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Below is a list of post World War II scholarly books and journal articles written in or translated into English about communism. Items on this list should be considered a non-exhaustive list of reliable sources related to the theory and practice of communism in its different forms.

The criteria for inclusion are meeting one or more of:

  • Books are published by an academic press or major nationally known unbiased publisher.
  • Academic journals listed are mainstream academic journals published by an academic press or major nationally known publisher.
  • Works that have been reviewed in mainstream academic journals.
  • The author is well known and has written works on the subject that would be considered reliable sources.

The #Further reading section contains works with substantial bibliographies about communism.

The individual list items are in APA format and do not use citation templates. References for individual list items are in APA format and use citation templates. ISBNs are not included; editions are noted when important with an explanatory footnote.

General works about the theory and history of communism

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The Cambridge History of Communism

  • Pons, S., & Smith, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism. (Vol. 1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[a]
  • Naimark, N., Pons, S., & Quinn-Judge, S. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[b]
  • Fürst, J., Pons, S., & Selden, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[c]

Works primarily about theory

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Books in this section are grouped by subject, not author perspective.

Background

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  • Lichtheim, G. (1980). A Short History of Socialism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Marxism and variations

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Leninism and Marxist Leninism

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  • Biggart, J. (1981). "Anti-Leninist Bolshevism": The Forward Group of the RSDRP. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 23(2), pp. 134–153.
  • Evans, A. (1987). Rereading Lenin's State and Revolution. Slavic Review, 46(1), pp. 1–19.
  • Gerratana, V. (1977). Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism'. New Left Review, (103).
  • Harding, N. (1996). Leninism. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • ———. (2010). Lenin's Political Thought (2 vols.). Chicago, IL: Haymarket.
  • Lane, D. S. (1981). Leninism: A Sociological Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Liebman, M. (1975). Leninism Under Lenin. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
  • Levine, N. (1985). Lenin's Utopianism. Studies in Soviet Thought. 30(2), pp. 95–107.
  • Melograni, P. (1989). Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International.[6]
  • Meyer, A. G. (1986). Leninism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[7][8]
  • Ree, E. van. (2010). Lenin's Conception of Socialism in One Country, 1915–17. Revolutionary Russia, 23(2), pp. 159–181.
  • Theen, R. (1972). The Idea of the Revolutionary State: Tkachev, Trotsky, and Lenin. The Russian Review, 31(4), pp. 383–397.
  • Ryan, J. (2012). Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. London: Routledge.
  • Sabine, G. (1961). The Ethics of Bolshevism. The Philosophical Review, 70(3), pp. 299–319.
  • Uldricks, T. J. (1979). Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations, 1917-1930. London, UK: Sage Publications.[9]
  • White, J. D. (2001). Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution. New York: Red Globe Press.

Trotskyism

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Stalinism

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Maoism

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Dengism

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Luxemburgism

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Non-Marxism

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Religious communism

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Anarcho communism

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Works about internations expressions of communism

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  • Getty, J. (1986). Trotsky in Exile: The Founding of the Fourth International. Soviet Studies, 38(1), pp. 24–35.
  • Kirby, D. (1986). War, Peace and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads, 1914-1918. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.[10][11]
  • McDermott, K., Agnew, J. (1996). The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Works about national expressions of communism

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Russia and the Soviet Union

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Europe

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Soviet Eastern Europe

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Asia

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China

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Africa

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Americas

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The United States

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Works about local expressions of communism

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Works here are about communist communities which existed in non-communist states.

Comparative studies

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  • Gellately, R. (2007). Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. New York, NY: Knopf.[38][39]
  • Geyer, M., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2009). Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[40][41][42]
  • Gregor, A. J. (2009). Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Kershaw, I., & Lewin, M. (1997). Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pauley, B. F. (2015). Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Communism and totalitarianism

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Biography

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Biographies of major figures in the history and theory of communism.

  • Baron, S. H. (1963). Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism. Stanford: Stanford University Press.[g]
  • Deutscher, I. (2015). The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. New York, NY: Verso.[h]
  • Getzler, I. (1967). Martov: Political Biography: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kotkin, S. (2014). Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York, NY: Penguin Press.[43][44][45][46]
  • ———. (2017). Stalin. (Vol. 2). Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941. New York, NY: Penguin Books.[47][48]
  • Mccauley, M. (2015). Stalin and Stalinism. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • McLellan, D. (2006). Karl Marx: A Biography. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Theen, R. (2004). Lenin: Genesis and Development of a Revolutionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[49]
  • Wood, A. (2005). Stalin and Stalinism. London, UK: Routledge.

Other

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  • Hanebrink, P. (2018). A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.[50]

Select primary sources in English

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  • Gregor, R. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 2: The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  • Hoffmann, D. L. (Ed.). (2002). Stalinism: The Essential Readings. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Academic journals

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The list below contains academic journals frequently referenced in this bibliography or that will contain other articles related to the history and theory of communism.

Bibliographies

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This annotated list contains bibliographies of communism and works containing significant bibliographies on communism.

Books

  • Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[i][33][34]
  • Pons, S., & Smith, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism. (Vol. 1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[j]
  • Naimark, N., Pons, S., & Quinn-Judge, S. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[b]
  • Fürst, J., Pons, S., & Selden, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[k]

Academic journals

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  2. ^ a b The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  3. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  4. ^ see Karl Kautsky.
  5. ^ See Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  6. ^ Contains a 60 page scholarly select bibliography of works relating to the history of the Soviet Union.
  7. ^ See Georgi Plekhanov.
  8. ^ Originally published in three volumes by Oxford University Press (1954, 1959, 1963).
  9. ^ Contains a 60 page scholarly select bibliography of works relating to the history of the Soviet Union.
  10. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  11. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.

Citations

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  1. ^ Hosking, Geoffrey (2011). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". The Slavonic and East European Review. 89 (3): 580–583. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.3.0580. JSTOR 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.3.0580.
  2. ^ Snyder, Timothy (2010). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". Slavic Review. 69 (3): 725–727. doi:10.1017/S0037677900012213. JSTOR 25746279. S2CID 164578448.
  3. ^ Newnham, Randall E. (2010). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". Europe-Asia Studies. 62 (4): 695–696. doi:10.1080/09668131003737027. JSTOR 27808738. S2CID 217535923.
  4. ^ CHATTERJEE, C. (2022). "Peripheries, Ideologies, and the Origins of War". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 358–362. doi:10.1111/russ.12366. S2CID 246910020.
  5. ^ Mawdsley, Evan (2022). "The spectre of war: International Communism and the origins of World War II". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 64 (1): 119–120. doi:10.1080/00085006.2022.2027114. S2CID 247201377.
  6. ^ Fiddick, T. (1991). "Reviewed Work: Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. by Piero Melograni". Slavic Review. 50 (2): 441–442. doi:10.2307/2500225. JSTOR 2500225. S2CID 164785073.
  7. ^ Tucker, Robert C.; Meyer, Alfred G. (1959). "Leninism". The Slavic and East European Journal. 3 (3): 299. doi:10.2307/305030. JSTOR 305030.
  8. ^ Low, Alfred D.; Meyer, Alfred G. (1959). "Leninism". Russian Review. 18 (3): 241. doi:10.2307/126303. JSTOR 126303.
  9. ^ Campbell, J. C. (1980). "Reviewed Work: Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations, 1917-1930 by Teddy J. Uldricks". Foreign Affairs. 58 (5): 1199–1200. doi:10.2307/20040627. JSTOR 20040627.
  10. ^ Joll, J. (1987). "Reviewed Work: War, Peace and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads 1914-1918 by David Kirby". The Slavonic and East European Review. 65 (2): 296–297. JSTOR 4209512.
  11. ^ Wohl, R. (1989). "Reviewed Work: War, Peace, and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads, 1914-1918 by David Kirby". The Journal of Modern History. 61 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1086/468201. JSTOR 1880977.
  12. ^ Nakai, Kazuo (1981). "Reviewed work: The Sovietization of Ukraine, 1917-1923: The Communist Doctrine and Practice of National Self-Determination. Revised edition, Jurij Borys". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 5 (2): 278–279. JSTOR 41035914.
  13. ^ Ellison, Herbert J. (1962). "Robert V. Daniels, the Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960". Slavic Review. 21: 162–163. doi:10.2307/3000554. JSTOR 3000554. S2CID 164654258.
  14. ^ Barghoorn, F. C. (1961). "Reviewed work: The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia, Robert Vincent Daniels". The Journal of Modern History. 33 (4): 466–467. doi:10.1086/238969. JSTOR 1877273.
  15. ^ Dallin, Alexander; Daniels, Robert Vincent (1961). "The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia". Political Science Quarterly. 76 (2): 304. doi:10.2307/2146231. hdl:2027/uva.x000379449. JSTOR 2146231.
  16. ^ Munk, Frank; Daniels, Robert Vincent (1961). "The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia". The Western Political Quarterly. 14 (3): 778. doi:10.2307/444301. hdl:2027/uva.x000379449. JSTOR 444301.
  17. ^ Husband, W. B. (1994). "Reviewed Work: The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918 by Ronald I. Kowalski". Russian History. 21 (1): 91–92. JSTOR 24657268.
  18. ^ Melancon, M. (1993). "Reviewed Work: The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918. by Ronald I. Kowalski". Slavic Review. 52 (2): 368–369. doi:10.2307/2499939. JSTOR 2499939. S2CID 164411133.
  19. ^ Venturi, A. (1984). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police by George Leggett". The Journal of Modern History. 56 (4): 767–768. doi:10.1086/242774. JSTOR 1880364.
  20. ^ Squire, P. S. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police by George Leggett". The Slavonic and East European Review. 60 (1): 132–133. JSTOR 4208468.
  21. ^ Thurston, R. W. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police. The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (December 1917 to February 1922). by George Leggett". Slavic Review. 41 (3): 549–551. doi:10.2307/2497034. JSTOR 2497034. S2CID 157933756.
  22. ^ Dallin, A. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police; The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (December 1917 to February 1922) by George Leggett". The American Historical Review. 87 (4): 1136–1137. doi:10.2307/1858027. JSTOR 1858027.
  23. ^ Long, J. W. (1975). "The "Red Years": European Socialism versus Bolshevism, 1919–1921". History: Reviews of New Books. 3 (6): 154. doi:10.1080/03612759.1975.9946948.
  24. ^ Daniels, Robert V. (1980). "Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922. By T. H. Rigby. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979". Slavic Review. 39 (2): 308–309. doi:10.2307/2496801. JSTOR 2496801. S2CID 164690316.
  25. ^ Rees, E. A. (1980). "Reviewed work: Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922, T. H. Rigby". Soviet Studies. 32 (4): 598–600. JSTOR 151293.
  26. ^ Wortman, Richard; Rogger, Hans (1985). "Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, 1881-1917". Russian Review. 44 (3): 299. doi:10.2307/129309. JSTOR 129309.
  27. ^ Ascher, Abraham (1984). "Reviewed work: Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881-1917, Hans Rogger". Russian History. 11 (4): 452–454. JSTOR 24652691.
  28. ^ Clements, B. E. (1985). "Reviewed Work: Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. by William G. Rosenberg". Slavic Review. 44 (4): 720–721. doi:10.2307/2498551. JSTOR 2498551. S2CID 164662130.
  29. ^ Verhoeven, Claudia (2013). "Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. By James Ryan. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. London: Routledge, 2012. Xii, 260 pp". Slavic Review. 72 (4): 899–900. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.72.4.0899. S2CID 165029747.
  30. ^ Shore, Marci (18 August 2017). "The Russian Revolution Recast as an Epic Family Tragedy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  31. ^ Owen Hatherley (15 December 2017). "The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine review – the Russian Revolution told through one building". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  32. ^ Rose Deller (26 February 2018). "Book Review: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine". The London School of Economics. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  33. ^ a b Smith, Mark B. (2009). "Reviewed work: The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 3: The Twentieth Century, Ronald Grigor Suny". The Slavonic and East European Review. 87 (3): 564–567. doi:10.1353/see.2009.0090. JSTOR 40650434. S2CID 247619693.
  34. ^ a b Nathans, Benjamin (2009). "The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 3, the Twentieth Century. Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007". The Journal of Modern History. 81 (3): 756–758. doi:10.1086/649129.
  35. ^ Sorenson, Jay B.; Schapiro, Leonard (1957). "The Origin of the Communist Autocracy, Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase: 1917-1922". American Slavic and East European Review. 16: 84. doi:10.2307/3001342. JSTOR 3001342.
  36. ^ Hendel, Samuel; Schapiro, Leonard (1956). "The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase, 1917-1922". Political Science Quarterly. 71 (2): 296. doi:10.2307/2145036. JSTOR 2145036.
  37. ^ Elkin, B. (1961). "Roots of Revolution: A History of Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia". International Affairs. 37 (2): 209–210. doi:10.2307/2611838. JSTOR 2611838.
  38. ^ Walton, C. D. (2009). "A Review of "Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe"". Comparative Strategy. 29 (2): 190–192. doi:10.1080/01495930902799814. S2CID 153217580.
  39. ^ Tismaneanu, V. (2009). "Book Review: Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 10 (3): 724–729. doi:10.1353/kri.0.0100. S2CID 161337701.
  40. ^ Krammer, A. (2010). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick". German Studies Review. 33 (2): 431–432. JSTOR 20787947.
  41. ^ Stibbe, M. (2011). "Reviewed Works: Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately; Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick; Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time by Bernard Wasserstein". The Journal of Modern History. 83 (2): 387–394. doi:10.1086/659158. JSTOR 10.1086/659158.
  42. ^ Gleason, A. (2009). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick". Slavic Review. 68 (4): 946–948. doi:10.2307/25593796. JSTOR 25593796.
  43. ^ Zubok, Vladislav (2016). "Book Review: Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". Cold War History. 16 (2): 231–233. doi:10.1080/14682745.2016.1153851. S2CID 156644120.
  44. ^ Siegelbaum, L. (2015). "Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928". Slavic Review. 74 (3): 604–606. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.604. S2CID 164564763.
  45. ^ Folly, Martin H. (2016). "Book Review: Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". The Historian. 74 (4): 813–815. doi:10.1111/hisn.12396. S2CID 152066357.
  46. ^ Tismaneanu, V. (2015). "Book Review: Stalin: Volume 1: The Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". Perspectives on Politics. 13 (2): 567–569. doi:10.1017/S1537592715000936. S2CID 151500856.
  47. ^ Carley, Michael Jabara (2018). "Stalin. Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler 1928–1941". Europe-Asia Studies. 70 (3): 477–479. doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1455444. S2CID 158248404.
  48. ^ Lenoe, Matthew (2019). "Stephen Kotkin. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941". The American Historical Review. 124 (1): 376–377. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy475.
  49. ^ Scheibert, P. (1974). "Reviewed Work: Lenin: Genesis and Development of a Revolutionary. by Rolf H. W. Theen, Walter Kaufmann". Slavic Review. 33 (2): 349–350. doi:10.2307/2495806. JSTOR 2495806.
  50. ^ "Book Reviews". The Russian Review. 80 (3): 510–549. 2021. doi:10.1111/russ.12329. S2CID 26990304.
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