Russia. A History

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 collectivization.

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.