Monday, 3 September 2012

Reading list for the comprehensive exam in Soviet history



Note: The idea of this reading list is to focus on the current research in Soviet social and cultural history. Since I took a comprehensive exam which was focused on Soviet political history as part of my studies for Cand.Sc. degree in history (kandidatskii ekzamen), I largely omitted in this list those titles which were focused on political history in order to overview scholarship which provides approaches to Soviet history alternative to the traditional totalitarian/authoritarian conceptual models. The list is chronology-based (general titles first).

General titles

English
1.         Balina, Marina and Evgeny Dobrenko (eds). Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style. London: Anthem Press, 2009.
2.         Boym, Svetlana. Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
3.         Brown, Kate. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. New ed. Harvard University Press, 2005.
4.         Clark, Katerina. The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
5.         Crowley, David, and Susan E. Reid (eds). Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (Berg, 2002).
6.         David-Fox, Michael. “Multiple Modernities vs. Neo-Traditionalism: On Recent Debates in Russian and Soviet History,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 55, no. 4 (2006): 535-555.
7.         English, R. D. Russia and the Idea of the West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
8.         Gill, Graeme. Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
9.         Hessler, Julie. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
10.     Kelly, Catriona. Children’s World. Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
11.     Kharkhordin, Oleg. The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices (Berkeley, 1999). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
12.     Ledeneva, Alena. Russia’s Economy of Favours. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
13.     Paperno, Irina. Stories of the Soviet Experience. Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams. Ithaca: Cornell. University Press, 2009.
14.     Péteri, György (ed.). Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
15.     Siddiqi, Asif A. The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
16.     Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (ed). Border of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
17.     Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
18.     Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Russian
19.     Булгакова О. Фабрика Жестов. М.: НЛО, 2005.
20.     Советское богатство. Статьи о культуре, литературе и кино / Под ред. М. Балиной, Е. Добренко, Ю. Мурашева. СПб.: Академический проект, 2002.
21.     Козлова Н.Н. Горизонты повседневности советской эпохи: Голоса из хора. М., Институт философии РАН, 1996.
22.     Козлова Н. Советские люди. Сцены из истории. М.: Издательство «Европа», 2005.
23.     Лебина Н.Б., Чистиков А.Н. Обыватель и реформы. Картины повседневной жизни горожан в годы нэпа и хрущевского десятилетия. СПб.: «Дмитрий Буланин», 2003.
24.     Советское общество: Возникновение, развитие, исторический финал: в 2 т. / Под общ. ред. Ю. Н. Афанасьева. М., 1997.
25.     Фирсов Б.М. Разномыслие в СССР. 1940—1960-е годы: История, теория и практики. СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в СПб., 2008.


Early Soviet period (1917 to late 1930s)

English
26.     Baron, Nick. Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939. London: Routledge, 2007.
27.     Bonnell, Victoria E. Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
28.     David-Fox, Michael. Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921–1941. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
29.     Gleason, Abbott; Peter Kenez; and Richard Stites (eds.). Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1985.
30.     Golfo, Alexopoulos. Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003.
31.     Hirsch, Francine. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
32.     Hoffmann, David L. Stalinist Values. The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
33.     Lewin, Moshe. The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia. The New Press, 1994.
34.     Mally, Lynn. Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938. Cornell University Press, 2000.
35.     Martin, Terry Dean. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
36.     Northrop, Douglas. Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
37.     Suny, Ronald Grigor, and Terry Martin (eds.). A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
38.     Widdis, Emma. Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Russian
39.     Журавлев С.В.  "Маленькие люди" и "большая история": иностранцы московского Электрозавода в советском обществе 1920-1930-х годах. М.: РОССПЭН, 2000.
40.     Плаггенборг Шт. Революция и культура. Культурные ориентиры в период между Октябрьской революцией и эпохой сталинизма. СПб.: Журнал Нева, 2000.


Revolution to the End of NEP (1917 to the late 1920s)

English
41.     Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites (eds.). Russia in the Era of NEP. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
42.     Holquist, Peter. Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
43.     Siegelbaum, Lewis. Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918–1929. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
44.     Steinberg, Mark. Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
45.     Stites, Richard. Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Russian
46.     Голанд Ю. М. Кризисы, разрушившие НЭП. М., 1998.
47.     Шишкин В. А. Власть, политика, экономика. Послереволюционная Россия (1917–1928 гг.). СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 1997.

Stalinism (1930s to early 1950s)

English
48.     Clark, Katerina. Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
49.     Davies, Sarah. Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
50.     Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Eric Naiman. The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space. University of Washington Press, 2005.
51.     Dunham, Vera. In Stalin's Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
52.     Edele, Mark. “Strange Young Men in Stalin's Moscow: The Birth and Life of the Stilyagi, 1945-1953,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Vol. 50, No 1 (2002), pp. 37-61.
53.     Fitzpatrick, Sheila (ed.). Stalinism: New Directions. New York: Routledge, 2000.
54.     Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
55.     Fürst, Juliane (ed.). Late Stalinist Russia: Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention. London: Routledge, 2006.
56.     Goldman, Wendy Z. Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Terror.
57.     Gregory, Paul R. (ed.). Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2001.
58.     Gronow, Jukka. Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia. Oxford: Berg, 2003.
59.     Kotkin, Steven. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
60.     Kozhevnikov, Alexei. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. London: Imperial College Press, 2004.
61.     Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
62.     Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.
63.     Osokina, Elena. Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin’s Russia, 1927-1941. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
64.     Petrone, Karen. Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
65.     Viola, Lynne. The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. Oxford University Press, 2009.
66.     Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
67.     Zubkova, Elena. Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Russian
68.     Лейбович О.Л. В городе М. Очерки социальной повседневности советской провинции в 40-50-х гг. М.: РОССПЭН, 2008.
69.     Паперный В. Культура Два. М.: НЛО, 2007.

German
70.     Gestwa, Klaus, “Technik als Kultur der Zukunft. Der Kult um die “Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus’,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 01/2004, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 37–73.
71.     Neutatz, Dietmar: Die Moskauer Metro. Von den ersten Plänen bis zur Grossbaustelle des Stalinismus (1897–1935). Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2001.
72.     Schlögel, Karl. Terror und Traum: Moskau 1937. München: Hanser, 2008.


Post-Stalinist (1953 to 1991)

English
73.     Caute, David. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
74.     Engerman, David C. Know Your Enemy. The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
75.     Gorsuch, Anne E. All this is your World. Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
76.     Kozlov, Vladimir A. Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin years, 1953-1980. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.


Thaw (mid-1950s to late 1960s)

English
77.     Ben Nathans, “Thawed Selves: A Commentary on the Soviet First Person,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History vol. 13, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 177–83.
78.     Bittner, Stephen V. The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
79.     Dobson, Miriam. Khrushchev’s Cold Summer. Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After Stalin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.
80.     Filtzer, Donald. The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR, 1953-1964, London: Macmillan, 1993.
81.     Jones, Polly (ed.). The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization. Negotiating Social and Political Change in the Khrushchev Era. London: Routledge, 2006.
82.     Reid, Susan E., “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the De-Stalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev,” Slavic Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), 211–252.

Russian
83.     Вайль П., Генис А. 60-е: Мир советского человека. М., 2001.

Late Socialism (since late 1960s)

English
84.     Ben Nathans, “Socialist in Form, Indeterminate in Content: The Ins and Outs of Late Soviet Culture,” Ab Imperio, no.2  (2011): 301-324.
85.     Buckley, Mary (ed.). Perestroika and Soviet Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
86.     Roth-Ey, Kristin. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
87.     Suny, Robert Grigor. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
88.     Yurchak, Alexei. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
89.     Zhuk, Sergei I. Rock and Roll in the Rocket City. The West, identity and ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985. Baltimore, MD: the Johns Hopkins University Press & Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010.

Russian
90.     Андреева И. Частная жизнь при социализме. Отчет советского обывателя. М.: НЛО, 2009
91.     Семидесятые как предмет истории русской культуры/ Ред.-сост. К.Ю. Рогов.М.: Венеция: О.Г.И., 1998.
92.     Советский простой человек. Опыт социального портрета на рубеже 90-х годов (под ред. Ю.Левады). М., 1993.
93.     Шубин А.В. Истоки перестройки, 1978 - 1984. В 2 т. М., 1997.


Post-Soviet

English
94.     Garcelon, Marc. Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000. Temple University Press, 2005.
95.     Goscilo, Helena, and Vlad Strukov (eds.). Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic. London: Routledge, 2011.
96.     Hashamova, Yana. Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film. Chicago: Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
97.     Lahusen, Thomas, and Gene Kupman (eds). Late Soviet culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
98.     Lahusen, Thomas, and Peter Solomon, Jr. (eds.). What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2008.
99.     Lunde, Ingunn, and Tine Roesen (eds.). Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia. Bergen: Slavica Bergensia, 2006.
100. Oushakine, Serguei Alex. The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.

No comments:

Post a Comment