Russia. A History

R. A. Medvedev, Let History Judge (2nd edn., New York, 1989), gold mine of information by dissident Soviet historian.

D. Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Ithaca, NY, 2004), study of the unveiling campaign, in Uzbekistan in the late 1920s and 1930s.

E. Osokina, Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin’s Russia, 1927–1941 (Armonk, NY, 2001), study showing consumer shortages and black market as endemic to the Stalinist economy.

K. Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Bloomington, Ind., 2000), on festivals and holidays as an important dimension of Soviet political culture.

M. Payne, Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism (Pittsburgh, 2001), study of the motives, problems, and achievements of a grandiose Stalinist project in Central Asia.

Iu. A. Poliakov, A Half Century of Silence: The 1937 Census (New York, 1992), interesting data on the suppressed census of 1937.

E. A. Rees (ed.), Decision-Making in the Stalinist Command Economy, 1932–1937 (New York, 1997), essays on how the Stalinist regime actually made economic decisions.

G. T. Rittersporn, Stalinist Implications and Soviet Complications (Chur, 1991), revisionist critique of totalitarian historiography.

W. G. Rosenberg and L. H. Siegelbaum (eds.), Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization (Bloomington, Ind., 1993), collected essays on social mobility, workplace politics, and labour culture.

J. Rossman, Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor (Cambridge, Mass. 2005), valuable monograph on the response of workers’ in Ivanovo.

J. Scott, Behind the Urals

(Bloomington, Ind., 1966), graphic account of the building of Magnitogorsk.

L. H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–41 (Cambridge, 1986), on the Stakhanovite movement as a window on to industrial relations.

———and A. Sokolov (eds.), Stalinism as a Way of Life (New Haven,

CT, 2000), interpretative documentary on life and work in Stalinist Russia.

P. Solomon, Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (Cambridge, 1996), close study of a key institution.

D. Thorniley, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Rural Communist Party, 1927–39 (New York, 1988), shows party weakness and failure to establish control over the village.

R. C. Tucker (ed.), Stalinism (New York, 1977), important collection of essays.

———Stalin in Power (New York, 1990), treats Stalin Revolution as a reversion to the developmental mode in pre-revolutionary Russia.

L. Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin (New York, 1996), innovative examination of the culture of peasant resistance and collectivization.

———The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements (Oxford, 2007), study of kulaks sent to special labour camps in early 1930s.

D. Volkogonov, Stalin (New York, 1991), draws heavily upon new archival materials.

12. THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR AND LATE STALINISM, 1941–1953

C. Andreyev, Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement (Cambridge, 1987), excellent account of anti-Soviet units formed from Soviet prisoners of war.

J. A. Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism (3rd edn., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990), study of nationalist movements in the Ukraine during the Second World War.

J. Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich (eds.), Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–44 (New York, 2005), essays on the Leningrad blockade with new data on the scale of privation and morbidity.

———and M. Harrison, The Soviet Home Front, 1941–45 (London, 1991), pioneering study examines how Soviet system withstood Nazi invasion.

O. Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941–45 (New York, 1986), discusses the German prosecution of the eastern campaign as a ‘race war’.

F. Belov, The History of A Collective Farm (New York, 1955), inside account of life on a collective farm.