Joseph Stalin/Bibliography

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Biographies

• Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1992), a double biography covering each man in separate but parallel chapters
• Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography, 2nd ed. (1967), older Trotskyite biography; replaced by Tucker and Service
• Lee, Stephen J. Stalin and the Soviet Union (1999) online edition
• Lewis, Jonathan. Stalin: A Time for Judgement (1990)
• McNeal, Robert H. Stalin: Man and Ruler (1988)
• Service, Robert. Stalin: A Biography (2004), along with Tucker the standard biography
• Trotsky, Leon. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, (1967), an interpretation by Stalin's worst enemy
• Tucker, Robert C. Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929 (1973); Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1929-1941. (1990) online edition with Service, a standard biography; online at ACLS e-books
• Ulam, A. B. Stalin (1973), good older biography; replaced by Tucker and Service

Specialized studies

• Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History. 2003. 736 pp. excerpt and text search
• Blank, Stephen. The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin as Commissar of Nationalities, 1917-1924. (1994) online edition
• Broekmeyer, Marius. Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, 1941-1945. 2004. 315 pp.
• Craig, Campbell, and Yuri Smirnov. Truman, Stalin, and the Bomb (2008)
• Daniels, R. V., ed. The Stalin Revolution (1965)
• Davies, Sarah, and James Harris, eds. Stalin: A New History, (2006), 310pp, 14 specialized essays by scholars excerpt and text search
• De Jonge, Alex. Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union (1986)
• Fitzpatrick, Sheila, ed. Stalinism: New Directions, (1999), 396pp excerpts from many scholars on the impact of Stalinism on the people (little on Stalin himself) online edition
• Gaddis, John. A New History of the Cold War (2006)
• Gorlizki, Yoram, and Oleg Khlevniuk. Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (2004) online edition
• Harris, James. "Encircled by Enemies: Stalin's Perceptions of the Capitalist World, 1918-1941." Journal of Strategic Studies, 2007 30(3): 513-545. Issn: 0140-2390 in EBSCO
• Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (1996) excerpt and text search
• Hoffmann, David L. ed. Stalinism: The Essential Readings, (2002) essays by 12 scholars
• Laqueur, Walter. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations (1990)
• Kershaw, Ian, and Moshe Lewin. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (2004) excerpt and text search
• Lee, Stephen J. Stalin and the Soviet Union. (1999) online edition
• McCauley, Martin. The Soviet Union: 1917-1991 (1993) online edition
• McCauley, Martin. Stalin and Stalinism (3rd ed 2003), 172pp
• Marsh, Rosalind. Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature, (1989)
• Martens , Ludo. Another view of Stalin (1994), a highly favorable view from a Maoist historian
• Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1998) online edition online at ACLS e-books
• Merridale, Catherine. "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule." The Historical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 225-240 in JSTOR
• Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Young Stalin (2007) isbn = 1-4000-4465-0) 496 pages
• Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2005)
• Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. 2004. 448 pp. focus on 1930-45 excerpt and text search
• Priestland, David. Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization (2007) excerpt and text search
• Rabinbach, Anson. "Moments of Totalitarianism." History and Theory 2006 45(1): 72-100. Issn: 0018-2656 Fulltext: Ebsco, since 1991 the concept of "totalitarianism" has come back, but the practice differed under Stalin and Hitler.
• Roberts, Geoffrey. "Stalin at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences." Journal of Cold War Studies 2007 9(4): 6-40. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: Project Muse, shows Stalin all along planned to split up Germany
• Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 (2006).
• Rosefielde, Steven. "Stalinism in Post-Communist Perspective: New Evidence on Killings, Forced Labour and Economic Growth in the 1930s" Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 48, No. 6 (Sep., 1996), pp. 959-987 in JSTOR
• Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States. (1998) online edition
• van Ree, Eric. The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin. A Study in Twentieth-century Revolutionary Patriotism. (2002), 366 pp.
• Seaton, Albert. Stalin as Military Commander, (1998) online edition
• Tucker, Robert. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation (1998) excerpt and text search
• Wood, Alan. Stalin and Stalinism, (2004), 105pp online edition
• Zubok, Vladislav M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007) ch 1-2 on Stalin

Primary Sources

• Bialer, Seweryn, ed. Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II (1984);
• Butler, Susan, ed. My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. (2006)
• Alexander Dallin, Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, and Vadim A. Staklo, eds. Dimitrov and Stalin 1934-1943. Letters From the Soviet Archives, (2000)
• R. W. Davies, Oleg Khlevniuk, E. A. Rees, and Liudmila P. Kosheleva, eds. The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence 1931-1936 (2003)
• Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin (1963) by a Yugoslav leader
• Stalin, Joseph. Stalin's Letters to Molotov 1925-1936 (1995)