Russia. A History

———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.