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After Stalin: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the View Online Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) 435 items Operation Typhoon: Hitler's march on Moscow, October 1941 - Stahel, David, 2013 Book Introductory Bibliography (12 items) Conscience, dissent and reform in Soviet Russia - Boobbyer, Philip, 2005 Book Soviet communism from reform to collapse - Daniels, Robert V., 1995 Book The rise of Russia and the fall of the Soviet empire - Dunlop, John B., 1995 Book Russia and the idea of the West: Gorbachev, intellectuals, and the end of the Cold War - English, Robert D., 2000 Book Last of the empires: a history of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991 - Keep, John L. H., 1996 Book The Soviet tragedy: a history of socialism in Russia, 1917-1991 - Malia, Martin E., 1994 Book Russia's Cold War: from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall - Haslam, Jonathan, c2011 Book Rulers and victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union - Hosking, Geoffrey A., 2006 Book The shadow of war: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present - Lovell, Stephen, 2010 Book Lenin's tomb: the last days of the Soviet Empire - Remnick, David, 1994 Book Twentieth century Russia - Treadgold, Donald W., 1995 Book Zhivago's children: the last Russian intelligentsia - Zubok, V. M., 2009 1/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Book Collections of documents (9 items) The Soviet political poster, 1917-1980: From the USSR Lenin Library Collection - Baburina, Nina, 1986 Book The Soviet system: from crisis to collapse - Dallin, Alexander, Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky, 1995 Book A documentary history of communism - Daniels, Robert Vincent, 1985 Book The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: a documentary reader - Hill, Alexander, 2009 Book Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation - Koenker, Diane, Bachman, Ronald D., Library of Congress, 1997 Book Sedition: everyday resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev - Kozlov, V. A., Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Mironenko, S. V., E ̇ delʹman, O. V., Zavadskai ͡ a, E ̇ . I ͡ U., Soviet Union, Soviet Union, c2011 Book The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 - Sakwa, Richard, 1999 Book Resolutions and decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Vol.5: The Brezhnev years, 1964-1981 ; editor, Donald V. Schwartz - McNeal, Robert Hatch, Schwartz, Donald V., Kommunisticheskaia Partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza, 1982 Book The structure of Soviet history: essays and documents - Suny, Ronald Grigor, 2003 Book 2/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Set texts (19 items) Monanieba =: Repentance - Abuladze, Tengiz, 1984 Audio-visual document A writer at war: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 - Grossman, Vasilii ̆ Semenovich, Beevor, Antony, Vinogradova, Luba, c2006 Book To build a castle: my life as a dissenter - Bukovskii, Vladimir Konstantinovich, 1978 Book My six years with Gorbachev - Cherniaev, Anatoly S., English, Robert, Tucker, Elizabeth, 2000 Book Perestroika: new thinking for our country and the world - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1988 Book Memoirs - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1997 Book Life and fate - Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich, 1985 Book Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" Document | This is available on Moodle (section 7) Sedition: everyday resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev - Kozlov, V. A., Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Mironenko, S. V., E ̇ delʹman, O. V., Zavadskai ͡ a, E ̇ . I ͡ U., Soviet Union, Soviet Union, c2011 Book Gulag boss: a Soviet memoir - Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich, Kaple, Deborah A., 2010 Book Farewell to Matyora: a novel - Rasputin, Valentin Grigorʹevich, 1991 3/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Book Progress coexistence and intellectual freedom - Sakharov, Andrei ̆ , 1969 Book Memoirs - Sakharov, Andrei ̆ , 1990 Book Kolyma Tales - Shalamov, Varlam, Glad, John, 1994 Book Fear no evil: the classic memoir of one man's triumph over a police state - Shcharansky, Anatoly, Hoffman, Stefani, 1998 Book The future belongs to freedom - Shevardnadze, E. A., 1991 Book The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, Whitney, Thomas P., Willetts, Harry T., Ericson, Edward E., 1995 Book One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 2005 Book Against the grain: an autobiography - Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, 1990 Book Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Historiography/ the state of the USSR in 1941 (19 items) Background reading (3 items) Rethinking the Russian Revolution - Acton, Edward, 1990 Book | Chapter 2 The Stalin era - Boobbyer, Philip, 2000 Book | Chapter 1. Stalin and His Era - Hiroaki Kuromiya, 2007 Article 4/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Bibliography (16 items) Rethinking the Russian Revolution - Acton, Edward, 1990 Book Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917 - Hosking, Geoffrey, 1997 Book Russia and the Russians: from earliest times to 2001 - Hosking, Geoffrey A., 2002, c2001 Book Patronage and the Russian State - Geoffrey Hosking, 2000 Article The Russian empire: ethnicity and nationalism - Kappeler, Andreas, Clayton, Alfred, 2001 Book The history of the Gulag: from collectivization to the great terror - Khlevniuk, O. V., c2004 Book The making of modern Russia: from Kiev Rus to the collapse of the Soviet Union - Kochan, Lionel, Keep, John L. H., 1997 Book Empire: the Russian empire and its rivals - Lieven, D. C. B., 2000 Book The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as Imperial Polities - Dominic Lieven, 1995 Article Western Scholarship on the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Regime: The View from 1993 - Dominic Lieven, 1994 Article From Marx to Lenin: an evaluation of Marx's responsibility for Soviet authoritarianism - Lovell, David W., 1984 Book The affirmative action empire: nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 - Martin, Terry, 2001 Book The formation of the Soviet Union: communism and nationalism 1917-1923 - Pipes, Richard, 1997 Book Soviet politics: an introduction - Sakwa, Richard, 1989 Book A state of nations: empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin - Suny, Ronald Grigor, Martin, Terry, 2001 5/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Book Civilization on trial - Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1948 Book Week 3: The Second World War (60 items) Background reading (3 items) Stalin, the Red Army and the Great Patriotic War - B. Bonwetch Chapter | pp.185-207. This is available on Moodle. The Second World War and Russian National Consciousness - G. Hosking, 2002-05-01 Article Ivan's war: life and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 - Merridale, Catherine, 2006 Book | Chapter 6. This is available on Moodle. Bibliography (57 items) The Moscow Crisis of October 1941 - J. Barber Chapter The Soviet home front, 1941-1945: a social and economic history of the USSR in World War II - Barber, John, Harrison, Mark, 1991 Book Stalingrad - Beevor, Antony, 1998 Book Stalin and his generals: Soviet military memoirs of World War II - Bailer, Seweryn, c1970 Book Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin - Bonnell, Victoria E., 1997 Book My dear Mr. Stalin: the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin - Roosevelt, Franklin D., Stalin, Joseph, Butler, Susan, 2005 Book Ehrenburg and Grossman: Two Cosmopolitan Jewish Writers Reflect on Nazi Germany at War - K. Clark, 2009 Article German rule in Russia, 1941-1945: a study of occupation policies - Dallin, A., 1981 Book 6/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent Vasiliy Grossman: the genesis and evolution of a Russian heretic - Ellis, Frank, 1994 Book The War, 1941-45; translated by T Shebunina in collaboration with Y Kapp - Ehrenburg, I G. , 1964 Book The road to Stalingrad - Erickson, John, 1985 Book Mass culture in Soviet Russia: tales, poems, songs, movies, plays, and folklore, 1917-1953 - Von Geldern, James, Stites, Richard, 1995 Book Stalin's curse: battling for communism in war and Cold War - Gellately, Robert, 2013 Book The battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944 - Glantz, David M., 2002 Book Stumbling colossus: the Red Army on the eve of World War - Glantz, David M., 1998 Book Zhukov's greatest defeat: the Red Army's epic disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 - Glantz, David M., 1999 Book The Battle for the Ukraine: the Red Army's Korsun'-Shevchenkovkii Operation, 1944 (the Soviet General Staff study) - Glantz, David M., Orenstein, Harold S., Soviet Union, 2003 Book Life and fate - Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich, 1985 Book The road: stories, journalism, and essays - Grossman, Vasilii ̆ Semenovich, Chandler, Robert, Chandler, Elizabeth, Mukovnikova, Olga, Bit-Yunan, Yury, 2010 Book Stalin at War - A. Harriman Chapter Accounting for war: Soviet production, employment, and the defence burden, 1940-1945 - Harrison, Mark, 1996 Book Soviet planning in peace and war, 1938-1945 - Harrison, Mark, 1985 Book 7/34 10/01/21 After Stalin: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (Weeks 1-12) | University of Kent The Russian way of war: operational art, 1904-1940 - Harrison, Richard W., 2001 Book Stopped at Stalingrad: the Luftwaffe and Hitler's defeat in the east, 1942-1943 - Hayward, Joel S. A., 1998 Book The military history of the Soviet Union - Higham, Robin D. S., Kagan, Frederick W., 2002 Book The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: a documentary reader - Hill, Alexander, 2009 Book A history of the Soviet Union - Hosking, G., 1985 Book | Chapter 10 The impact of World War II on the Party - C. Kaplan Chapter Crisis Management in the USSR: The Wartime System of Administration and Control - S.
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