Russia. A History

Y. Boshyk (ed.), Ukraine during World War II (Edmonton, 1986), articles on German occupation and Ukrainian resistance.

R. Brody, Ideology and Political Mobilization (Pittsburgh, 1994), on benefits and limits of Soviet ideology in validating the regime’s authority and controlling its citizens during the war.

G. Bucher, Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945–1953 (Boulder, Colo., 2006), examination of the extraordinary burden imposed on women and the shortfall of promised social services in post-war reconstruction.

T. A. Chumachenko, Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years (Armonk, NY, 2002), well-researched account of the Church in the late Stalin and Khrushchev eras.

R. W. Davies, Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution (Bloomington, Ind., 1989), on the historiography of the war.

M. Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (New York, 1962), classic account of three encounters between Stalin and Yugoslav communists in the 1940s.

T. Dunmore, Soviet Politics, 1945–53 (New York, 1984), general survey, contesting the totalitarian thesis and showing bureaucratic conflict as key to decision-making.

J. Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad (New York, 1975), superior military analysis of the war up to Stalingrad.

———The Road to Berlin (Boulder, Colo., 1983), still the best history of the war from 1942 to its conclusion.

D. Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II (Cambridge, 2002), on worker wartime resistance (chiefly by evasion and flight) against harsh working and living conditions.

H. Fireside, Icon and Swastika

(Cambridge, 1971), on the revival of the Orthodox Church under German occupation and rapprochement between state and Church in 1943.

J. Fürst (ed.), Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (London, 2006), essays reflecting the growing interest in post-war Soviet era.

J. Garrard and C. Garrard (eds.), World War II and the Soviet People (London, 1993), articles on the home front during the war.

D. Glantz and J. House, When Titans Clashed (Lawrence, Kan., 1995), operational military history.

S. N. Goncharov, J. W. Lewis, and X. Litai, Uncertain Partners (Stanford, Calif., 1993), collective work of international team tapping new archival documentation.

Y. Gorlizki and O. Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle (Oxford, 2004), critical reappraisal of decision-making in the post-war Stalinist regime.

M. Harrison, Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–45 (Cambridge, 1985), good account of the wartime economy.

D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb (New Haven, CT, 1994), superb monograph on the Soviet atomic bomb programme.

W. Moskoff, The Bread of Affliction (Cambridge, 1990), first-rate study of agriculture and food supply during the war.

D. E. Murphy, What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa (New Haven, CT, 2005), close analysis informed by new archival sources.

A. M. Nekrich, The Punished Peoples

(New York, 1978), on the deportation of nationalities during the Second World War.

R. Pennington, Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat (Lawrence, Kan., 2001), on the significant role of women in the Soviet air force during the war.

C. Porter and M. Jones, Moscow in World War II (London, 1987), social history from perspective of sympathy for the Soviet government.

H. Ragsdale, The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the Coming of World War II (New York, 2004), recent survey of the diplomatic background to the outbreak of war.

A. Resis (ed.), Molotov Remembers (Chicago, IL, 1994), provides insights into Soviet policy in the 1940s and 1950s.

D. Reynolds (ed.), The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (New Haven, CT, 1994), collection of articles highlighting post-Cold War scholarship.

H. Shukman (ed.), Stalin’s Generals (New York, 1993), short biographies of top Soviet commanders during the war.