Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union

These works contain significant overviews of the Stalinist era.

• Cohen, S. F. (2011). Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[5][6]
• Figes, O. (2015). Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
• Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B. (1986). Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.[7][8]
• Hosking, G. (1987). The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[9][10][11]
• Kort, M. G. (2019). The Soviet Colossus (8th Edition). London, UK: Routledge.[12]
• Kenez, P. (2017). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Lewin, M. (2016). The Soviet Century. (G. Elliot, Ed.). New York, NY: Verso.[13][14]
• Malia, M. (1995). Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917–1991. New York, NY: Free Press.[15][16]
• Mccauley, M. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Routledge.[17][18]
• Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991 (3rd Edition). London, UK: Arkana Publishing.
• Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[lower-alpha 3][19][20]
• ——. (2013). The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.[21]

• Angotti, T. (1988). The Stalin Period: Opening up History. Science & Society, 52(1), pp. 5–34.
• Antonov-Ovseenko, A. (1983). The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny. New York: Harper & Row.[22]
• Armstrong, J. A. (1961). The Politics of Totalitarianism : The Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1934 to the Present. New York, NY: Random House.[23]
• Hoffmann, D. L.. (2018). The Stalinist Era. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kuromiya, H. (2007). Stalin and His Era. The Historical Journal, 50(3), pp. 711–724.
• McCagg, W. O. (1978). Stalin Embattled: 1943-1948. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.[24][25]
• Pipes, R.. The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism 1917–1923, Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Shearer, D. (2018). Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66(2), pp. 188–217.
• Smith, S. A. (2017). Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Chapters 5-7). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[26][27]
• Smele, J. (2016). The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World (Chapter 6 and Conclusion). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[28][29][30][31]
• Tucker, R. C. (1992). Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941. New York, NY: Norton.[32][33]

• Bettelheim, C., & Pearce, B. (1978). Class Struggles in the USSR: Second Period 1923-1930. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press.[36]
• Campeanu, P., & Vale, M. (1988). The Genesis of the Stalinist Social Order. International Journal of Sociology, 18(1/2), pp. 1–165.
• Caroli, D., & Williams, R. (2003). Bolshevism, Stalinism, and Social Welfare (1917-1936). International Review of Social History, 48(1), pp. 27–54.
• Cohen, S. F. (1986). Stalin's Terror As Social History. The Russian Review, 45(4), pp. 375–384.
• Davies, S. (1997). "Us against Them": Social Identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41. The Russian Review, 56(1), pp. 70–89.
• ———. (1999). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[37][38][39][40]
• Edele, M. (2011). Stalinist Society: 1928–1953. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[41][42]
• ———. (2014). The New Soviet Man as a "Gypsy": Nomadism, War, and Marginality in Stalin's Time. Region, 3(2), pp. 285–307.
• Figes, O. (2008). The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. New York, NY: Picador.[43][44]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1979). Stalin and the Making of a New Elite, 1928-1939. Slavic Review, 38(3), pp. 377–402.
• ———. (1984). The Russian Revolution and Social Mobility: A Re-examination of the Question of Social Support for the Soviet Regime in the 1920s and 1930s. Politics & Society, 13(2), pp. 119–141.
• ———. (1989). War and Society in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor before, during, and after World War II. International Labor and Working-Class History, (35), pp. 37–52.
• ———. (1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press.[45][46][47]
• Ginsburgs, G. (1957). The Soviet Union and the Problem of Refugees and Displaced Persons 1917- 1956. The American Journal of International Law, 51(2), pp. 325–361.
• Hoffmann, D. L. (2011). Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.[48][49]
• Kiaer, C. (2008). Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.[50][51][52]
• Lewin, M (1976) Society and the Stalinist State in the Period of the Five Year Plans. Social History, 1(2), pp. 139–175.
• ———. (1994). The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. New York, NY: New Press.[53][54]
• Lorimer, F. (1979). The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press.[55][56]
• Mawdsley, E., & White, S. (2004). The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.[57][58]
• Noskova, O. G. (1996) The Social History of Industrial Psychology in Russia. Journal of Russian & East European Psychology, 34(4), pp. 8–25.
• Nove, A. (1983). The Class Nature of the Soviet Union Revisited. Soviet Studies, 35(3), pp. 298–312.
• Siegelbaum, L. H. (1994). Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[59][60]
• Zubkova, E., & Ragsdale, H. (2015). Russia After The War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957. London, UK: Routledge.[61][62]

Culture

See also: Culture of the Soviet Union

Soviet Socialist Realism

• Barber, J. (1981). Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928–1932. London, UK: Macmillan.[63][64]
• Baumgartner, M. and Buehler, K. (2017). The Revolution is Dead - Long Live the Revolution: From Malevich to Judd, From Deineka to Bartana. New York, NY: Prestel/Random House.
• Clark, K. (2001). Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[65][66][67]
• Enteen, G. (1989). The Stalinist Conception of Communist Party History. Studies in Soviet Thought, 37(4), pp. 259–274.
• Feinstein, E. (2007). Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. New York, NY: Knopf.[68]
• Fitzpatrick, S. (1971). The Emergence of Glaviskusstvo. Class War on the Cultural Front, Moscow, 1928–29. Soviet Studies, 23(2), pp. 236–253.
• ———. (1976). Culture and Politics under Stalin: A Reappraisal. Slavic Review, 35(2), pp. 211–231. doi:10.2307/2494589.
• ———. (1990). Cultural Revolution in Russia: 1928–1931. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.[69][70]
• ———. (1992). The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.[lower-alpha 4][71][72][73][74]
• Günther, H. (2003). The Culture of the Stalin Period. New York, NY: Macmillan.[75][76]
• Hellbeck, J. (2016). Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[77][78]
• Kirkwood, M. (Ed.) (1990). Language Planning in the Soviet Union. New York City, NY: St. Martin's Press.
• Kutulas, J. (1995). The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and anti-Stalinism, 1930–1940. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.[79][80]
• Rolf, M. (2009). A Hall of Mirrors: Sovietizing Culture under Stalinism. Slavic Review, 68(3), pp. 601–630.
• Stites, R. (1992). Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[81][82]
• Strong, J. W. (1990). Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publications.[83]
• Tromly, B. (2014). Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life Under Stalin and Khrushchev. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[84][85][86]

• Applebaum, A. (2003). Gulag: A History. New York, NY: Doubleday.[118][119]
• ———. (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. New York, NY: Doubleday.[120][121]
• ———. (2017). Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. New York, NY: Doubleday.[122][123][124]
• Baberowski, J. Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.[125]
• Barnes, S. A. (2011). Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.[126][127][128]
• Bell, W. (2015). Sex, Pregnancy, and Power in the Late Stalinist Gulag. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 24(2), pp. 198–224.
• Birstein, V. J. (2011). SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon: Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII. London: Biteback Publishing.[129]
• Bollinger, M. J. (2008). Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the Role of the West. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press.
• Cameron, S. I. (2018). The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.[130]
• Carrère, E. H., & Ionescu, V. (1982). Stalin: Order through Terror. London, UK: Addison-Wesley Longman.
• Conquest, R. (1970). The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. New York, NY: Macmillan.
• ———. (1973). The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. New York, NY: Collier Books.[lower-alpha 6]
• ———. (1985). Inside Stalin's Secret Police: NKVD Politics, 1936-1939. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University.
• ———. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London, UK: Pimlico.[131][132][133]
• Corthorn, P. (2005). Labour, the Left, and the Stalinist Purges of the Late 1930s. The Historical Journal, 48(1), pp. 179–207.
• Davies, S. (1998). The Crime of "Anti-Soviet Agitation" in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 39(1/2), pp. 149–167.
• ———. (1999). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[37][38][39][40]
• Davies, R. W., & Wheatcroft, S. G. (2009). The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933. London, UK: Macmillan.[134][135][136]
• Dobrenko, V. (2010). Constructing the Enemy: Stalin’s Political Imagination and the Great Terror. Russian Journal of Communication, 3(1-2), pp. 72–96.
• Dolot, M. (1990). Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Draskoczy, J. S. (2014). Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.[137]
• Dobson, M. (2012). Stalin's Gulag: Death, Redemption and Memory. The Slavonic and East European Review, 90(4), pp. 735–743.
• Ellman, M. (2003). The Soviet 1937-1938 Provincial Show Trials Revisited. Europe-Asia Studies, 55(8), pp. 1305–1321.
• Gamache, R. (2013). Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor. New York, NY: Welsh Academic Press.
• Getty, J. A. (1985). Origins of the Great Purges. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———., & Manning, R. (Eds.). (1993). Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———. (2002). "Excesses Are Not Permitted": Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s. The Russian Review, 61(1), pp. 113–138.
• ———., Naumov, O. V., & Sher, B. (2002). The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Goldman, W. (2005). Stalinist Terror and Democracy: The 1937 Union Campaign. The American Historical Review, 110(5), pp. 1427–1453.
• Graziosi, A. (2004). The Soviet 1931-1933 Famines and the Ukrainian Holodomor: Is a New Interpretation Possible, and What Would Its Consequences Be?. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 27(1/4), 97-115.
• ———., Hajda, L., & Hryn, H. (2013). After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
• Hagenloh, P. (2009). Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
• Harris, J. (2017). The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Hryn, H. (2009). Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and its Soviet Context. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[138]
• Khlevniuk, O., & Belokowsky, S. (2015). The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as One Interrelated Whole. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 16(3), pp. 479–498.
• Kindler, R. (2014). Famines and Political Communication in Stalinism. Possibilities and Limits of the Sayable. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 62(2), pp. 255–272.
• Klid, B., & Motyl, A. J. (Eds.). (2012). The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
• Jansen, M., & Petrov, N. (2002). Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895–1940. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press.[139][140]
• Khlevniuk, O. G. (2004). The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
• Kuromiya, H. (2007). The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Manning, R. (2009). Political Terror or Political Theater: The "Raion" Show Trials of 1937 and the Mass Operations. Russian History, 36(2), pp. 219–253.
• McDermott, K. (2007) Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 8(3-4), pp. 609–622.
• ———. (1995). Stalinist Terror in the Comintern: New Perspectives. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(1), pp. 111–130.
• ———., & Stibbe, M. (2012). Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
• Naimark, N. M. (2012). Stalin's Genocides. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Nekrich, A. M. (1978). The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Tragic Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War. New York: Norton.
• Nolan, C. (1990). Americans in the Gulag: Detention of US Citizens by Russia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1944-49. Journal of Contemporary History, 25(4), pp. 523–545.
• Parrish, M. (1996). The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport, CT: Praeger.[141][142]
• Pringle, R. W. (2008). SMERSH: Military Counterintelligence and Stalin's Control of the USSR. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 21(1), pp. 122–134.
• Rayfield, D. (2004). Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him. New York, NY: Random House.
• Rimmel, L. (1997). Another Kind of Fear: The Kirov Murder and the End of Bread Rationing in Leningrad. Slavic Review, 56(3), pp. 481–499.
• Rubenstein, J., & Naumov, V. P. (2005). Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Shatz, M. (1984). Stalin, the Great Purge, and Russian History: A new look at the "New Class". Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Shearer, D. R. (2009). Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• ———., & Chaustov, V. N. (2015). Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• ———. (2018). Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66(2), pp. 188–217.
• Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York, NY: Basic Books.[143][144]
• Solzhenitsyn, A. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (3 vols.). (various publishers and translations).[145]
• Vatlin, A. I. U., Bernstein, S., & Khlevni︠u︡k, O. V. (2016). Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Viola, L. (2009). The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Viola, L. (2017). Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[146]
• Werth, N. (2007). Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Wheatcroft, S. (2012). The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(6), pp. 987–1005.

• Brower, D. (1977). Collectivized Agriculture in Smolensk: The Party, the Peasantry, and the Crisis of 1932. The Russian Review, 36(2), pp. 151–166.
• Conquest, R. (2006). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. London, UK: Pimlico.[131][132][133]
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• ———., Ivnitskii, N. A., Kozlov, D., Shabad, S., & Viola, L. (2008). The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.[151][152]
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• Edgar, A. L. (2004). Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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• Applebaum, A. (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York, NY: Doubleday.
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• Babiracki, P. (2015). Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
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• Evangelista, M. (1982). Stalin's Postwar Army Reappraised. International Security, 7(3), pp. 110–138.
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• Hasanli, J. (2011). Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945–1953. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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• Ali, T. (2012). The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books.
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• Mandelʹshtam, N. (2011). Hope Abandoned and Hope Against Hope. Various.
• Shalamov, V., & Rayfield, D. (2018). Kolyma Stories. New York, NY: New York Review Books.
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• Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
• Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
• Index of Soviet Union-related articles
• Anti-Stalinist left
• Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism
• Mass killings under Communist regimes
• Timeline of Russian history

• Bibliographic Research Guide to Soviet History (Harvard University). Compiled by Andrea Graziosi, (University of Naples).
• Selected Bibliography of English-language Print Resources for Russia (Yale University).
• Bibliography: Dissent in the Soviet Union. (Indiana University at Bloomington).
• Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Oxford Academic).
• Forced Labor Camps - Selected Bibliography. Edited by Katalin Dobo. (Central European University).