Andrea Graziosi, Università di Napoli “Federico II”
A Soviet History Bibliography
Updated, May 2004. I express my gratitude to the many colleagues and friends who sent their suggestions, criticized my choices and corrected my mistakes.
Please send comments, remarks or change proposals to andrea_graziosi@fastwebnet.it
Introduction
Table of Contents
Introduction
Work on this bibliography started in 1999, when I was asked to prepare the volume on Soviet history for the Nouvelle Clio, a collection of the Presses Universitaires de France founded by Robert Boutruche and Paul Lemerle, and today directed by Jean Delumeau and Claude Lepelley (http://www.puf.com/collection.php?col=48). Nouvelle Clio volumes (57 of them in print as of now) are not meant to be just textbooks for students. They are also intended as reference books for a “grown up” public of non-specialists in the field, such as historians of other countries and periods, students of social sciences, literature or the arts, graduate students, and cultivated readers in general. This is why they are organized in three sections, the first being a selected bibliography of approximately 100 pages.
What we offer here, thanks to the courtesy of the Presses Universitaires de France, which was greatly appreciated, is the “mother” of the bibliography that will be published. The very nature of the public for which it was conceived helps explain some of its biases, such as the relative dearth of books in Russian, Ukrainian, Kazak, etc. I tried however to include at least some of the most important works and sources in original languages.
As a selected bibliography, obviously its most important biases are my own, meaning both the limits of my knowledge (no work such as the compilation of a serious bibliography puts oneself before his own ignorance) and my personal preferences, which at times I have expressed in judgments that are of course only my own (the opportunity to pass judgment being another great reward such compilations offer). As such, confusion and misplacements are bound to occur, since the placement of this or that work is often a subjective exercise.
In spite of all of the above, I hope that the bibliography will prove useful to both generalists and Soviet historians, especially graduate students; thus, I have agreed to Professors Terry Martin’s and Mark Kramer’s kind proposal to put it on the Harvard, as well as on the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies web sites. Hopefully, we shall also be able in the future to create a link to H-Russia.
Ideally, it will serve as the kernel of an open, thematic bibliography which the profession will progressively integrate, correct and enrich. Any criticism or suggestion is therefore more than welcome. Colleagues, however, will have to keep in mind that this is not a comprehensive bibliography, nor does it aim to be; I believe such a bibliography would not be more useful than a selected one.
While compiling it, I tried to adhere to the following principles:
To respect the international character of knowledge and research, thus listing relevant works in all the languages in which they happened to appear (and of which I happened to be aware);
To aim at covering all fields, listing the best, or the most significant books in every one of them. By the term significant I mean that also “bad” or by now “surpassed” books, which have however played an important role in the past, are recorded, including those representing once significant schools of thought and interpretation;
To take into account the two revolutions that have marked the past decade, one specific to our discipline, and the other of a general nature, that is the partial opening of the Soviet archives, and the Internet. Their combined impact has generated an incredible amount of new information; it is sufficient here to remember the huge number of document collections (sborniki dokumentov) published after 1991, or the possibility to directly accede the catalogues of the world’s major libraries. God knows when we’ll be able to digest it, if ever.
Given the nature of the publication, this bibliography was originally designed with a certain preference for French texts. However, as the bibliography confirms, the most important Western scholarship has been, and by far, the Anglo-, and especially the American, one, despite its many flaws. A variety of factors contributed to this primacy, from strategic ones to others deriving from the presence, in the U.S., of important communities of immigrants from CIS countries. Before 1991, Soviet history could seriously be studied only in America, and to a lesser degree in London and Paris. This leads us to the problem of the value of pre-perestroika Soviet historiography. Older colleagues certainly remember when it was possible to quickly go through Soviet historical journals. Important works and collections of documents were however published, especially but not only in the 1960s, and I tried to list at least some of them.
A final warning in regards to the almost intractable nationality question: while working on a bibliography, one quickly realizes that the USSR was not Russia, nor Russia plus Ukraine and the Baltics, and the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and… The country was home to scores of nationalities (and religions for that matter), and the major works on each of them should in principle be listed. Clearly, this is an impossible task for a single person and I am ready to admit my ignorance of Lithuanian and Uzbek, Yiddish and Armenian. I thus listed only the most important works, and journals, and archives I was aware of, with a particular attention to Ukraine. Any suggestion, integration, correction will be more than welcome.
The bibliography’s structure is the following (for more detailed information see the table of contents):
A. The Actors and Places of Research: AI. Research centers; AII. Libraries; AIII. Journals; AIV. Internet sites; AV. Dissertations; AVI. Discussion lists & book reviews online.
B. Sources: BI. Archives and their sites; II. Sources in print, microfilms, microfiches; BIII. Legislation; BIV. Soviet leaders’ works; BV. Memoirs and autobiographies; BVI. Literary works; BVII. Statistics and censuses; BVIII. Periodicals and journals.
C. Reference tools: CI. Bibliographies, data banks; CII. Reference works.
D. Works: DI. General histories; DII. General works on specific topics; DIII. Works on specific periods.
I decided, quite untraditionally (serious bibliographies used to begin with sources), to start with research’s actors because the Internet allows us today to quickly survey, from our own home, what is being done, taught, published, in the world’s foremost universities, research centers, journals, etc., this being yet another facet of the already mentioned revolution.
After some thought, I also decided to indicate websites. While it is true that they tend to change, at least the institutional websites have now reached a certain stability, so that the great majority of those listed will continue to be valid. The inconveniences caused by wrong addresses (easily remedied through Google) will prove, I hope, much smaller than the benefits offered by correct ones.
A special thanks goes to Patricia Grimsted, Mark Kramer, Terry Martin, Marshall Poe, whose useful Russian site is unfortunately no more, and Donald Raleigh, whose work I amply exploited in putting together this bibliography. I am also grateful to the Davis Center for Russian Studies, for the support it offered, to Donna Griesenbeck who helped greatly, and Leslie Wittmann, who edited the English version.
Table of contents
Introduction
A. The Actors and Places of Research
AI. Research centers
AIa. European Union
AIb. CIS Countries
AIc. North America and Japan
AII. Libraries
AIIa. European Union
AIIb. CIS Countries
AIIc. North America
AIII. Journals
AIIIa. European Union
AIIIb. CIS Countries
AIIIc. North America and Japan
AIV. Internet sites
AV. Dissertations
AVI. Discussion lists and book reviews online
B. Sources
BI. Archives and their sites
BIa. Guides in print
BIb. Archives in the West
BII. Sources in print, microfilms, microfiches
BIIa. Internal policy
BIIa1. Soviet sources published in the West after 1991
BIIa2. Soviet sources published in CIS countries after 1991
BIIa3. Soviet sources published in the USSR before 1991
BIIa4. Soviet sources published in the West before 1991
BIIa5. Non-Soviet sources
BIIb. Sources on Soviet foreign relations
BIII. Legislation
BIV. Soviet leaders’ works
BV. Memoirs and autobiographies
BVa. Revolution and civil war
BVb. The NEP
BVc. The 1930s
BVd. War, post-war years, the Thaw
BVe. Stagnation
BVf. Perestroika, crisis, and collapse
BVI. Literary works
BVII. Statistics and censuses
BVIII. Journals and periodicals
BVIIIa. Journals and various periodical publications
BVIIIb. Newspapers
C. Reference tools
CI. Bibliographies, data banks, guides
CIa. General
CIb. Bibliographies and guides, Soviet history
CIb1. General
CIb2. On specific topics
CIb3. On specific periods
CII. Reference works
CIIa. Atlases
CIIa1. Geographical
CIIa2. Historical Atlases
CIIb. Encyclopedia, encyclopedic dictionaries, general histories
CIIb1. General
CIIb2. Social sciences and literature
CIIc. Biographical dictionaries
CIIc1. General, political
CIIc2. Culture and miscellaneous
CIId. Chronologies
D. Works
DI. General histories
DIa. Russian empire
DIb. USSR and Russia
DIc. Nationalities, general
DIc1. Central Asia
DIc2. The Baltics
DIc3. Belarus
DIc4. Transcaucasia
DIc4a. Armenia
DIc4b. Azerbaijan
DIc4c. Georgia
DIc5. The North and Siberia
DIc6. Tatars
DIc7. Ukraine
DIb8. The Jewish Question
DII. General works on specific topics
DIIa. Memoirs and biographies
DIIa1. General
DIIa2. By person
DIIb. Political history, ideology
DIIc. Economics
DIIc1. Theory, economic thought
DIIc2. National income
DIIc3. Money
DIIc4. Economic policy, applied economics
DIId. Economic and social history
DIIe. Society, demography, social problems
DIIe1. General
DIIe2. Cities
DIIe3. Demography
DIIe4. Ecology
DIIe5. Labor
DIIe6. Social Problems
DIIf. Women
DIIg. Peasants and the countryside
DIIh. Repression and political police
DIIh1. Repression
DIIh2. Political police
DIIi. Religion
DIIi1. General
DIIi2. Various faiths
DIIj. Science, technology, culture, literary life
DIIj1. Science and technology
DIIj2. Humanities
DIIj3. Education
DIIj4. Literary and cultural life
DIIj5. Mass culture
DIIk. Foreign policy
DIIk1. Relations with the West, the Cold War
DIIk2. Socialist countries, Communist parties
DIIk2a. Comintern and Cominform
DIIk2b. Socialist countries, general
DIIk2b1. Eastern Europe
DIIk2b2. Asia
DIIk2b3. Cuba and Africa
DIIk3. The Third World
DIIj. Military
DIII. Works on specific periods
DIIIa. War, revolution, civil war, 1914-1922
DIIIa1. General works
DIIIa2. World War I
DIIIa3. 1917
DIIIa4. Civil war, war communism, 1921-22 crisis
DIIIa5. The countryside
DIIIa6. Nationalities
DIIIb. The NEP and its crisis, 1922-1929
DIIIb1. General works
DIIIb2. Society and the economy
DIIIb3. Nationalities
DIIIb4. Foreign policy
DIIIc. The 1930s
DIIIc1. General works, Stalinism
DIIIc2. Dekulakization, collectivization, famine, kolkhozy
DIIIc3. Cities and industrialization
DIIIc4. Memoirs
DIIIc5. Repression
DIIIc6. Foreign policy
DIIId. War and post-war years, 1939-1953
DIIId1. World War II
DIIId2. Internal front, repression, nationalities
DIIId3. German occupation
DIIId4. Holocaust
DIIId5. Post-war years
DIIId6. Foreign policy, Eastern Europe
DIIIe. The Thaw and Khrushchev, 1953-1964
DIIIe1. General works
DIIIe2. Society, nationalities, and the economy
DIIIe3. Countryside
DIIIe4. Foreign policy
DIIIf. The Brezhnev era, 1964-1982
DIIIf1. General works
DIIIf2. Society, nationalities, and the economy
DIIIf3. Dissent
DIIIf4. Foreign policy
DIIIg. Reform, perestroika and collapse
DIIIg1. General works
DIIIg2. Gorbachev and perestroika
DIIIg3. Society and culture
DIIIg4. The economy
DIIIg5. Nationalities
DIIIg6. Foreign policy