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POLI5005 Russia and East Europe afterLenin(Semester 2)
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Course texts (11 items)
There are two core textbooks for this module, a chapter from one of these will bethe essential reading before each of the weekly classes. However, alternative resourcesare available on the module’s portal of Brookes Virtual in case you cannot acess the textbooks in a given week.
On the Soviet Union (our core case), the following is very comprehensive and balanced:
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Available as print and e-book
On Central and Eastern Europe, an excellent introductory text is:
Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II - JosephRothschild, Nancy M. Wingfield, 2008
Book
The following textbooks also have much useful material:
European communism 1848-1991 - Ronald I. Kowalski, 2006Book
Soviet politics: 1917-1991 - Mary McAuley, 1992Book
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book
Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - and after - R. J. Crampton, 1997Book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | 4th edn.
Journals (6 items)
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By level 5 students are encouraged to move beyond textbooks to look at journal articles,which represent the cutting edge of research. Many of these are listed in the weeklyreading lists and are available via the library's electronic resources. You can search forpertinent articles by using the databases International Bibliography of the Social Sciences(IBSS) or Academic Search Complete
The following journals represent some of the most important that deal with Soviet and EastEuropean politics:
Europe-Asia StudiesJournal
Problems of post-communismJournal
Journal of DemocracyJournal
DemocratizationJournal
Contemporary European HistoryJournal
Literature and Film (20 items)A wealth of world class literature and film emerged from the communist systems of theUSSR and Eastern Europe. Below is a small selection of recommendations which will enrichyour academic reading on the subject and your engagement with the complex realities of‘actually existing socialism’ in 20th century Europe.
Novels (12 items)
The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, 2007Book
The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, 2000Book
White guard - Mikhail Bulgakov, Marian Schwartz, 2012Book
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak, Max Hayward, Manya Harari, 1958Book
We - Yevgeny Zamyantin, Clarence Brown, 1993Book
The joke - Milan Kundera, 1992Book
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The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera, 1984Book
The life & extraordinary adventures of private Ivan Chonkin - VladimirVoinovich, Richard Lourie, 1995
Book
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1995Book
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ralph Parker, 1974Book
Darkness at noon - Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy, 1994Book
The life & extraordinary adventures of private Ivan Chonkin - VladimirVoinovich, Richard Lourie, 1995
Book
Films (8 items)
October 1917: ten days that shook the world - Sergei Eisenstein, 2000Audio-visual document
The cranes are flying - Mikhail Kalatozov, 2007Audio-visual document
Ballad of a soldier -Grigorii NaumovichChukhrai, 2007
Audio-visual document
Little Vera - Vasili Pichul, 1988Audio-visual document
Kolya - JanSverak, ZdenekSvera
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Goodbye Lenin! - Wolfgang Becker, 2004Audio-visual document
The lives of others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2007Audio-visual document
A blonde in love:Laskyjedne
plavovlasky - Milos Forman, 2010
Audio-visual document
Weekly readings (271 items)The reading list is a selection of the most relevant academic materials on each weeklytopic and is intended as a starting point for your reading, both in preparation for class andfor the assessments. In order to engage with the topic and participate in the seminars andworkshops you will need to read before coming to class. At a minimum this should be theweek’sessential reading, which will usually be drawn from Sakwa (1998) or be available onBrookes Virtual.
Week 1: Soviet and East European politics : Overview, key conceptsand themes (15 items)
Essential (4 items)If as a politics student you have not read this yet, now is the time, as it is essential tounderstand the communist ideals and principles:
The Communist manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 1967Book
Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 1986Book
The Communist manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, 1998Book
Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsDocument
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Recommended (11 items)In addition, to gain a grounding in the experience of communism you shouldread at least one of the following:
European communism 1848-1991 - Ronald I. Kowalski, 2006Book | Chapters 1-3
Modern European socialism - Lawrence Wilde, 1994Book | Chapter 1 'Introduction'. Scan of this chapter is available online via link.
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2012Book | Chapters 1 & 2. Scan of Chapter 2 'The rise of 'modern' communism' is available
online via link.
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2014Book | Chapters 1 & 2
A short history of Soviet socialism - Sandle, Mark, 1999 [i.e.1998]Chapter | Chapter 1
Revolution and resistance in Eastern Europe: challenges to Communist rule - McDermott,Kevin, Stibbe, Matthew, 2006
Chapter | Chapter 1
The rise and fall of Communism - Brown, Archie, 2010Chapter | pp.9-39 and Chapter 6 'What do we mean by a communist system?'. Scan of
this chapter is available online via link
The red flag: communism and the making of the modern world - Priestland, David, 2010Book
Comrades: communism - a world history - Service, Robert, 2008Book
‘Stalin's socialism’—today's debates on socialism: theory, history, politics - Tamás Krausz,2005
Article
The rise and fall of state socialism: industrial society and the socialist state - Lane, David,1996
Chapter | Chapters 1& 2
Week 2: Russia as a revolutionary state, Russia as a socialist state (27items)
Essential (1 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 1, 2 and 17. Available as print and e-book
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Recommended (14 items)
The Russian Revolution: 1917-1932 - Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1982Book | Chapters 1 & 2
Rethinking the Russian revolution - Edward Acton, 1990Book | Chapters 1 & 2
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2012Book | Chapter 3
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2014Book | Chapter 3
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book | Chapters 1, 2 & 3. Scan of chapter 1 'Bolshevik dreams' is available online via
link.
Soviet politics: 1917-1991 - Mary McAuley, 1992Book | Chapters 1 & 2
A short history of the Russian Revolution - Geoff Swain, 2017Book
A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book | Chapters 1-4
Ruling Russia: authoritarianism from the revolution to Putin - William Zimmerman, 2014Book | Chapters 1 & 2. Available as print & e-book
Communism in Russia: an interpretative essay - Richard Sakwa, 2010Book | Chapters 1-2
The rise and fall of Communism - Archie Brown, 2010Book | Chapters 2-4
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - 2013Book | Chapters 1-2
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Ronald Grigor Suny, 2003Book | Chapters 1-2
Revolution and reform in Russia and Iran: modernism and politics in revolutionary states -Ghoncheh Tazmini, 2012
Book
Other works (12 items)
The Russian Revolution: from Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929) - Edward Hallett Carr, 1979Book
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The Russian Revolution: from Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929) - Edward Hallett Carr, R. W.Davies, 2004
Book
War and revolution in Russia, 1914-22: the collapse of tsarism and the establishment ofSoviet power - Christopher Read, 2013
Book
A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes, 1996Book
A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes, 1997Book
Revolution and world politics: the rise and fall of the sixth great power - Fred Halliday,1999
Book
The Russian revolution: a study in mass mobilization - John L. H. Keep, 1976Book
The Russian empire and the world, 1700-1917: the geopolitics of expansion andcontainment - John P. LeDonne, 1997
Book
Russia under the old regime - Richard Pipes, 1974Book
The USSR: Patterns of Autocracy and Industrialism - S. WhiteChapter
The origins of the Russian Revolution, 1861-1917 - Alan Wood, 1993Book
Fetishizing the Soviet Collapse: Historical Rupture and the Historiography of (Early) SovietSocialism - Glennys Young, 2007
Article
Week 3: The politics of Stalinism (1924-1953) (30 items)
Essential (1 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapter 3. Available as print and e-book
Recommended (20 items)
European communism 1848-1991 - Ronald I. Kowalski, 2006
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Book | Chapter 6
Stalin and Stalinism: A Review Article - Ian D. Thatcher, 2004Article
Bolshevism and Stalinism - S. CohenChapter | Scan of chapter available online via link.
Stalin as Revolution from Above - R.C. TuckerChapter
Stalin's Russia - Chris Ward, 1999Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter "Foreign Policy and the
Comintern, 1922-41"
Ruling Russia: authoritarianism from the revolution to Putin - William Zimmerman, 2014Book | Chapters 2-4. Available as print & e-book
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book | Chapters 4-5
Soviet politics: 1917-1991 - Mary McAuley, 1992Book | Chapters 3-4
A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book | Chapters 5-6
Let history judge: the origins and consequences of Stalinism -Roi A. Medvedev, Colleen Taylor, David Joravsky, Georges Haupt, 1972
Book
Beyond totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism compared - Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick, 2009
Book
Understanding Stalinism: The 'Orwellian Discrepancy' and the 'Rational Choice Dictator' -Vincent Barnett, 2006
Article
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Ronald Grigor Suny, 2003Book | Chapter 4
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - 2013Book | Chapter 4
Stalin: Vol 1: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 - Stephen Kotkin, 2014Book
Special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 4(1), 2003, includes:
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Introduction - Harold Shukman, 2003Article
Stalinism and the Soviet State order - Robert Service, 2003Article
Stalinism, Totalitarian Society and the Politics of 'Perfect Control' - Felix Patrikeeff, 2003Article
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions - 2003Journal | Whole journal issue
Other works (9 items)
The great terror: Stalin's purge of the thirties - Robert Conquest, 1968Book
Stalin: a political biography - Isaac Deutscher, 1990Book
Stalin: a political biography - Isaac Deutscher, 1966Book
Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization - Stephen Kotkin, 1997Book
Society and the Stalinist State in the Period of the Five Year Plans - M. Lewin, 1976Article
The revolution betrayed: what is the Soviet Union and where is it going? - Leon Trotsky,1991
Book | Especially Chapter 5
The revolution betrayed: what is the Soviet Union and where is it going? - Leon Trotsky,Max Eastman, 1965
Book | Especially Chapter 5
The revolution betrayed - L. Trotskii, 2004Book | Especially Chapter 5
Stalin in power: the revolution from above, 1928-1941 - Robert C. Tucker, 1990Book
Week 4 (25 items)This class covers two topics central to understanding the working of Soviet politics and itssubsequent collapse. Ensure you undertake readings on both topics.
Week 4 (part 1) - Politics in the USSR: The party-state (15 items)
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Essential (1 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 6-8. Available as print and e-book
Recommended (8 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Chapters 9-13. Available as print and e-book
The Soviet Communist Party - Ronald J. Hill, Peter Frank, 1986Book | Chapter 1 'The party in the Soviet system' - scan available online via link.
State and politics in the USSR - David Lane, 1985Book
Politics and the Soviet Union - Mary McAuley, 1977Book | Chapters 8-10
How the Soviet Union is governed - Jerry F. Hough, Merle Fainsod, 1979Book | Chapters 10-11
Communist politics: a reader - Daniel N. Nelson, Stephen White, 1986Book
The rise and fall of state socialism: industrial society and the socialist state - David Lane,1996
Book | Chapter 3
Ruling Russia: authoritarianism from the revolution to Putin - William Zimmerman, 2014Book | Available as print & e-book
Other works (6 items)
Political leadership in the Soviet Union - Archie Brown, 1989Book
The Soviet Union since the fall of Khrushchev - Archie Brown, Michael Kaser, 1978Book
The socialist industrial state: towards a political sociology of state socialism - David Lane,1976
Book | Chapter 4
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Leonard Schapiro, 1970Book
Political culture and Soviet politics - Stephen White, 1979Book
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Rethinking the CPSU - Stephen White, 1991Article
Week 4 (part 2) - Soviet federalism and the nationality policy (10 items)
Essential (1 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapter 15. Available as print and e-book
Recommended (9 items)
Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historical Perspective - W.Connor
Chapter
The nationalities question in the post-Soviet states - Graham Smith, c1996Book | Chapter 1 'The Soviet State and Nationalities Policy'. Scan of this chapter is
available online via link.
Success and collapse: traditional Soviet nationality policy (Chapter 2) - V. ZaslavskyChapter | Scan of this chapter is available online via link
Red nations: the nationalities experience in and after the USSR - Jeremy Smith, 2013Book | Chapters 3-5; 9-10. Scan of Chapter 10 'Stability and National development : the
Brezhnev years 1964-1982' is available online via link.
The affirmative action empire: nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 -Terry Martin, 2001
Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter "The Soviet Affirmative ActionEmpire"
The Nationalities factor in Soviet politics and society - Lubomyr Hajda, Mark R. Beissinger,1990
Book
Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union - Astrid S. Tuminez,2003
Article
Chickens coming home to roost: A perspective on Soviet ethnic relations. - TeresaRakowska-Harmstone, 1992
Article
Decolonization, Democratization, and Communist Reform: The Soviet Collapse inComparative Perspective - Robert Strayer, 2001
Article
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Week 5: Soviet foreign policy : Internationalism and/or Expansionism?(24 items)
Essential (2 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapter 16. Available as print and e-book
Russia and the world, 1917-1991 - Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 5-7
Recommended (8 items)
The origins of the Cold War, 1941-1949 - Martin McCauley, 2003Book
Origins of the Cold War, 1941-49 - Martin McCauley, 2013Book
The origins of the Cold War, 1941-1949 - Martin McCauley, 1995Book
Russian foreign policy: from empire to nation-state - Nicolai N. Petro, Alvin Z. Rubinstein,1997
Book | Chapters 5-6
Behind Stalin's Moustache: Pragmatism in Early Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-41. - MichaelJabara Carley, 2001
Article
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book | Chapter 5
Lenin, Revolution, and Foreign Policy - Richard Gregor, 1967Article
The Soviet Union and the International Brigades, 1936–1939 - Daniel Kowalsky, 2006Article
Other works (14 items)
Stalin's Cold War: Soviet strategies in Europe, 1943 to 1956 - Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 1995Book
From Stalinism to pluralism: a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 - GaleStokes, 1996
Book | Part 1
Soviet foreign policy, 1917-1941 - George F. Kennan, 1979
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The Soviet theory of international relations - Margot Light, 1988Book
The Cold War: the essential readings - Klaus Larres, Ann Lane, 2001Book
Brezhnev and Superpower relations - M. BowkerChapter
The Cold War: a history - Martin Walker, 1995Book
Reviewing the Cold War: approaches, interpretations, theory - Odd Arne Westad, 2000Book
Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis - Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow,c1999
Book
Expansion and coexistence: Soviet foreign policy, 1917-73 - Adam B. Ulam, 1974Book
The fifty years war: the United States and the Soviet Union in world politics, 1941-1991 -Richard Crockatt, 1995
Book
The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943-53 - Francesca Gori, Silvio Pons, 1996Book
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - 2013Book | Chapter 5
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Ronald Grigor Suny, 2003Book | Chapter 5
Week 6: Exporting the Soviet model to Eastern Europe (20 items)
Essential (3 items)
Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II - JosephRothschild, Nancy M. Wingfield, 2008
Book | Essential | Chapters 1-3. Scan of Chapter 3 'The communists come to power' isavailable online via link.
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | Essential | 4th edn. Chapter 1 'Revolution in Eastern Europe, Chapter 2 'Different
Roads to Socialism' and Chapter 3 'An End to Diversity'
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Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 1 'Revolution in Eastern Europe,
Chapter 2 'Different Roads to Socialism' and Chapter 3 'An End to Diversity'
Recommended (17 items)
European communism 1848-1991 - Ronald I. Kowalski, 2006Book | Chapters 8-9. Scan of chapter 9 'Communism in East Europe' available online via
link
A history of Eastern Europe: crisis and change - Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, 2007Book | Chapters 30-32. Scan of chapter 32 'National communism' available online via
link
A history of Eastern Europe: crisis and change - Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, 1998Book | Chapters 30-32. Scan of chapter 32 'National communism' available online via
link
Eastern Europe 1945-1969: from Stalinism to stagnation - Ben Fowkes, 2000Book | Chapters 2-3
Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: elite purges and mass repression - Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe, c2010
Book
Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - and after - R. J. Crampton, 1997Book | Part 1, Chapters 2, 12-13
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2012Book | Chapter 4
Communism - Mark Sandle, 2014Book | Chapter 4
Stalin and the European Communists after World War Two (1943-1948) - S. Pons, 2011Article
The Soviet Theory of “People's Democracy” - Ruth Amende Rosa, 1949Article
The rise and fall of state socialism: industrial society and the socialist state - David Lane,1996
Book | Chapter 4
Revolution and resistance in Eastern Europe: challenges to Communist rule - KevinMcDermott, Matthew Stibbe, 2006
Book | Chapters 2-4
From Stalinism to pluralism: a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 - GaleStokes, 1996
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Creating a socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, communist leadership and the national question -Hilde Katrine Haug, 2016
Book
The beginnings of Communist rule in Poland - Antony Polonsky, Boleslaw Drukier, 1980Book
Poland 1939-1947 - John Coutouvidis, Jaime Reynolds, 1986Book | Part 2
Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: between the United States and the Soviet Union -Laszlo Borhi, 2004
Book | Especially Chapters 2-3.
Week 7: Reform, reaction and stagnation in the USSR (1953-1985) (26items)
Essential (3 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 4 and 5. Available as print and e-book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | Essential | 4th edn. Chapter 6 'Reform Communism or Economic Reform'
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 6 'Reform Communism or
Economic Reform'
Recommended (17 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Chapters 11 and 13. Available as print and e-book
Architectural Problems of Reform in the Soviet Union: From Design to Collapse - RobertService, 2001
Article
The Friends and Foes of Change: Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union - S.F.Cohen, 1980
Chapter | Scan of this chapter is available online via link.
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The same chapter is also available in this book:
The Friends and Foes of Change: Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union -Stephen F. Cohen, 1986
Chapter | Scan of this chapter is available online via link.
Khrushchev and Stalin - Ian D. Thatcher, 2009Article
Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Reformers: A Comparison - W. J. Tompson, 1993Article
Ruling Russia: authoritarianism from the revolution to Putin - William Zimmerman, 2014Book | Chapter 5. Available as print & e-book
The rise and fall of the Soviet economy: an economic history of the USSR from 1945 -Philip Hanson, 2003
Book | Chapters 2-5
The rise and fall of state socialism: industrial society and the socialist state - David Lane,1996
Book | Chapter 5
Brezhnev reconsidered - Edwin Bacon, Mark Sandle, 2002Book
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book | Chapters 7-9
Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era: ideology and exchange - 2016Book
Stalin’s Heirs and Legacy: Chapter 5Chapter
A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book | Chapters 7-8
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Ronald Grigor Suny, 2003Book | Chapters 6-7
Stalin's successors: leadership, stability, and change in the Soviet Union - Seweryn Bialer,1980
Book
Other works (6 items)
Stalin's successors: leadership, stability, and change in the Soviet Union - Seweryn Bialer,1980
Book
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Political Obstacles to Reform and Innovation in Soviet Economic Policy: Brezhnev's PoliticalLegacy - R. Blough, P.D. Stewart, 1987
Article | Article in print journal available in Library Basement - not available online
Khrushchev and Brezhnev as leaders: building authority in Soviet politics - George W.Breslauer, 1982
Book
Khrushchev and the Soviet leadership, 1957-1964 - Carl A. Linden, 1966Book
Khrushchev: the years in power -Roi A. Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev, Andrew R. Durkin, 1977
Book
Khrushchev -Roi A. Medvedev, 1982
Book
Week 8 - Reform, reaction and stagnation in Eastern Europe(1953-1985) (17 items)
Essential (1 items)
Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II - JosephRothschild, Nancy M. Wingfield, 2008
Book | Essential | Chapters 5-6
Recommended (16 items)
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | 4th edn. Chapter 6 'Reform Communism or Economic Reform'
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 6 'Reform Communism or
Economic Reform'
From Stalinism to pluralism: a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 - GaleStokes, 1996
Book | Parts II and III.
Revolution and resistance in Eastern Europe: challenges to Communist rule - KevinMcDermott, Matthew Stibbe, 2006
Book | Chapters 5-7
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Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - and after - R. J. Crampton, 1997Book | Chapters 17-20. Scan of Chapter 17 'Eastern Europe 1956-68' available online
via link.
Eastern Europe 1945-1969: from Stalinism to stagnation - Ben Fowkes, 2000Book | Chapters 5-6
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe -Monica Ciobanu, 2010
Article
Resistance and Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe: An Emerging Historiography - B. J.Falk, 2011
Article
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Josip Broz Tito, and the Hungarian Crisis of 1956. - L.Ia.Gibianskii, 2005
Article
Socialism with a Slovak Face: Federalization, Democratization, and the Prague Spring -Scott Brown, 2008
Article
The Soviet Union and the 1956 Crises in Hungary and Poland: Reassessments and NewFindings - Mark Kramer, 1998
Article
Reconsidering "Stalinism" - Henry Reichman, 1988Article
Resistance and Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe: An Emerging Historiography -Barbara J. Falk, 2011
Article
Dethroning Stalin: Poland 1956 and Its Legacy - Tony Kemp-Welch, 2006Article
The Hungarian Crisis of 1956: The Soviet Role in the Light of New Archival Documents. -Aleksandr Stykalin, 2001
Article
The Communist Idea is Dead - Milovan Djilas, 1969Article
Week 9 - The Party, ideology and authority in the USSR and EE (20 items)
Essential (3 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998
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Book | Essential | Chapters 6 and 11. Available as print and e-book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | Essential | 4th edn. Chapter 5 'Actually existing socialism in operation'. Scan of
this chapter is available online via the link.
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 5 'Actually existing socialism in
operation'.
Recommended (17 items)
Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - and after - R. J. Crampton, 1997Book | Chapters 14-15
State and politics in the USSR - David Lane, 1985Book
Politics and the Soviet Union - Mary McAuley, 1977Book | Chapters 8-10
How the Soviet Union is governed - Jerry F. Hough, Merle Fainsod, 1979Book | Chapters 10-11
Ruling Russia: authoritarianism from the revolution to Putin - William Zimmerman, 2014Book | Especially Chapter 3. Available as print & e-book
Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II - JosephRothschild, Nancy M. Wingfield, 2008
Book | Chapter 4
Eastern Europe 1945-1969: from Stalinism to stagnation - Ben Fowkes, 2000Book | Chapter 4
A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book
Soviet politics: 1917-1991 - Mary McAuley, 1992Book | Chapters 5-6
The making and breaking of the Soviet system: an interpretation - Christopher Read, 2001Book | Chapters 7-9
Communism in Russia: an interpretative essay - Richard Sakwa, 2010Book | Chapter 4
Legitimacy and Mass Compliance: Reflections on Max Weber and Soviet-Type Societies -Jan Pakulski, 1986-1
Article
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The anatomy of the new Poland: post-Communist politics in its first phase - Frances Millard, c1994
Book | Chapter 1
God's playground: a history of Poland, Vol.2: 1795 to the present - Norman Davies, 1981Book | Chapters 22-23
A history of modern Hungary 1867-1986 -Jorg K. Hoensch, 1988
Book | Chapters 5-6
Reappraising Communism and Nationalism - Martin Mevius, 2009Article
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe -Monica Ciobanu, 2010
Article
Week 10: Gorbachev, Reform, the 'Velvet' and the not-so-velvetrevolutions (32 items)
Essential (3 items)
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 5 and 17. Available as print and e-book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | Essential | 4th edn. Chapter 8 'The fall of actually existing socialism'
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 8 'The fall of actually existing
socialism'
Recommended (19 items)
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc - Mark Kramer, 2011Article
1989 and the Transformations in Eastern Europe - Terry Cox, 2011Article
The 1989 Revolutions in Retrospect - Adrian Pop, 2013Article
Understanding 1989: The Revolutionary Tradition Revisited - Vladimir Tismaneanu, 2014Article
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Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 -Timur Kuran, 1991
Article
The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union(Part 1) - Mark Kramer, 2003
Article
The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union(Part 2) - Mark Kramer, 2004
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The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union(Part 3) - Mark Kramer, 2005
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The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe: from Communism to pluralism - 2016Book
The Gorbachev factor - Archie Brown, 1996Book
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2009Book | 4th edn. Chapter 8 'The fall of actually existing socialism', Chapter 9 'Adapting to
capitalism enthusiastically: Central Europe' and Chapter 10 'Adapting to capitalismhesitantly: the Balkans'
Eastern Europe since 1945 - Geoff Swain, N. Swain, 2018, ©2018Book | 5th edn. Available as print and e-book. Chapter 8 'The fall of actually existing
socialism', Chapter 9 'Adapting to capitalism enthusiastically: Central Europe' and Chapter10 'Adapting to capitalism hesitantly: the Balkans'
From Stalinism to pluralism: a documentary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 - GaleStokes, 1996
Book | Parts IV-V
Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II - JosephRothschild, Nancy M. Wingfield, 2008
Book | Chapters 7-8
Revolution and resistance in Eastern Europe: challenges to Communist rule - KevinMcDermott, Matthew Stibbe, 2006
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Eastern Europe in the twentieth century - and after - R. J. Crampton, 1997Book | Chapters 21-23
The End of Communism in Eastern Europe - George Schopflin, 1990Article
Eastern Europe 1945-1969: from Stalinism to stagnation - Ben Fowkes, 2000
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Armageddon averted: the Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 - Stephen Kotkin, 2008Book
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Gorbachev: his life and times - William Taubman, 2017Book
Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and reform: the great challenge - Karen Dawisha, 1988Book
Gorbachev and Democracy - John Gooding, 1990Article
Lenin in Soviet Politics, 1985-91 - John Gooding, 1992Article
The CPSU: From Monolith to Pluralist? - Ronald J. Hill, 1991Article
Perestroika: The Dialectic of Change - Boris Kagarlitsky, 1988Article
Marxism and Perestroika - Eero Loone, 1990Article
Gorbachev and the Place of the Party in Soviet Reform, 1985-91 - Neil Robinson, 1992Article
Gorbachev and his reforms, 1985-1990 - Richard Sakwa, 1990Book
Six years that shook the world: Perestroika - the impossible project - Rachel Walker, 1993Book
Week 11 - The collapse of Communism and of the USSR (35 items)
Essential (5 items)
European communism 1848-1991 - Ronald I. Kowalski, 2006Book | Essential | Chapter 10
Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Essential | Chapters 17-18. Available as print and e-book
Causes of the Collapse of the USSR (Chapter 10) - Alexander Dallin
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Chapter | Essential
Causes of the Collapse of the USSR (Chapter 10) - Alexander DallinChapter | Essential
The Soviet Demise: Revisionist Betrayal, Structural Defect or Authoritarian Distortion? -David Laibman, 2005
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2003, especially articles by Kramer and Dunlop (below)
Introduction: Special Issue: The Collapse of the Soviet Union (Part 1) - Mark Kramer, 2003Article
The August 1991 Coup and Its Impact on Soviet Politics - John B. Dunlop, 2003Article
The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union(Part 2) - Mark Kramer, 2004
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The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union(Part 3) - Mark Kramer, 2005
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The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union - Serhii Plokhy, 2014Book
A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book | Chapter 9
A normal totalitarian society: how the Soviet Union functioned and how it collapsed -Vladimir Shlapentokh, 2001
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The post-Soviet states: mapping the politics of transition - Graham Smith, 1999Book | Chapter 2
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The fall of Soviet communism, 1985-91 - Jeremy Smith, 2005Book
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - 2013Book | Chapters 8 and 10. Scan of Chapter 10 'Summing up' is available online via the
link.
The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Ronald Grigor Suny, 2003Book | Chapters 8 and 10. Scan of Chapter 10 'Summing up' is available online via the
link.
Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State - Mark R. Beissinger, 2002Book
The Political Economy of Protection Rackets in the Past and the Present. - Volkov Vadim,2000
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The Soviet Union's Afterlife - Stephen F. Cohen, 2012Article
Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of Communism and the new Russia- Michael Cox, 1998
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Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong: The Soviet Collapse Revisited: Review article - CarolineKennedy-Pipe, 1999
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International relations theory and the end of the Cold War - Richard Ned Lebow, ThomasRisse-Kappen, 1995
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The fall of Soviet communism, 1985-91 - Jeremy Smith, 2005Book
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To the Stalin Mausoleum (Chapter 10) - “Z” [Martin Malia]Chapter
To the Stalin Mausoleum (Chapter 10) - “Z” [Martin Malia]Chapter
Decolonization, Democratization, and Communist Reform: The Soviet Collapse inComparative Perspective - Robert Strayer, 2001
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Everything you know about the Soviet Collapse is Wrong - Leon Aron, 2011Article
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Was communism reformable? - Robert V. Daniels, 2000Article
The Gorbachev Factor Revisited - Archie Brown, 2011Article
Armageddon averted: the Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 - Stephen Kotkin, 2008Book
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