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Great historians of the Soviet Union and their books to read if you want to understand the early Soviet history

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These writers are great historians and wonderful authors to read. There are many great Soviet historians and authors, but these are my favorites; except for the first two, they are listed in no particular order. I know the first several authors are not traditional.

Author Book(s)
Solzhenitsyn, A. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. (1962/1963).[a]
Grossman, V. Life and Fate (R. Chandler, Trans.). (2012). New York, NY: NYRB Classics.[b]
Gorky, M. Mother[c]
Zamyatin, Y. We (novel)[d]
Nikolai Ostrovsky How the Steel Was Tempered[e]
Figes, O. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia. (2008). New York, NY: Picador.[1][2]

Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991. (2015). New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.

Kotkin, S. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. (2014). New York, NY: Penguin Books.[3][4][5][6]

Stalin. (Vol. 2). Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941. (2017). New York, NY: Penguin Books.[7][8]

Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. (1997). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.[9][10][11]

Applebaum, A. Gulag: A History. (2003). New York, NY: Doubleday.[12][13]

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. (2017). New York, NY: Doubleday.[14][15][16]

Engelstein, L. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921. (2017). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[17][18]
Lieven, D. The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution. (2016). New York, NY: Penguin Books.[19][20]
Smele, J. The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. (2016). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[f][21][22][23]
Fitzpatrick, S. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. (1999). New York: Oxford University Press.[24][25][26]

Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. (1994). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[27][28][29][30]

Zygar, M. The Empire Must Die: Russia’s Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917. (2017). New York, NY: PublicAffairs.[31]
Kenez, P. The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929. (2003). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[32][33][34][35]
Slezkine, Y. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. (2017). Princeton: Princeton University Press.[36][37][38]
Viola, L. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.[39]

The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Notes

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  1. ^ The translation by H.T. Willetts is the only one that is based on the canonical Russian text and the only one authorized by Solzhenitsyn. See One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. (1991). New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN 978-0-00-271607-9.
  2. ^ Original work published 1960.
  3. ^ Original work published 1906.
  4. ^ Original work published 1921.
  5. ^ Original work published 1932.
  6. ^ Contains an extensive 46 pp. bibliography of English and non-English works on the “Russian” Civil Wars.

References

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  1. ^ Viola, Lynne (2008). "Reviewed Work: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes". Slavic Review. 67 (2): 440–443. doi:10.1017/S0037677900023640. JSTOR 27652854.
  2. ^ Perks, Rob (2008). "Reviewed Work: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes". Oral History. 36 (2): 107–108. JSTOR 40179997.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Siegelbaum, L. (2015). "Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928". Slavic Review. 74 (3): 604–606. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.604.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Lenoe, Matthew (2019). "Stephen Kotkin. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941". The American Historical Review. 124: 376–377. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy475.
  9. ^ Hudson, Hugh D. (1995). "Reviewed Work: Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. by Stephen Kotkin". Slavic Review. 54 (4): 1096–1097. doi:10.2307/2501463. JSTOR 2501463.
  10. ^ Harris, James R. (1997). "Reviewed Work: Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin". Russian History. 24 (3): 364–366. JSTOR 24658446.
  11. ^ Marker, Gary (1996). "Reviewed Work: Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin". The Slavic and East European Journal. 40 (4): 774–775. doi:10.2307/310128. JSTOR 310128.
  12. ^ "Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)". The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction. 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  13. ^ Miner, Steven Merritt (May 11, 2003). "The Other Killing Machine. Review GULAG A History by Anne Applebaumof". New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  14. ^ Kuzio, Taras (2018). "Red Famine. Stalin's War on Ukraine". Europe-Asia Studies. 70 (8): 1334–1335. doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1520510.
  15. ^ Fitzpatrick, Sheila (August 25, 2017). "Red Famine by Anne Applebaum review – did Stalin deliberately let Ukraine starve?". The Guardian Book Reviews. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  16. ^ Hochschild, Adam (October 18, 2017). "Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  17. ^ Orlovsky, D. (2017). "Review Essay: The Russian Revolution at 100". Slavic Review. 76 (3): 763–771. doi:10.1017/slr.2017.184.
  18. ^ Korobeinikov, A. (2019). "Review: Russia in Flames. War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921". Europe-Asia Studies. 71 (9). doi:10.1080/09668136.2019.1674531.
  19. ^ Sanborn, J. (2016). "Reviewed Work: Towards the Flame: Empire, War, and the End of Tsarist Russia by Lieven, Dominic". The Slavonic and East European Review. 94 (4): 752–754. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0752. JSTOR 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0752.
  20. ^ Legvold, R. (2015). "Reviewed Work: The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution". Foreign Affairs. 94 (5): 193. JSTOR 24483773.
  21. ^ Lohr, E. (2017). "Book Review: The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years that Shook the World. By Jonathan D. Smele". Slavic Review. 74 (4): 1123–1124. doi:10.1017/slr.2017.321.
  22. ^ Wade, Rex A. (2016). "Reviewed Work: The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World by Smele, Jonathan D.". The Slavonic and East European Review. 94 (4): 760–762. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0760. JSTOR 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0760.
  23. ^ Kroner, Anthony (2017). "Book Review: The 'Russian' Civil Wars 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World". Revolutionary Russia. 30 (1): 142–145. doi:10.1080/09546545.2017.1305540.
  24. ^ Rossman, J. J. (2001). "Reviewed Work: Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick". The Journal of Modern History. 73 (3): 722–724. doi:10.1086/339084. JSTOR 10.1086/339084.
  25. ^ Siegelbaum, L. H. (1999). "Reviewed Work: Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Slavic Review. 56 (4): 921–922. doi:10.2307/2697237. JSTOR 2697237.
  26. ^ Fedotova, Oksana (1999). "Reviewed Work: Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Russian History. 26 (1): 104–105. JSTOR 24659264.
  27. ^ Johnson, R. (1996). "Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization". Slavic Review. 55 (1): 186–187. doi:10.2307/2500998. JSTOR 2500998.
  28. ^ Orlovsky, D. (1996). "Review: Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization". International Labor and Working-Class History. 50: 174–177. doi:10.1017/S0147547900013363.
  29. ^ Richardson, William (1994). "Review: Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization". History: Reviews of New Books. 23 (1): 36–37. doi:10.1080/03612759.1994.9950930.
  30. ^ Merl, Stephan (1995). "Reviewed Work: Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Russian History. 22 (3): 326–328. JSTOR 24658456.
  31. ^ Thompson, J. M. (1999). "Reviewed Work: A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes". The American Historical Review. 104 (2). Oxford University Press: 681–682. doi:10.2307/2650549. JSTOR 2650549.
  32. ^ Häfner, L. (1988). "Reviewed Work: The Birth of the Propaganda State. Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929 by Peter Kenez". Osteuropa. 38 (11): 1054–1055. JSTOR 44913998.
  33. ^ Campbell, J. C. (1986). "Reviewed Work: The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929 by Peter Kenez". Foreign Affairs. 64 (4): 885. doi:10.2307/20042739. JSTOR 20042739.
  34. ^ hagen, M. (1986). "Reviewed Work: The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization 1917-1929. by Peter Kenez". Slavic Review. 45 (4): 741–743. doi:10.2307/2498352. JSTOR 2498352.
  35. ^ Mcclelland, J. C (1988). "Reviewed Work: The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929 by Peter Kenez". The American Historical Review. 93 (2): 467–468. doi:10.2307/1860024. JSTOR 1860024.
  36. ^ Shore, Marci (August 18, 2017). "The Russian Revolution Recast as an Epic Family Tragedy". The New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  37. ^ Owen Hatherley (December 15, 2017). "The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine review – the Russian Revolution told through one building". The Guardian. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  38. ^ Rose Deller (February 26, 2018). "Book Review: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine". The London School of Economics. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  39. ^ Jones, J. (2018). "Book Review: Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine". 73 (3): 769–771. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.212. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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