Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union

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This is a select bibliography of post-World War II English-language books (including translations) and journal articles about Stalinism and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below.

Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin has an extensive bibliography; Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928[1][2] contains a 52-page bibliography and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941[3][4] contains a 50-page bibliography covering both the life of Stalin and Stalinism in the Soviet Union.[a] See Further reading for several additional book and chapter length bibliographies.

Inclusion criteria

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

Topics include the post-Lenin period of

Stalin's consolidation of power from 1924 to 1926 and closely related topics; for works on the Soviet involvement in World War II, see Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II
. Biographies of prominent individuals associated with the Stalinist era and the expansion of Stalinism during the immediate post World War II era. This bibliography does not include fiction, newspaper articles (expect in references), photo collections, or films created during or about Stalinism or the Stalinist Era.

Works included are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert as shown by scholarly reviews and have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.

Citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Russian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

Overviews of Russian history

General works on Russian history which have significant content about this bibliography's timeframe of history.

  • Ascher A. (2017). Russia: A Short History. (3rd Revised Ed.). London: Oneworld Publications.[5]
  • Auty R., Obolensky D. D. (Ed.) (1980-1981). Companion to Russian Studies (3 vols.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bartlett, R. P. (2005). A History of Russia. — Basingstoke; N. Y.: Palgrave Macmillan. (Macmillan Essential Histories).[6][7]
  • Billington, J. (2010). The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture. New York: Vintage.[8]
  • Blum, J. (1971).
    Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.[9][10]
  • Bogatyrev, S. (Ed.). (2004). Russia Takes Shape. Patterns of Integration from the Middle Ages to the Present. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.[11][12]
  • Borrero, M. (2004) Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Facts on File.[13]
  • Boterbloem, K. (2018) A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin. (2nd Ed.) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.[14]
  • Boterbloem, K. (2020) Russia as Empire: Past and Present. London: Reaktion Books.[15]
  • Bushkovitch, P. (2011). A Concise History of Russia (Illustrated edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[16][17][18][19]
  • Cherniavsky, M. (Ed.). (1970). The Structure of Russian History: Interpretive Essays. New York, NY: Random House.
  • Christian, D. (1998). A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (2 vols.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.[20][21][22][23]
  • Clarkson, J. D. (1961). A History of Russia. New York: Random House.[24][25]
  • Connolly, R. (2020). The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Dmytryshyn, B. (1977). A History of Russia. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.[26][27]
  • Dukes, P. (1998) A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporary. New York: McGraw-Hill.[28][29][30][31]
  • Figes, O. (2022). The Story of Russia. New York: Metropolitan Books.[32]
  • Forsyth, J. (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[33][34][35][36][37]
  • Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia: A History (Revised edition). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.[38]
  • Gleason A. (Ed.). (2009). A Companion to Russian History. — Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History).[39][40][41]
  • Grousset, R. (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (N. Walford, Trans.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.[42]
  • Lieven, D., Perrie, M., & Suny, R. (Eds.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[c]
  • Pipes, R. (1974). Russia Under the Old Regime. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.[43][44][45][46]
  • Poe, M. T. (2003) The Russian Moment in World History. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.[47][48][49][50]
  • Riasanovsky, N. V. (2018). A History of Russia (9th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[51]
  • Shubin, D. H. (2005). A History of Russian Christianity (4 vols.). New York: Agathon Press.
  • Ward, C. J., & Thompson J. M. (2021). Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present. (9th Ed.). New York: Routledge.

General surveys of Soviet history

These works contain significant overviews of the Stalinist era.

Period surveys and monographs (1924–1953)

Postwar era

Social history

Culture

Soviet Socialist Realism

Anderson, J (2018). The Spatial Cosmology of the Stalin Cult: Ritual, Myth and Metanarrative. University of Glasgow.[113]

Arts and Socialist realism

Education

  • Fitzpatrick, S. (2002). The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———. (2002). Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[164][165][166]
  • Pauly, M. (2014). Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934. University of Toronto Press.[167]

Nationality policy

  • Blank, S. (1994). The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin as Commissar of Nationalities, 1917–1924. Westport: Greenwood Press.
  • Blitstein, P. A. (2006). Cultural Diversity and the Interwar Conjuncture: Soviet Nationality Policy in Its Comparative Context. Slavic Review, 65(2), 273–293.
  • Carrère d’Encausse, H. (Festinger, N., Trans.) (1992). The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917–1930. New York: Holmes & Meier.
  • Hirsch, F. (2005). Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Liber, G. (2010). Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[168][169][170]
  • Martin, T. (2001). The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Smith, J. (2013). Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Suny, R. G. (1993). The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Religion

Women and family

  • Alexopoulos, G. (2009). Exiting the Gulag after War Women, Invalids, and the Family. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 57(4), 563–579.
  • Bridger, S. (2012). Women in the Soviet Countryside: Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[191][192][193]
  • Emery, J. (2017). Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Engel, B. (1987). Women in Russia and the Soviet Union. Signs, 12(4), 781–796.
  • Engel, B. A. (2021). Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin (The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.[194]
  • Fitzpatrick, S., & Slezkine, Y. (2018). In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
  • Friedman, R. (2020). Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury.[194]
  • Goldman, W. (2010). Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[195][196][197]
  • Ilic, M. (Ed.). (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lapidus, G. W. (1979). Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.[198][199]
  • Qualls, K. D. (2020). Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.[200]
  • Waters, E. (1992). The Modernisation of Russian Motherhood, 1917–1937. Soviet Studies, 44:1, 123–135.

Other topics

Terror, famine and the Gulag

Agriculture and the peasantry

Industrialization and urbanization

Labor

Energy

  • Holloway, D. (2008). Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956. New Haven: Yale University Press.[287][288]

Stalinism and ideologies

Stalin and Lenin

Stalin and Trotsky

Propaganda and ideology

Soviet territories

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

  • Blauvelt, T. K. (2021). Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba. London: Routledge.
  • Blauvelt, T. K. & Smith, J. (Eds.) (2016). Georgia After Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power. London: Routledge.
  • Boyanin, Y. (2011). The Kyrgyz of Naryn in the Early Soviet Period: A Study Examining Settlement, Collectivisation and Dekulakisation on the Basis of Oral Evidence. Inner Asia, 13(2), 279–296.
  • Boriak, H., Graziosi, A., Hajda, L. A., Kessler, G., Maksudov, S., Pianciola, N., & Grabowicz, G. G. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context (H. Hryn, Ed.; Illustrated edition). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[216]
  • Edgar, A. (2006). Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet "Emancipation" of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective. Slavic Review, 65(2), 252–272.
  • Edgar, A. L. (2004). Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  • Forestier-Peyrat, E. (2017). Soviet Federalism at Work: Lessons from the History of the Transcaucasian Federation, 1922–1936. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 65(4), 529–559.
  • Glebov, S. (2017). From Empire to Eurasia: Politics, Scholarship, and Ideology in Russian Eurasianism, 1920s–1930s (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.[306]
  • Gross, J. T. (2002). Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.[307][308]
  • Kasekamp, A. (2017). Chapter 6: Between Anvil and Hammer. In A History of the Baltic States. New York: Macmillan Education.
  • Kassymbekova, B. (2016). Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.[309][310]
  • Keller, S. (2020). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[200]
  • Khalid, A. (2021). Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[194]
  • Khalid, A. (2015). Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[311]
  • King, C. (2012). The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. New York: Oxford University Press.[312]
  • Kotljarchuk, A., & Sundström, O. (2017). Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Huddinge: Södertörn University.
  • Kuromiya, H. (2002). Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[313][314]
  • Liber, G. (2010). Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[168][169][170]
  • Mark, S. G. (1998). Stalinism and the Demise of Old Siberia. Nationalities Papers, 26(4), 777–784.
  • Marples, D. R. (1992). Stalinism in Ukraine: In the 1940s. New York: St. Martin's Press.[315]
  • Marshall, A. (2010). The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. New York City, NY: Routledge.
  • Miller, C. (2021). We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.[194]
  • Nahaylo, B., & Swoboda, V. (1990). Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London: Hamilton.[316][317]
  • Northrop, D. (2004). Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[318][319]
  • Pauly, M. (2014). Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[320]
  • Plokhy, S. (2017). The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books.[321]
  • Rieber, A. (2001). Stalin, Man of the Borderlands. The American Historical Review, 106(5), 1651–1691.
  • Saparov, A (2015). From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh. New York: Routledge.[322]
  • Scott, E. (2017). Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire. New York: Oxford University Press.[323][324]
  • Shkandrij, M. (2015). Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press.[325][326]
  • Sirutavičius, V. (2015). National Bolshevism or National Communism: Features of Sovietization in Lithuania in the Summer of 1945 (The First Congress of the Intelligentsia). The Hungarian Historical Review, 4(1), 3–28.
  • Stronski, P. (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.[327][328]

Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups

  • Kappeler, A., Kohut, Z. E., Sysyn, F. E., & von Hagen, M. (Eds.). (2003). Culture, nation, and identity: the Ukrainian-Russian encounter, 1600–1945. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.

Foreign policy and external relations

Government

Soviet Postage Stamp (1933)
  • Armstrong, J. L. (1990). Policy Toward the Polish Minority in the Soviet Union, 1923–1989. The Polish Review, 35(1), 51–65.
  • Bailes, K. E. (2016). Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917–1941. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
  • Dunmore, T. (1984). Soviet Politics, 1945–53. London: Macmillan Press.
  • Fitzpatrick, S. (1979). Stalin and the Making of a New Elite, 1928–1939. Slavic Review, 38(3), 377–402.
  • ———. (2015). On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
  • Getty, J. A. (2013). Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Gill, G. (2009). The Origins of the Stalinist Political System (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[341][342][343]
  • Gorlizki, Y., & Chlevnjuk, O. V. (2008). Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953. New York: Oxford University Press.[344]
  • Gorlizki, Y., & Khlevniuk, O. (2020). Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press.[345][346]
  • Hahn, W. G. (2019). Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-53. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Harrison, M. (2009). Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938-1945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[347][348]
  • Harrison, M. (2010). Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 1940-1945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[349][350][351][352]
  • Heinzen, J. (2007). The Art of the Bribe: Corruption and Everyday Practice in the Late Stalinist USSR. Slavic Review, 66(3), 389–412.
  • Heinzen, J. (2016). The Art of the Bribe: Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953 (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes). New Haven: Yale University Press.[353]
  • Lampert, N. (2016). Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Manning, R. T. (1984). Government in the Soviet Countryside in the Stalinist Thirties: The Case of Belyi Raion in 1937. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Nation, R. C. (2018). Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[354][355]
  • Rassweiler, A. (1983). Soviet Labor Policy in the First Five-Year Plan: The Dneprostroi Experience. Slavic Review, 42(2), 230–246.
  • Rigby, T. H., Brown, A., Reddaway, P., & Schapiro, L. (1983). Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR: Essays Dedicated to Leonard Schapiro. London: Macmillan.
  • ———. (1988). Staffing USSR Incorporated: The Origins of the Nomenklatura System. Soviet Studies, 40(4), 523–537.
  • Rosenfeldt, N. E. (1978). Knowledge and Power: The Role of Stalin's Secret Chancellery in the Soviet System of Government. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.

Party

  • Belova, E., & Lazarev, V. (2013). Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party (Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes). New Haven: Yale University Press.[356][357]
  • Cohn, E. (2015). The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[358][359]
  • Gregor, R. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 2: The Early Soviet Period 1917–1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  • McNeal, R. H. (1971). The Decisions of the CPSU and the Great Purge. Soviet Studies, 232, 177–185.
  • ———. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 3: The Stalin Years 1929–1953. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  • Rigby, T. H. (1968). Communist Party Membership in the USSR, 1917–1967. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.
  • Schapiro, L. (1985). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. London: Methuen Publishing.

Judicial

Economy

The Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Union and war

The beginning of the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc

Historiography

Memory Studies

Reference works

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union. (1994). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kasack, W. & Atack, R. (1988). Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Minahan, J. (2012). The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
  • Smith, S. A. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. New York: Oxford University Press.[372][373]
  • Vronskaya, J. & Čuguev, V. (1992). The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union: Prominent people in all fields from 1917 to the present. London: Bowker-Saur.

Other works

Legacy

Biographies

Joseph Stalin in 1942.

Joseph Stalin

Other biographies

  • Cohen, S. F. (1980). Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938. New York: Oxford University Press.[406][407]
  • Feinstein, E. (2007). Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York: Knopf.
  • Getty, J. A., & Naumov, O. V. (2008). Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist. New Haven (Conn.: Yale University Press.[408]
  • Jangfeldt, B. (2014). Mayakovsky: A Biography (1st Edition; H. D. Watson, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.[409][410]
  • Jansen, M., & Petrov, N. (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press.[233][234]
  • Khlevniuk, O. (Nordlander, D., Trans.) (1995). In Stalin's Shadow: The Career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze. Aramonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
  • Knight, A. (1993). Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant. Princeton:: Princeton University Press.[411][412]
  • Roberts, G. (2011). Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior. Washington, D.C: Potomac Books.[413][414]
  • Roberts, G. (2012). Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. New York: Random House.[415]
  • Sullivan, R. (2015). Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (Illustrated edition). New York: HarperCollins.

Memoirs and literary accounts

Gulag and purge survivor memoirs

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

English language translations of primary sources

Works by Joseph Stalin

Collected Works

  • The Collected Works of J. V. Stalin, 16 vols. 1901–1952. (1953–54). Collection Index and Text
  • Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. (1941–1945). Collection Index and Text.
  • Correspondence with Winston S. Churchill and Clement R. Attlee. (1941–1945). Collection Index and Text.
  • Josef Stalin Internet Archive. Collection Index and Text
  • War Speeches, Orders of the Day and Answers to Foreign Press Correspondents During the Great Patriotic War. (1941–1945). Collection Index and Text.
  • Davies, R. W. (2003). The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36 (O. Khlevniuk, E. A. Rees, L. P. Kosheleva, & L. A. Rogovaya, Eds.; S. Shabad, Trans.). New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Lih, L. T., Naumov, O. V., & Khlevniuk, O. V. (1996). Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Individual works

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

Other primary sources

Collections

Individual works

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

Government documents

See also

Notes

  1. ^ For information about Kotkin's Stalin biography, see entries in Biographies section.
  2. Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
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  3. ^ The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689; Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917; Volume 3, The Twentieth Century.
  4. ^ Contains a 60 page scholarly select bibliography of works relating to the history of the Soviet Union.
  5. ^ Covers the period from the October Revolution through the Stalinist 1930s.
  6. ^ Covers Post-War period.
  7. ^ Currently Volume 3: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945; and Volume 5: After Stalin, 1953–1967 are available of this multi-volume project.
  8. ^ A revised version was published in 1999 under the title The Great Terror: A Reassessment after Conquest was able to access the Soviet archives. His archival research confirmed most of what he had previously written.
  9. ^ See Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism.
  10. ^ a b The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  11. ^ Originally published in three volumes by Oxford University Press (1954, 1959, 1963).
  12. ^ Some catalogs/bibliographies list author's last name as Chlevnjuk.
  13. ^ Biography of Stalin with a significant focus on his relationship with his inner circle.
  14. ^ Memoir written in the form of fictional letters by Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
  15. ^ Second volume of memoirs written by Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.
  16. ^ A work of documentary fiction created about wartime Leningrad, written by a survivor of the siege of Leningrad.
  17. ^ Original work published 1960.
  18. ^ Originally published in by Secker & Warburg, 1942.
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  20. ^ Werth was a British journalist and describes his experiences as the BBC correspondent in the war time Soviet Union, at the same time attempting to provide a fuller picture of the Russia at war.
  21. ^ First published in the Soviet Union bv Novosty Press Agency Publishing House, Moscow, 1969.
  22. ^ Letters written by survivors of the Gulag.

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Further reading

Bibliographies

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

Bibliographies of Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

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

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

Bibliographies of primary source documents

Journals

The list below contains journals frequently referenced in this bibliography. The list below contains journals referenced in this bibliography and which have substantial contributions about Slavic and Russian history.

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