Russia. A History

R. W. Stephan, Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence against the Nazis, 1941–1945 (Lawrence, Kan., 2004), on Stalin’s actions to prevent Germany from recruiting agents in the Soviet military and intelligence.

R. Thurston and B. Bonwetsch (eds.), The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (Urbana, Ill., 2000), wide-ranging essays on the war’s impact and popular reaction.

G. L. Weinberg, A World at Arms (Cambridge, 1994), prize-winning general history of the Second World War.

E. Zubkova, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957 (Armonk, NY, 1998), on public opinion in post-war Stalin era.

13. FROM STALINISM TO STAGNATION, 1953–1985

S. H. Baron, Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union (Stanford, Calif., 2001), on the Novocherkassk strike of 1962 and its repression.

S. Bialer, Stalin’s Successors (Cambridge, 1980), on party leadership in post-Stalinist era.

V. Bonnell and G. Breslauer (eds.), Russia in the New Century: Stability of Disorder (Boulder, Colo., 2001), essays on the late Yeltsin era.

G. W. Breslauer, Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders (London, 1982), penetrating assessment of leadership styles and achievements.

R. A. Divine (ed.), The Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd edn., New York, 1988), contains new information and recollection of key participants.

J. Ellis, The Russian Orthodox Church (Beckenham, 1986), informed contemporary history.

L. Grau and M. A. Gress (eds.), The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost

(Lawrence, Kan., 2002), the Russian General Staff’s post-mortem on the Afghan conflict, stressing Russia’s adaptation and the impact of American bounties and weapons for the insurgency.

G. A. Hosking, Beyond Socialist Realism (New York, 1980), scintillating analysis of ‘village writers’.

J. L. H. Keep, Last of the Empires (Oxford, 1995), sweeping recent history of post-war USSR.

N. S. Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (3 vols., Boston, MA, 1970–90), edited versions of memoirs.

P. Jones (ed.), The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era (London, 2006), essays on the impact of de-Stalinization on the public, policy, and culture.

S. N. Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchevism (Boston, 1990), memoir of Khrushchev’s son.

N. Lubin, Labour and Nationality in Soviet Central Asia (Princeton, NJ, 1984), on the complex problems of labour and economic development.

A. McAuley, Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union (Madison, 1979), on poverty and income distribution.

M. McCauley (ed.), Khrushchev and Khrushchevism (Bloomington, Ind., 1987), useful collection of essays.

———Nikita Khrushchev (London, 1991), reliable, up-to-date biography.

J. Millar (ed.), Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the U.S.S.R. (New York, 1987), results of survey of former Soviet citizens.

M. Shatz, Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective (New York, 1980).

M. J. Sodaro, Moscow, Germany, and the West from Khrushchev to Gorbachev (Ithaca, NY, 1990), expert account.

W. Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era

(New York, 2003), standard political biography based on exhaustive research.

———S. Khrushchev, and A. Gleason (eds.), Nikita Khrushchev (New Haven, CT, 2000), informative collection of essays on Khrushchev and his role.

A. P. Van Goudoever, The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (London, 1986).

V. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill, NC, 2007), informative survey of post-Stalinist foreign policy of the USSR.

14. A MODERN ‘TIME OF TROUBLES: FROM REFORMS TO DISINTEGRATION’ 1985–1999

A. Åslund, Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform (2nd edn., Ithaca, NY, 1991), critique of Gorbachev’s reforms, arguing in favour of a rapid transition to the market economy.