. New York: Viking Press.
- Davies, S., & Harris, J... Stalin: A New History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Deutscher, I.. Stalin: A Political Biography. London: Penguin.
- Khlevniuk, O. V., & Favorov, N. S.. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Kotkin, S.. Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York: Penguin Books.
- Kotkin, S.. Stalin: Volume 2: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941. New York: Penguin Books.
- Kuromiya, H.. Stalin. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
- Kuromiya, H.. . The Historical Journal, 50, 711–724.
- Laqueur, W.. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations. New York: Scribner.
- Medvedev, Z. A., Medvedev, R. A., & Dahrendorf, E.. The Unknown Stalin. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Montefiore, S.. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. New York: Knopf.
- ———.. Young Stalin. New York: Knopf.
- Payne, R.. The rise and fall of Stalin. Simon and Schuster.
- Rubenstein, J.. The Last Days of Stalin. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Service, R. W.. Stalin: A Biography. Cambridge: Belknap Press.
- Suny, R. G.. Stalin: Passage to Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Tucker, R. C.. Stalin as revolutionary: A study in history and personality, 1879-1929. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Tucker, R. C.. Stalin in power: The revolution from above, 1928-1941. W. W. Norton & Company.
Subject specific biographies of Stalin
- Holloway, D.. Stalin and the bomb: The Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956. Yale University Press.
- Khlevniuk, O. V., & Favorov, N. S.. . In Master of the house: Stalin and his inner circle. Yale University Press.
- McMeekin, S.. Stalin's war: A new history of World War II. Basic Books.
- Murphy, D. E.. What Stalin knew: The enigma of Barbarossa. Yale University Press.
- Roberts, G.. Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Roberts, G.. Stalin's wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. Yale University Press.
Collective biographies including Stalin
- Carley, M. J.. Stalin's gamble: The search for allies against Hitler, 1930-1936. University of Toronto Press.
- O'Brien, P. P.. The strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How war made them and how they made war. Simon & Schuster.
- Overy, R.. The dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Rayfield, D.. Stalin and his hangmen: The tyrant and those who killed for him. Random House.
- Rees, L.. Hitler and Stalin: The tyrants and the Second World War. PublicAffairs.
Other biographies
- Cohen, S. F.. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Feinstein, E.. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York: Knopf.
- Getty, J. A., & Naumov, O. V.. Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist. New Haven. Mayakovsky: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Jansen, M., & Petrov, N.. Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press.
- Khlevniuk, O. . In Stalin's Shadow: The Career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze. Aramonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
- Knight, A.. Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
- Roberts, G.. Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.
- Roberts, G.. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. New York: Random House.
- Sullivan, R.. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. New York: HarperCollins.
Memoirs and literary accounts
- Alliluyeva, S.. Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir. New York: Harper Perennial.
- Allilueva, S.. Only One Year: A Memoir. New York: Harper Perennial.
- Ginzburg, L.. Notes from the Blockade. London: Random House.
- Grossman, V.. Life and Fate. New York: NYRB Classics.
- Scott, J.. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Solzhenitsyn, A.. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
- Werth, A.. Russia At War, 1941-1945.
- Zhukov, G. '. London: Cape.
Journey Into the Whirlwind. San Diego, CA: Helen & Kurt Wolff Books.
English language translations of primary sources
Works by Joseph Stalin
Collected WorksThe Collected Works of J. V. Stalin, 16 vols. 1901–1952.. Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.. .Correspondence with Winston S. Churchill and Clement R. Attlee.. .- Josef Stalin Internet Archive. War Speeches, Orders of the Day and Answers to Foreign Press Correspondents During the Great Patriotic War.. .
- Davies, R. W.. The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Lih, L. T., Naumov, O. V., & Khlevniuk, O. V.. Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Other primary sources
Collections- . The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
- . The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
- . The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
- . The Wilson Center Digital Archive.
- Applebaum, A., & Miller, J. A.. Gulag Voices: An Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Bidlack, R., Lomagin, N., & Schwartz, M.. The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Daniels, R. V... A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
- Formakov, A.. Gulag Letters. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Stalin, J., Kaganovich, L. M.. The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36.. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Storella, C. J., Sokolov, A. K.. The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918–1932. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- – Originally published February 1930. From Marxists Internet Archive
- Brandenberger, D., & Zelenov, M.. Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Short Course. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Tukhachevsky, M.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 14, 694–701.
- . Fordham University.
- . The Wilson Center.
- Gregor, R... 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... Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3: The Stalin Years 1929–1953. Toronto, ON: Toronto University Press.
Bibliographies
Bibliographies contain English and non-English language entries unless noted otherwise.Bibliographies of Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union
- Applebaum, A.. Bibliography. In Gulag: A History. New York: Doubleday.
- Applebaum, A.. Bibliography. In Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York: Doubleday.
- Applebaum, A.. Selected Bibliography. In Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday.
- Brandenberger, D.. Notes. In Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927–1941. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Egan, D. R., & Egan, M. A.. Joseph Stalin: An Annotated Bibliography of English-language Periodical Literature to 2005. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press.
- Figes, O.. A Short Guide To Further Reading. In Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York: Metropolitan Books.
- Fitzpatrick, S.. On Bibliography and Sources. In Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ———.. Bibliography. In Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ———.. Further Reading. In Stalinism: New Directions. London: Routledge.
- ———.. Bibliography. In On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton:: Princeton University Press
- ———, & Viola, L.. A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s. New York: Routledge.
- Getty, J. A., Naumov, O. V., & Sher, B.. Notes. In The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932—1939. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Getty, J. A.. Notes. In Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Hill, A.. Bibliography. In The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Kotkin, S.. Bibliography. In Stalin. New York: Penguin Books.
- Kutulas, J.. Selected Bibliography. In The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and anti-Stalinism, 1930–1940. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- McNeal, R. H.. Stalin's Works: An annotated bibliography. Palo Alto: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
- Shearer, D. R.. Bibliography. In Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Edelheit, A. J., & Edelheit, H.. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: A selected bibliography of sources in English. Westport: Greenwood Publishing.
- Grierson, P.. Books on Soviet Russia: 1917 – 1942; a Bibliography and a Guide to Reading. Twickenham, UK: Anthony C. Hall.
- Horecky, P. L.. Russia and the Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to Western-language Publications. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
- Kenez, P.. '. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Schaffner, B. L.. Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its Predecessors and Successors. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
- Spapiro, D.. A Select Bibliography of Works in English on Russian History,1801–1917. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Simmons, E. J.. . The Slavic and East European Journal, ''6, 148–158.
- Boriak, H.. . Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 25, 167–186.
- Dalrymple, D. G.. . Soviet Studies, 16, 471–474.
- Figes, O.. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York: Picador.