Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum brings together a unique collection of Gulag survivors’ memoirs.

A compelling new history of the collapse of the Soviet Union that explores the intellectual and ideological impulses that propelled the revolution.

Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist party's financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh look at the evolution of the party and its role in the Soviet economy and society as a whole.

Based on new archival research, this book presents a comprehensive account of the German siege of Leningrad in 1941–43, during which close to one million Leningraders perished.

Although the Soviet Union is often considered to have been the world's first propaganda state, communist officials under Stalin were repeatedly frustrated in their attempts to promote a coherent sense of "Soviet" social identity. An exposé of systemic failure within USSR's ideological establishment, this book rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and...

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime and arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag.

Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russia’s Cold War fills a significant gap in o...

Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russia’s Cold War fills a significant gap in o...

This stunning exposé of Soviet espionage in the U.S. during the 1930s and 40s is based on extensive KGB archives never revealed before. With new information on Alger Hiss, Robert Oppenheimer, the Rosenbergs, and many others, the book for the first time documents the secret world of Stalin’s spies and the Americans who worked with them.

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people’s revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new democratic societies are still divided by the past.

The first examination of Lenin’s genealogical, cultural, and political connections to East European Jews and the broader implications for Russian and Soviet history.

In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism.

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty...

This compelling and original book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons of its tragic Communist experience and shows how a deep-rooted lack of respect for the individual blocks the nation's way to a stable and democratic future.

This compelling and original book explores why Russia has ignored the lessons of its tragic Communist experience and shows how a deep-rooted lack of respect for the individual blocks the nation's way to a stable and democratic future.

The result of years of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press, the Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) provides access to materials from Stalin's personal archive and monographs on the history of Soviet and international communism. In addition, it seeks to advance research and teaching through new ways for scholars and students t...

This investigation of the writings of diverse urban Russian writers on the eve of revolution sheds new light on their shared anxieties about modern life and the search for meaning in a time of both crisis and possibility.

This book is the first in English to explore Belarus’s complicated past from medieval times through the Soviet years, the years since independence, and its current situation under a corrupt, authoritarian, and surprisingly tenacious president.

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