Russian and East European Institute

The following is a list of books recommended for the well-educated M.A. student in Russian and East European studies. Included are key books that have influenced the field and books of synthesis that provide an overview of developments. We have tried to maintain geographical balance, something not always easy, because in some areas, such as the literature of East Central and Southeastern Europe, most books simply focus on the literature of one country or nation. These books are expected to have staying power. Also included is a list of important journals and reference works in the Russian and East European area.

David Ransel
Director, REEI
May 2000

Berend, Ivan and Gyorgy Ranki,
Economic Development in East Central Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1974)

Brown, Annette N., ed.,
When is Transition Over?
(Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999)

Campbell, Robert W.,
The Socialist Economies in Transition: A Primer on Semi-Reformed Systems
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1991)

Campbell, Robert W.,
The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning
(Bloomington, Indiana U. Press, 1992)

Ernst, Maurice, Michael Alexeev and Paul Marer,
Transforming the Core: Restructuring Industrial Enterprises in Russia and Central Europe
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)

Leitzel, Jim,
Russian Economic Reform
(New York: Routledge, 1995)

Nove, Alec,
An Economic History of the USSR, 3rd ed
(New York: Penguin, 1992)

Schleifer, Andrei and Daniel Triesman,
Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000)

Bater, James H.,
Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective
(New York: J. Wiley, 1996)

Bradshaw, Michael J.,
The Soviet Union: New Regional Geography
(New York: Halsted Press, 1991)

Carter, F. W. and D. Turnock, ed.,
Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe, updated ed.
(New York: Routledge, 1996)

Lydolph, Paul E.,
Geography of the U.S.S.R., 5th ed
(Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin: Misty Valley Pub., 1990)

Shaw, Denis,
The Post-Soviet Republics: A Systematic Geography
(New York: J. Wiley, 1995)

Allworth, Edward, ed.,
Central Asia: One Hundred Twenty Years of Russian Rule, rev. ed.
(Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, 1989)

Banac, Ivo,
The National Questions in Yugoslavia
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1984)

Benningsen, Alexandre and S. Enders Wimbush,
Muslims of the Soviet Empire
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1986)

Berlin, Isaiah,
Russian Thinkers
(New York: Viking Press, 1978)

Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries,
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change
(New York: Routledge, 1998)

Clements, Barbara E., Barbara A. Engel & Christine D. Worobec, eds.,
Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1991)

Davies, Norman,
God's Playground: A History of Poland
(New York: Columbia U. Press, 1982)

Dvornik, Francis,
The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization
(Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1956)

Einhorn, Barbara,
Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movement in East Central Europe
(New York: Verso, 1993)

Freeze, Gregory, ed.,
Russia: A History
(New York: Oxford U. Press, 1997)

Fuller, William C.,
Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600-1914
(New York: Free Press, 1992)

Hitchins, Keith,
Rumania, 1866-1947
(New York: Oxford U.Press, 1994)

Hitchins, Keith,
The Romanians, 1774-1866
(New York: Oxford U. Press, 1996)

Hosking, Geoffrey A.,
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within. 2nd ed.
(London: Fontana, 1993)

Jelavich, Barbara and Charles Jelevich,
Establishment of Balkan National States, 1804-1920, Volume VIII
(Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1977)

Judah, Tim,
The Serbs
(New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1997)

Kann, Robert A.,
Multinational Empire: Nationalism and National Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918
(New York: Octagon Books, 1964)

Lampe, John R.,
Yugoslavia As History
(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1996)

Lewin, Moshe,
The Gorbachev Phenomenon
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)

Malcolm, Noel,
Bosnia: A Short History
(New York: New York U. Press, 1994)

Mendelsohn, Ezra,
The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1983)

Pipes, Richard,
The Formation of the Soviet Union, rev. ed.
(New York: Atheneum, 1968)

Pipes, Richard,
Russia Under the Old Regime
(New York: Scribner, 1974)

Skilling, H. Gordon, ed.,
Czechoslovakia, 1918-1988: Seventy Years from Independence
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991)

Stites, Richard,
The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930
(Princeton, 1978)

Sudetic, Chuck,
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
(New York: Penguin, 1999)

Sugar, Peter, ed.,
A History of Hungary
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1990)

Tanner, Marcus,
Croatia
(New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1997)

Thompson, Mark,
A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1992)

Todorova, Mariia N.,
Imagining the Balkans
(London: Oxford U. Press, 1997)

Walicki, Andrzej,
A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism
(Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1979)

Wolff, Robert L.,
The Balkans in Our Times
(New York: Norton, 1967)

Woodward, Susan,
Balkan Tragedy
(Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995)

Curry, Jane Leftwich,
Poland's Journalists: Professionalism and Politics
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1989)

McReynolds, Louise,
The News Under Russia's Old Regime
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1991)

Mickiewicz, Ellen,
Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia, rev. ed.
(Durham, N.C. : Duke U. Press, 1999)

Remington, Thomas,
The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union
(Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1985)

Barac, Antun,
A History of Yugoslav Literature
(Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 1978)

Birnbaum, Henryk and Thomas Eekman, eds,
Fiction and Drama in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
(Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1980)

Brooks, Jeffrey,
When Russia Learned to Read
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1985)

Brown, Clarence,
Portable Twentieth Century Russian Reader
(New York: Viking, 1985)

Brown, Deming,
Soviet Russian Literature Since Stalin
(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1978)

Clark, Katerina,
The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual
(Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1981)

Eekman, Thomas,
Thirty years of Yugoslav Literature, 1945-1975
(Michigan Slavic Publications-Ann Arbor: under the auspices of the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, ACLS and SSRC, 1978)

Erlich, Victor, et al, eds.,
For Viktor Weintraub: Essays in Polish Literature, Language and History
(The Hague: Mouton, 1975)

Filipowicz, Halina,
A Laboratory of Impure Forms: the Plays of Tadeusz Rozewicz
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1991)

Gombrowicz, Witold,
Diary
(Evanston: Northwestern U. Press, 1993)

Hertz, Aleksander,
The Jews in Polish Culture, trans. Richard Lourie
(Evanston: Northwestern U. Press, 1988)

Holmgren, Beth,
Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland
(Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1998)

Krzyzanowski, Julian,
A History of Polish Literature, trans. Doris Ronowicz
(Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1978)

Maguire, Robert A.,
Red Virgin Soil
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1968)

Mihailovich, Vasa,
South Slavic Writers Since World War II
(Detroit: Gale Research, 1997)

Milosz, Czeslaw,
The Captive Mind
(New York: Vintage International Press, 1990)

Mirsky, D.S.,
A History of Russian Literature
(New York: A.A. Knopf, 1949)

Milosz, Czezlaw,
The History of Polish Literature
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1983)

Moser, Charles A.,
A History of Bulgarian Literature 1865-1944
(The Hague: Mouton, 1972)

Novak, Arne,
Czech Literature, translated by Peter Kussi
(Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1976)

Norris, David A.,
In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)

Obolensky, Dimitri, ed.,
The Heritage of Russian Verse
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1976)

Petro, Peter,
A History of Slovak Literature
(Montreal: McGill-Queens U. Press, 1995)

Proffer, Carl R., ed.,
From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1969)

Segel, Harold B.,
Literature of Eighteenth Century Russia
(New York: Dutton, 1967)

Segel, Harold B.,
Renaissance Culture in Poland: the Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1989)

Siniavskii, Andrei,
Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History
(New York, Arcade Pub., 1990)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander,
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Terras, Victor A.,
A History of Russian Literature
(New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1991)

Wachter, Andrew,
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
(Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1998)

Wat, Alexander,
My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1988)

Weintraub, Viktor,
The Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz
(Gravenhagen: Mouton, 1954)

Zenkovsky, Serge A.,
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales
(New York: Dutton, 1963)

Brumfield, William,
Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture
(Boston: D.R. Godine, 1983)

Grierson, Roderick, ed.,
Gates of Mystery: the Art of Holy Russia
(Fort Worth, TX: InterCultura, 1992)

Ryback, Timothy W.,
Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, 1954-1988
(New York: Oxford U. Press, 1990)

Sarabianov, Dmitrii,
Russian Art: From Neoclassicism to the Avant Garde, 1800-1917
(New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990)

Schwartz, Boris,
Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1983)

Slonim, Marc,
Russian Theater, from the Empire to the Soviets
(Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1961)

Starr, S. Frederick,
Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980
(New York: Oxford U. Press, 1983)

Stites, Richard,
Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1992)

Valkenier, Elizabeth,
Russian Realist Art
(New York: Columbia U. Press, 1989)

Cooper, Julian,
The Soviet Defense Industry: Conversion and Economic Reform
(New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1991)

Gaddy, Clifford G.,
The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996)

Glantz, David M.,
The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union: A History
(Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 1992)

Herspring, Dale R.,
Russian Civil-Military Relations
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1996)

Odom, William E.,
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
(New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press, 1998)

Aron, Leon and Kenneth M. Jensen, eds.,
The Emergence of Russian Foreign Policy
(Washington DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1994)

Ash, Timothy Garton,
The Magic Lantern
(New York, Random House, 1990)

Banac, Ivo, ed.,
Eastern Europe in Revolution
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1992)

Barany, Zoltan D. and Ivan Volgyes, eds.,
Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

Bremmer, Ian and Ray Taras, eds.,
New States, New Politics: Building Post Soviet Nations
(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1997)

Buckley, Mary,
Redefining Russian Society and Polity
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1993)

Burks, R.V.,
The Dynamics of Communism in Eastern Europe
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1961)

Colton, Timothy J.,
The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union
(New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1986)

Connor, Walter D.,
Tattered Banners: Labor, Conflict and Corporatism in Postcommunist Russia
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)

Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott,
Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus
(Democratization & Authoritarianism in Post Communist Societies, No. 4)
(Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1997)

Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott,
Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1994)

Galeotti, Mark,
The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
(New York: Longman, 1995)

Garthoff, Raymond L.,
The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War
(Washington: Brookings Institution, 1994)

Gati, Charles,
The Bloc that Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transition
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1990)

Glenny, Misha,
The Fall of Yugoslavia: the Third Balkan War
(New York: Penguin, 1992)

Glenny, Misha,
The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy, 2nd ed.
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993)

Haggard, Stephen and Robert R. Kaufman,
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1995)

Hammer, Darrell,
Russian Nationalism and Soviet Politics
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1989)

Hanson, Stephen,
Time and Revolution: Marxism & the Design of Soviet Institutions
(Chapel Hill, NC: U. of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Hough, Jerry F. and Merle Fainsod,
How the Soviet Union is Governed
(Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1979)

Karklins, Rasma,
Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspectives from Below
(New York: Harpers Collins Academic, 1988)

Kolstoe, Paul,
Russians in the Former Soviet Republics
(Bloomington: IU Press, 1995)

Laitin, David,
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1998)

Lane, David,
Russia in Flux: the Political and Social Consequences of Reform
(Brookfield, Vermont: E. Elgar, 1992)

Lapidus, Gail W., ed.,
The New Russia: Troubled Transformation
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1995)

Mandelbaum, Michael, ed.,
The New Russian Foreign Policy
(New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1998)

Martin, Terry,
Affirmative Action Empire
(Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1996)

Przeworski, Adam,
Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1991)

Putin, Vladimir,
First Person
(PublicAffairs, 2000)

Ramet, Sabrina,
Balkan Babel
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)

Ramet, Sabrina,
Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and Meaning of the Great Transformation, rev. ed.
(Durham: Duke U. Press, 1995)

Remick, David,
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
(Vintage Books, 1994)

Rohrschneider, Robert,
Learning Democracy: Democratic & Economic Values in Unified Germany
(London: Oxford U. Press, 1999)

Solnick, Steve,
Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1998)

Staniszkis, Jadwiga,
The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1991)

Stokes, Gale,
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
(New York: Oxford U. Press, 1993)

Stone, Randall,
Satellites and Commissars: Strategy & Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1996)

Tismaneanu, Vladimir,
Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel
(New York: Free Press, 1992)

Treisman, Daniel,
After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation
(Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1999)

Verdery, Katherine,
National Ideology under Socialism
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1991)

Wallander, Celeste,
Mortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1999)

White, Stephen,
After Gorbachev
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1993)

White, Stephen, Richard Rose, and Ian McAllister,
How Russia Votes
(Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Press, 1997)

Woodruff, David,
Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism
(Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1999)

Yeltsin, Boris,
Against the Grain
(1990)

Zyuganov, Gennady,
My Russia: The Political Autobiography of Gennady Zyuganov
(M.E. Sharpe, 1997)

Bridger, Susan,
No More Heroines? Russia, Women and the Market
(New York: Routledge, 1996)

Byrnes, Robert F.,
History of Russian and East European Studies in the United States
(Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1994)

Condee, Nancy, ed.,
Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late-Twentieth Century Russia
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1995)

Connor, Walter,
Deviance in Soviet Society: Crime, Delinquency and Alcoholism
(New York: Columbia U. Press, 1972)

Cook, Linda,
The Soviet Social Contract and Why it Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
(Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1993)

Feshbach, Murray and Alfred Friendly,
Ecocide in the USSR
(New York: Basic Books, 1992)

Grant, Bruce,
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1995)

Kon, Igor and James Riodan,
Sex and Russian Society
(Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1993)

Lapidus, Gail W.,
Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change
(Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1978)

Millar, James R. And Sharon L. Wolchik,
The Social Legacy of Communism
(Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994)

Riordan, J.W.,
Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR
(New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1977)

Verdery, Katherine,
Transylvanian Villagers: Three Centuries of Political, Economic & Ethnic Change, 1700-1980
(Berkeley: U. Of California Press, 1983)

Austrian History Yearbook

Canadian-American Slavic Studies

Central Asian Survey

Communist and Post-Communist Studies (previously Comparative Communism)

Communist Economies and Economic Transformation

Communist Studies and Transition Politics (previously Journal of Communist Studies)

Cross Currents

Current Digest of the (Post-) Soviet Press

Demokratazatsiya

East Central Europe

East European Politics and Societies

East European Quarterly

Europe-Asia Studies (previously Soviet Studies)

Foreign Broadcast Information Service

Joint Publications Research Service

Nationalities Papers

Post-Soviet Affairs (previously Soviet Economy)

Problems of (Post-) Communism

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, various publications;
successed by Transitions (Open Media Research Institute), which ceased publication in 1999.
Online subscriptions available.

Religion, State and Society

Russian History

Russian Review

Slavic Review

Slavonic and East European Review

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