Bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union

This is a select bibliography of English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the post-Stalinist era of Soviet history. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included. The sections "General Surveys" and "Biographies" contain books; other sections contain both books and journal articles. Book entries have references to journal articles and reviews about them when helpful. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External Links section contains entries for publicly available select bibliographies from universities.

Inclusion criteria

The period covered is 1953–1991, beginning with the death of Stalin and ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Topics include the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev eras, including the transition periods of collective leadership, and significant related events and topics such as the Cold War, the Hungarian Revolution, Detente and Glasnost. This bibliography does not include newspaper articles (except in primary sources and references), fiction, photo collections or films created during or about this period.

Works included are referenced in the notes or bibliographies of scholarly secondary sources or journals. Included works should either be published by an academic or widely distributed publisher, be authored by a notable subject matter expert as shown by scholarly reviews and have significant scholarly journal reviews about the work. To keep the bibliography length manageable, only items that clearly meet the criteria should be included.

Citation style

This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates. References to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to Russian history are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.

If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.

When listing works with titles or names published with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.

General surveys of Soviet history

These works contain significant overviews of the Post-Stalinist era.

  • Cohen, S. F. (2011). Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Figes, O. (2015). Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  • Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B. (1986). Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  • Hosking, G. (1987). The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Kort, M. G. (2019). The Soviet Colossus (8th Edition). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Kenez, P. (2017). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lewin, M. (2016). The Soviet Century. (G. Elliot, Ed.). New York: Verso.
  • Malia, M. (1995). Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917–1991. New York: Free Press.
  • Mccauley, M. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991 (3rd Edition). London, UK: Arkana Publishing.
  • Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • ——. (2013). The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Period studies

  • Beschloss, M. R. (1991). The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963. New York: E. Burlingame Books.
  • Cousins, N. (1972). The Improbable Triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Dornberg, J. (1974). Brezhnev: The Masks of Power. New York: Basic Books.
  • McCauley, M. (Ed.). (1987). Khrushchev and Khrushchevism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • McGlinchey, E. (2014). Fast Forwarding the Brezhnev Years: Osh in Flames. Russian History, 41(3), 373–391.
  • Rutland, P., & Smolkin-Rothrock, V. (2014). Looking Back at Brezhnev. Russian History, 41(3), 299–306.
  • Strong, J. W. (1971). The Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Kosygin: The Transition Years. New York: NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Tatu, M. [fr] (1974). Power in the Kremlin: From Khrushchev to Kosygin (2nd Edition). New York: Viking Press.
  • Tompson, W. J. (2014). The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Willerton, J. (1987). Patronage Networks and Coalition Building in the Brezhnev Era. Soviet Studies, 39(2), 175–204.
  • Zubok, V. M. (2007). A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Social history

  • Cook, L. J. (1993). The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers’ Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Dimitrov, M. (2014). Tracking Public Opinion Under Authoritarianism: The Case of the Soviet Union During the Brezhnev Era. Russian History, 41(3), 329–353.
  • Hopkins, M. W. (1985). Russia's Underground Press: The Chronicle of Current Events. New York: Praeger.
  • Hosking, G. A. (1991). The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Kerblay, B., & Swyer, R. (1983). Modern Soviet Society. New York: Pantheon.
  • Kozlov, D., & Gilburd, E. (Eds.). (2013). The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • LaPierre, B. (2012). Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Lorimer, F. (1979). The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press.
  • Mawdsley, E., & White, S. (2004). The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917–1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Matthews, M. (1989). Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
  • ———. (2011). Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions Since Stalin. London: Routledge.
  • Millar, J. R. (1988). Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Raleigh, D. (2011). Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Roucek, J. (1961). The Soviet Treatment of Minorities. Phylon, 22(1), 15–23.
  • Shtromas, A., Wenturis, N., & Hornung, K. (1990). Political Change and Social Development: The Case of the Soviet Union. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Weinberg, E. (1992). Perestroika and Soviet Sociology. The British Journal of Sociology, 43(1), 1–10.

Culture

Ethnic Groups

  • Under Construction

Religion

Gender and sexuality

Children and family

Human rights

  • Alexeyeva, L. (1985). Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious, and Human Rights. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Bergman, J. (2009). Meeting the Demands of Reason: The life and thought of Andrei Sakharov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Bukovskiĭ, V. K. (2019). Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity. (A. Kojevnikov, Trans.) Westlake Village: Ninth Of November Press.
  • Prigge, W. (2004). The Latvian Purges of 1959: A Revision Study. Journal of Baltic Studies, 35(3), 211–230.
  • Snyder, S. B. (2013). Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rural life, labor, and agriculture

Urban life, labor, and industry

  • Colton, T. J. (2014). Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Conyngham, W. (2011). The Modernization of Soviet Industrial Management: Socioeconomic Development and the Search for Viability (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Filtzer, D. (2010). Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gustafson, T. (1989). Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Josephson, P. (1996). Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR. Slavic Review, 55(2), 297–324.
  • Mëhilli, E. (2012). The Socialist Design: Urban Dilemmas in Postwar Europe and the Soviet Union. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13(3), 635–665.
  • Morcom, S. (2020). Work and Soviet Society after Stalin: Discourses of ‘Labour Discipline’ and the Law in the USSR, 1956–1991. The Slavonic and East European Review, 98(1), 106–138.
  • Obertreis, J. (2013). Soviet Urban Planning, Housing Policies, and De-Stalinization. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 14(3), 673–682.
  • Reisinger, W. M. (1992). Energy and the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Politics after Stalin. Washington DC: NCROL.
  • Ruble, B. (2011). Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Siegelbaum, L. H., & Suny, R. G. (1994). Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Varga-Harris, C. (2015). Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Ward, C. (2009). Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Zhuk, S. (2010). Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Government and politics

Nikita S. Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev

De-Stalinisation

Glasnost and Perestroika

Soviet Armed Forces

  • Colton, T. J. (2014). Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority: The Structure of Soviet Military Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Kolkowicz, R. (1967). The Soviet Military and the Communist Party. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Odom, W. E. (2000). The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Suvorov, V. Suvorov, V., & Hackett, J. (1987). Inside the Soviet Army. London: Grafton Books.
  • Suvorov, V. (1989). Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS. London: Grafton.

Chernobyl

Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Bloc

Tanks in Red Square during the 1991 August coup attempt

     For works about the history of post-Soviet Russia, see Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present)

  • Aleksievič, S., & Shayevich, B. (2017). Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. New York: Random House.
  • Allison, G. T., & Javlinskij, G. A. (1991). Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Baberowski, J., & Komljen, I. (2011). Criticism as Crisis, or Why the Soviet Union Still Collapsed. Journal of Modern European History, 9(2), 148–166.
  • Beissinger, M. (2009). Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism. Contemporary European History, 18(3), 331–347.
  • Gaidar, Yegor (2007). Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0815731146.
  • De Stefano, C. (2022). Gorbachev's Nationalities Policy and the Negotiations over a New Union Treaty, 1987–91. The Russian Review, 81(2) 325-343.
  • Gill, G. (2010). The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graham, L. R. (1993). The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Griffiths, M. (2013). Moscow after the Apocalypse. Slavic Review, 72(3), 481–504.
  • Kaiser, R. G. (1994). The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Kostenko, Y., & D’Anieri, P. (2021). Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History (S. Krasynska, L. Wolanskyj, & O. Jennings, Trans.). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
  • Kotkin, S. (2001). Armageddon Averted: The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kramer, M. (2004). The Reform of the Soviet System and the Demise of the Soviet State. Slavic Review, 63(3), 505–512.
  • ———. (2011). The Demise of the Soviet Bloc. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(9), 1535–1590.
  • Lasas, A. (2007). Bloody Sunday: What Did Gorbachev Know About The January 1991 Events in Vilnius and Riga? Journal of Baltic Studies, 38(2), 179–194.
  • Nahaylo, B., & Swoboda, V. (1990). Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London: Hamilton.
  • O'Clery, C. (2012). Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union. New York: PublicAffairs.
  • Petrov, K. (2008). Construction, Reconstruction, Deconstruction: The Fall of the Soviet Union from the Point of View of Conceptual History. Studies in East European Thought, 60(3), 179–205.
  • Pleshakov, C. (2013). There is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought down Communism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Plokhy, S. (2014). The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. New York: Basic Books.
  • Pons, S. (2009). Western Communists, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1989 Revolutions. Contemporary European History, 18(3), 349–362.
  • Remnick, D. (1993). Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. New York: Random House.
  • Sebestyen, V. (2009). Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Suny, R. G. (2004). The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Zubok, V. M. (2021). Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press.

The Legacy of the Soviet Union

  • Atai, F. (2012). Soviet Cultural Legacy in Tajikistan. Iranian Studies, 45(1), 81–95.
  • Daniels, R. V. (1993). The End of the Communist Revolution. London, UK: Routledge.
  • Spohr, K. (2020). Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Soviet territories

Baltics

Byelorussia

  • Urban, M. (2009). An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-86 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Caucasus

  • Under construction

Central Asia

  • Keller, S. (2020). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Khalid, A. (2021). Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Reeves, M. (2022). Infrastructures of Empire in Central Asia. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23(2), 364-370.
  • Rywkin, M. (2015). Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia. New York: Routledge.
  • Stronski, P. (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ukraine

Ideology and propaganda

  • Benn, D. (1969). New Thinking in Soviet Propaganda. Soviet Studies, 21(1), 52–63.
  • ———. (1985). Soviet Propaganda: The Theory and the Practice. The World Today, 41(6), 112–115.
  • Eberstadt, N. (1988). The Poverty of Communism. London: Routledge.
  • Ebon, M. (1987). The Soviet Propaganda Machine. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Fainberg, D. (2020). Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines'. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • 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.
  • Hixson, W. L. (1998). Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. New York: Macmillan.
  • Mitchell, R. (1972). The Brezhnev Doctrine and Communist Ideology. The Review of Politics, 34(2), 190–209.
  • Nagorski, Z. (1971). Soviet International Propaganda: Its Role, Effectiveness, and Future. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 398, 130–139.

Economy

  • Allen, R. (2001). The Rise and Decline of the Soviet Economy. The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne D'Economique, 34(4), 859–881.
  • Evans, A. (1977). Developed Socialism in Soviet Ideology. Soviet Studies, 29(3), 409–428.
  • Gatrell, P. and Lewis, R. (1992). Russian and Soviet Economic History. The Economic History Review, 45(4), pp. 743-754.
  • Gidadhubli, R. (1983). Andropov on Soviet Economy after Brezhnev. Economic and Political Weekly, 18(4), 103–104.
  • Goldman, M. I. (1983). U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System. New York: Norton.
  • Hanson, P. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. London, UK: Longman.
  • Hewett, E. A. (1988). Reforming the Soviet Economy: Equality versus Efficiency. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
  • Hoffmann, E. P., & Laird, R. F. (1982). The Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
  • Marrese, M., & Vaňous, J. (1983). Soviet Subsidization of Trade with Eastern Europe: A Soviet Perspective. Berkeley, CA : Institute of International Studies, University of California Press.
  • Miller, C. (2016). The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Millar, J. R., & Linz, S. J. (1990). The Soviet Economic Experiment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Rowen, H. S., & Wolf, C. J. (1990). The Impoverished Superpower: Perestroika and the Burden of Soviet Military Spending. San Francisco: ICS Press.
  • Rutland, P. (2010). The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Shmelev, N., & Popov, V. (1989). The Turning Point: Revitalizing the Soviet Economy. London, UK: Tauris.
  • Simis, K. (1982). USSR: The Corrupt Society: The Secret World of Soviet Capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Suri, J. (2006). The Promise and Failure of 'Developed Socialism': The Soviet 'Thaw' and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972. Contemporary European History, 15(2), 133–158.
  • Zweynert, J. (2014). 'Developed Socialism' and Soviet Economic Thought in the 1970s and Early '80s. Russian History, 41(3), 354–372.

External Relations

The Soviet Bloc in Europe

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Crowd cheers Hungarian troops in Budapest
  • Archard, L. (2018). Hungarian Uprising: Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Military.
  • Baring, A. (1972). Uprising in East Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Brzezinski, Z. K. (1960). The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Corda, M. (2007). Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. New York: Harper Perennial.
  • Dawisha, K. (1984). The Kremlin and the Prague Spring. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Eörsi, L. (2006). The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs.
  • Fehér, F., & Heller, A. (1983). Hungary 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution - A Quarter of a Century After. London, UK: Allen and Unwin.
  • Gati, C. (1986). Hungary and the Soviet Bloc. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • ———. (1990). The Bloc that Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • ———. (2006). Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Ginsburgs, G. (1960). Demise and Revival of a Communist Party: An Autopsy of the Hungarian Revolution. The Western Political Quarterly, 13(3), 780–802.
  • Granville, J. (2003). Reactions to the Events of 1956: New Findings from the Budapest and Warsaw Archives. Journal of Contemporary History, 38(2), 261–290.
  • ———, & Garthoff, R. L. (2004). The First Domino: International Decision Making during the Hungarian Crisis of 1956. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Gyáni, G. (2006). Memory and Discourse on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Europe-Asia Studies, 58(8), 1199–1208.
  • Györkei, J. D., & Horváth, M. (1999). Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. New York: Central European University Press.
  • Lendvai, P., & Major, A. (2008). One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Lévesque, J. (1997). The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Litván, G., Bak, J. M., & Legters, L. H. (1996). The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression 1953-1963. London, UK: Longman.
  • Matthews, J. P. C. (2007). Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. New York: Hippocrene Books.
  • Michener, J. A. (1984). The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People. New York: Corgi/Penguin Books.
  • Miller, R. F., & Féhér, F. (1984). Khrushchev and the Communist World. London, UK: Croom Helm.
  • Millington, R. (2014). State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mlynár, Z. (1986). Nightfrost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism. London: C. Hurst.
  • Moorthy, K. K. (1971). Tito and Brezhnev: Outward Cementing?. Economic and Political Weekly, 6(44), 2233–2233.
  • Narayanswamy, R. (1989). Eastern Europe: Divided over Perestroika. Economic and Political Weekly, 24(4), 186–188.
  • Ostermann, C. F., & Byrne, M. (2001). Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European University Press.
  • Persak, K. (2006). The Polish: Soviet Confrontation in 1956 and the Attempted Soviet Military Intervention in Poland. Europe-Asia Studies, 58(8), 1285–1310.
  • Péter, L. (2008). Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956. London: Hungarian Cultural Centre, University of Central London.
  • Pók, A. (1998). 1956 Revisited. Contemporary European History, 7(2), 263–270.
  • Richter, J. (1993). Re-Examining Soviet Policy towards Germany in 1953. Europe-Asia Studies, 45(4), 671–691.
  • Sebestyen, V. (2006). Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Stanciu, C. (2014). Autonomy and Ideology: Brezhnev, Ceauşescu and the World Communist Movement. Contemporary European History, 23(1), 115–134.
  • Stoneman, A. (2015). Socialism With a Human Face: The Leadership and Legacy of the Prague Spring. The History Teacher, 49(1), 103–125.
  • Valenta, J., & Dubček, A. (1991). Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Westad, O. A., Holtsmark, S. G., & Neumann, I. B. (1994). The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945-89. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • Williams, K. (1996). New Sources on Soviet Decision Making during the 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis. Europe-Asia Studies, 48(3), 457–470.
  • Windsor, P., & Roberts, A. (1969). Czechoslovakia 1968: Reform, Repression and Resistance. New York: Columbia University Press.

Foreign policy and relations

  • Anderson, R. D. (1993). Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy During the Brezhnev Years. Washington DC: NCROL.
  • Baroch, C. (1971). The Brezhnev Doctrine. American Bar Association Journal, 57(7), 686–690.
  • Burke, J. (1993). Gorbachev's Eurasian Strategy. World Affairs, 155(4), 156–168.
  • Du Quenoy, P. (2003). The Role of Foreign Affairs in the Fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964. The International History Review, 25(2), 334–356.
  • Edmonds, R. (1983). Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Era. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Gittings, J. (1968). Survey of the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1963-1967. London, UK: Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  • Garthoff, R. L. (1994). Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Grachev, A. (2013). Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. Oxford: Wiley Press.
  • Griffith, W. E. (1964). The Sino-Soviet Rift. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Haykal, M. Ḥasanayn. (1978). The Sphinx and the Commissar: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Influence in the Middle East. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Johnson, E. (2001). Nikita Khrushchev, Andrei Voznesensky, and the Cold Spring of 1963: Documenting the End of the Post-Stalin Thaw. World Literature Today, 75(1), 30–39.
  • Kharlamov, M., & Ajubei, A., & Vadeyev, O. (1960). Face to Face with America: The Story of N.S. Khrushchov's Visit to the U.S.A. September 15–27, 1959. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
  • Klinghoffer, A. (1986). US-Soviet Relations and Angola. Harvard International Review, 8(3), 15–19.
  • Li, D., & Xia, Y. (2018). Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Lynch, A. (2011). The Soviet Study of International Relations (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lyne, R. (1987). Making Waves: Gorbachev's Public Diplomacy, 1985-86. Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 36(4), 235–253.
  • Mehrotra, S. (2010). India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Papp, D. (1995). Soviet Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics. Mershon International Studies Review, 39(2), 290–293.
  • Patman, R. (2010). The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pavlov, Y. I. (1994). Soviet-Cuban Alliance 1959-1991. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  • Pittman, A. (2009). From Ostpolitik to Reunification: West German-Soviet Political Relations since 1974 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Prizel, I. (2012). Latin America through Soviet Eyes: The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964-1982 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Racioppi, L. (2009). Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rea, K. (1975). Peking and the Brezhnev Doctrine. Asian Affairs, 3(1), 22–30.
  • Roberts, G. K. (2008). The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and Cold War, 1945-1991. London: Routledge.
  • Stent, A. (2010). From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-1980 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Thornton, R. C. (1985). Soviet Asian Strategy in the Brezhnev Era and Beyond. Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy.
  • Ulam, A. B. (1974). Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-73. New York: Praeger.
  • ———. (1983). Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Wehling, F. (1997). Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967-1973. New York: Macmillan.
  • Westad, O. A. (2011). Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

The Cold War

Checkpoint Charlie, October 27, 1961
  • Barrass, G. S. (2009). The Great Cold War: A Journey through the Hall of Mirrors. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
  • Beschloss, M. R. (1986). Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Beschloss, M. R., & Talbott, S. (1994). At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Blanton, T., & Savranskaya, S. (2011). Looking Back: Reykjavik: When Abolition Was Within Reach. Arms Control Today, 41(8), 46–51.
  • Brown, A. (2020). The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Brugioni, D. A., & McCort, R. F. (1991). Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House.
  • Brun, E., & Hersh, J. (1978). Paradoxes in the Political Economy of Détente. Theory and Society, 5(3), 295–344.
  • English, R. (2000). Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Farnham, B. (2001). Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat. Political Science Quarterly, 116(2), 225–252.
  • Fursenko, A. A., & Naftali, T. J. (1997). One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: Norton.
  • –––, & ———. (2006). Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: Norton.
  • Gaddis, J. L. (1998). We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
  • ———. (2007). The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Garthoff, R. L. (2007). Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Gelman, H. (1984). The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Détente. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Gribkov, A. I., Smith, W. Y., & Friendly, A. (1994). Operation ANADYR: U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago: Edition Q.
  • Hoffman, D. E. (2009). The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. New York: Doubleday.
  • Kempe, F. (2011). Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Lebow, R., Mueller, J., & Wohlforth, W. (1995). Realism and the End of the Cold War. International Security, 20(2), 185–187.
  • Liebich, A. (1995). Mensheviks Wage the Cold War. Journal of Contemporary History, 30(2), 247–264.
  • MacGregor, I. (2019). Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth. New York: Scribner.
  • Miles, S. (2020). Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War'. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Miller, D. (2012). The Cold War: A Military History. London, UK: Pimlico.
  • Nash, P. (1997). The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963. Chapel Hill: University of California Press.
  • Nelson, K. L. (1995). The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Patman, R. (1999). Reagan, Gorbachev and the Emergence of 'New Political Thinking'. Review of International Studies, 25(4), 577–601.
  • Schrag, P. G. (1992). Global Action: Nuclear Test Ban Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War. New York: Routledge.
  • Schwebel, S. (1972). The Brezhnev Doctrine Repealed and Peaceful Co-Existence Enacted. The American Journal of International Law, 66(5), 816–819.
  • Seaborg, G. T., Loeb, B. S., & Harriman, W. A. (1983). Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Taylor, F. (2006). The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Thompson, N. (2011). Nuclear War and Nuclear Fear in the 1970s and 1980s. Journal of Contemporary History, 46(1), 136–149.
  • Watry, D. M. (2014). Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Westad, O. A. (1992). Rethinking Revolutions: The Cold War in the Third World. Journal of Peace Research, 29(4), 455–464.
  • ———. (2016). The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———. (2019). The Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books.
  • Zubok, V. M. (2007). A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Afghanistan

Other studies

  • Aronova, E. (2021). Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War'. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bennigsen, A., & Broxup, M. (1983). The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State. New York: Routledge.
  • Bruno, A. (2022). Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination. The Russian Review, 81(1) 92-109.
  • Cohen, S. F. (2011). Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Fortescue, S. (1990). Science Policy in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge.
  • Josephson, P. R. (1997). New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Suny, R. G. (1998). The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States (2nd Edition). Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Walker, G. (2011). Soviet Book Publishing Policy (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Historiography

Memory studies

Biographies

  • Aron, L. R. (2001). Boris Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life. London: HarperCollins.
  • Brown, A. (1996). The Gorbachev Factor. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Crankshaw, E. (1966). Khrushchev: A Career. New York: Viking Press.
  • Medvedev, R. A., & Medvedev, Z. A. (1977). Khrushchev. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Medvedev, Z. A. (1984). Andropov: His Life and Death. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Murphy, P. J. (1981). Brezhnev, Soviet Politician. Jefferson: McFarland.
  • Paloczi-Horvath, G. (1960). Khrushchev: The Making of a Dictator. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Ruge, G. (1991). Gorbachev: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Scammell, M. (1984). Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Sheehy, G. (1991). The Man Who Changed the World: The lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. New York: HarperPerennial.
  • Taubman, W. (2003). Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • ———. (2017). Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Reference works

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union. (1994). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kasack, W. & Atack, R. (1988). Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Minahan, J. (2012). The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
  • Smith, S. A. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Vronskaya, J. & Čuguev, V. (1992). The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union: Prominent people in all fields from 1917 to the present. London, UK: Bowker-Saur.

Memoirs and literary accounts

  • Aleksievič, S. A., Whitby, J., & Whitby, R. (2015). Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Borovik, A. (2008). The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. New York: Grove Press.
  • Brezhnev, L. (1978–79). Brezhnev's trilogy (3 vols. The Minor Land, Rebirth, & Virgin Lands). Moscow: Progress Publishers.
  • Dobrynin, A. F. (1995). In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986). New York: Random House.
  • Gorbachev, M. S. (1996). Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs. London, UK: Doubleday.
  • Khrushchev, N. S., Crankshaw, E., & Talbott, S. (1971). Khrushchev Remembers. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
  • ———., & Talbott, S. (1974). Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
  • ———., Talbott, S., Schecter, J. L., & Luchkov, V. V. (1990). Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Khrushchev, S. (2003). Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • MacDuffie, M. (1955). The Red Carpet: 10,000 miles through Russia on a Visa from Khrushchev. New York: Norton.
  • Molotov, V. M., Čuev, F., & Resis, A. (2007). Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics: Conversations with Felix Čhuev. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.
  • Solzhenitsyn, A. I. (1991). The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union: A Memoir. London, UK: Collins-Harvill.
  • Vidali, V. (1984). Diary of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Westport: Lawrence Hill.

English language translations of primary sources

The Khrushchev Era (1953-1964)

Collections

Individual Documents

The Brezhnev Era (1964-1982)

Collections

Gorbachev Era (1982-1991)

Collections

Individual Documents

Further reading

Bibliographies

Bibliographies contain English and non-English language entries unless noted otherwise.

Bibliographies of Post Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

  • Beschloss, M. R. (1991). General Sources. In The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963. New York: E. Burlingame Books.
  • Kotkin, S. (2001). Bibliography. In Armageddon Averted: The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • McCauley, M. (1987). Bibliography. In Khrushchev and Khrushchevism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Smith, J. and Ilić, M. (Eds.). (2011). Bibliography. In Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964. New York: Routledge.
  • Strong, J. W. (1971). Bibliography. In The Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Kosygin: The Transition Years. New York: NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Taubman, W. (2017). Bibliography. In Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Tompson, W. J. (2014). Bibliography. In The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London, UK: Routledge.

Bibliographies of Russian (Soviet) History containing significant material on the Post-Stalin eras in the Soviet Union

Journals

The list below contains journals referenced in this bibliography and which have substantial contributions about Slavic and Russian history.

See also


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