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MODERN RUSSIA -- POL 3345/HIS 3345
BIBLIOGRAPHY SAMPLER

NOTE:  Check SPU Catalog to locate these and other books on Russia.
            Can also use Summit Borrowing.

  • Anisimov, E. V.  Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia.  2004.
  • Aslund, Anders.  Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc.  2002.
  • Balzer, Marjorie, ed.  Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender, and Customary Law.  1992.
  • Bown, Matthew, ed.  Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992.  1993.
  • Breslauer, George W.  Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders.  2002.
  • Bushkovitch, Paul.  Peter the Great.  2001.
  • Christensen, Paul.  Russia’s Workers in Transition: Labor, Management, and the State under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.  1999.
  • Conquest, Robert.  The Great Terror: A Reassessment.  1990.
  • Cushman, Thomas.  Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia.  1995.
  • Druzhnikov, IUrii.  Contemporary Russian Myths: A Skeptical View of the Literary Past.  1999.
  • Durova, N. A.  The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars.  1988.
  • Engel, Barbara.  Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914.  1996.
  • Evangelista, Matthew.  The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?  2002.
  • Ferro, Marc.  Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars.  1993.
  • Feshbach, Murray.  Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege.  1992.
  • Fish, M. Steven.  Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution.  1995.
  • Frierson, Cathy.  Peasant Icons: Representations of Rural People in Late Nineteenth Century Russia.  1993.
  • Gooding, John.  Socialism in Russia: Lenin and His Legacy, 1890-1991.  2002.
  • Gorodetsky, Gabriel.  Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia.  1999.
  • Handelman, Stephen.  Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya.  1995.
  • Hill, Kent.  The Soviet Union on the Brink: An Inside Look at Christianity & Glasnost.  1991.
  • Holloway, David.  Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956.  1994.
  • Humphrey, Caroline.  The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism.  2002.
  • Kaiser, Robert.  The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR.  1994.
  • Kenez, Peter.  A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End.  1999.
  • Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.  Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932.  2001.
  • Kivelson, Valerie, ed.  Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars.  2003.
  • Klier, John.  Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the “Jewish Question” in Russia, 1772-1825.  1986.
  • Knight, Amy W.  Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB’s Successors.  1996.
  • Kon, Igor.  The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today.  1995.
  • Labzina, Anna.  Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821.  2001.
  • Layard. P. R. G.  The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide to New Markets and Politics.  1996.
  • Lenin, Vladimir.  The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive.  1999.
  • Levesque, Jacques.  The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe.  1997.
  • Lincoln, W. Bruce.  The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians.  1994.
  • Marsh, Rosalind, ed. & tr.  Women in Russia and Ukraine.  1996.
  • Penkovskii, Oleg.  The Penkovskiy Papers.  1965.  [about Soviet espionage]
  • Peterson, D. J.  Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction.  1993.
  • Pushkareva, N. L.  Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century.  1997.
  • Remnick, David.  Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia.  1997.
  • Saunders, David.  Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform, 1801-1881.  1992.
  • Shevtsova, Liliia.  Putin's Russia.   2003.
  • Shukshin, Vasilii.  Stories from a Siberian Village.  1996.
  • Smelianskii, A. M.  The Russian Theatre After Stalin.  1999.
  • Sperling, Valerie.  Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition.  1999.
  • Staar, Richard.  The New Military in Russia: Ten Myths that Shape the Image.  1996.
  • Stalin, Joseph.  Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936.  1995.
  • Thyret, Isolde.  Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia.  2001.
  • Wirtschafter, Elise.  Structures of Society: Imperial Russia’s “People of Various Ranks”.  1994.
  • Worobec, Christine.  Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia.  2001.
  • Zubok, V. M.  Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev.  1996.
Ryan Lewis,, 206-281-2422, rmlewis@spu.edu
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rev. 04/01/07