Russia. A History

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.