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Department of History
Part 1 Option
History of Russia since 1881
HI 107
Tutor: Chris Read
Module Booklet 2013-14
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Module Specification for History of Russia since 1881
In the event of any conflict between the information contained below and the departmental handbooks, the departmental handbooks take precedence.
Aims & Objectives
This module is an option available to second year History honours and joint-degree students and to visiting and part-time students and 2+2 students in any year of their studies. Options are designed to complement the first and second year core modules by providing the opportunity for study in greater depth of particular regions, periods or themes.
Context: This module develops themes of political, social, cultural and economic history raised in the core module in the context of Russian history since 1881.
Syllabus: The module is divided into four sets of historical questions - those relating to the origins of the Russian revolution; to its course from c1900-1921; to its immediate consequences in the rise of Stalinism; and to Russia's attempts to deal with the legacy of Stalinism from 1953 to the early twenty-first century. Attention will be given to political, social, economic and cultural aspects of these questions.
Teaching & Learning: The module will be taught through weekly lectures and one hour seminars and individual tutorials to discuss feedback on essays.
Assessment: see appropriate History Departmental handbooks.
Note: Deadlines for non-assessed essays are weeks 7, 14 and 17.
ALL LONG ESSAY TOPICS FOR ALL CATEGORIES OF STUDENT WILL NORMALLY BE NEGOTIATED WITH THE TUTOR.
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Intended Learning Outcomesa) the further development of study, writing and communication skills
b) to provide the opportunity, through writing a 4500 word essay, to develop in greater depth an analysis of aspects of the secondary literature and available primary sources relating to topics covered in the module; to allow for greater study of topics the student wishes to learn about which are only covered marginally in the module such as foreign policy; religion; literature and the arts; and thereby to develop independent critical and analytical skills listed below.
c) developing critical analytical skills based on introducing students to a wide variety of approaches to the study of Russian History from
the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries conveying basic historical knowledge of Russian History from the late nineteenth to early
twenty-first centuries utilising interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen historical understanding providing students with the opportunity to evaluate critically a range of primary sources
including official documents, statistics, writings of leading historical figures and memoirs.
examining a wide range of secondary sources and secondary interpretations of Russian History from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries
To enable students to produce written and verbal analyses based on the above
Mark scaleAll undergraduate modules are marked using one overall system, which runs from 0-100. Marks fall into different classes of performance:
17-point marking scaleWhere an assessment or exam is a single piece of work, or a small number of long exam answers or assessed essays, work is marked using the following scale.
The descriptors in this table are interpreted as appropriate to the subject and the year/level of study, and implicitly cover good academic practice and the avoidance of plagiarism.
With the exception of Excellent 1st, High Fail and Zero, the descriptors cover a range of marks, with the location within each group dependent on the extent to which the elements in the descriptor and departmental/faculty marking criteria are met.
Class scale descriptor
First
Excellent 1st
Exceptional work of the highest quality, demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. At final-year level: work may achieve or be close to publishable standard.
High 1st Very high quality work demonstrating excellent knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills. Work which may extend existing debates or interpretations.
Mid 1st
Low 1st
Upper Second
High 2.1 High quality work demonstrating good knowledge and understanding, analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, Mid 2.1
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(2.1) presentation and appropriate skills.Low 2.1
Lower Second
High 2.2 Competent work, demonstrating reasonable knowledge and understanding, some analysis, organisation, accuracy, relevance, presentation and appropriate skills.
Mid 2.2Low 2.2
ThirdHigh 3rd
Work of limited quality, demonstrating some relevant knowledge and understanding.Mid 3rd
Low 3rd
Fail
High Fail (sub Honours)
Work does not meet standards required for the appropriate stage of an Honours degree. There may be evidence of some basic understanding of relevant concepts and techniques
Fail Poor quality work well below the standards required for the appropriate stage of an Honours degree.Low Fail
Zero Zero Work of no merit OR Absent, work not submitted, penalty in some misconduct cases
For calculating module results, the points on this marking scale have the following numerical equivalents:
Class Point on scale numerical equivalent
First
Excellent 1st 96High 1st 89Mid 1st 81Low 1st 74
Upper SecondHigh 2.1 68Mid 2.1 65Low 2.1 62
Lower SecondHigh 2.2 58Mid 2.2 55Low 2.2 52
ThirdHigh 3rd 48Mid 3rd 45Low 3rd 42
FailHigh Fail 38Fail 25Low Fail 12
Zero Zero 0
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PART I OPTION
HISTORY OF RUSSIA SINCE 1881
AUTUMN TERM SEMINARS
Week 2 - 5 Economic and social change in late nineteenth century Russia- workers, peasants and the middle class
Week 2 The peasantry, landowners and other rural inhabitants
What was happening in the countryside?
C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 1)
I. Thatcher (ed) Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects
H. Rogger Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881-1917 (Chapters 1-7)
E. Acton Russia (Chapter 5)
L. Trotsky 1905 chs 1-4 esp ch 4 ‘The Driving Forces of the Russian revolution’ at http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1907/1905/ch04.htm
Week 3 Cities and industry – workers and the middle classWhat was the impact of industrialisation on Russian society c. 1900? Did the Russian proletariat have distinctive features? How strong was the middle-class?
ReadingC. Read ‘Labour and Socialism in Tsarist Russia’ in D. Geary (ed) Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe Before 1914
C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 1)
I. Thatcher (ed) Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects
H. Rogger Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881-1917 (Chapters 1-7)
E. Acton Russia (Chapter 5)
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P. Waldron The End of Imperial Russia (chapters 2 & 3)
Week 4 The Revolution of 1905-1907 and autocratic politics
Why did revolution break out in Russia in 1905?
C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 2)A. Heywood & J. Smele (eds) The Russian Revolution
of 1905: Centenary PerspectivesM. Perrie 'The Russian Peasant Movement of
1905-1907: Its Social Composition and Revolutionary Significance', Past and Present, no. 57, November 1972, pp 123 155.
P. Waldron The End of Imperial Russia(chapters 1, 4 & 5)
E. Acton Russia (chapter 6)
Week 5 After 1905By what means was the autocracy able to restore its authority? How viable was Tsarism after 1907?
ReadingC. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 2)A. Heywood & J. Smele (eds) The Russian Revolution
of 1905: Centenary PerspectivesM. Perrie 'The Russian Peasant Movement of
1905-1907: Its Social Composition and Revolutionary Significance', Past and Present, no. 57, November 1972, pp 123 155.
P. Waldron The End of Imperial Russia(chapters 1, 4 & 5)
E. Acton Russia (chapter 6)
Document
The October Manifesto
Week 7 1917: The February Revolution and the Provisional Governemt.
Why did Tsarism finally collapse? Why was the Provisional Government unsuccessful?
C. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (ch. 1)
C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 3-7)E. Acton Russia (chapter 7)E. Acton Re-thinking the Russian Revolution
chs.6-9N. Stone The Eastern Front (chapters 1, 9 &
13)
Warwick History Video The Decline of Tsarism
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Week 8 1917: The October RevolutionWhat were the roles of peasants, workers and soldiers? Why did the Bolsheviks come to power?
Reading
C. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (ch. 1)
C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chapter 3-7)C. Read Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (Ch 5)E. Acton Russia (chapter 7)E. Acton Re-thinking the Russian Revolution
chs.6-9J. White The Russian RevolutionN. Stone The Eastern Front (chapters 1, 9 &
13)
Warwick History Video The Decline of Tsarism
DocumentV.I. Lenin Tasks of the Proletariat in the
Present Revolution (April Theses)
Week 9 Bolshevism and Lenin's Russia 1 Civil and Revolutionary War
Who were the Bolsheviks? How did they survive the Civil War? Did the experience change them?
ReadingC. Read The Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (chs.2, 3)C. Read From Tsar to Soviets (chs 8-13)C. Read Lenin: A Revolutionary LifeE. Acton Russia chap 8S. Fitzpatrick The Russian Revolution (chs 2-6)V. Serge Memoirs of a Revolutionary (chs 2,3 &
4)R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 3-5)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union from
the Beginning to the End (ch 2 & 3)R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia
(chs 4-8)
Week 10 Bolshevism and Lenin’s Russia 2 Lenin’s Last Years 1920-24How did Lenin evaluate the achievements of the revolution up to 1922/3? Was the New Economic Policy viable?
C. Read Lenin: A Revolutionary LifeE. Acton Russia chap 8S. Fitzpatrick The Russian Revolution (chs 2-6)V. Serge Memoirs of a Revolutionary (chs 2,3 &
4)
B. Williams Lenin
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J. White Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution
Document
V.I. Lenin On Co-operationOur Revolution
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Week 11 The "Stalin Revolution" I – The Rise of Stalin and the Beginning of the Stalin Revolution - Collectivisation
Why did Stalin come to power? What did he stand for? What were the main features of collectivisation?
A. Nove & Stalin: Terror and Transformation C. Read (Warwick History Video)
ReadingC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (ch.4)
M. Fainsod Smolensk under Soviet Rule (ch 12)C. Ward Stalin's Russia chaps 1-3C. Ward (ed.) The Stalin Dictatorship (chs. 1-5)R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 6-10)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 4)R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia
(chs 9-10)C. Read The Stalin Years: A Reader (articles
by Shulz; Davies et al; Waters)
Week 12 The “Stalin Revolution” 2 - Industrialisation and the emergence of Stalinist Society
What were the main features of industrialisation?
ReadingM. Fainsod Smolensk under Soviet Rule (ch 13)E. Acton Russia (ch 9)A. Nove An Economic History of the USSR
(chs 4-8)C. Ward Stalin's Russia chaps 1-3C. Ward (ed.) The Stalin Dictatorship (chs. 1-5)R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 6-10)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 4)R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia
(chs 9-10)C. Read The Stalin Years: A Reader (articles
by Shulz; Davies et al; Waters)
DocumentsSelected documents on collectivisation
Week 13 The emergence of Stalinist SocietyWhat was "Stalinism" as it existed in the 1930s?
ReadingHellbeck, J. ‘Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts’ in Language and Revolution. Making Modern Political identities Halfin I. ed. (London: Frank Class, 2002), pp. 135-159.
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Hellbeck, J.Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Hoffman D. and Kotsonis, Y. eds. Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).
Hoffman, D. Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).M. Edele, Stalinist Society, 1928-1953R. Tucker (ed) Stalinism (pp 3-154)C. Ward Stalin's Russia chap 4C. Ward (ed) The Stalin Dictatorship (ch 6)R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 11-12)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 5)S. Fitzpatrick Everyday StalinismC. Read The Stalin Years: A reader
Week 14 The Great Purge
Why did the Great Purge of 1936-8 take place? What was life like in the USSR in the 1930s.
ReadingC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (ch.5)J. Arch Getty (ed.) Stalin’s Terror: New PerspectivesRobert W Thurston Fear & Belief in the U.S.S.R.
"Great Terror" Response to Arrest 1935-39 Slavic Review vol 45, no. 2, pp 213-244 (includes discussion with Robert Conquest)
R Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia (ch 11-12)
R. Tucker (ed) Stalinism (pp 3-154)C. Ward Stalin's Russia chap 4C. Ward (ed) The Stalin Dictatorship (ch 6)R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 11-12)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 5)S. Fitzpatrick Everyday StalinismC. Read The Stalin Years: A reader (article
by Khlevniuk)
DocumentsRiutin Platform Law of 1 December 1934 Bukharin’s Last Letter Order 00447 of 30 July 1937
Week 15 The Second World War 1
Why did the Soviet Union become involved in the War?
Reading
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Jonathan Haslam The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective security in Europe
Geoffrey Roberts Unholy Alliance: Stalin’s pact with Hitler: the Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War
Week 17 The Second World War 2The Second World War was the great test of Stalin's system. How did it survive?
ReadingGeoffrey Roberts Stalin’s WarsC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (ch.6)H. Carrere d'Encausse Stalin: Order through Terror (ch 5-9)M. Djilas Conversations with StalinE. Acton Russia ch 10A. Nove An Economic History of the USSR (ch10 &11)C. Ward Stalin's Russia chap 5J Barber & The Soviet Home FrontM HarrisonR. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 13& 14)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 6)R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia(ch13 &14)C. Read The Stalin Years(article by Erickson)G. Roberts Stalin’s General: Georgii Zhukov
DocumentsOrder no 270 and other documents
Week 18 The Soviet Union and the Cold War
Who was responsible for the outbreak of the Cold War? What impact did it have within the Soviet Union? Had Stalinism changed by 1953?
Reading
C. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (ch.6)G. Roberts Stalin’s WarsV. Zubok & Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War:C. Pleshakov From Stalin to KhruschchevC. Kennedy- Stalin’s Cold WarPipe S. Ambrose Rise to GlobalismT. Hasegawa Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the
Surrender of JapanM. McAuley The Origins of the Cold WarM. Walker A History of the Cold WarR. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia
(ch 15 & 16)G. Hosking A History of the Soviet Union (ch 11)J. Keep The Last of the Empires:
A History of the Soviet Union 1945-51(ch 1)
R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 15 & 16)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union (ch 7)R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia (chs 15-
16)
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C. Read The Stalin Years (article by Roberts)
DocumentsChurchill’s Fulton speech and Stalin’s reply (extracts)Selected documents of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Week 19 De-Stalinisation under Khruschchev What legacy did Stalin leave? How did his successors deal with it? How effective were Khruschchev’s reforms?
ReadingC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (ch.7, 8)E. Acton Russia (ch. 11)A. Nove An Economic History in the USSR (ch12)M.E. McCauley Khrushchev and KhrushchevismA. Nove Stalinism and After (chs 5)S. Cohen 'Friends and Foes of Change' in
The Soviet Union since Stalin (edby Cohen, Rabinowitch & Sharlet)
R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia(ch 17-22)
R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 17-19)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union
(ch 8)M. Sandle A Short History of Soviet Socialism
(ch 7)
Week 20 Brezhnev in Power 1964-82Was the period 1964-1982 simply 'years of stagnation'? Was 1968 a turning point for communism? What can we learn from the dissidents of the period?
ReadingC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (ch.8, 9)E. Acton Russia (ch. 11)A. Nove An Economic History in the USSR (ch12)M.E. McCauley Khrushchev and KhrushchevismA. Nove Stalinism and After (ch 6)Zh. Medvedev 'Russia under Brezhnev' New Left
Review no. 117 Sept/Oct 1978S. Cohen 'Friends and Foes of Change' in
The Soviet Union since Stalin (edby Cohen, Rabinowitch & Sharlet)
R. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia(ch 17-22)
R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 17-19)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union
(ch 9)M. Sandle A Short History of Soviet Socialism
(ch 8)E. Bacon and M. Sandle (eds) Brezhnev Reconsidered
Documents Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (extracts)The Novosibirsk report (extracts) and other docs
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Week 22 [2014 No class in Week 21 – term begins on Wednesday of Week21]Gorbachev and Perestroika
What were the main features of Perestroika? Why did Gorbachev initiate the policy? Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
ReadingC. Read Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System (ch.10, 11)A. Brown The Gorbachev FactorA. Brown Seven Years That Changed the WorldR.V. Daniels The End of the Communist RevolutionS. White Gorbachev and AfterM. McCauley The Soviet Union under GorbachevM. Walker The Waking GiantA. Nove Glasnost in ActionR. Service A History of Twentieth Century Russia
(ch 23-27)R. Sakwa Gorbachev and his ReformsC. Ward (ed) Perestroika
C. Ward (ed) 'Perestroika and the Russian Revolution of 1991 Slavonic & East European Review, vol. 71, no. 2, April 1993, pp. 234-256
R. Suny The Soviet Experiment (chs 20-22)P. Kenez A History of the Soviet Union
(ch 10 & 11)M Sandle A Short History of Soviet Socialism
(ch 9 & conclusion)M.Sandle ‘The Final Word: the Draft Party
Programme of July/August 1991’ Europe-Asia Studies Nov 1996
DocumentsSelected extracts from Gorbachev’s speeches
Week 23 From Yeltsin to Putin. Perestroika continued?
Has Russia become a democracy? Does Putin have a strategy for continued ‘re-structuring’ of Russia? What has become of the Russian Economy? Why is there little popular participation in politics? Is Russia becoming militaristic again? Why has the Chechen war dragged on? What is Putin’s relationship to the ‘oligarchs’? Is a ‘new Cold War’ developing?
ReadingBrown, Archie Contemporary Russian Politics: A
ReaderCohen, Stephen Failed Crusade: America and the
Tragedy of Post-Communist RussiaReddaway, Peter and The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms:
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Glinskii, Dmitrii Market Bolshevism against DemocracyService, Robert Russia: Experiment with a PeopleSakwa, Richard Putin: Russia’s ChoiceShevtsova, Lilia Putin’s RussiaHobson, Charlotte Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart
of Russia Seely, Robert Russo-Chechen Conflict: A Deadly
EmbracePolitkovskaia, Anna A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in
ChechnyaTolz, Vera Russia: Inventing the NationKagarlitsky, Boris Farewell, Perestroika
There are also many articles in the reading list pp.34-38. See in particular those by Sakwa; Tolz; ‘Ten Years After’ edition of Slavic Review (1999); Ferguson; Frisby; Volkov; Schroder; Shlapentokh; Anne White; Munro and White on various aspects.
Documents – The Break-up of the Soviet Union
Week 25 Revision and Overview Seminar
How viable was the Soviet system? Was its collapse inevitable from the outset? If not, when did it begin to ‘fail’? There is a large genre of overviews of the Soviet system devoted to these topics. We will take a look at them.
ReadingRead, Christopher The Making and Breaking of the Soviet
System+Malia, Martin The Soviet TragedyLewin, Moshe The Soviet CenturyDaniels, Robert The End of the Communist RevolutionKotkin, Stephen Armaggedon Averted: The Soviet
Collapse 1970-2000Deutscher, Isaac The Unfinished Revolution (1967)Cohen, Stephen Re-Thinking the Soviet Experience
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PART I OPTION
THE LAST TSAR : RUSSIAN HISTORY SINCE 1881: A GUIDE TO READING
Standard histories and reference Perrie, M (ed) Cambridge History of RussiaHosking, G. Russia:People and Empire 1552-
1917Hosking, G. Russia and the Russians: A
History from Earliest Times to 2001
Longworth, P. Rusia’s Empires:their rise and fall from prehistory to Putin
Lieven, D Empire: the Russian Empire and its Rivals
Thatcher, I. (ed) Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects
Waldron, P. The End of Imperial Russia - 1885-1917
Stavrou, T. (ed) Russia under the Last Tsar Charques, R. The Twilight of Imperial Russia Kochan, L. Russia in Revolution Seton-Watson, H The Russian Empire 1801-1917 Pipes, R. Russia under the Old Regime Ripes, R. The Russian Revolution 1899-1919 Rogger, H. Russia in the Age of
Modernisation and Revolution Katkov, G. (ed) Russia enters the Twentieth
Century Riasanovsky, N. A History of Russia (2nd ed) Brown, A. (ed) Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Russia
and the Former Soviet Union Channon, J The Penguin Historical Atlas of
Russia Christian, D. Imperial and Soviet Russia:
Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity
Waldron, P. The End of Imperial Russia (1855-1917)
Waldron, P Governing Tsarist Russia Hutchinson, R Russia 1890-1917 Kelly, C. Russian Cultural Studies: an
IntroductionKappeler, A. The Russian Empire: A Multi-
ethnic History Longley, D. (ed) The Longman Companion to
Imperial Russia 1689-1917 Paxton, John (ed) Imperial Russia: a Reference
HandbookWheatcroft, Stephen (ed)Challenging Traditional Views of
Russian HistoryKagan, Frederick. W. The Military History of Tsarist& Higham, Robin (eds) RussiaHughes, Lindsey The Romanovs: Ruling Russia,
1613-1917
Social and economic history
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**Engel, B.A. Women in Russia, 1700-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
**Bushnell, J. ‘The Russian Soldiers’ Artel’, 1700-1900: A History and Interpretation’, in: Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia.
**Engel, B.A. Between the Fields and City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1994).
**Glickman, R.L ‘Peasant Women and their Work’, in: Russian Peasant Women B. Farnsworth and L. Viola, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 54-72.
** Mironov B. with Eklof, B. The Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, 2 Vols. (Oxford: Westview Press, 2000), (Mironov’s grand thesis has been criticised for presenting an optimistic and progressive view of state formation, deliberately eschewing cultural mores, religion, lifestyle, intellectual currents, and recent postmodern insight).
**Eklof, B. ‘By A Different Yardstick. Boris Mironov’s “A Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917” and its Reception in Russia’, in What Is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies,Memories Lahusen T. and Solomon, P.H. Jr.eds. (Berlin, 2008).
Moon, David The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia 1762-1907 (Longman 2002)
Moon, David The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930 :The World the Peasants made
Vucinich, W.S. (ed) The Peasant in Nineteenth-CenturyRussia
Black, C. Aspects of Social Change since 1861 The Transformation of Russian Society
Miller, F.A. Dmitrii Miliutin and the Reform Era
Field, D. The End of Serfdom Emmons, T. The Russian Landed Gentry and the
Peasant Emancipation of 1861 Mosse, W. Alexander II and the
Modernisation of Russia Manning, Roberta The Crisis of the Old Order in
Russia: Gentry & Government Bater, J. St Petersburg: Industrialization
and Change Falkus, M.E. The Industrialization of Russia
(1700-1914) Shanin, T. The Awkward Class Kingston-Mann, E. Lenin & the Problem of Marxist
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Peasant Revolution Owen, L. The Russian Peasant Movement,
1906-17 Robinson, G.T. Rural Russia under the Old Regime Lenin, V.I. The Development of Capitalism in
Russia Blackwell, W.L. (ed) Russian Economic Development from
Peter the Great to Stalin Blackwell, W.L. The Industrialization of Russia:
an historical perspective Crisp, O. Russia's Economic Problems McCauley, M. & The Emergence of the Modern
Waldron, P. Russian State, 1855-1881 (documents)
Gatrell, P. The Tsarist Economy 1850-1917 Swain, G. Russian Social Democracy & the
Legal Labour Zaionchkovskii, P. The Abolition of Serfdom in
Russia Wallace, D.M. Russia (revised ed of 1912) Vucinich, W. (ed) The Russian Peasant in the 19th
Century Blum, J. Lord and Peasant in Russia Blum, J. The End of the Old Regime in
Europe Gershenkron, A. Economic Backwardness in
Historical Perspective Ransel, D.L. (ed) The Family in Imperial Russia Hussain, N. & Marxism and the Agrarian
Question, Tribe, K. vol 2 Russian Marxism and the Peasantry Owen, Thomas C. Capitalism and Politics in Russia:
a social history of Moscow Merchants 1855-1905
Anderson, Barbara A. Internal Migration duringModernisation in Late Nineteenth-century Russia
Eklof, B. Russia’s Great Reforms 1855-81 Guroff G. and Carstenson F. (eds.) Entrepreneurship in Russia and the Soviet UnionGeyer, D. Russian ImperialismMcDaniel, T. Autocracy, Modernization and
Revolution in Russia and IranWcislo, F. Reforming Rural RussiaBrooks, J. When Russia Learned to
Read:Literacy and Popular Culture 1861-1917
Gershenkron, A. 'Agrarian Policies andIndustrialisation in Russia 1861-1917' in The Cambridge EconomicHistory, vol VI, part II
Gershenkron, A. 'The Beginnings of RussianIndustrialisation' Soviet Studies(April 1970) pp 507-515
Zelnik, R.E. 'The Peasant and the Factory' inVucinich, W. (ed), pp. 158-190
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Yaney, G.L. 'The Concept of the Stolypin LandReform' Slavic Review (June 1964)
Haimson, L. 'The Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia 1905-17' SlavicReview 1964 and 1965
Mendel, A.P. 'Peasant and Worker on the Eve of the First World War' Slavic Review 1965
Mironov, B. 'The Russian Peasant Commune After the Reforms of the 1860s'Slavic Review, vol 44, no. 3,pp 438-
Yaney, G.L. 'Social Stability in Pre-Revolutionary Russia' Slavic Review 1965
Black, C.E. 'The Nature of Imperial Russian Society after 1861' Slavonic Review 1961
(Riasanovsky's comments on the above article which are published in the same issue should also be taken into account).Moon D. ‘Estimating the Peasant
Population of Late Imperial Russia From The 1897 Census: A Research Note’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.1 January 1996 pp. 141-154
Dennison T.K. and Carus, W.W. ‘The Invention of the Russian
Rural Commune: Haxthausen and Evidence’ Historical Journal 46 (2003) 561-582
Frierson, C.A. ‘Razdel: the Peasant Family Divided’Russian Review 46 (1987) 35-51
Bonnell, V. Roots of Rebellion (Petrograd 1900-1917)
Bonnell, V. The Russian Worker (documents)Smith, S.A. Red PetrogradMandel, D. Petrograd Workers & The Fall of
the Old RegimeJohnson, R.F. Peasant and Proletarian. The
Moscow Working-class 1870-1905Koenker, D. Moscow Workers in the 1917
RevolutionRead, C. Labour and Socialism in Tsarist
Russia in D. Geary Labour andSocialist Movements in Europebefore 1914
Eklof, B. & Frank, S.P. The World of the Russian Peasant, Post-Emancipation Culture and Society
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Frank, S.& Steinberg, M. Cultures in FluxPhillips, Laura L. Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink
and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg 1900
Pallot, Judith Land Reform in Russia 1906-1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin’s Project of Rural Transformation
O’Rourke, S. Warrior and Peasant: The Don Cossacks in Late-Imperial Russia
Kuromiya, Hiroaki Freedom and Terror in the Donbass: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland 1870s to 1990s
Theodore Weeks ‘Russification and the Lithuanians, 1863-1905 Slavic Review Spring 2001 vol.60, No.1 pp96-114
Steinberg, Mark D. ‘Workers on the Cross: Religious Imagination in the Writings of Russian Workers 1910-1924’ Russian Review 53 (1994) 213-239
Miller, A The Ukrainian Question: the Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
**Sanborn, J.A. Drafting the Russian Nation. Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2003)
The Revolutionary Movement and the Intelligentsia
Walicki, A. A History of Russian Thought fromthe Enlightenment to Marxism
Walicki, A. The Slavophile ControversyActon, E. Alexander Herzen and the Role of
the Intellectual RevolutionaryCopleston, F. Philosophy in RussiaOfford, D. The Russian Revolutionary
Movement in the 1880s.Billington, J. Mikhailovsky and Russian PopulismFootman, D. Red Prelude - the life of
ZheliabovWoehrlin, W.F. ChernyshevskiiVenturi, F. Roots of RevolutionA.Kelly Towards Another Shore: Russian
Thinkers between Necessity and Chance
Walicki, A. The Controversy over Capitalism -Studies in the Social Philosophy of the Russian Populists
McKinsey, P.S. 'From City Workers to Peasantry: the beginnings of the Russian movement"To the People", Slavic Review vol 38 (4)
Field, Daniel ‘Peasants and Propagandists in the Russian Movement to the People of 1874.’ Journal of Modern History 59 (1987) 415-438
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Ascher, A. Pavel Axelrod and the Origins ofMenshevism
Avrich, P. The Russian AnarchistsFrankel, J. Vladimir Akimov on the Dilemmas
of Russian Marxism 1895-1903Baron, S.H. Plekhanov: the Father of Russian
MarxismBerdiaev, N. The Origins of Russian CommunismVenturi, F. Studies in Free RussiaBroido, E. Memoirs of a RevolutionaryGalai, S. The Liberation Movement in Russia
1900-1905Getzler, I. Martov: A Political Biography of
a Russian Social DemocratDan, T. The Origins of BolshevismHaimson, L. The Russian Marxists and the
Origins of BolshevismKeep, J.L.H. The Rise of Social Democracy in
RussiaKindersley, R. The First Russian Revisionists: A
Study of Legal Marxism in RussiaMendel, A.P. Dilemmas of Progress in Tsarist
Russia: Legal Marxism and LegalPopulism
Broido, V. Apostles into TerroristsPipes, R. (ed) The Russian IntelligentsiaPipes, R. Struve: Liberal on the Left 1870-
1905Pipes, R. Struve: Liberal on the RightPipes, R. Social Democracy and the
St. Petersburg Labour Movement1885-1897
Radkey, O.H. Agrarian Foes of Bolshevism(on the Socialist-revolutionaryparty)
Schapiro, L.B. The Communist Party on the SovietUnion (early chapters)
Haimson, L. The MensheviksTreadgold, D.W. Lenin and his Rivals 1898-1906Ulam, A. Lenin and the BolsheviksTurton, Katy Forgotten Lives: The Role of
Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937
Wildman, A. The Making of a Workers' Revolution Russian Social Democracy 1891-1903
Wilson, E. To the Finland StationWolfe, B.F. Three who made a Revolution
(Lenin,Trotsky, Stalin)Tobias, H. The Jewish Bund in RussiaFrankel, J. Prophecy and Politics: Socialism,
Nationalism and the Russian Jews(1862-1917)
Stites, R. The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism and Bolshevism 1860-19
Read, C. Religion, Revolution and theRussian Intelligentsia 1900-1912
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Read, C. 'Idealists and Marxists in earlytwentieth-century Russia'Renaissance and Modern Studies,vol XXIV, 1980
Harding, N. Marxism in Russia: a documentaryhistory
Engel, B. Five Sisters Women against the Tsar
Walicki, A. A History of Russian Thought: from the Enlightenment to Marxism
Ulam, A. Russia, Failed Revolutions; fromthe Decembrists to the Dissidents
Rice, C. Russian Workers and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party through the Revolution of 1905-07
Clowes, E. (ed.) Between Tsar and PeopleKassow, S. Students, Professors and the
State in Tsarist RussiaGeldern, James Von and Entertaining Tsarist Russia:McReynolds Louise (eds) Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies,
Jokes, Ads and Images from Russian Urban Life 1779-1917 (inc C.D.)
Hillyar, Anna & McDermid, Jane Revolutionary Women in Russia 1870-1917
Kelly, Catriona & Shepherd, David Constructing Russian Culture in an Age of Revolution 1881-1940 (1998)
Kelly, Catriona Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts1905-1940
Montefiore, Simon S The Young Stalin
**Beer, D. Renovating Russia: The Human sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).
**Morrissey, S.K. Heralds of Revolution. Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism (New York: Oxford University Press,1998).
B4 The 1905 Revolution
(Relevant sections of books mentioned above contain much useful information on this period)
Heywood, A & Smele, J (eds) The Russian Revolution of1905: Centenary Perspectives
Verner, A. The Crisis of the RussianAutocracy
Ascher, The Revolution of 1905 2vols Engelstein, L. Moscow 1905 Trotsky, L. 1905 Harcave, S. First Blood
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Mehlinger, H.D. & Count Witte and the Tsarist Thompson, J.M. Government in the 1905 Revolution Perrie, M. 'The Russian peasant movement of
1905-07: its social composition and revolutionary significance', Past and Present, no. 57, Nov 1972
Wolfe, E.R. Peasant Wars of the TwentiethCentury
Schneiderman, J. Sergei Zubatov and RevolutionaryMarxism: the Struggle for theWorking Class in Tsarist Russia
Sablinsky, W. The Road to Bloody Sunday: FatherGapon and the St. PetersburgMassacre of 1905
Perrins, M. 'Russian Military Policy in the Far East and the 1905 Revolution in the Russian Army', European Studies Review, vol 9, no. 1 January 1979
Taun, T.U. 'The Revolution of 1905 in theBaltic Provinces and in Finland'Slavic Review vol 43, no. 3,pp 450-467
Shanin, T. Russia as a "Developing Society"vol. I & II
Seregny, S.J. 'A different type of peasant movement: the Peasant Union in the Russian Revolution of 1905', Slavic Review, vol 47, No. 1, pp.51-67
B5 Political History from 1905 to 1917 Hosking, G. The Russian Constitutional
Experiment Levin, A. The Second Duma Emmons, T. The Formation of Political
Parties and the First National Elections in Russia
Pearson, R. Russian Moderates and the Crisis of Tsarism
Perrie, M. The Agrarian Policy of the Russian S.R. Party 1905-1907
Haimson, L. (ed) The Politics of Rural Russia 1905-1914
Haimson, L. Russia’s Revolutionary Experience, 1905-17:two essays
Levin, A. The Third Duma: elections andprofile
Gatrell P. Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia: 1900-1914
L.Siegelbaum The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia 1914-1917
Seregny, Scott ‘A Wager on the Peasantry: Anti-Zemstvo Riots, Adult Education and the Russian Village During World War One: Stavropol’
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Province’ Slavonic and East European Review vol.79 no.1 Jan 2001 pp.90-126
Gatrell Peter A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I
Gatrell, Peter Russia’s First World War: a Social and Economic History
B6 The Autocracy
Waldron, Peter Governing Tsarist Russia McNeal, R Tsar and Cossack 1855-1914 Zaionchkovsky, P. The Russian Autocracy under
Alexander III (on order) Byrnes, R.F. Pobedonostsev: his Life and
Thought Raeff, M. (ed) Plans for Political Reform in
Russia 1730-1905 Pobedonostsev, K.P. Reflections of a Russian
Statesman Smith, E.E. The Okhrana (political police in
the late Tsarist period) Walkin, J The Rise of Democracy in Pre-
Revolutionary Russia Witte, S. The Memoirs of Count Witte von Laue, T.H. Sergei Witte and the
Industrialisation of Russia Nichols, R.L. & Russian Orthodoxy under the Old Stavrou, T.G. Régime Salisbury, H. Black Night, White Snow: Russia
in Revolution 1905-1917 Lieven, D.C.B. Russia and the Origins of the
First World War Thaden, E. (ed) Russification in the Baltic
Provinces and Finland 1855-1914 Waldron, P. 'Stolypin and Finland' Slavonic
and East European Review, vol 63, no. 2 pp 41-55
Alapuro, R. State and Revolution in Finland Mosse, W. Perestroika under the Tsars Waldron, P. Between the Two Revolutions:
Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia
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THE SOVIET PERIOD 1917-91 - A READING GUIDE
General Histories and Reference BooksRead, Christopher The Making and Breaking of the
Soviet System: An InterpretationSuny, R The Soviet Experiment:Russia,
the USSR and the Successor States
Kenez, P A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
Service, R. A History of Twentieth CenturyRussia
Hosking, G. A History of the Soviet UnionRiasanovsky, N. A History of RussiaActon, Edward and Stableford, Tom The Soviet Union: a
Documentary History (2 vols Exeter 2005 and 2007)
Daniels, R.V. A Documentary history of Communism (2 vols)
Fainsod, M. & How Russia is RuledHough, J.Nove, A. An Economic History of the
U.S.S.R. Schapiro, L. The Communist Party of the Soviet
UnionSchulz, Urban, Lebed Who was who in the USSR (eds)Sorlin, P. The Soviet People and their
SocietyLane, D. Politics and Society in the
U.S.S.RRigby, T.H., Brown, A. Authority, Power and Policy in & Reddaway, P. (eds) the USSRShukman, H. (ed) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of
the Russian Revolutionde Mowbray, S. Key Facts in Soviet HistoryMcAuley, Mary Soviet Politics 1917-1991Fond 89: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial. (library reference - refJD 201.51.C6)Mawdsley, E. The Soviet Elite from Lenin to
GorbachevSuny, R. (ed) The Structure of Soviet History:
Essays and DocumentsEvans, D & Jenkins, J. Years of Russia and the USSR
1851-1991Lewin, M The Soviet CenturyWhite, S New Directions in Soviet HistoryHosking, Geoffrey Rulers and Victims: the Russians
in the Soviet Union
The Revolutions of 1917 and the Civil Wari) DocumentsMcCauley, M. The Russian Revolution and the
Soviet State, 1917-21Daniels, R.V. (ed) The Russian RevolutionButt, V. P. (et al) The Russian Civil War:
Documents From Soviet Archives
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Kowalski, R. The Russian Revolution 1917-21: a documentary reader
ii) Memoirs and Eye-Witness AccountsSukhanov, N.N. The Russian Revolution, 2 vols,
N.Y. 1955Reed, J. Ten Days that shook the World
iii) Histories
**Read, Christopher War and Revolution in Russia 1914-22 (Palgrave 2013)
Read, Christopher From Tsar to Soviets
**Smith, S.A. Revolution and the People in Russia and China. A Comparative History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) .
Acton, E (et al. Eds) Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution
Service, R. (ed.) Society and Politics in theRussian Revolution
Carr, E.H. A History of Soviet Russia,vols I-III. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23
Geyer, D. The Russian RevolutionChamberlin, W.H. The Russian Revolution 1917-21,
2 vols, N.Y. 1935Holquist, P. Making War, Forging Revolution:
Russia’s Continuum of Crisis 1914-1921
Ferro, M. The February Revolution N.Y. 1967Liebmann, M. The Russian Revolution N.Y. 1969Footman, D. Civil War in Russia, London 1961Katkov, G. Russia 1917: The February
Revolution, N.Y. 1967Pipes, R. The Formation of the Soviet Union
1917-23 1954Schapiro, L. 1917 The Russian Revolutions and
the Origins of Present-DayCommunism
Trotsky, L. History of the Russian RevolutionRosenberg, W.G. Liberals in the Russian
Revolution:the constitutional Democratic party 1917-1921
Suny, R. The Baku CommuneBradley, J. The Civil War in Russia 1917-20Keep, J. The Russian RevolutionPipes, R. Revolutionary RussiaDaniels, R.V. Red OctoberRabinowich, A. The Bolsheviks Come to PowerFerro, M. October 1917Koenker, D. Moscow Workers and the 1917
RevolutionMalet, M. Nestor Makhno in the Russian
Civil War
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Radkey, O. The Unknown Civil War: The GreenMovement in Tambov
Leggett, G. The ChekaGeyer, D. The Russian RevolutionGetzler, I. Kronstadt 1917-1921Carr, E.H. The Russian Revolution: from
Lenin to StalinFitzpatrick, S. The Russian RevolutionService, R The Russian Revolution 1900-27Mawdsley, E. The Russian Civil WarSakwa, R. Soviet Communists in Power -
Moscow 1918-21Figes, O. Peasant Russia, Civil WarActon, E. Rethinking the Russian RevolutionRaleigh, D. Revolution on the Volga:Saratov
in 1917Koenker, D. & Strikes and Revolution in Russia, Rosenberg, W. 1917Koenker, D.P., Party, State and Society in theRosenberg, W.G. & Russian Civil WarSuny, R.G.Galili, Z. Menshevik Leaders in the Russian
RevolutionActon, E. Re-thinking the Russian
RevolutionWhite, J. The Russian RevolutionPipes, R. The Russian Revolution 1899-1919
Figes, O. A People’s TragedyPipes, R. Russia under the Bolshevik
Regime 1919-24Brovkin, V. Behind the Front Lines of the
Civil WarFiges,O & Kolonitskii,B Interpreting the Russian
Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
Miller, Martin The Russian Revolution: Essential Readings
Wade, Rex The Russian RevolutionWade, Rex (ed) Revolutionary Russia: New
ApproachesBadcock, Sarah ‘ “We’re for the Muzhiks Party!”
Peasant Support for the Socialist Revolutionary Party during 1917’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.53 no.1 2001 pp.133-150
Mayer, Arno The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
Raleigh, Donald Experiencing Russia’s Civil WarChannon, John ‘The Bolsheviks and the
Peasantry: the Land Question during the First Eight Months of Soviet Rule’ Slavonic and East European Review 66(1988) 593-624
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Holquist, Peter ‘What is Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution? State Practices and New Style Politics 1914-21’ in Hoffman, D. and Kotsonis, Y. Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices
Retish, Aaron B. Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity and the Creation of the Soviet State 1914-22
Badcock, Sarah Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History
From the Revolution to Stalin
Avrich, P. Anarchists in the RussianRevolution, London 1973
Carr, E.H. A History of Soviet Russia, vol II onwards
Deutscher, I. The Prophet Armed:Trotsky 1879-1921 The Prophet Unarmed:Trotsky 1921-29 The Prophet Outcast:Trotsky 1929-40
Bukharin, N. The Politics and Economics of theTransition Period
Kennan, G.F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
Radkey, O.H. The Sickle under the Hammer. TheRussian Socialist Revolutionariesin the early months of Soviet Rule N.Y. 1963
Schapiro, L. & Lenin - Man, Theorist and LeaderReddaway, P. 1968Schapiro, L. The origins of the Communist
Autocracy:Political Opposition inthe Soviet State 1917-22 London 1955
Lewin, M. Lenin's last struggleRigby, T.H. Lenin's GovernmentLewin, M. Russian peasants and Soviet PowerGitelman Zvi Y. Jewish Nationality and Soviet
Politics 1917-30 1973Day, R.B. Leon Trotsky and the Politics of
Economic IsolationThatcher, Ian TrotskyMcNeal, R.H. Bride of the Revolution:Krupskaya
and LeninCohen, S. Bukharin and the Bolshevik
RevolutionPethybridge, R. The Social Prelude to StalinismNarkiewicz, O. The Making of the Soviet State
ApparatusMale, D. Russian Peasant Organisation
before Collectivisation 1925-30Lewin, M. Political Undercurrents in Soviet
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Economic DebatesPreobrazhensky, E.A. The Crisis of Soviet
IndustrialisationUlam, A. Lenin and the BolsheviksTheen, R. LeninShub, D. LeninWilliams, Beryl Lenin White, James Lenin: The Practice and Theory
of RevolutionRead, C Lenin: A Revolutionary LifeKritika articles on Lenin by Lih (Winter 2003) and
Haimson (Winter 2004)(journal – available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kri/Cliff, Tony Lenin (4 vols)Service, R. Lenin: A Political Life (3 vols)Service, R. Lenin: A Biography (2000)Avrich, P. Kronstadt 1921Serge, V. Memoirs of a RevolutionaryLeibman, M. Leninism under LeninGerson, L.D. The Secret Police in Lenin's
RussiaKnei-Paz, B. The Social and Political Thought
of Leon TrotskyWistrich, R. TrotskyHowe, I. TrotskyMolyneux, J. Leon Trotsky's Theory of
RevolutionBukharin N. and Preobrazhensky, E. The ABC of Communism E.H. Carr, ed. and intro. (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969).
Farnsworth, B. Alexandra KollontaiClements, Barbara C. Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of
Alexandra KollontaiLeggett, G. The ChekaSolomon, S.G. The Soviet Agrarian DebateNove, A. 'New Light on Trotsky's Economic
Views' Slavic Review vol. 40Lewin, M. The Making of the Soviet SystemRead, C. Culture and Power in
Revolutionary RussiaGill, G. The Origins of the Stalinist
Political SystemFarber, S. Before Stalinism:The Rise and
Fall of Soviet Democracy
Rendle, Matthew ‘Revolutionary Tribunals and the Origins of Terror in early Soviet Russia’ Historical Research vol.84 no. 226 November 2011 pp.693-721
Davies, R.W. et al From Tsarism to NEP(eds)Fitzpatrick, S et al Russia in the Era of NEP(eds)Pirani, Simon The Russian Revolution in Retreat
1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
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Tumarkin, N. Lenin Lives!Goldman, Wendy Women, the State and Revolution:
Soviet Family Policy and Social Life 1917-36
Bergmann, T; Bukharin in RetrospectSchaeffer, G & Selden, M. (eds.)Siegelbaum, L. Soviet State and Society Between
the Revolutions: 1918-1929Weissman, Susan Victor Serge: The Course is Set
on Hope.Suny, R. & Martin, T. (eds) A State of Nations: Empire
and Nationmaking in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
Brovkin, V. Russia after LeninHughes,J. Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis
of the New Economic PolicyCoe, S. ‘Struggles for Authority in the
NEP village: the early Rural Correspondents Movement, 1923-1927'’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.48, no.7, November 1996 pp.1151-1172
Smith, Jeremy ‘The Georgian Affair of 1922- Policy Failure, Personality Clash or Power Struggle?’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No. 3, May 1998, pp.519-544
Simonov, N.S. ‘Strengthen the Defence of the Land of the Soviets: The 1927 “War Alarm” and its Consequences’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48, no.8, December 1996 pp.1355-1364
Laura L. Philips Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg 1900-1929
Heywood, Antony Modernising Lenin’s Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways
Tan, Graham ‘Transformation versus Tradition: Agrarian Policies and Government-Peasant Relations in Right-Bank Ukraine 1920-1923’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.5 July 2000 pp.915-38
Murphy, Kevin ‘Opposition at a Local Level: A Case Study of the Hammer and Sickle Factory’ [mid-20s] Europe-Asia Studies vol.53 no.2 March 2001 pp.329-350
Gercetti, E Tra populismo e bolscevismo: la& Venturi, A. (eds) costruzione di una tradizione
revoluzionaria in URSS 1917-41
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Slezkine, Yuri ‘The USSR as Communal Apartment: or How the Soviet State Promoted Ethnic Particularism’ Slavic Review 53 (1994) 414-452
Martin, Terry Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union 1923-1939
Hirsch, Francine Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Holquist, Peter ‘Information is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work: Bolshevik Surveillance in the Pan-European Context’ Journal of Modern History 69 (1997) 415-450
Edgar A.L. Tribal Nation: the Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Yekelchyk, S Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination
Kappeler, A et al Culture, Nation and Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Encounter 1600-1945
The Stalin Period
a.) GeneralRead, C. (ed) The Stalin Years: A Reader Boobbyer, Philip (ed) The Stalin Era: selected
documents Mawdsley, E. The Stalin Years: The Soviet
Union 1929-1953 (2nd ed)Shukman, H. (ed) Redefining StalinismMedvedev, R & Zh. The Unknown StalinMcDermott, Kevin Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era
of WarService, R StalinDavies, S & Harris, J Stalin: A New HistoryVolkogonov, D. Stalin: Triumph and TragedyMcNeal, R. StalinAvtorkhanov, A. Stalin and the Soviet Communist
Party. Munich 1969Rigby, T.H. Communist Party Membership in the
USSR 1917-67 1968Erickson, J. The Soviet high command 1918-41Kochan, L. (ed) The Jews in Soviet Russia since
1917Fainsod, M. Smolensk under Soviet ruleConquest, R. Inside Stalin's Secret PoliceDeutscher, I. StalinTucker, R. Stalin as Revolutionary 1879-
1929Rigby, T.H. Stalin
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Ulam, A. StalinFitzpatrick, S. Stalinism: New Directions Tucker, R. (ed) 'Stalinism'Fitzpatrick, S. 'Stalin and the making of a new
élite 1928-1939', Slavic Review,vol 38, no. 3, pp 377-402
Abramsky, C. (ed) Essays in Honour of E.H. CarrLaue, T.H. von 'Stalin in Focus' Slavic Review
vol 42, no. 3Watson, D. Molotov and Soviet GovernmentWatson, D. ‘STO (The Council of Labour and
Defence) in the 1930s’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50, no.7, November 1998, pp.1203-1228.
Cohen, S. Re-Thinking the Soviet ExperienceRees, E.A. (ed) The Nature of Stalin’s
Dictatorship: The Politburo 1924-1953
Brandenberger, David National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass
Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity 1931-56
Baron, Nick Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia
Shearer, David R. Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in thr Soviet Union 1924-1953
Khlevniuk, Oleg Master of the House:Stalin and his Inner Circle
Gregory, P & Naimark, N The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship
Gregory, Paul Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin (An Archival Study)
Gregory, Paul The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
Ilic, M Stalin’s Terror RevisitedLitvin, A.L. et al Stalinism:Russian and Western
Views at the Turn of the MilleniumMcCauley, M Stalin and StalinismHoffmann, D.L. ed. Stalinism: the essential readings
b.) Collectivisation and IndustrialisationViola, L. Peasant Rebels under StalinBuckley, Mary ‘Was Rural Stakhanovism a
Movement?’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 51 No. 2 March 1999, pp.299-314
Buckley, Mary ‘The Untold Story of Obshchestevennitsa in the 1930s’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.4 June 1996 pp.569-587
Baum, A.T. Komsomol Participation in theSoviet First Five Year Plan
Tucker, R. Stalin in Power 1928-1941:
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Revolution from AboveDavies, R.W.; The Economic Transformation ofHarrison, M; the Soviet Union 1913-1945Wheatcroft, S. (eds.)Kershaw, I. Stalinism and NazismBullock, A. Hitler - Stalin: Parallel LivesOvery, R The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany,
Stalin’s RussiaWard, C. Stalin's RussiaFitzpatrick, S. Stalin PeasantsDebate on Collectivisation (H. Hunter & L. Viola), Slavic Review, vol 47, No. 2, pp 203-26Koenker, D. & Bachman, R. Revelations from the Russian
Archives (1997 Lib of Congress)Siegelbaum, L.H. (ed) Making Workers Soviet: Class and
identityRosenberg, W & Social Dimensions of Soviet
Siegelbaum, L. IndustrializationNove, A. (ed.) The Stalin PhenomenonKotkin, S. Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as
a CivilizationHoffman, D. Peasant Metropolis: Social
Identities in Moscow 1929-41Yekelchyk, S. ‘The Making of a “Proletarian
Capital”: Patterns of Stalinist Social Policy in Kiev in the mid-1930s’ Europe-Asia Studies Vol.50, no.7, November 1998 pp.1229-1244
c.) 1930s Politics and the PurgesMcLoughlin, Barry & Stalin’s Terror: High PoliticsMcDermott, Kevin (eds) and Mass Repression in the
Soviet Union Nordlander, David ‘Origins of a Gulag Capital:
Magadan and Stalinist Control in the Early 1930s’ Slavic Review 57 (1998)
Chuev, F.I. (ed.) Molotov RemembersMedvedev R & Zh The Unknown StalinWard, C. (ed.) The Stalin Dictatorship
(a reader)Conquest, R. The Great TerrorTrotsky, L. The Revolution BetrayedDaniels, R.V. The Conscience of the RevolutionKatkov, G. The Trial of BukharinGetty, J.A. & Stalin's Terror:New Perspectives Manning, R.Alexopoulos, Golfo Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens,
Citizens and the Soviet State 1926-1936
Payne, Matthew Stalin’s rairoads: the Turksib and the Building of Socialism
Nicolaevsky, B. Power and the Soviet Elite (includes "Letter of an Old Bolshevik")
Medvedeev, R. Let History JudgeMedvedeev, R. Nikolai Bukharin:the Last Years
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Getty, J. Arch Origins of the Great PurgeSchroder, H.H., Debate over Getty's views in
Tucker, R.J. Slavic Review 43, p 544-6 (+ Rosenfeldt, N. other articles in the debate -
see crisis references in this article)
Conquest, R. Harvest of SorrowDavies, R.W. & Wheatcroft, S, The Years of Hunger;
Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33Conquest, R. The Nation KillersApplebaum, Anne Gulag: a History of the Soviet
Concentration CampsKhlevniuk, O The History of the Gulag from
Collectivization to the Great Terror
Jansen, Marc Stalin’s Loyal Executioner: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov 1895-1940
Montefiore, Simon Sebag Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
**Priestland, D. Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization: Ideas, Power, and Terror in Inter-war Russia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
**Brandenberger, D. Propaganda State in Crisis. Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin,1927-1941 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Siegelbaum, L. (ed) Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
Siegelbaum, L. Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR 1935-41
Filtzer, D. Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialisation
Hughes, J. ‘Patrimonialism and the Soviet System: The Case of S.I.Syrtsov’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.4 June 1996 pp.551-568
Wheatcroft, S. 'New light on the extent of Stalin's Purges' Soviet Studies, Jan or April 1990
Thurston, R.W. 'The Soviet Family during the Great Terror 1935-41' Soviet Studies, vol 43, No 3, pp 553-74
Davies, S. Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent 1934-41
Davies S. Stalin :ReputationsOrlov, A. The Secret History of Stalin’s
CrimesRossi, J. The Gulag HandbookAmmende, E. Human Life in RussiaThurston, R. Life and Terror in Stalin’s
Russia
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Getty,J.A. & Naumov,O. The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks
Knight, A. Stalin’s First Lieutenant[Beria]Benvenuti, Francesco ‘The “Reform” of the NKVD,
1934’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no. 6, September, 1997 pp.1037-1056
Fitzpatrick, S. Everyday StalinismAndreev-Khomiakov, G. Bitter Waters: Life and Work in
Stalin’s RussiaLa Police Politique en Union Soviètique 1918-53 Specialissue of Cahiers du Monde Russe 42 (2-4)includes severalimportant articles in English by Nick Baron, James Harris, David Nordlander et al. (accessible at http://monderusse.org or Google journal title)New Fabian Research Bureau Twelve Studies in Soviet
RussiaSerge, Victor Russia Twenty Years AfterWheatcroft, S. ‘Victims of Stalin and the
Soviet Secret Police: The Comparability and Reliability of the Archive Data – Not the Last Word’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 51 No. 2 March 1998, pp.315-344.
Keep, J. ‘Wheatcroft and Stalin’s Victims: Comments’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51. no.6 1999, pp.1089-1092.
Conquest, R. ‘Comment on Wheatcroft’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51 no.8, 1999, pp.1979-1484
S.G.Wheatcroft ‘The Scale and Nature of Repression and its Demographic Significance: On Comments by Keep and Conquest’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.6 September 2000 pp.1143-1160.
Melanie Ilic ‘The Great Terror in Leningrad: A Quantitative Analysis’ Europe-Asia Studies Vol.52 no.8, 2000 pp.1515-1534
Harrison,M.& Davies R.W. ‘The Soviet Military-Economic Effort during the Second Five-year Plan (1933-1937)’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.369-408
Harrison, M Guns and Rubles: the Defense Industry in the Stalinist State
Goldman, W, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia
Hellbeck, Jochen Revolution on my Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin
Kelly, Catriona Comrade Pavlik: the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero
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Merridale, Catherine ‘The 1937 Census and nthe Limits of Stalinist Rule’ Historical Journal 39 (1996)
Goldman, Wendy Z. Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression
Priestland, David Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization: Ideas, Power and Terror in Inter-War Russia
Figes, O The WhisperersKuromiya, Hiroaki The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s
Great TerrorGetty, A & Naumov, O Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s
Iron FistFrierson, C & Vilensky, S Children of the Gulag
(Annals of Communism)Halfin, I Terror in my Soul: Communist
Autobiographies on Trial
d.)World War IIOvery, Richard Russia’s WarGlantz, D. & When Titans Clashed: How the House, J. Red Army Stopped HitlerWerth, A. Russia at War 1941-45Murphy, David E. What Stalin Knew: the Enigma of
BarbarossaClark, A. Barbarossa - The Russian German
conflict 1941-45Salisbury, H.E. The Siege of Leningrad (also
called The 900 Days)Beevor, Antony StalingradGeoffrey Roberts Victory at Stalingrad (Longman
2002)Erickson, J. The Road to BerlinBeevor, Antony Berlin (Allen Lane 2001)Dobroszycki, Lucja & Gurock, Jeffrey The Holocaust in the
Soviet Union (Armonk NY 1993)Harrison, M. Soviet Planning for War and
PeaceSamuelson, Lennart Plans for Stalin’s War Machine:
Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning 1925-44
Andreev, C. Vlasov and the Russian LiberationMovement
Barber, J. & The Soviet Home FrontHarrison, MBerkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and
Death in Ukraine under Nazi RuleLinz, S. (ed) The Impact of the Second World
War on the Soviet UnionGarrard, J and C World War 2 and the Soviet
PeopleThurston, R and Bonwetsch, B The People’s War: responses
to World War II in the Soviet Union
Harrison, M. Accounting for War: SovietProduction, Employment and the
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Defence BurdenShukman H. (ed.) Stalin’s GeneralsBialer, S. Stalin and His GeneralsAxell, Albert (ed) Stalin’s War Through the Eyes of
His CommandersWar and Diplomacy in the Making of the Grand Alliance:
Documents from StalinNisbet, R. Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed
CourtshipHolloway, D. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet
Union and Atomic Energy 1939-56Biddiscombe Perry ‘Unternehmen Zeppelin: The
Deployment of SS Saboteurs and Spies in the Soviet Union 1942-5’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.6 Sept 2000 pp.1115-1142
Tumarkin, Nina The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia (1994)
Merridale, Catherine Ivan’s WarWeiner, Amir Making sense of War: the Second
World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
Stites, Richard (ed) Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia (1995)
Kirschenbaum, Lisa ‘Local Loyalties and Private Life in Soviet World War II Propaganda’ Slavic Review 59 (4) 2000 825-47
Peris, Daniel ‘God is Now on Our Side:the Religious Revival on Unoccupied Soviet Territory during World War II’ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 1 1 (2000) 97-118
Roberts, Geoffrey Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-53
**Roberts, Geoffrey Stalin’s General: Georgii Zhukov (2011)
Cienciala, A; Lebedeva, N.S. & Materski, W Katyn: a Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism)
Chodakiewicz, M Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland 1939-1947
Post-war period
Keep, J. Last of the Empires
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Hahn, Werner Post War Soviet Politics:the Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation 1946-1953
McCagg, W.O. Stalin Embattled 1943-1948Dunmore, T. Soviet Politics 1945-53Fitzpatrick, S. 'Postwar Soviet Society 1945-53
in S. Linz Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union
Filtzer, D. ‘The Standard of Living of Soviet Industrial Workers in the Immediate Postwar Period, 1945-1948’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, no.6 September 1999, pp. 1013-1038
Gorlizki, Yoram ‘Stalin’s Cabinet: The politburo and Decision Making in the Post-war Years’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.53 no.2 March 2001-07-31
Gorlizki, Y and Khlevniuk O. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Ruling Circle, 1945-1953
Apor, B et al. (eds) The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc
Brandenberger, David ‘Stalin, the Leningrad Affair and the Limits of Postwar Russocentrism, Russian Review 63 (2004) 241-55
Tolz, Vera ‘Cultural Bosses as Patrons and Clients: the Functioning of the Soviet Creative Unions in the Postwar Period’ Contemporary European History 11, 1 (2002)87-105
Kojevnikov, Alexei ‘Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games of Intraparty Democracy circa 1948’ Russian Review 57 (1998)
Chumachenko, Tatiana A Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War Two to the Khrushchev Years (Armonk NY 2002)
Craig, C & Radchenko, S The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
‘Everyday’ life, identity and the self in Soviet Russia
**Boym, S.Common Places. Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994.
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**Clements, B.E. Friedman, R. and Healey, D. eds Russian Masculinities in History and Culture.(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
**Fitzpatrick, S. Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in twentieth-century Russia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
**Gorsuch, A.E. Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
**Grant, B. In the Soviet House of Culture. A Century of Perestroikas (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1995).
**Halfin I. Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011).
**Halfin, I (ed) Intimate Enemies. Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition,1918-1928 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2007).
**Halfin, I. ed. Language and Revolution. Making Modern Political Identities (London, Frank Cass, 2002).
**Halfin, I. From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).
**Halfin, I. Stalinist Confessions. Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
**Healy, D. Bolshevik Sexual Forensics. Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939 (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009).
**Healy, D. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia. The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
**Hellbeck, J. ‘Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts’ in Language and Revolution. Making Modern Political identities Halfin I. ed. (London: Frank Class, 2002), pp. 135-159.
**Hellbeck, J.Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006).
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**Kelly, C. Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). **Kharkhordin, O. ‘Reveal and Dissimulate: A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia,’ in: Weintraub J. Kumar, & K. eds. Public and Private in Thought and Practice, Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy (Chicago, 1997), pp. 333-363.
**Kharkhordin, O. The Collective and the Individual in Russia. A Study of Practices (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
**Pinnow, K. Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010).
**Suny, R.G. ‘Thinking About Feelings. Affective Dispositions and Emotional Ties in Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire’, in: Steinberg M. and Sobol, V. eds.Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe, (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011), pp. 102-127.
**Transchel, K. Under the Influence. Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia 1895-1932 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).
**Volkov, V. ‘The Concept of Kul’turnost’: Notes on the Stalinist Civilizing Process’, in Stalinism: New Directions S. Fitzpatrick, ed. (London: Routledge, 2000), pp.117-141.
**Fitzpatrick, S. ‘Sources on the Social History of the 1930s. Overview and Critique,’ in A Researcher’s Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s Fitzpatrick S.and Viola, L. eds. (New York: M.E. Sharpe 1992).
Social and Cultural History of Stalin era
**Cassidy, J.A. The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000).**Goldman, W.Z. Women at the Gates. Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
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**Goldman, W.Z. Women, The State and Revolution. Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
**Konecny, P. Builders and Deserters, Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1999).
**Kuromiya, H. Stalin’s Industrial Revolution. Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
**Lewin, M. ‘Concluding Remarks’, in Making Workers Soviet. Power, Class, and Identity pp. 376-389.
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**Siegelbaum L.H. and Suny, R.G. ‘Conceptualizing the Command Economy. Western Historians on Soviet Industrialization’, in: Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization pp. 1-14.
**Siegelbaum L.H. Stakhanovism and The Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
**Siegelbaum, L. ed. Borders of Socialism.Private Spheres of Soviet Russia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006),
**Straus K.M., Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia. The Making of an Industrial Working Class(Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), p. 140.
Khrushchev and Brezhnev
Leonhard, W. The Kremlin since StalinNove, A. Stalinism and After
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Ilic, M & Smith, J Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev
Cohen, S. (et al) The Soviet Union Since Stalin Taubman, W.(et al.eds) Nikita KhrushchevMcCauley, M. Krushchev and KrushchevismMcCauley, M. The Khrushchev Era 1953-1964Tatu, M. Power in the KremlinMedvedev, R. Khrushchev:The Years in PowerNogee, J. Man, State and Society in the
Soviet UnionBrown, A. & The Soviet Union since the FallKaser, M. of KrushchevMicunovic, V. Moscow DiaryService, R.J. 'The Road to the Twentieth Party
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Kelley, D.R. Soviet Politics in the Brezhnev Era
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The Life and Times of Anastas Mikoyan’ (review) Slavic Review vol.60 no.1 pp140-150
Colton, T.J. Communism, Commanders, Civilian Authority
Solomon, S.G. Pluralism in the Soviet UnionMedvedev, Z.L. AndropovColton, T.J. The Dilemma of Reform in the
Soviet UnionBacon, Edwin and Sandle Mark (eds) Brezhnev Reconsidered Kozlov, V. and McClarnand, Elaine (eds) Mass Uprisings in
the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years
Baron, Samuel Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk 1962 (2000)
Boobyer, Philip ‘Truth-telling, Conscience and Dissent in Late Soviet Russia: Evidence from Oral Histories’ European History Quarterly 30 (2000) 557
Rigby, T.H. ‘The Soviet Regional Leadership: the Brezhnev Generation’ Slavic Review 37 (1978) 1-24
Perestroika and Late-Soviet Transition
Brown, A Seven Years that Changed the World
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Brown, A. The Gorbachev FactorSmith, Jeremy The Fall of Soviet Communism Grachev, Andrei Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
McCauley, M. The Soviet Union under GorbachevMedvedev, Zh. GorbachevAganbegyan, A. The Challenge: Economics of
PerestroikaGorbachev, M. PerestroikaGorbachev, M. MemoirsOgushi, Atsushi The Demise of the Soviet
Communist PartyCook, Linda The Soviet Social Contract and
Why it Failed: Welfare Policies and Workers Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Sondhi, M.L. Beyond PerestroikaDavies, R.W. Soviet History in the Gorbachev
RevolutionLewin, M. The Gorbachev PhenomenonNove, A. Glasnost in ActionGooding, J. 'Gorbachev and Democracy' Soviet
Studies, April 1990Blomfield (et al) The Soviet RevolutionJoyce, W., Ticktin, H. Gorbachev and GorbachevismWhite, S.Hirst, J. The Gorbachev RevolutionHasegawa, T. PerestroikaRigby, T.H. The Changing Soviet SystemSallnow, J. Reform in the Soviet UnionWhite, S. Gorbachev and AfterSakwa, R. Gorbachev and His Reforms 1985-
1990Hewett, A. Milestones in Glasnost and
PerestroikaM.Sandle ‘The Final Word: the Draft Party
Programme of July/August 1991’ Europe-Asia Studies Nov 1996
Lane, D. ‘The Transformation of Russia: The Role of the Political Elite’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.4 June 1996 pp.535-550
Barry, D.D. Perestroika at the CrossroadsWard, C. PerestroikaGooding, J. 'Perestroika and the Russian
Revolution of 1991' Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 71, no. 2, April 1993, pp. 234-256.
Solzhenitsyn, A. Re-building RussiaGoldman, M.I. What Went Wrong with
Perestroika?Pankin, B. The Last 100 Days of the Soviet
UnionHosking, G. The Awakening of the Soviet
UnionWhite, S. Developments in Soviet and Post-
Soviet Politics
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Hosking, G. Aves, J and Duncan, Peter The Road to Post Communism: Independent Political Movements in the Soviet Union 1985-1991
Roxburgh, A. The Second Russian RevolutionMandel, D. Perestroika and the Soviet
PeopleSheehy, G. GorbachevDaniels, R.V. The End of the Communist
RevolutionKotz, D. & Weir, F. Revolution from Above: the
Demise of the Soviet UnionDavies, R. W. Soviet History in the Yeltsin
EraPryce-Jones, D. The War that Never Was: The
Fate of the Soviet Empire 1985-91
Nahaylo, B. Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR
Kapuscinski, R ImperiumBialer, S. The Soviet Paradox: External
Expansion, Internal DeclineKagarlitsky, B. The Dialectic of ChangeBeissinger, Mark nationalist Mobilisation and the
Collapse of the Soviet UnionBunce, Valerie Subversive Institutions: the Design
and the Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999)
Braithwaite, R Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down
**Yurchak, A.Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Post-Soviet Russia and the Near AbroadBrown, Archie Contemporary Russian Politics: a
ReaderMedvedev, R. Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey
Through the Yeltsin EraBol’din, V.I. Ten Years That Shook the WorldLovell, Stephen Destination in Doubt: Russia
since 1989Callinicos, A. Revenge of History: Marxism and
the East European RevolutionsKagarlitsky, B. Farewell PerestroikaLaqueur, W. Black Hundred: The Rise of the
Extreme Right in RussiaSteele, J. Eternal Russia: Yeltsin,
Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy
Suny, R. Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Yakovlev, A.N. (Title? DK 274. 1 Y2)
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Yeltsin, B. Against the GrainYeltsin, B. The View From the KremlinColton, Timothy Yeltsin: A LifeLowenhardt, J. The Reincarnation of Russia:
Struggling with the Legacy of Communism
Brym, Robert. J. ‘Re-evaluating Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in Russia’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.5 July 1996 pp.751-766
‘Ten Years After 1989: What Have We Learned?’ Special Issue, Slavic Review No.4, Winter, 1999.
Urban, M. ‘Remythologising the Russian State’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No. 6 September 1998, pp. 969-992
Tolz, V. ‘Forging the Nation: national identity and Nation-Building in Postcommunist Russia’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No. 6 September 1998, pp.993- 1022
Evans, G. &. ‘The Evolution of Left and Right Whitefield, S in Post-Soviet Russia’, Europe-
Asia Studies vol. 50 No. 6 September 1998, pp.1023-1042
Alexander, J. ‘Uncertain Conditions in the Russian Transition: The Popular Drive Towards Stability in a “Stateless” Environment’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No. 3, May 1998, pp.415-444
Fleron, F. Jr. ‘Post-Soviet Political Culture in Russia: An Assessment of Recent Empirical Investigations’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.2 March 1996 pp.225-260
Ferguson, Rob ‘Will Democracy Strike Back? Workers and Politics in the Kuzbass’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No.3, May 1998, pp.445-468
Frisby, Tanya ‘The Rise of Organised Crime in Russia: Its Roots and Social Significance’, Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No.1, January 1998, pp.27-50
Shulman, S. ‘Cultures in Competition: Ukrainian Foreign Policy and the “Cultural Threat” from Abroad’,
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Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50 No.2, March 1998, pp.287-304
Clarke, S,& Donova,I. ‘Internal Mobility and Labour Market Flexibility in Russia’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51.No.2, March,1999, pp.213-244
Flikke, G. ‘Patriotic Left-Centrism: The Zigzags of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 51 No. 2 March 1999, pp.275-298
Volkov, Vadim ‘Violent Entrepreneurship on Post-Communist Russia’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, no. 5, July 1999, pp. 741-754
Slider, Darrell ‘Pskov under the LDPR: Elections and Dysfunctional Federalism in One Region’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51 no.5, July 1999, pp 755-768
Gel’man, Vladimir, ‘Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia’s Regions in Comparative Perspective’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.51 no. 6, September 1999, pp. 939-956
Schroder, Hans-Henning ‘El’tsin and the Oligarchs: The Role of Financial Groups in Russian Politics Between 1993 and July 1998’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, No.6 1999, pp. 957-988
Hanson, P. ‘Russia’s Economic Crisis and the Future of Economic Reform’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51 no.7 November 1999, pp.1141-1166
Shlapentokh, V. ‘Social Inequality in Post-communist Russia: The Attitudes of the Political Elite and the Masses (1991-1998)’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, no.7, November 1999, pp.1167-1182
Markowitz, F ‘Not Nationalists: Russian Teenagers’ Soulful A-politics’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, no.7, November 1999, pp. 1183-1198
Golosov,G.V. ‘From Adygeya to Yaroslavl: Factors of Party Development in
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the Regions of Russia, 1995-1998’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51 no.8, December 1999, pp. 1333-1368
Matsuzato, Kimitaka ‘Local Elites Under Transition: County and City Politics in Russia 1985-1996’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.51, no.8, 1999, pp.1367-1400
Kryshtanovskaya, O. ‘From Soviet Nomenklatura to & White,S. Russian Elite’, Europe-Asia
Studies vol.48 no.5, July 1996, pp.711-734
Rivera, Sharon W. ‘Elites in Post-communist Russia: A Changing of the Guard?’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52, no.3 May 2000 pp.413-432
Tikhomirov, V. ‘The Second Collapse of the Soviet Economy: Myths and Realities of the Russian Reform’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.52, no.2, March 2000, pp.207-236
Wilson, A. ‘The Ukrainian Left: In Transition to Social Democracy or Still in Thrall to the USSR?’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.7, November, 1997 pp.1293-1316
White, S (et al) ‘Parties and Voters in the 1995 Russian Duma Election’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.5, July 1997, pp.767-798
Rose, R (et al) ‘Understanding Multi-Party Choice: The 1995 Duma Election’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.5, July 1997 pp.799-824
Fish, M.Steven ‘The Predicament of Russian Liberalism: Evidence from the December 1995 Parliamentary Elections’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.2 March 1997 pp.191-220
Shlapentokh, V. ‘Bonjour, Stagnation: Russia’s Next Years’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no. 5, July 1997, pp.865-882
Hanson, P. ‘Samara: A Preliminary Profile of a Russian Region and its Adaptation to the Market’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.407-430
Dyker, D.A. ‘Learning the Game - Technological Factors of Economic Transformation’,
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Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.445-462
Kaser, M. ‘Securing the Market System after Transition’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.463-468
Laird, Roy D. ‘Kolkhozy: The Russian Achilles Heel: Failed Agrarian Reform’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.469-478
Ellmann, M ‘The Collapse of the Soviet & Kontorovich,V. System and the Memoir
Literature’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.2 March 1997 pp.259-280
Cohen, Stephen Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of post-Communist Russia
Reddaway, Peter and The Tragedy of Russia’s reforms: Glinskii, Dmitrii Marketing Bolshevism against
Democracy.Gustafson, Thane Capitalism Russian-Style Clarke, Simon The Formation of a Labour Market
in Russia Sperling, Valerie Organizing Women in Contemporary
Russia: Engendering TransitionLukin, Alexander Political Culture of the Russian
‘Democrats’White, Anne ‘Social Change in Provincial Russia:
The Intelligentsia in a Raion centre’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.4 June 2000 677-694
Duhamel, Luc ‘Justice and Politics in Moscow 1983-1986: The Ambartsumyan Case’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.7 2000 1307-29
Rose, Richard, ‘Voting in a Floating-Party System:Munro, Neil and the 1999 Duma Election’ White, Stephen Europe-Asia Studies vol.53 no.3 May
2001 pp.419-444Sakwa, Richard ‘El’tsin as a political Phenomenon: A
Review Article’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.53 no.3 May 2001 pp.507-512
Kotkin, Steven Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000
Varese, Federico The Russian Mafia Mau, V. and Starodubskaia, I. (eds) The Challenge of
Revolution: Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective
Shevtsova, Lilia Putin’s RussiaHoffman, David The OligarchsService, Robert Russia: Experiment with a People
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Hobson, Charlotte Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia
Freeland, Chrystia Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution
Wertsch, James V. Voices of Collective RememberingSeely, Robert Russo-Chechen Conflict: A Deadly
EmbraceGall, Carlotta Chechnya:Calamity in the CaucasusAldis, A.C. The Second Chechen WarPolitkovskaia, Anna A Dirty War: A Russian reporter in
ChechnyaSakwa, Richard Putin: Russia’s ChoiceBacon, Edward & Securitising Russia: TheRenz,Bettina with Domestic Politics of PutinJulian CooperKanet, Roger E.(ed) Russia: Re-emerging Great PowerTolz, Vera Russia: Inventing the NationTolz, Vera ‘Conflicting “Homeland Myths” and
Nation-State Building in Postcommunist Russia’ Slavic Review 57 (1998) 267-94
Hale, Henry E. Why Not Parties in Russia: Democracy, Federalism and the State
Marsh, Rosalind Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006
Shevtsova, Lilya Russia – Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
Politkovskaya, Anna A Russian Diary(A.Tait trans & ed)Rumer, Eugene; Central Asia: Views from Washington,Trenin, Dmitri & Moscow and BeijingHuasheng ZhaoClarke, Simon The Development of Capitalism in
RussiaSakwa, Richard Putin: Russia’s ChoiceMorrison, Claudio A Russian Factory Enters the Market
EconomyAmbrosio, T Authoritarian Backlash: Russian
Resistance to democratization in the Former Soviet Union
Kotz, D.M. & Weir, F Russia’s path from Gorbachev to Putin: the Demise of the Soviet System
Wegren, S.K. Land Reform in Russia: Institutional Design and Behavioural Responses
White, S (ed) Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin’s Russia
Niedermaier, A.K. Countdown to War in Georgia: Russia’s Foreign Policy and Media Coverage of the Conflict
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Hughes, James Chechnya: from nationalism to jihadSeierstad, A The Angel of Grozny: inside ChechnyaGrant, B Caucasus ParadigmsZurcher, C The Post-Soviet Wars: rebellion,
ethnic conflict and nationhood in the Caucasus
Rumer, E et al Central Asia: views from Washington, Moscow and Beijing
Yurchak, A Everything was Forever until it was No More: the last Soviet Generation
Coppieters, B & Legvold, R (eds) Statehood and Security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution
Rosen, R Georgia: a Sovereign Country of the Caucasus
Wilson, A Ukraine’s Orange RevolutionGerman, T Russia’s Chechen WarYekelchyk, S Europe’s Last Frontier?: Belarus,
Moldova and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union
Jack, A Inside Putin’s Russia
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In addition to the books mentioned above your attention is drawn to the following specialised and thematic works.
A Social and Economic History
Davies, R. W. (et al) The Economic Transformationof the Soviet Union 1914-41
Lane, D. Politics and society in the Soviet Union
Kelly, Catriona Children’s World: Growing up in Russia 1890-1991
Rosslyn, Wendy & Tosi, Women in Russian Culture andAlessandra (eds) Society, 1700-1825Macauley, A. 'The Woman Question in the USSR
- review article', Slavic Review, vol 38, no 2, pp 290-293
Davies, R.W. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia(vols1&2 collectivisation)
Davies R.W. The Soviet Economy in Turmoil 1929-1930
Davies, R.W. Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy 1931-3
Atkinson, D. (et al) Women in RussiaChurchward, L. The Soviet Intelligentsia
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Lapidus, G. Women in Soviet SocietySolomon, S.G. The Soviet Agrarian DebateBater, J.H. The Soviet CityDavies, R.W. Soviet Economic Development from
Lenin to KhrushchevMau, V. ‘The Road to Perestroika:
Economics in the USSR and the Problems of Reforming the Soviet Economic Order’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.2, March 1996 pp.207-224
Articles on women and Bolshevism 1517-1730, Russian History,vol iii, no. 2, pp 123-153, 237-244
Dunmore, T. The Soviet Command Economy (1945-53)
Barber, J and Harrison, M The Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev
Lapidus, G. Women, Work and the Family in the Soviet Union
Kerblay, B. Modern Russian SocietyHumphry, Caroline The Karl Marx CollectivePilkington, Hilary Russia’s Youth and its Culture:
a Nation’s Constructors and Constructed (1994)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila and Slezkine, Yuri In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton 2000)
Buckley, M. Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union
Goldman, W. Women, the State and Revolution:Soviet Family Policy and SocialLife 1917-36
Marsh, R. (ed.) Women in Russia and the UkraineIlic, M. ‘Women Workers in the Soviet
Mining Industry: A Case-study of Labour Protection’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48, no.8, December 1996 pp.1387-1402
Brown, Kate ‘Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place’ American Historical Review vol.106 no.1 Feb. 2001
Edmondson, Linda (ed) Gender in Russian History and Culture
Chatterjee, Choi Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology 1910-1939
Ilic, M. (ed) Women in the Stalin EraBoym, Svetlana Common Places: Mythologies of
Everyday Life in Russia (1994)
B Foreign Policy and Comintern since 1917
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Kennedy-Pipe, C. Russia and the World 1917-1991Ulam, A. Expansion and CoexistenceUldrichs, T. Diplomacy and IdeologyEdmonds, R. Soviet Foreign Policy 1962-73Shulman, M.D. Stalin's Foreign Policy Re-
appraisedLaPorte, Norman, Morgan, Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Kevin & Worley, Matthew Comintern: Perspectives on
Stalinization 1917-53Rees, Tim and Thorpe, Andrew (eds) International
Communism and the Communist International 1919-43
Thorpe, Andrew The British Communist Party and Moscow 1920-43
Mastny, V. Russia's Road to the Cold WarYergin, D. The Shattered PeaceDeutscher, I. Russia, China and the WestLarge, J.A. 'The Origin of Soviet Collective
Security Police, 1930-32' Soviet Studies, vol XXX no. 2, p 212-236
Michael Jabara Carley ‘Episodes from the Early Cold War: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1917-1927’ Europe-Asia Studies vol.52 no.7 2000 pp.1275-1305
Roberts, Geoffrey Unholy Alliance: Stalin’s Pact with Hitler (1989)
Gorodetsky, Gabriel Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
Carley Michael Jabara 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II
Uldricks, Teddy J ‘The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler?’ Slavic Review No3, Fall 1999 pp.626-643
Resis, Albert ‘The Fall of Litvinov: Harbinger of the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.52, no.1 2000, pp.33-56
Watson, D. ‘Molotov’s Apprenticeship in Foreign Policy: The Triple Alliance Negotiations in 1939’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.52, no.4, June 2000 pp.695-722
Bialer, S. (ed) The Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy
Nogee, J. & Soviet Foreign Policy sinceDonaldson, R.H. World War IICarr, E.H. The Twilight of Comintern 1930-
35McCauley, M. Origins of the Cold WarRoberts, Geoffrey The Soviet Union in World
politics 1945-91Holloway, D. The Soviet Union & the Arms Race
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Steele, J. World Power and Soviet Foreign Policy under Brezhnev & Andropov
Donaldson, R. The Soviet Union in the Third World: Successes and failures
Cockburn, A. The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine
Kaplan, S.S. Diplomacy of Power: the Soviet Armed Forces as a political Instrument
Taubman, W. Stalin's American PolicyThomas, H. Armed TruceCarlton, D. The Cold War DebatedHalliday, F. Threat from the East?Kennedy-Pipe, C. Stalin’s Cold WarHasegawa, Tsuyoshi Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman
and the Surrender of JapanDimitrov, Vesselin Stalin's Cold War: Soviet
Foreign Policy, Democracy and Communism in Bulgaria 1941-8
Walker, M. A History of the Cold WarZubok, V. & Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: Pleshakov, C From Stalin to KhrushchevBertram, C. Prospects of Soviet Power in the
1980sGorodetsky, G. Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991:
a RetrospectiveMastny, V. The Cold War and Soviet
Insecurity: The Stalin YearsZubok,V.M. (A Failed Empire): the Soviet
Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Fursenko, Aleksandr and Naftali, Timothy ‘One Hell of a Gamble: the Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Sorin, A.and Between Past and Future: The Tismaneanu V. (eds) Revolutions of 1989 and their
AftermathKalashnikov, Mikhail The Gun That Changed the Worldwith Elena JolyGinor I & Remez, G Foxbats over Dimona: The
Soviet’s Nuclear gamble in the Six-day war
Kuhrt, N Russian policy towards China and Japan: The El’tsin and Putin Periods
Kanet, Roger E. (ed) Russia: Emerging Great PowerGower, J & Timmins, G Russia and Europe in the Twenty-
First CenturyLo, Bobo Axis of Convenience: Moscow,
Beijing and the New GeopoliticsNygren, B The Rebuilding of Greater
Russia: Putin’s Foreign Policy towards the CIS Countries
Ferguson, J.P. Japanese-Russian Relations 1907-2007
Legvold, R (ed) Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past
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C Political Theory
Marx, K. & Selected Works (many editions)Engels, F.Lenin, V.I. Selected Works (3 volumes)Lenin, V.I. What is to be Done?(see
especially)Lenin, V.I. Imperialism:The Highest Stage of
CapitalismLenin, V.I. The State and RevolutionBukharin, N. & The ABC of CommunismPreobrazhenski, E.Luxemburg, R. The Russian Revolution and
Leninism or Marxism Ann Arbor 1968
Stalin, J. The Essential Stalin (ed H. Bruce Franklin, N.Y. 1973)
Stalin, J.V. Problems of LeninismTrotsky, L. The Stalin School of
Falsification (see especially)Trotsky, L. The Revolution Betrayed (1937)Trotsky, L. The Real Situation in Russia
(1928)Trotsky, L. Culture and SocialismTrotsky, L. The New CourseTrotsky, L. My Life: an Attempt at
AutobiographyZhdanov, A. On Literature, Music and
PhilosophyMedvedeev, R & Zh N.S. Krushchev:The Secret SpeechBrezhnev, L. Socialism, Democracy and Human
RightsWhite, James D. Karl Marx and the intellectual
origins of dialectical materialism.
Harding, N. Lenin's Political Thought (2 vols)
Leonhard, W. Three Faces of MarxismMarcuse, H. Soviet Marxism N.Y. 1958Sandle, M. A Short History of Soviet
SocialismThatcher, I. ‘Trotsky Studies After the
Crash: A Brief Note’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.48 no.3 May 1996 pp.481-486
Gooding, John Socialism in Russia: Lenin and his Legacy 1890-1991
van Ree, E The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in 20th Century Revolutionary patriotism
D Cultural and Religious Life in Russia Since 1900
Figes, O. Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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Berlin, Isaiah (ed Henry Hardy) The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism
Kagarlitsky, B. The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present
Leyda, J. Kino: A History of Russian and Soviet Film N.Y. 1960
Schnitzer, L. Cinema in RevolutionGray, Camilla The Great Experiment:Russian Art
1863-1932 (paperback edition entitled The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1937)
Trotsky, L. Literature and RevolutionGünther, H. The Culture of the Stalin PeriodKemp-Welch, A. Stalin and the Literary
IntelligentsiaPeris, Daniel Storming the Heavens: The League
of Militant GodlessBrooks, Jeffrey Thank You, Comrade Stalin!
Soviet Public Culture from the Revolution to the Cold War
Lovell, Stephen The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras
Corley, F. Religion in the Soviet Union: an archival reader
Hoffman, David L. Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity
Kevin M.F. Platt and Epic Revisionism: RussianDavid Brandenberger,eds History and Literature as
Stalinist PropagandaDobrenko, E The Landscape of Stalinism: the
Art and Ideology Soviet SpaceBonnell, Victoria Iconography of Power: Soviet
Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin
Hollein, Max Dream Factory Communism: The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era
Kline, G. Religious and anti-religious thought in Russia
Simon, G. Church State and Opposition in the Soviet Union
Curtiss, J.S. Church and State in Russia 1917-1941
Zatko, J.J. Descent into Darkness: the Destruction of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, 1917-23
Edelman, Robert Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sport in the USSR
Riordan, J. Sport in Soviet SocietyRead, C. Religion, Revolution and the
Russian Intelligentsia 1900-1912Read, C Culture and Power in
Revolutionary Russia: the Intelligentsia and the Transition from Tsarism to Communism
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Williams, R.C. Artists in Revolution: Portraits of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1905-1925
Fitzpatrick, S. The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia
Fitzpatrick, S. (ed) Cultural Revolution in Russia 1928-1931
Shatz, M. Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective
Solzhenitsyn, A. The Oak and the CalfDunn, Dennis, J. Religion and Modernisation in
the Soviet UnionFrankel, E.R. Novy Mir (History of a Soviet
intellectual monthly journal)Matthews, M. Education in the Soviet Union:
Politics and Institutions since Stalin
Medvedev, Z. Soviet Science Lubrano, L. & The Social Context of SovietSolomon, s.G. ScienceKrementsov, Nikolai Soviet Science (1997)Krementsov, Nikolai The Cure: A Story of Cancer and
Politics from the Cold War (2002)
Luria, A. The Making of Mind: A personal account of Soviet Psychology
Miller, Martin Freud and the BolsheviksWeiner, Douglas A Little Corner of Freedom:
Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev
Weiner, Douglas Models of Ecology: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia
Turchin, V. The Inertia of Fear & the Scientific World View
Sakharov, A. MemoirsStites, R. Revolutionary DreamsPontuso, J.F. Solzhenitsyn’s Political ThoughtLiebich, A. From the Other Shore: Russian
Social Democracy After 1921Rosenberg, W. (ed) Bolshevik Visions 2 volsShlapentokh, V. Soviet Intellectuals and
Politics: the Post-Stalin EraMorgan, W.John Communists in Education and
Culture 1848-1948 Merridale, Catherine Night of Stone: Death and Memory
in RussiaKenez, Peter Cinema and Soviet Society: From
the Revolution to the Death of Stalin
Hoffmann D & Kotsonis, Y (eds) Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices
Heretz, Leonid Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars
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Rollberg, P Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema
Graham, L & Kantor J-M Naming Infinity: a true Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
Dumas, A; Rosenthal, N; Tokareva, I & Maximenko, GFrom Russia: French and Russian master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg
Kivelson, V.A. & Neuberger, J Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture
Ruane, Christine The Empire’s New Clothes: The History of the Russian Fashion Industry
Clark, Katerina et al Soviet Culture and Power: a history in documents, 1917-53
Dobrenko, E Political Economy of Socialist Realism
E Broad Appraisals
Cohen, S. Re-Thinking the Soviet Experience
Sakharov, A. My Country and the WorldMedvedev, R. On Socialist DemocracyDeutscher, I. The Unfinished RevolutionMoore, B. Terror and Progress in the USSRNiiseki, K. The Soviet Union in TransitionTilly, C. European Revolutions 1432-1992Steele, J. Eternal RussiaSuny, R. Revenge of the PastYakovlev, A.N. The Fate of Marxism in RussiaLavigne, Marie ‘The Political Economy of
Socialism: What is Left?’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.479-488
Harrison, M. ‘Stalinism in Post-communist Perspective’, Europe-Asia Studies vol.49, no.3 May 1997 pp.499-502
Thatcher, Ian Alec Nove on Communist and Postcommunist Countries
Cliff, Tony State Capitalism in RussiaHollander, Paul Political Will and Personal
Beliefs: The Decline and Fall of Russian Communism
Haynes, Mike Russia: Class and Power 1917-2000
Marks, Steven How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Antisemitism (Princeton 2003)
Strayer, Robert ‘Decolonization, Democratization and Communist Reform: the Soviet
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Collapse in Comparative Perspective’ Journal of World History 12 (2) 2001 380
Smith, S.A. Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History
Kowalski, Ronald European Communism 1848-1991Daniels, Robert V. The Rise and Fall of Communism
in Russia
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History of Russia since 1881Suggested Short Essay Titles
SECTION A
1. How helpful is the term ‘backwardness’ in analysing late-nineteenth-century Russia?
2. Why did so many intellectuals in late-nineteenth-century Russia join revolutionary movements?
3. Were peasants becoming richer or poorer between 1881 and 1900?
4. ‘With respect to industrialisation, Russia faced not only obstacles, but possessed significant advantages.’ Discuss this comment on the period from 1881 to 1900.
5. Assess the effect of the October Manifesto in the 1905 revolution.
6. To what extent were Russian workers motivated by revolutionary impulses in the early twentieth century?
7. To what extent could Stolypin be said to have undermined the autocracy rather than consolidated it?
8. How successful was the autocracy in re-establishing its authority between 1905 and 1914?
9. How far was Russia responsible for the outbreak of the First World War?
SECTION B
1. Assess the role of the moderate socialist parties (S.R.s and Mensheviks) in the revolution of 1917?
2. To what extent did workers and peasants share similar political and social aspirations in 1917?
3. ‘The real struggle in the period from 1918 to 1921 was between the Bolsheviks and the popular movement rather than between the Bolsheviks and the Whites.’ Discuss.
4. ‘The revolts of 1920 and 1921 show that Lenin’s government was deeply unpopular’. Discuss.
5. ‘Lenin expected to establish democracy in Russia after the October revolution. Instead, circumstances drove him to establish a dictatorship.’ Discuss.
6. To what extent could the 1920s be considered the ‘golden age’ of Soviet Russia?
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SECTION C1. Assess the role of either Trotsky or Bukharin in Soviet politics up to 1929.
2. How far did Stalin maintain control over the ‘Second Revolution’ of 1928-32?
3. How far were Stalin’s internal policies from 1928 to 1938 inspired by revolutionary ideals?
4. Assess the impact of the Great Terror of 1936-8.
5. ‘Soviet victory over Nazi Germany owes more to the efforts of the Russian people than to those of their government.’ Discuss.
6. ‘The onset of the Cold War took Stalin by surprise.’ Discuss.
7. ‘One need only look closely at inter-allied relations during the war to see that the subsequent onset of cold war was practically inevitable.’ Discuss.
SECTION D
1. Assess Khrushchev’s credentials as a reformer of the Soviet system.
2. To what extent could the Brezhnev regime be said to have destalinised without noticing?
3.To what extent did the policies of the Brezhnev era begin the process of collapse in the Soviet Union?
4. Assess the view that Gorbachev was swept away by events he had unwittingly unleashed.
5. ‘A powerful wrecker but a weak constructor.’ Assess this view of Yeltsin’s role in national politics?
6. Who should be more favourably remembered, Gorbachev or Yeltsin?
7. What, if anything, has the Russian population gained from the collapse of communism?
8. Why has the Chechen problem become so intractable?
10. Does Putin have any policies for the reconstruction of Russia?
NO MORE THAN ONE QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED FROM EACH SECTION.
Alternative titles available on request.
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Appendix
Documents for Seminars 2 to
11 page
Seminar 2 1905 49Seminar 3 The 1917 revolution 50Seminar 4 NEP 53Seminar 5 The Great Turn 60Seminar 6 The Purges 77Seminar 7 World War 2 89Seminar 8 Cold War 108Seminar 9 De-Stalinization 115Seminar 10 Gorbachev and After 121
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Seminar 11 The Break-up of USSR 126
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