9. Russia, 1917-1939
Berezhkov,V. M. At Stalin’s Side: His Interpreter’s Memoirs from the October Revolution to the Fall of the Enpire. Translated by Sergei V. Mikheyev. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1994. NRG: DK 268 .B38 A3 1994
Boyer, John W., and Jan Goldstein, eds. Twentieth-Century Europe. (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 9.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. (Instructor has table of contents.) RVS: D 411 .T83 1987.
Daniels, Robert, ed. Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev. 3rd ed. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1993. (Instructor has table of contents.) RVS: HX 313 .D644 1993
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, and Yuri Slezkine, eds. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. RVS: DK 37.2 .I5 2000
Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich. Memoirs. New York: Doubleday, 1989. (Gromyko was a Soviet diplomat and statesman. Served as ambassador to U.S. in the 1940s. Was Soviet foreign minister, 1947-1985; president of Soviet Union, 1985-1988. Coverage: 1909-1989.) NRG: DK 268 .G77 A3 1989
Markovna, Nina. Nina’s Journey: A Memoir of Stalin’s Russia and the Second World War. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989. (The first seventeen chapters deal with this period.) NRG: D 811.5 .M2735 1989
Mstislavskii, Sergei. Five Days Which Transformed Russia. (The Second World.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. (Personal narrative about the Russian Revolution.) NRG, RGC, RVS: DK 265.7 .M6513 1988
Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World. New York: Vintage Books, 1960. (First-hand account of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917 by a sympathetic journalist.) NRG, RGC: DK 265 .R38 1968
Riha, Thomas, ed. Readings in Russian Civilization. 3 vols. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1969. (Vol. III, 1917-Present. About 70% of the readings are primary sources, the remaining are secondary source essays by scholars. Students will need to distinguish carefully between the two kinds of sources. Subjects include social structure, politics, religion, literature, economics, and war. Instructor has table of contents.). NRG: DK 4 .R52 1969
Walsh, Warren B., ed. Readings in Russian History: From Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era. 4th edition, extensively revised. Vol.II: From the Reign of Alexander III to the Soviet Period. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Universiy Press, 1963. RVS: DK 3 .W3 1963