O. Figes, Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside (Oxford, 1989), solid regional study of the peasantry’s role in the civil war.
———and B. I. Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The
Language and Symbols of 1917 (New Haven, CT, 1999), exploration of the political culture emerging amidst the revolutionary upheavals of 1917.
S. Fitzpatrick, The Commissariat of the Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917–1921 (Cambridge, 1970), standard account of cultural politics during the civil war.
P. Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking (Bloomington, Ind., 1999), on the six million refugees displaced during the First World War.
A. Gleason, P. Kenez, and R. Stites (eds.), Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (Bloomington, Ind., 1985), important collection of essays.
W. Husband, Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917–1920 (New York, 1990), on workers, trade unions, and revolution.
H. F. Jahn, Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I (Ithaca, NY, 1995), on the disintegration of a common sense of nationhood during the war.
J. L. H. Keep, The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization (New York, 1976), comprehensive synthesis.
D. P. Koenker and W. G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (Princeton, NJ, 1989), careful analysis of strikes and labour protest.
———and R. G. Suny (eds.), Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History (Bloomington, Ind., 1989), valuable collection of essays.
M. McAuley, Bread and Justice (Oxford, 1991), broad-ranging study of Bolshevik policies and institution building in Petrograd.
M. McCauley (ed.), The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State, 1917–1921 (London, 1988), valuable collection of primary sources.
R. Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York, 1991), anti-revisionist, political account.
———Russia under the Bolshevik Regime (New York, 1994), popular survey, casting blame on the intelligentsia and traditional Russian political culture for rise of authoritarianism.
A. Rabinowitch, Prelude to Revolution (Bloomington, Ind., 1968), close study of the July uprising in 1917.
D. J. Raleigh, Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917–1922 (Princeton, NJ, 2002), in-depth study of a province during the civil war, with powerful evidence of its devastating impact.
———Revolution on the Volga (Ithaca, NY, 1986), case study of the 1917 Revolution in Saratov.
T. F. Remington, Building Socialism in Soviet Russia (Pittsburgh, PA, 1984), on self-defeating attempts at mass mobilization.
R. Sakwa, Soviet Communists in Power (New York, 1988), on politics and government in Moscow during the civil war.
J. Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925 (DeKalb, Ill., 2003), on the role of the military in nation building in late Imperial and early Soviet periods.
J. Smith, The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–1923 (New York, 1999), reassessment of Bolshevik nationality policies, stressing improvization and the ad hoc nature of policy and its implementation at local level.
S. A. Smith, Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–18 (Cambridge, 1983), sensitive analysis of Petrograd workers during the revolution.
M. D. Steinberg, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910–1925 (Ithaca, NY, 2002), examines literary works of ‘proletarian’ writers in late Imperial and early Soviet periods.
———(ed.), Voices of Revolution (New Haven, CT, 2001), valuable collection of primary documents, accompanied by interpretative text.
R. A. Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917 (Cambridge, 2000), synthesizes the large volume of recent scholarship.
J. D. White, The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921 (London, 1994), recent general account.
A. K. Wildman, The End of the Russian Imperial Army, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ, 1980–7), massively researched, standard account of the devolution of the army in 1917.
10. THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENT, 1921–1929
A. M. Ball, Russia’s Last Capitalists (Berkeley, CA, 1987), analysis of NEP and ‘nepmany’.
———And Now my Soul Has Hardened (Berkeley, CA, 1994), study of the homeless orphans (bezprizorniki) during NEP.
F. L. Bernstein, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (DeKalb, Ill., 2007), on the ‘sexual enlightenment’ campaign of doctors and public health workers in the 1920s.
E. H. Carr, The Interregnum, 1923–1924 (Harmondsworth, 1969), Socialism in One Country, 1924–1926, 3 vols. (Harmondsworth, 1970), and (with R. W. Davies), Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926–1929, 2 vols. (Harmondsworth, 1971–4), magisterial study of the first decade of Soviet rule.
W. J. Chase, Workers, Society, and the Soviet State (Urbana, Ill., 1987), on Moscow workers during the 1920s.
S. F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (Oxford, 1980), political and intellectual biography of leading Bolshevik.
V. P. Danilov, Rural Russia under the New Regime (Bloomington, Ind., 1988), analysis of peasants in the 1920s by the leading Russian agrarian historian.
J. Dekel-Chen, Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 (New Haven, CT, 2005) on the role of Soviet authorities and an American Jewish organization in promoting Jewish agricultural communities in the Crimea and southern Ukraine.
S. Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1934 (Cambridge, 1979), provocative study of social changes and formation of a new élite.
———A. Rabinowitch, and R. Stites (eds.), Russia in the Era of NEP (Bloomington, Ind., 1991), collection of essays by leading scholars.
C. Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863–1922 (New York, 1986), valuable study of the artistic turmoil and experimentation in the 1920s.
J. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929 (Pittsburgh, PA, 2004), study of Commissariat of Agriculture and institution building in the countryside.
L. E. Holmes, The Kremlin and the Schoolhouse (Bloomington, Ind., 1991), interesting assessment of the attempt to use education to engineer social change.
J. Hughes, Stalin, Siberia, and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy (Cambridge, 1991), shows how Stalin’s experience in Siberia provided the impetus to collectivization.
W. B. Husband, ‘Godless Communists’: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932 (De Kalb. Ill., 2000), on anti-religious campaigns in the early Soviet era.
L. Kirschenbaum, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932 (New York, 2001), on early Bolshevik theory and policy towards childhood education.
D. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918–1930 (Ithaca, NY, 2005), sophisticated case study in Soviet labour history.
M. Lenoe, Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), on the transformation of Soviet newspapers in the 1920s and early 1930s.
R. Pethybridge, The Social Prelude to Stalinism (New York, 1974), examines the clash between Bolshevik ambitions and Soviet realities, with much data about party, society, and culture.
L. L. Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle (DeKalb, Ill., 2000), on alcohol and the workers culture in Leningrad.
L. H. Siegelbaum, Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918–1929 (Cambridge, 1992), comprehensive review of major issues.
R. C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879–1929 (New York, 1973), biography of Stalin’s origins and rise to prominence.
C. Ward, Russia’s Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy (Cambridge, 1990), original and penetrating look at factory life during NEP.
M. von Hagen, Soldiers in the Proletarian
Dictatorship (Ithaca, NY, 1990), study of military and politics in early Bolshevik state.
S. White, The Bolshevik Poster (New Haven, CT, 1988), excellent analysis with rich collection of illustrations.
E. A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington, Ind., 1997), on Bolshevik policy and practice toward women.
———Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Ithaca, NY, 2005), on the political theatre of the early Soviet regime.
D. J. Youngblood, Movies for the Masses (Cambridge, 1992), on debates, films, and reaction of critics and viewers.
11. BUILDING STALINISM, 1929–1941
G. Alexopoulos, Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926–1936 (Ithaca, NY, 2003), analysis of the lishentsy (‘disenfranchised’) as a social class in Stalinist Russia.
V. Anderle, Workers in Stalin’s Russia (New York, 1988), sociological enquiry into workplace interaction.
D. Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), on the construction of Russian national heroes, myths, and images.
M. Buckley, Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin’s Fields (Lanham, Md., 2006), study of rural ‘Stakhanovitism’ in the 1930s.
W. J. Chase, Enemies within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934–1939 (New Haven, CT, 2001), interpretative documentary volume on the Comintern during the purges.
R. Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (New York, 1990), updated version of classic account from the perspective of the ‘totalitarian’ school.
A. Dallin and F. I. Firsov (eds.), Dmitrov and Stalin, 1934–1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives (New Haven, CT, 2000), interpretative essay and translation of newly declassified documents.
V. P. Danilov, N. A. Ivnitskii, D. Kozlov, and L. Viola (eds.), The War against the Peasantry, 1927–1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside (New Haven, CT, 2005), valuable collection of new archival documents on collectivization.
R. W. Davies, The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1980–91), continuation of the E. H. Carr multi-volume history.
S. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934–1941 (Cambridge, 1997), fascinating summary of police reports about the popular mood in Leningrad in the 1930s.
S. Davies and J. Harris (eds.), Stalin: A New History (Cambridge, 2005), collection of essays that reflect recent scholarship and some new archival sources.
E. T. Ewing, The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s (New York, 2002), monograph on primary and secondary schoolteachers and their attempt to school and resocialize Soviet children.
M. Fainsod, Smolensk under Soviet Rule (Cambridge, 1958), path-breaking analysis based on the Smolensk party archive.
O. Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (New York, 2007), narrative focused on individual experiences and the personal dimension.
S. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 (Bloomington, Ind., 1979), treats upheavals in the professions from the perspective of social history.
———The Cultural Front (Ithaca, NY, 1992), ten essays on the complex relationship between the intelligentsia and political authority.
———Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (Oxford, 1999), description of daily life in the 1930s.
———Stalin’s Peasants (Oxford, 1994), on peasant response and adaptation to collectivization.
———Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton, NJ, 2005), collection of essays on social identity.
D. Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization (Armonk, NY, 1986), on the regime’s attempt to subdue worker resistance.
V. Garros, N. Korenevskaya, and T. Lahusen (eds.), Intimacy and Terror (New York, 1995), fascinating collection of diaries from the 1930s.
J. A. Getty, Origins of the Great Purges (Cambridge, 1985), ‘revisionist’ account of inner-party politics, drawing mainly on the Smolensk party archive.
———and R. T. Manning (eds.), Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives (Cambridge, 1993), essays that reflect the emerging revisionist view of the purges and terror.
———and O. V. Naumov (eds.), The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939 (New Haven, CT, 2001), interpretative documentary of the great terror, with many newly declassified documents.
G. Gill, The Origins of the Stalinist Political System (Cambridge, 1990), on the formation of the Stalinist dictatorship as a break with Leninist system.
W. Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (New York, 2002), Soviet gender policy and women’s integration into the working class in the 1930s.
G. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (New Haven, CT, 1999), an archivally based study stressing Stalin’s interest in collective security and denying any plan for preemptive war in 1941.
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 School: 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 collectivizati
on.
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.
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