R. A. Medvedev, Let History Judge (2nd edn., New York, 1989), gold mine of information by dissident Soviet historian.
D. Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Ithaca, NY, 2004), study of the unveiling campaign, in Uzbekistan in the late 1920s and 1930s.
E. Osokina, Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin’s Russia, 1927–1941 (Armonk, NY, 2001), study showing consumer shortages and black market as endemic to the Stalinist economy.
K. Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Bloomington, Ind., 2000), on festivals and holidays as an important dimension of Soviet political culture.
M. Payne, Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Pittsburgh, 2001), study of the motives, problems, and achievements of a grandiose Stalinist project in Central Asia.
Iu. A. Poliakov, A Half Century of Silence: The 1937 Census (New York, 1992), interesting data on the suppressed census of 1937.
E. A. Rees (ed.), Decision-Making in the Stalinist Command Economy, 1932–1937 (New York, 1997), essays on how the Stalinist regime actually made economic decisions.
G. T. Rittersporn, Stalinist Implications and Soviet Complications (Chur, 1991), revisionist critique of totalitarian historiography.
W. G. Rosenberg and L. H. Siegelbaum (eds.), Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization (Bloomington, Ind., 1993), collected essays on social mobility, workplace politics, and labour culture.
J. Rossman, Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor (Cambridge, Mass. 2005), valuable monograph on the response of workers’ in Ivanovo.
J. Scott, Behind the Urals (Bloomington, Ind., 1966), graphic account of the building of Magnitogorsk.
L. H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–41 (Cambridge, 1986), on the Stakhanovite movement as a window on to industrial relations.
———and A. Sokolov (eds.), Stalinism as a Way of Life (New Haven,
CT, 2000), interpretative documentary on life and work in Stalinist Russia.
P. Solomon, Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (Cambridge, 1996), close study of a key institution.
D. Thorniley, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party, 1927–39 (New York, 1988), shows party weakness and failure to establish control over the village.
R. C. Tucker (ed.), Stalinism (New York, 1977), important collection of essays.
———Stalin in Power (New York, 1990), treats Stalin Revolution as a reversion to the developmental mode in pre-revolutionary Russia.
L. Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin (New York, 1996), innovative examination of the culture of peasant resistance and collectivization.
———The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements (Oxford, 2007), study of kulaks sent to special labour camps in early 1930s.
D. Volkogonov, Stalin (New York, 1991), draws heavily upon new archival materials.
12. THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR AND LATE STALINISM, 1941–1953
C. Andreyev, Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement (Cambridge, 1987), excellent account of anti-Soviet units formed from Soviet prisoners of war.
J. A. Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism (3rd edn., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990), study of nationalist movements in the Ukraine during the Second World War.
J. Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich (eds.), Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–44 (New York, 2005), essays on the Leningrad blockade with new data on the scale of privation and morbidity.
———and M. Harrison, The Soviet Home Front, 1941–45 (London, 1991), pioneering study examines how Soviet system withstood Nazi invasion.
O. Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941–45 (New York, 1986), discusses the German prosecution of the eastern campaign as a ‘race war’.
F. Belov, The History of A Collective Farm (New York, 1955), inside account of life on a collective farm.
Y. Boshyk (ed.), Ukraine during World War II (Edmonton, 1986), articles on German occupation and Ukrainian resistance.
R. Brody, Ideology and Political Mobilization (Pittsburgh, 1994), on benefits and limits of Soviet ideology in validating the regime’s authority and controlling its citizens during the war.
G. Bucher, Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945–1953 (Boulder, Colo., 2006), examination of the extraordinary burden imposed on women and the shortfall of promised social services in post-war reconstruction.
T. A. Chumachenko, Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years (Armonk, NY, 2002), well-researched account of the Church in the late Stalin and Khrushchev eras.
R. W. Davies, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution (Bloomington, Ind., 1989), on the historiography of the war.
M. Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (New York, 1962), classic account of three encounters between Stalin and Yugoslav communists in the 1940s.
T. Dunmore, Soviet Politics, 1945–53 (New York, 1984), general survey, contesting the totalitarian thesis and showing bureaucratic conflict as key to decision-making.
J. Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad (New York, 1975), superior military analysis of the war up to Stalingrad.
———The Road to Berlin (Boulder, Colo., 1983), still the best history of the war from 1942 to its conclusion.
D. Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II (Cambridge, 2002), on worker wartime resistance (chiefly by evasion and flight) against harsh working and living conditions.
H. Fireside, Icon and Swastika (Cambridge, 1971), on the revival of the Orthodox Church under German occupation and rapprochement between state and Church in 1943.
J. Fürst (ed.), Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (London, 2006), essays reflecting the growing interest in post-war Soviet era.
J. Garrard and C. Garrard (eds.), World War II and the Soviet People (London, 1993), articles on the home front during the war.
D. Glantz and J. House, When Titans Clashed (Lawrence, Kan., 1995), operational military history.
S. N. Goncharov, J. W. Lewis, and X. Litai, Uncertain Partners (Stanford, Calif., 1993), collective work of international team tapping new archival documentation.
Y. Gorlizki and O. Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle (Oxford, 2004), critical reappraisal of decision-making in the post-war Stalinist regime.
M. Harrison, Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–45 (Cambridge, 1985), good account of the wartime economy.
D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb (New Haven, CT, 1994), superb monograph on the Soviet atomic bomb programme.
W. Moskoff, The Bread of Affliction (Cambridge, 1990), first-rate study of agriculture and food supply during the war.
D. E. Murphy, What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa (New Haven, CT, 2005), close analysis informed by new archival sources.