Bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union


This is a select bibliography of English language books and journal articles about the post-Stalinist era of Soviet history. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.
Inclusion criteria
The period covered is 1953–1991, beginning with the death of Stalin and ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Topics include the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras, including the transition periods of collective leadership, and significant related events and topics such as the Cold War, the Hungarian Revolution, Detente and Glasnost. This bibliography does not include newspaper articles, fiction, photo collections or films created during or about this period.
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 Post-Stalinist era.

Period studies

  • Beschloss, M. R.. The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963. New York: E. Burlingame Books.
  • Cousins, N.. The Improbable Triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Dornberg, J.. Brezhnev: The Masks of Power. New York: Basic Books.
  • Hornsby, R.. The Soviet Sixties. Yale University Press.
  • McCauley, M... Khrushchev and Khrushchevism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • McGlinchey, E.. . Russian History, 41, 373–391.
  • Rutland, P., & Smolkin-Rothrock, V.. . Russian History, 41, 299–306.
  • Strong, J. W.. The Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Kosygin: The Transition Years. New York: NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Tatu, M.. Power in the Kremlin: From Khrushchev to Kosygin. New York: Viking Press.
  • Tompson, W. J.. The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Willerton, J.. . Soviet Studies, 39, 175–204.
  • Zubok, V. M.. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Social history

  • Cook, L. J.. The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Dimitrov, M.. . Russian History, 41, 329–353.
  • Galmarini, M.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Hopkins, M. W.. Russia's Underground Press: The Chronicle of Current Events. New York: Praeger.
  • Hosking, G. A.. The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Kerblay, B., & Swyer, R.. Modern Soviet Society. New York: Pantheon.
  • Kozlov, D., & Gilburd, E... The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • LaPierre, B.. Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin 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.
  • Matthews, M.. Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
  • ———.. Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions Since Stalin. London: Routledge.
  • Millar, J. R.. Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Raleigh, D.. Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Roucek, J.. . Phylon, 22, 15–23.
  • Shtromas, A., Wenturis, N., & Hornung, K.. Political Change and Social Development: The Case of the Soviet Union. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Weinberg, E.. . The British Journal of Sociology, 43, 1–10.

Culture

  • Bittner, S.V.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2, 553–576.
  • Congdon, L.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Epstein, M.. The Phoenix of Philosophy. Russian thought of the late Soviet period. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Johnson, P.. Khrushchev and the Arts: The Politics of Soviet Culture, 1962–1964. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Kirk, T.C.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21, 97–126
  • Majsova, N.. Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures. Lanham: Lexington Books.
  • Morson, G. S.. . The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38, 121–133.
  • Nove, A.. ' Soviet Studies, 35, 298–312.
  • Plamper, J.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 6, 755–762.
  • Pyzhikov, A. V.. . Russian Studies in History, 50, 11–27.
  • Reid, S. E.. . In J. Bazin, P. D. Glatigny, & P. Piotrowski, Art beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe . Budapest: Central European University Press.
  • Senelick, L., & Ostrovsky, S... . New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • 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.
  • Zubok, V. M.. Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ethnic groups

  • Armstrong, J. L.. . The Polish Review, 35, 51–65.

Religion

  • Adams, A. S., & Shevzov, V... '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Budnitskii, O., Engel, D., Estraikh, G., & Shternshis, A.. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History. New York: NYU Press.
  • Dobson, M.. . The Russian Review, 73, 237–259.
  • Givens, J.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • King, R.. . Brigham Young University Studies, 15, 323–347.
  • Kowalewski, D.. . The Russian Review, 39, 426–441.
  • Larson, N. D.. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question. New York: Columbia University 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: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
  • Ramet, S. P.. Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ro'i, Y.. The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rosenthal, B. G... The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Rywkin, M.. Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia. New York: Routledge.
  • Smolkin-Rothrock, V.. . The Russian Review, 73, 171–197.
  • Steeves, P.. . Journal of Church and State, 28, 439–457.
  • Warhola, J.. . International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 5, 249–270.

Gender and sexuality

  • Alexander, R.. Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91: A Different History. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Cohn, E.. . The Russian Review, 68, 429–450.
  • Dumanèiã, M.. Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto 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.
  • Ewing, E. T.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Ilic, M... The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kolchevska, N.. . Women's Studies Quarterly, 33, 114–137.
  • Lapidus, G. W.. Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • McCallum, C. E.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 93, pp. 251–285.
  • Shoemaker, S.. Population Research and Policy Review, 2, 35–51.

Children and family

  • Edgar, A., & Frommer, B... Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Fitzpatrick, S.. . The Russian Review, 81 284–301.
  • Friedman, R.. Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Pushkareva, N. And Zhidchenko, A.. . The Russian Review, 81 302–324.
  • Smith, M. B.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23, pp. 255–287.

Human rights

  • Alexeyeva, L.. Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious, and Human Rights. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Behrends, J. C., Kolář, P., & Lindenberger, T... Violence After Stalin: Institutions, Practices, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Bloc 1953–1989. Stuttgart: ibidem Press.
  • Bergman, J.. Meeting the Demands of Reason: The life and thought of Andrei Sakharov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Bukovskiĭ, V. K.. Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity. Westlake Village: Ninth Of November Press.
  • Prigge, W.. . Journal of Baltic Studies, 35, 211–230.
  • Snyder, S. B.. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rural life, labor, and agriculture

  • Frese, S.. . The History Teacher, 38, 37–65.
  • Hale-Dorrell, A.. . Journal of World History, 26, 295–324.
  • Laird, R.. . The Russian Review, 33, 372–385.
  • Luxenburg, N.. . The Russian Review, 30, 64–68.
  • Millar, J. R., & University of Illinois, & Symposium.. The Soviet Rural Community: A Symposium. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Nove, A.. . Slavic Review, 29, 379–410.
  • Volin, L.. A Century of Russian Agriculture: From Alexander II to Khrushchev. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Urban life, labor, and industry

  • Colton, T. J.. Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Conyngham, W.. The Modernization of Soviet Industrial Management: Socioeconomic Development and the Search for Viability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Filtzer, D.. Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gustafson, T.. Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Josephson, P.. . Slavic Review, 55, 297–324.
  • Mëhilli, E.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13, 635–665.
  • Morcom, S.. . The Slavonic and East European Review, 98, 106–138.
  • Obertreis, J.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''14, 673–682.
  • Reisinger, W. M.. Energy and the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Politics after Stalin. Washington DC: NCROL.
  • Ruble, B.. Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Siegelbaum, L. H., & Suny, R. G.. Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Siegelbaum, L. H.. . International Review of Social History, 51, 463–481.
  • Varga-Harris, C.. Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Ward, C.. Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Zhuk, S.. Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985.'' Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Other topics

  • Frank, W. D.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Government and politics

  • Albats, Y.. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.
  • Andrew, C. M., & Mitrokhin, V.. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York: Basic Books.
  • Bacon, E., & Sandle, M.. Brezhnev Reconsidered. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Beisinger, M., & Beissinger, M.. . Harvard International Review, 5, 8–12.
  • Bhupinder Brar.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 29, 1465–1475.
  • Belova, E., & Lazarev, V.. Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Blackwell, R.. . World Affairs, 142, 268–281.
  • Breslauer, G. W.. Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics. London, UK: George Allen & Unwin.
  • ———.. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, A.. . The World Today, 40, 134–141.
  • ———.. The Gorbachev Factor. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bryant, J., Trump, A., & Meyer, W.. . Harvard International Review, 5, 39–41.
  • Duhamel, L.. The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982–1987. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Gardner, T.. . Harvard International Review, 6, 22–23.
  • Gidadhubli, R.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 12, 1981–1984.
  • ———.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 19, 668–671.
  • Glazov, Y.. . Studies in Soviet Thought, 26, 173–215.
  • Gorlizki, Y., & Khlevniuk, O.. Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Harasymiw, B.. . Canadian Journal of Political Science, 21, 249–266.
  • Hoffmann, E.. . Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 35, 227–240.
  • Hyland, W.. . Foreign Affairs, 63, 800–809.
  • Jaura, J.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 14, 1834–1834.
  • Kaiser, R. G.. . Foreign Affairs, 70, 160–174.
  • ———.. Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs, His Failure, and His Fall. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Kelley, D. R.. The Politics of Developed Socialism: The Soviet Union as a Post-Industrial State. New York: Greenwood Press.
  • ———.. Soviet Politics from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. New York: Praeger.
  • Löwenhardt, J., Ozinga, J. R., & Ree, E.. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo. London: UCL Press.
  • Mitrokhin, N.. . Russian History, 41, 307–328.
  • Nechemias, C.. . Social Science Quarterly, 59, 562–569.
  • Rigby, T. H., Brown, A, & Reddaway, P... Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ryavec, K.. . Polity, 15, 103–122.
  • Sakwa, R.. Gorbachev and His Reforms, 1985–1990. New York: Prentice-Hall.
  • Sapiets, J.. . The Russian Review, 31, 11–24.
  • Schapiro, L.. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Methuen Publishing.
  • Smith, J. and Ilić, M... Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964. New York: Routledge.
  • Surovell, J.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 46, 465–487.
  • Tompson, W. J.. . Soviet Studies, 43, 1101–1121.
  • ———.. . British Journal of Political Science, 23, 77–105.
  • Von Beyme, K.. . Government and Opposition, 10, 259–277.
  • Walker, M.. The Waking Giant: Gorbachev's Russia. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Wallace, M., Suedfeld, P., & Thachuk, K.. . Political Psychology, 17, 453–472.
  • Zemtsov, I.. Andropov: Policy Dilemmas and the Struggle for Power. Jerusalem: Israel Research Institute of Contemporary Society.
  • Willerton, J.. Patronage and Politics in the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

De-Stalinisation

  • Blum, A., Koustova, E., Grieve, M., & Duthreuil, C.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 19, 537–571.
  • Bohn, T. M., Einax, R., & Abesser, M.. De-Stalinisation Reconsidered: Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.
  • Dobson, M.. Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • ———.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''12, 905–924.
  • Filtzer, D.. Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations, 1953–1964. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • ———.. The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR, 1953–1964. London, UK: Macmillan.
  • Khlevniuk, O., & Dowling, R.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 16, 961–973.
  • Kirk, T.C.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21, 97–126
  • Obertreis, J.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 14, 673–682.
  • Tucker, R.. . World Politics, 9'', 550–578.
  • Weiner, A.. . The Journal of Modern History, 78, 333–376.
  • Wojnowski, Z.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''13'', 799–829.

Glasnost and Perestroika

  • Aganbegi︠a︡n, A. G., & Barratt, B. M.. The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika. London: Hutchinson.
  • Battle, J.. . Soviet Studies, 40, 367–384.
  • Boym, S.. . Agni,, 16–24.
  • Brown, A.. Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cohen, S. F., & Heuvel, K.. Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
  • Frank, P.. . The World Today, 46, 87–89.
  • Gellner, E.. . Government and Opposition, 25, pp3–15.
  • Gibbs, J.. Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase of Perestroika. College Station: Texas A & M University Press.
  • Gooding, J.. . Soviet Studies, 42, 195–231.
  • Gorbachev, M. S.. Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Gorbachev, M., Mlynář, Z., & Shriver, G.. Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Gordon, L., & Nazimova, A.. . Government and Opposition, 25, 16–29.
  • Lane, D. S.. Soviet Society under Perestroika. London: Routledge.
  • Lever, J.. South African Sociological Review, 1, 39–49.
  • Mason, D. S.. . International Affairs, 64, 431–448.
  • McForan, D.. . International Social Science Review, 63, 165–174.
  • McNair, B.. Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Soviet Media. London: Routledge.
  • Nove, A.. Glasnost' in Action: Cultural Renaissance in Russia. London: Routledge.
  • Parker, R.. . World Policy Journal, 6, 265–296.
  • Rand, R.. . The Wilson Quarterly, 13, 51–58.
  • Shulgan, C.. The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika. Toronto: Emblem.
  • Tarasulo, I. J.. Gorbachev and Glasnost: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • ———.. Perils of Perestroika: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press, 1989–1991. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Vithal, B.. . Social Scientist, 16, 3–30.

Soviet Armed Forces

  • Colton, T. J.. Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority: The Structure of Soviet Military Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Kolkowicz, R.. The Soviet Military and the Communist Party. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Odom, W. E.. The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Suvorov, V. Suvorov, V., & Hackett, J.. Inside the Soviet Army. London: Grafton Books.
  • Suvorov, V.. Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS. London: Grafton.

Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Bloc

For works about the history of post-Soviet Russia, see Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present)
  • Aleksievič, S., & Shayevich, B.. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. New York: Random House.
  • Allison, G. T., & Javlinskij, G. A.. Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Baberowski, J., & Komljen, I.. . Journal of Modern European History, 9, 148–166.
  • Beissinger, M.. . Contemporary European History, 18, 331–347.
  • De Stefano, C.. . The Russian Review, 81 325–343.
  • Gill, G.. The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graham, L. R.. The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Gompert, D. C., Binnendijk, H., & Lin, B.. . In Blinders, Blunders, and Wars: What America and China Can Learn. Rand Corporation.
  • Griffiths, M.. . Slavic Review, 72, 481–504.
  • Kaiser, R. G.. The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Kostenko, Y., & D'Anieri, P.. Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Kotkin, S.. Armageddon Averted: The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kramer, M.. . Slavic Review, 63, 505–512.
  • ———.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 63, 1535–1590.
  • Lasas, A.. Journal of Baltic Studies, 38, 179–194.
  • Mastny, V.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 51, 189–211.
  • Nahaylo, B., & Swoboda, V.. Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London: Hamilton.
  • O'Clery, C.. Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union. New York: PublicAffairs.
  • Petrov, K.. . Studies in East European Thought, 60, 179–205.
  • Pleshakov, C.. There is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought down Communism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Plokhy, S.. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. New York: Basic Books.
  • Pons, S.. . Contemporary European History, 18, 349–362.
  • Remnick, D.. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. New York: Random House.
  • Sebestyen, V.. Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Suny, R. G.. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Zubok, V. M.. . New Haven: Yale University Press.

The legacy of the Soviet Union

  • Atai, F.. . Iranian Studies, 45, 81–95.
  • Daniels, R. V.. The End of the Communist Revolution. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Spohr, K.. Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Soviet territories

  • Beissinger, M., & Hajda, L... The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Beissinger, M.. . Slavic Review, 65, 294–303.
  • Dobbs, M.. Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Dunlop, J. B.. The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • ———.. The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Gleason, G., & Hazard, J. N.. Federalism and Nationalism: The Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Gorlizki, Y.. . Slavic Review, 69, 676–700.
  • Hajda, L., & Beissinger, M.. The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society. London: Routledge.
  • Keep, J.. Last of the Empires: A History of the USSR, 1945–1991. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 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, UK: Hamilton.
  • Olcott, M.. . Soviet Studies, 37, 103–117.
  • Rigby, T.. . Slavic Review, 37, 1–24.
  • Roeder, P.. . World Politics, 43, 196–232.
  • Shanin, T.. . Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31, 409–424.
  • Simm, G.. Nationalism And Policy Toward The Nationalities In The Soviet Union: From Totalitarian Dictatorship To Post-stalinist Society. New York: Routledge.
  • Weiner, A.. . The Journal of Modern History, 78, 333–376.

Baltics

  • Prigge, W.. . Journal of Baltic Studies, 35, 211–230.

Byelorussia

  • Exeler, F.. . Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Urban, M.. An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Caucasus

  • Under construction

Central Asia

  • 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.
  • Reeves, M.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23, 364–370.
  • Rywkin, M.. Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia. New York: Routledge.
  • Stronski, P.. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ukraine

  • Kuromiya, H.. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wojnowski, Z.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''13'', 799–829.

Ideology and propaganda

  • Benn, D.. . Soviet Studies, 21, 52–63.
  • ———.. . The World Today, 41, 112–115.
  • Brunstedt, J.. The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Eberstadt, N.. The Poverty of Communism. London: Routledge.
  • Ebon, M.. The Soviet Propaganda Machine. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Fainberg, D.. Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines'. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Fürst, J., Pons, S., & Selden, M... The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hixson, W. L.. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. New York: Macmillan.
  • Mitchell, R.. . The Review of Politics, 34, 190–209.
  • Nagorski, Z.. . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 398, 130–139.

Economy

  • Allen, R.. . The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne D'Economique, 34, 859–881.
  • Evans, A.. . Soviet Studies, 29, 409–428.
  • Gatrell, P. and Lewis, R.. . The Economic History Review, 45, pp. 743–754.
  • Gidadhubli, R.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 18, 103–104.
  • Goldman, M. I.. U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System. New York: Norton.
  • Hanson, P.. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. London, UK: Longman.
  • Hewett, E. A.. Reforming the Soviet Economy: Equality versus Efficiency. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
  • Hoffmann, E. P., & Laird, R. F.. The Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
  • Marrese, M., & Vaňous, J.. Soviet Subsidization of Trade with Eastern Europe: A Soviet Perspective. Berkeley, CA : Institute of International Studies, University of California Press.
  • Miller, C.. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Millar, J. R., & Linz, S. J.. The Soviet Economic Experiment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Rowen, H. S., & Wolf, C. J.. The Impoverished Superpower: Perestroika and the Burden of Soviet Military Spending. San Francisco: ICS Press.
  • Rutland, P.. The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Shmelev, N., & Popov, V.. The Turning Point: Revitalizing the Soviet Economy. London, UK: Tauris.
  • Simis, K.. USSR: The Corrupt Society: The Secret World of Soviet Capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Suri, J.. . Contemporary European History, 15, 133–158.
  • Zweynert, J.. . Russian History, 41, 354–372.

External relations

The Soviet Bloc in Europe

  • Archard, L.. Hungarian Uprising: Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Military.
  • Baring, A.. Uprising in East Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Brzezinski, Z. K.. The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Corda, M.. Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. New York: Harper Perennial.
  • David-Fox, M... The secret police and the Soviet system: New archival investigations. University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Dawisha, K.. The Kremlin and the Prague Spring. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Eörsi, L.. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs.
  • Fehér, F., & Heller, A.. Hungary 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution - A Quarter of a Century After. London, UK: Allen and Unwin.
  • Gati, C.. Hungary and the Soviet Bloc. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • ———.. The Bloc that Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • ———.. Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Ginsburgs, G.. . The Western Political Quarterly, 13, 780–802.
  • Granville, J.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 38, 261–290.
  • ———, & Garthoff, R. L.. The First Domino: International Decision Making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Gyáni, G.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 58, 1199–1208.
  • Györkei, J. D., & Horváth, M.. Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. New York: Central European University Press.
  • Lendvai, P., & Major, A.. One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Lévesque, J.. The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Litván, G., Bak, J. M., & Legters, L. H.. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression 1953-1963. London, UK: Longman.
  • Mastny, V.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 51, 189–211.
  • Matthews, J. P. C.. Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. New York: Hippocrene Books.
  • Michener, J. A.. The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People. New York: Corgi/Penguin Books.
  • Miller, R. F., & Féhér, F.. Khrushchev and the Communist World. London, UK: Croom Helm.
  • Millington, R.. State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mlynár, Z.. Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism. London: C. Hurst.
  • Moorthy, K. K.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 6, 2233–2233.
  • Narayanswamy, R.. . Economic and Political Weekly, 24, 186–188.
  • Ostermann, C. F., & Byrne, M.. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European University Press.
  • Persak, K.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 58, 1285–1310.
  • Péter, L.. Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956. London: Hungarian Cultural Centre, University of Central London.
  • Pók, A.. . Contemporary European History, 7, 263–270.
  • Pucci, M.. Security empire: The secret police in communist Eastern Europe. Yale University Press.
  • Richter, J.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 45, 671–691.
  • Sebestyen, V.. Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Stanciu, C.. . Contemporary European History, 23, 115–134.
  • Stoneman, A.. . The History Teacher, 49, 103–125.
  • Valenta, J., & Dubček, A.. Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Westad, O. A., Holtsmark, S. G., & Neumann, I. B.. The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945-89. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • Williams, K.. . Europe-Asia Studies, 48, 457–470.
  • Windsor, P., & Roberts, A.. Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance. New York: Columbia University Press.

Foreign policy and relations

  • Anderson, R. D.. Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy During the Brezhnev Years. Washington DC: NCROL.
  • Baroch, C.. . American Bar Association Journal, 57, 686–690.
  • Burke, J.. . World Affairs, 155, 156–168.
  • Du Quenoy, P.. . The International History Review, 25, 334–356.
  • Edmonds, R.. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Era. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Gittings, J.. Survey of the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1963-1967. London, UK: Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  • Garthoff, R. L.. Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Grachev, A.. Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. Oxford: Wiley Press.
  • Griffith, W. E.. The Sino-Soviet Rift. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Haykal, M. Ḥasanayn.. The Sphinx and the Commissar: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Influence in the Middle East. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Johnson, E.. . World Literature Today, 75, 30–39.
  • Kharlamov, M., & Ajubei, A., & Vadeyev, O.. Face to Face with America: The Story of N.S. Khrushchov's Visit to the U.S.A. September 15–27, 1959. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
  • Klinghoffer, A.. . Harvard International Review, 8, 15–19.
  • Li, D., & Xia, Y.. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Lynch, A.. The Soviet Study of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lyne, R.. . Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 36, 235–253.
  • Mehrotra, S.. India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Papp, D.. . Mershon International Studies Review, 39, 290–293.
  • Patman, R.. The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pavlov, Y. I.. Soviet-Cuban Alliance 1959-1991. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  • Pittman, A.. From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German-Soviet Political Relations since 1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Prizel, I.. Latin America through Soviet Eyes: The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964-1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Racioppi, L.. Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rea, K.. . Asian Affairs, 3, 22–30.
  • Roberts, G. K.. The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and Cold War, 1945-1991. London: Routledge.
  • Stent, A.. From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Thornton, R. C.. Soviet Asian Strategy in the Brezhnev Era and Beyond. Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy.
  • Ulam, A. B.. Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-73. New York: Praeger.
  • ———.. Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Wehling, F.. Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967-1973. New York: Macmillan.
  • Westad, O. A.. Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

The Cold War

  • Barrass, G. S.. The Great Cold War: A Journey through the Hall of Mirrors. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Beschloss, M. R.. Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Beschloss, M. R., & Talbott, S.. At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Blanton, T., & Savranskaya, S.. . Arms Control Today, 41, 46–51.
  • Brown, A.. The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Brugioni, D. A., & McCort, R. F.. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House.
  • Brun, E., & Hersh, J.. . Theory and Society, 5, 295–344.
  • English, R.. Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Farnham, B.. . Political Science Quarterly, 116, 225–252.
  • Fursenko, A. A., & Naftali, T. J.. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: Norton.
  • –––, & ———.. Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: Norton.
  • Gaddis, J. L.. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
  • ———.. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Garthoff, R. L.. Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Gelman, H.. The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Détente. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Gribkov, A. I., Smith, W. Y., & Friendly, A.. Operation ANADYR: U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago: Edition Q.
  • Hoffman, D. E.. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. New York: Doubleday.
  • Kempe, F.. Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Lebow, R., Mueller, J., & Wohlforth, W.. . International Security, 20, 185–187.
  • Liebich, A.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 30, 247–264.
  • MacGregor, I.. Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth. New York: Scribner.
  • Miles, S.. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War'. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Miller, D.. The Cold War: A Military History. London, UK: Pimlico.
  • Nash, P.. The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963. Chapel Hill: University of California Press.
  • Nelson, K. L.. The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Patman, R.. . Review of International Studies, 25, 577–601.
  • Schrag, P. G.. Global Action: Nuclear Test Ban Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War. New York: Routledge.
  • Schwebel, S.. . The American Journal of International Law, 66, 816–819.
  • Seaborg, G. T., Loeb, B. S., & Harriman, W. A.. Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Taylor, F.. The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Thompson, N.. . Journal of Contemporary History, 46, 136–149.
  • Watry, D. M.. Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Westad, O. A.. . Journal of Peace Research, 29, 455–464.
  • ———.. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———.. The Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books.
  • Zubok, V. M.. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Afghanistan

  • Braithwaite, R.. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Collins, J.. . Naval War College Review, 33, 53–62.
  • ———.. . Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 36, 198–210.
  • Dunbar, C.. Asian Survey, 28, 148–162.
  • Feifer, G.. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Fremont-Barnes, G.. The Soviet–Afghan War 1979–89. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing.
  • Goldman, M.. . Polity, 16, 384–403.
  • Grau, L. W., & Gress, M. A.. The Soviet-Afghan War: How A Superpower Fought and Lost. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • Kalinovsky, A. M.. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Maley, W.. The Afghanistan Wars. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Reuveny, R., & Prakash, A.. . Review of International Studies, 25, 693–708.

Other studies

  • 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.
  • Bennigsen, A., & Broxup, M.. The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State. New York: Routledge.
  • Bruno, A.. . The Russian Review, 81 92–109.
  • Cohen, S. F.. Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Erley, M.. '. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Fortescue, S.. Science Policy in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge.
  • Hartley, J. M.. ''. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Josephson, P. R.. New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Suny, R. G.. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Walker, G.. Soviet Book Publishing Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Historiography

  • Boyer, J., Kirshner, J., Iurii Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, Barg, M., Cherniak, E., Danilov, V., Volobuev, P.. . The Journal of Modern History, 62, 782–830.
  • Enteen, G.. . Slavic Review, 61, 357–363.
  • Feest, D., & Hein-Kircher, H.. . Region, 6, 1–10.
  • Kenney, P.. . Diplomatic History, 35, 571–578.
  • Krylova, A.. . Contemporary European History, 23, 167–192.
  • Magnúsdóttir, R.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21, 207–217
  • Markwick, R.. . The Russian Review, 65, 283–301.
  • Penter, T.. . Slavic Review, 64, 782–790.
  • Ruivo, R.. . In S. Loosen, R. Heynickx, & H. Heynen, The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s . Leuven University Press.
  • Siegelbaum, L.. . The Russian Review, 54, 330–340.
  • Siegelbaum, L. H.. . International Review of Social History, 51, 463–481. * Viola, L.. . The Russian Review, 61, 25–34.
  • Siegelbaum, L. H.. . Region, 1, 213–230.
  • Wolff, L.. . The Journal of Modern History, 78, 93–118.
  • Yanow, D., & Schwartz-Shea, P.. . Political Science and Politics, 43, 741–745.
  • Yaresh, L.. . American Slavic and East European Review, 16, 241–259.
  • Zelikow, P., 130–140.

Memory studies

  • Brunstedt, J.. The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Friedla, K., & Nesselrodt, M... . Academic Studies Press.
  • Penter, T.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. ''14, 683–690.
  • Smith, M. B.. . Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23, pp. 255–287.
  • Smith, T. J.. . The Historian, 60'', 325–343.

Identity studies

  • Donovan, V.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Biographies

  • Aron, L. R.. Boris Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life. London: HarperCollins.
  • Brown, A.. The Gorbachev Factor. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Crankshaw, E.. Khrushchev: A Career. New York: Viking Press.
  • Jenks, A. L.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Medvedev, R. A., & Medvedev, Z. A.. Khrushchev. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Medvedev, Z. A.. Andropov: His Life and Death. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Murphy, P. J.. Brezhnev, Soviet Politician. Jefferson: McFarland.
  • Paloczi-Horvath, G.. Khrushchev: The Making of a Dictator. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Ruge, G.. Gorbachev: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Scammell, M.. Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Sheehy, G.. The Man Who Changed the World: The lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. New York: HarperPerennial.
  • Sullivan, R.. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Taubman, W.. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Taubman, W.. Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Memoirs and literary accounts

  • Aleksievič, S. A., Whitby, J., & Whitby, R.. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Borovik, A.. The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. New York: Grove Press.
  • Brezhnev, L.. Brezhnev's trilogy. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
  • Dobrynin, A. F.. In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents. New York: Random House.
  • Gandlevsky, S.. . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Gorbachev, M. S.. Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs. London, UK: Doubleday.
  • Khrushchev, N. S., Crankshaw, E., & Talbott, S.. Khrushchev Remembers. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
  • ———., & Talbott, S.. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
  • ———., Talbott, S., Schecter, J. L., & Luchkov, V. V.. Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Khrushchev, S.. Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • MacDuffie, M.. The Red Carpet: 10,000 miles through Russia on a Visa from Khrushchev. New York: Norton.
  • Molotov, V. M., Čuev, F., & Resis, A.. Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics: Conversations with Felix Čhuev. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.
  • Solzhenitsyn, A. I.. The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union: A Memoir. London, UK: Collins-Harvill.
  • Vidali, V.. Diary of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Westport: Lawrence Hill.

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  • Chang, L., & Kornbluh, P... The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York: The New Press.
  • Dallin, A., Harris, J., & Hodnett, G... Diversity in International Communism: A Documentary Record, 1961-1963. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Hodnett, G., & McNeal, R. H... Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Vol. 4 Khrushchev Years, 1953-1964. Toronto, ON: Toronto University of Toronto Press.
  • Kennedy, J. F., & Khrushchev, N. S.. Back from the Brink: The Correspondence Between President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita S. Khrushchev on the Cuban Missile Crisis of Autumn 1962. Washington DC: US Information Agency.
  • Khrushchev, N. S.. . New York: E. F. Dutton & Co.
  • Khrushchev, N. S.. Khrushchev in New York: A Documentary Record of Nikita S. Khrushchev's Trip to New York, September 19th to October13th, 1960. New York: Crosscurrents.
  • Khrushchev, N. S.. Letters to John F. Kennedy.
  • Stickle, D. M., Farrow, J.. The Beria Affair: The Secret Transcripts of the Meetings Signalling the End of Stalinism. Commack: Nova Science Publishers.
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Bibliographies

Bibliographies contain English and non-English language entries unless noted otherwise.
Bibliographies of post-Stalinist Soviet Union
  • Beschloss, M. R.. General Sources. In The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963. New York: E. Burlingame Books.
  • Kotkin, S.. Bibliography. In Armageddon Averted: The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • McCauley, M.. Bibliography. In Khrushchev and Khrushchevism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Smith, J. and Ilić, M... Bibliography. In Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964. New York: Routledge.
  • Strong, J. W.. Bibliography. In The Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Kosygin: The Transition Years. New York: NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Taubman, W.. Bibliography. In Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Tompson, W. J.. Bibliography. In The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London, UK: Routledge.
Bibliographies of Russian history containing significant material on post-Stalinist Soviet Union
  • Edelheit, A. J., & Edelheit, H.. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: A selected bibliography of sources in English. Westport: Greenwood Publishing.
  • Horecky, P. L.. Russia and the Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to Western-language Publications. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Kenez, P.. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Schaffner, B. L.. Bibliography of the Soviet Union, its Predecessors and Successors. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press.
  • Simmons, E. J.. . The Slavic and East European Journal, ''6'', 148–158.