Stalin and the Soviet Union - Book List
Four Books to Start With
McCauley, M. The Soviet Union 1917- 1991 - 2nd edition
Harlow: Longman, 1993Service, R. The Russian Revolution 1900 - 1927 - 3rd edition
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1999Service, R. Stalin: A Biography
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004Ward, C. Stalin's Russia - 2nd edition
London: Arnold, 1999General Works on Stalin and the Soviet Union
Applebaum, A. Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
London: Allen Lane, 2003Bown, M.C. Art under Stalin
Oxford: Phaidon, 1991Bown, M.C. Socialist Realist Painting
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998Bullock, A. Hitler and Stalin
London: Fontana, 1993Carr, E.H. The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929
London: Macmillan, 1979Conquest, R. The Great Terror: A Reassessment
London: Hutchinson, 1990Conquest, R. Stalin: Breaker of Nations
London: Phoenix, 1991Deutscher, I. Stalin: A Political Biography
London: Oxford University Press, 1967D'Encausse, H.C. Lenin: Revolution and Power
(A history of the Soviet Union 1917-1953. Vol.1).
London: Longman, 1982D'Encausse, H.C. Stalin: Order through Terror
(A history of the Soviet Union 1917-1953. Vol.2).
London: Longman, 1981Ginzburg, E. Into the Whirlwind
London: Harvill, 1999.
(A personal account of arrest and imprisonment during the 1930s)Gorlizki, Y. & Khlevniuk, O. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945 - 1953
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004Hatherley, O. Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings
London: Allen Lane, 2015Hosking, G. A History of the Soviet Union 1917 - 1991
London: Fontana, 1992King, D. The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1997Lenoe, M.E. The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
Yale: Yale University Press, 2013?Marples, D.R. The Collapse of the Soviet Union 1985 - 1991
Harlow: Longman, 2004Montefiore, S.S. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
London: Phoenix, 2004Overy, R. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2004Patenaude, B.M. Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
London: Faber & Faber, 2009Plamper, J. The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012Rees, E. van. The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002Solzhenitsyn, A. The Gulag Archipelgo 1918 - 1956
New York: Harper & Row, 1976Synder, T. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
London: Bodley Head, 2010Takhanov, A. Architecture of the Stalin Era
New York: Rizzoli, 1992Works by Stalin Available in English
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952- Foundations of Leninism
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1950- The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1944- Leninism: Selected Writings
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1940- Problems of Leninism
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953- Works. 13 vols.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952 - 55- A History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): A Short Course
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939
(Anonymous, but attributed to Stalin)Fiction
Orwell, G. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
London: Penguin, 1980Orwell, G. 1984
London: Penguin, 1989Koestler, A. Darkness at Noon
London: Cape, 1985Pasternak, B. Doctor Zhivago
London: Collins Harvill, 1988Solzhenitsyn, A. Cancer Ward
London: Penguin, 1981- The first circle
London: Collins Harvill, 1988- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
London: Penguin, 1975(All this fiction is available in numerous printings and editions by many publishers. The editions given above merely reflect the copies I have on my bookshelves)
Andrew Lacey
April 2016
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