P. Gregory, The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives (Cambridge, 2004), critique of Stalinist model, incorporating recent archival materials and reflecting a pro-market perspective.
———(ed.), Behind the Façade of Stalin’s Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives (Stanford, Calif., 2001), collection of essays on the Stalinist economy, informed by new archival access.
———and N. Naimark (eds.), The Lost Politburo Transcripts: From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship (New Haven, CT, 2008), collection of essays assessing the stenograms of meetings by the leadership that only became available within the last decade.
J. Gronow, Caviar with Champaigne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia (Oxford, 2003), on Soviet consumer goods and new values being promoted in the mid-1930s.
B. Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism (Princeton, NJ, 1992), on Stalinism as cultural system.
M. Hindus, Red Bread (Bloomington, Ind., 1988), perceptive account by empathetic eyewitness.
J. Hellbeck, Revolution on my Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), on the construction of ‘socialist selfhood’ through a close analysis of several diarists from the 1930s.
K. Heller and J. Plamper (eds.), Personality Cults in Stalinism/Personenkulte im Stalinismus (Göttingen, 2004), collection of sophisticated essays on the origins and dynamics of the personality cult.
D. Hoffman, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 (Ithaca, NY, 2003), on the construction of Stalinism as a culture.
L. E. Holmes, Stalin’s Schooclass="underline" Moscow’s Model School No. 25, 1931–1937 (Pittsburgh, PA, 1999), microhistorical case study of a model school in the 1930s.
J. Hughes, Stalinism in a Russian Province (New York, 1996), on collectivization in Siberia.
H. Hunter, ‘The Overambitious First Five-Year-Plan’, Slavic Review, 32 (1973), 237–57, famous essay on the dysfunctions of inflated plan objectives.
C. Kelly, Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (London, 2005), careful account of Pavlik Morozov, the ‘heroic youth’ who informed on his own father in the 1930s and in retribution was later killed.
O. Khlevniuk, The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (New Haven, CT, 2004), valuable collection of documents and analysis by leading specialist.
H. Kostiuk, Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine (Munich, 1960), detailed account of terror in the Ukraine.
S. Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain (Berkeley, CA, 1995), analysis of Stalinism as functioning social system.
H. Kuromiya, The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s (New Haven, CT, 2007), close study of the cases of individual victims of the purge and terror.
M. Lewin, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power (New York, 1975), systematic analysis of collectivization.
J. McCannon, Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932–1939 (Oxford, 1998), interesting account of Soviet Arctic and its public role in the Stalin era.
N. Mandelshtam, Hope against Hope (New York, 1970), valuable memoir on the intelligentsia experience of the 1930s.
———and T. Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, NY, 2001), on Soviet nationality policy in the 1920s and 1930s, with particular focus on Ukraine and Central Asia.
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.