Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II

This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the Soviet Union during the Second World War, the period leading up to the war, and the immedidate aftermath. For works on the Stalinism and the Soviet Union, please see Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union. Book entries may have references to reviews published in English language academic journals or major newspapers when these could be considered helpful.

Works included are referenced positively 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, or have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length managable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.

Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter length bibliographies. The External Links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

A limited number of English translations of significant primary sources are included along with references to larger archival collections.

This bibliography uses APA style citations.

Gemeral works
Stalingrad
Main articles: Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union and Bibliography of World War II
See also: Soviet Union in World War II
  • Buttar, P. (2015). Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing.
  • David-Fox, M., Holquist, P., & Martin, A. M. (2012). Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as entangled histories, 1914–1945. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.[1][2][3]
  • Glantz, D. M. (2014). Stalin’s Strategic Intentions, 1941–1945: Soviet Military Operations as Indicators of Stalin’s Postwar Territorial Ambitions. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 27(4), pp. 676–720.
  • Goldman, S. D. (2013). Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
  • Hill, A. (2017). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Linz, S. J. (1985). The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.
  • Merridale, C. (2007). Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
  • Noggle, A. (2007). A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.[4][5]
  • Roberts, G. (2011). Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.[6][7]
  • Shearer, D. (2018). Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat. Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas, 66(2), pp. 188–217.
  • Weiner, A. (2012). Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.[8][9][10]

Spanish Civil War
See also: Spanish Civil War
  • Beevor, A. (2014). The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Hooton, E. R. (2019). Spain in Arms: A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939. Philadelphia, PA: Casemate Books.
  • Krammer, A. (1973). Spanish Volunteers against Bolshevism: The Blue Division. The Russian Review, 32(4), pp. 388–402.
  • Payne, S. G. (2012). The Spanish Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Preston, P. (2016). The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. London, UK: William Collins.
  • Thomas, H. (1977). The Spanish Civil War. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
  • Volkova, I. (2020). Spanish Republicans' Struggle and Its Impact on the Soviet Wartime Generation. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21(2), pp. 327–346.

The Nazi-Soviet alliance (1939—1941)
Stalin and Ribbentrop greeting each other in the Kremlin
See also: Nazi Germany, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Soviet invasion of Poland, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Military history of Finland during World War II, Winter War, Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), and Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina
  • Hiden, J., & Lane, T. (2011). The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rentola, K. (2013). Intelligence and Stalin's Two Crucial Decisions in the Winter War, 1939–40. The International History Review, 35(5), pp. 1089–1112.
  • Moorhouse, R. (2014). The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941. New York, NY: Basic Books.[11][12]
  • Moorhouse, R. (2020). Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Roberts, G. (1990). The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.[13][14]
  • Sanford, G. (2005). Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Uldricks, T. J. (1977). Stalin and Nazi Germany. Slavic Review, 36(4), pp. 599–603.
  • Uldricks, T. J. (1999). The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler?. Slavic Review, 58(3), pp. 626–643.

Nazi–Soviet War
Soviet children during a German air raid
The Polish flag raised on the top of Berlin Victory Column on 2 May 1945
Victorious Soviet troops raise the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag on 2 May 1945.
See also: Eastern Front (World War II) and Continuation War

These works focus on Soviet experiences and operations and the war from Soviet perspective. For a more complete list of works about the Eastern front during World War II, see Bibliography of World War II.

  • Beevor, Antony. (1998). Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942–1943. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Bellamy, C. (2007). Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York, NY: Knopf.[15]
  • Glantz, D. M. (1991). From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Glantz, D. M. (2009). After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942–1943. Warwick, UK: Helion and Company
  • Glantz, D. M. (2009). Stalingrad (3 vols.). Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas
  • Glantz, D. M. (2010/2012/2014). Barbarossa Derailed (3 vols.). Warwick, UK: Helion and Company.
  • Glantz, D. M. (2011). Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941. Cheltenham, UK: History Press.
  • Glantz, D. M., & House, J. M. (2015). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.[16][17]
  • Hardesty, V., & Grinberg, I. (2019). Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.[18]
  • Harvey, A. (2018). The Russian Air Force Versus the Luftwaffe: A Western European View. Air Power History, 65(1), pp. 23–30.
  • Overy, R. (1997). Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Snyder, T. (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York, NY: Basic Books.[19][20]

The Soviet homefront during World War II
See also: Siege of Leningrad, Battle of Moscow, and Battle of Kiev (1941)
  • Barber, J., & Harrison, M. (1991). The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. London, UK: Longman.[21][22]
  • Bidlack, R. (2000). The Political Mood in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War. The Russian Review, 59(1), pp. 96–113.
  • Braithwaite, R. (2010). Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War. London, UK: Profile Books.[23]
  • Collingham, E. M. (2013). The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Garrard, J., & Garrard, C. (1993). World War 2 and the Soviet People. New York, NY: Macmillan.
  • Jekelʹčyk, S. O. (2014). Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Kragh, M. (2011). Soviet Labour Law during the Second World War. War in History, 18(4), pp. 531–546.
  • Manley, R. (2012). To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Reid, A. (2012). Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944. New York, Ny: Walker & Co.
  • Stites, R. (1995). Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
  • Thurston, R. W., & Bonwetsch, B. (2000). The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • Weiner, A. (1996). The Making of a Dominant Myth: The Second World War and the Construction of Political Identities within the Soviet Polity. The Russian Review, 55(4), pp. 638–660.

Genocide and war crimes
Victims murdered by the NKVD in the last few days of June 1941
See also: Babi Yar, Rape during the occupation of Germany, Deportation of the Crimean Tatars, and German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war

This section contains works relating to war crimes and acts of genocide committed by or against the Soviets and events of the Holocaust committed on Soviet territory.

  • Arad, Y. (2013). The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.[24][25][26]
  • Beevor, A. (2014). The Fall of Berlin 1945. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Beorn, W. W. (2014). Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[27][28]
  • Cassedy, E. (2012). We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.[29]
  • Gerhard, G. (2017). Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.[30][31]
  • Kay, A. J., Rutherford, J., & Stahel, D. (2014). Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
  • Kershaw, I. (2014). The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Lower, W. (2007). Nazi Empire-building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.[32][33][34][35]
  • Sanford, G. (2006). The Katyn Massacre and Polish-Soviet Relations, 1941-43. Journal of Contemporary History, 41(1), pp. 95–111.
  • Statiev, A. (2013). The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[36][37]
  • Steinhart, E. C. (2018). The Holocaust and Germanization of Ukraine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

The Allies and the Soviet Union in World War II
Big Three in Yalta Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
See also: Grand Alliance (World War II)

Other studies

Historical fiction

A select list of notable historical fiction related to the Soviet Union during World War II.[lower-alpha 1]

Filmography

A select list of notable films related to the Soviet Union during World War II. This list does not include newsreels.[lower-alpha 1]

Primary sources

A select list of notable primary sources related to the Soviet Union during World War II.[lower-alpha 1]

Further reading

Many of the above works contain bibliographies. Included below are a selection of works with large bibliographies related to Russian history.

  • Bellamy, C. (2007). Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York, NY: Knopf.[44]
  • Jekelʹčyk, S. O. (2014). Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

See also

References

Notes
  1. Entries either have articles or are referenced with reliable secondary sources.

Citations
  1. Mawdsley, Evan (2013). "Reviewed work: Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945, Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, Alexander M. Martin". The Russian Review. 72 (3): 524–525. JSTOR 43661889.
  2. Suny, Ronald Grigor (2013). "Reviewed work: Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945, Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, Alexander M. Martin". German Studies Review. 36 (3): 709–711. doi:10.1353/gsr.2013.0110. JSTOR 43555167. S2CID 161705546.
  3. Nicole Eaton (2016). "Reviewed work: Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945". The Slavonic and East European Review. 94 (4): 754. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0754.
  4. Crosby, David F.; Noggle, Anne; White, Christine A. (2002). "Reviewed work: A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II, NoggleAnne, WhiteChristine A". Air Power History. 49 (4): 58. JSTOR 26274372.
  5. Bucher, Greta; Noggle, Anne (1995). "A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II". Russian Review. 54 (3): 477. doi:10.2307/131466. JSTOR 131466.
  6. Haslam, Jonathan (2008). "Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. By Geoffrey Roberts. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (4): 968–970. doi:10.1086/596701.
  7. Pauley, Bruce F. (2008). "Reviewed work: Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953, Geoffrey Roberts". The Historian. 70 (2): 392–393. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00213_64.x. JSTOR 24454479.
  8. Suny, Ronald Grigor (2002). "Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. By Amir Weiner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001". The Journal of Modern History. 74 (3): 693–695. doi:10.1086/345149.
  9. Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (2001). "Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. By Amir Weiner Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001". Slavic Review. 60 (4): 865–866. doi:10.2307/2697531. JSTOR 2697531.
  10. Armstrong, John A. (2002). "Reviewed work: Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution, Amir Weiner". The International History Review. 24 (1): 182–184. JSTOR 40110077.
  11. Legvold, Robert (2014). "Reviewed work: The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941, ROGER MOORHOUSE". Foreign Affairs. 93 (6): 197. JSTOR 24483963.
  12. Harrison, Richard W. (2015). "The Devil's Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941, by Moorhouse, Roger". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 28 (3): 588–590. doi:10.1080/13518046.2015.1061829.
  13. Edmonds, Robin (1990). "Reviewed work: The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler, Geoffrey Roberts". Soviet Studies. 42 (3): 594–595. JSTOR 152057.
  14. Croan, Melvin (1991). "The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler. By Geoffrey Roberts. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989". Slavic Review. 50 (3): 698–699. doi:10.2307/2499878. JSTOR 2499878.
  15. Reese, R. R (2009). "Reviewed Work: Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy". Slavic Review. 68 (3): 702–703. doi:10.1017/S0037677900020118. JSTOR 25621694.
  16. Homze, Edward L. (1997). "Reviewed Work: When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House, Darin Grauberger, George F. McCleary, Jr". The American Historical Review. 102 (3): 854–855. doi:10.2307/2171611. JSTOR 2171611.
  17. Farrar, L. L. (1996). "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler". History: Reviews of New Books. 24 (4): 184. doi:10.1080/03612759.1996.9952536.
  18. Bobrow, J.; Grinberg, Ilya (2012). "Reviewed work: Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II, von Hardesty, GrinbergIlya". Air Power History. 59 (3): 60. JSTOR 26276226.
  19. Rubenstein, Joshua (26 November 2010). "The Devils' Playground (review of Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  20. Moorhouse, Roger (8 November 2010). "Review: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin". History Extra. BBC. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  21. Dziewanowski, M. K. (1993). "Reviewed work: The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II, John Barber, Mark Harrison". Russian History. 20 (1/4): 392–394. doi:10.1163/187633193X00955. JSTOR 24657377.
  22. Bidlack, Richard (1992). "The Soviet Home Front 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. By John Barber and Mark Harrison. New York: Longman, 1991. Xiii, 252 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Maps. Index. Paper". Slavic Review. 51 (3): 616–617. doi:10.2307/2500108. JSTOR 2500108.
  23. Harrison, Mark (2008). "Reviewed work: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, Rodric Braithwaite". Slavic Review. 67 (2): 511–512. doi:10.1017/S0037677900024207. JSTOR 27652910.
  24. Liekis, Šarūnas (2010). "Reviewed work: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yitzhak Arad". Journal of Baltic Studies. 41 (4): 560–562. doi:10.1080/01629778.2010.527145. JSTOR 43212992.
  25. Rubenstein, Joshua (2010). "Reviewed work: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yitzhak Arad". Slavic Review. 69 (3): 776–777. doi:10.1017/S0037677900012596. JSTOR 25746317.
  26. Steinhart, Eric C. (2010). "Reviewed work: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yitzhak Arad". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 41 (2): 297–298. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00075. JSTOR 40785124.
  27. Walke, Anika (2015). "Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. By Waitman Wade Beorn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014". Slavic Review. 74: 194–195. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.194.
  28. Johannes Due Enstad (2015). "Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus". The Slavonic and East European Review. 93 (3): 580. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.3.0580.
  29. Marlow (2012). "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust". The Polish Review. 57 (3): 112. doi:10.5406/polishreview.57.3.0112.
  30. Sandra Chaney (2016). "Reviewed work: Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich, Gesine Gerhard". Agricultural History. 90 (4): 554. doi:10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.554.
  31. Prodöhl, Ines (2016). "Reviewed work: Nazi Hunger Politics: A History of Food in the Third Reich, Gesine Gerhard". Central European History. 49 (2): 283–284. doi:10.1017/S0008938916000534. JSTOR 43965274.
  32. Lumans, Valdis O. (2006). "Reviewed work: Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, Wendy Lower". Central European History. 39 (3): 534–536. doi:10.1017/S000893890638017X. JSTOR 20457170.
  33. Hagen, William W. (2007). "Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. By Wendy Lower. Chapel Hill: University of Nordi Carolina Press, 2005. Xx, 307 pp". Slavic Review. 66 (2): 335–336. doi:10.2307/20060246. JSTOR 20060246.
  34. Himka, John-Paul (2006). "Reviewed work: Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, Wendy Lower". The International History Review. 28 (3): 634–636. JSTOR 40111263.
  35. Share, Michael (2006). "Reviewed work: Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, Wendy Lower". The Russian Review. 65 (3): 544–545. JSTOR 3877333.
  36. Kuzio, Taras (2012). "Reviewed work: The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands, Alexander Statiev". Europe-Asia Studies. 64 (2): 370–372. doi:10.1080/09668136.2011.646472. JSTOR 41478350. S2CID 154303988.
  37. Marshall, Alex (2012). "Reviewed work: The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands, Alexander Statiev". War in History. 19 (1): 110–111. doi:10.1177/0968344511422316f. JSTOR 26098335. S2CID 161780214.
  38. Legvold, Robert (2015). "Reviewed work: Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership, SUSAN BUTLER". Foreign Affairs. 94 (2): 195. JSTOR 24483526.
  39. Zimmer, Thomas; Neiberg, Michael (2016). "Reviewed work: Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, NeibergMichael". Journal of Contemporary History. 51 (4): 910–912. doi:10.1177/0022009416661476g. JSTOR 26416493.
  40. Zubok, Vladislav (2011). "Yalta: The Price of Peace. By S. M Plokhy. New York: Viking, 2010". Slavic Review. 70: 203–204. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0203.
  41. Fedyashin, Anton (2011). "Reviewed work: Yalta: The Price of Peace, S. M. Plokhy". Russian Review. 70 (4): 712–713. JSTOR 41290068.
  42. Folly, Martin (2019). "The Kremlin letters: Stalin's Wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt". Diplomacy & Statecraft. 30 (4): 837–838. doi:10.1080/09592296.2019.1666484.
  43. Kuromiya, Hiroaki (2019). "The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt. Edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. )". Historian. 81 (4): 745–747. doi:10.1111/hisn.13297.
  44. Reese, R. R (2009). "Reviewed Work: Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy". Slavic Review. 68 (3): 702–703. doi:10.1017/S0037677900020118. JSTOR 25621694.
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