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Applebaum, Anne, ed., Gulag Voices: An Anthology, Annals of Communism Series (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011)

Bidlack, Richard, and Nikita Lomagin, The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012)

Clark, Katerina, E. A. Dobrenko, Andreĭ Artizov, and Oleg V. Naumov, Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

Corley, Felix, ed., Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1996)

Cracraft, James, Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia (Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath, 1994)

Dmytryshyn, Basil, Imperial Russia: A Source Book, 1700-1917 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990)

Ėdelʹman, O. V., Sheila Fitzpatrick, V. A. Kozlov, S. V. Mironenko, Ė I︠U︡ Zavadskai︠a︡, and others, eds., Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011)

Engel, Barbara Alpern, and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, eds., A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997)

Engel, Barbara Alpern, and Clifford N. Rosenthal, eds., Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar, (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013)

Eudin, Xenia Joukoff, and Robert C. North, Soviet Russia and the East, 1920-1927: A Documentary Survey (Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace), no. 25 (Stanford, Calif. ; London: Stanford University Press : Oxford University Press, 1957)

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)

Freeze, Gregory L., From Supplication to Revolution: A Documentary Social History of Imperial Russia (New York: OUP USA, 1988)

Frierson, Cathy A., Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)

Frierson, Cathy A., and S. S. Vilenskiĭ, Children of the Gulag, Annals of Communism Series (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2010)

Garros, Véronique, Natalia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen, eds., Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930’s (New York: New Press, 1995)

Geldern, James Von, and Richard Stites, Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953 (Indiana University Press, 1995)

Getty, J. Arch, Oleg V. Naumov, and Benjamin Sher, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, Annals of Communism, Updated and abridged ed (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2010)

Golder, Frank Alfred, Documents of Russian History, 1914-1917 (Gloucester (Mass.): Peter Smith, 1964)

Gribanov, Alexander, and Joshua Rubenstein, eds., The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005)

Johnson, Priscilla, and Leopold Labedz, Khrushchev and the Arts: The Politics of Soviet Culture,1962-1964 (Cambridge (Mass.): M.I.T. Press, 1965)

Kanatchikov, Semen, and Reginald E. Zelnik, A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semën Ivanovich Kanatchikov (Stanford University Press, 1986)

Clark, Katerina and Evgeny Dobrenko, eds., Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

Korotych, Vitaliĭ Oleksiĭovych, and Cathy Porter, eds., The Best of Ogonyok: The New Journalism of Glasnost (London: Heinemann, 1990)

Lenoe, Matthew E., and Mikhail Prozumenshchikov, The Kirov Murder and Soviet History, Annals of Communism Series (New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England]: Yale University Press, 2010)

Malashenko, Larisa, and A. I︠U︡ Vatlin, eds., Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)

McCauley, Martin, ed., The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State, 1917-1921: Documents, Studies in Russia and East Europe (London (etc.): Macmillan (for) the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1975)

McCauley, Martin, and Peter Waldron, The Emergence of the Modern Russian State, 1855-81, Studies in Russia and East Europe (Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1988)

Peri, Alexis, The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press, 2017)

Putin, Vladimir, First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (New York: PublicAffairs, 2000)

Rosenberg, William G., Bolshevik Visions: Creating Soviet Cultural Forms : Art, Architecture, Music, Film, and the New Tasks of Education (University of Michigan Press, 1990)

———. , ed., Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia, Part 1 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1990)

Rubenstein, Joshua, V. P. Naumov, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, eds., Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Annals of Communism (New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 2001)

Shearer, David R., and V. N. Khaustov, Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)

Siegelbaum, Lewis H., A. K. Sokolov, L. Kosheleva, and Sergei Zhuravlev, eds., Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents, Annals of Communism Series (New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press, 2000)

Stalin, Joseph, L. M. Kaganovich, and R. W. Davies, The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

Steinberg, Mark, Voices of Revolution, 1917 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002)

Storella, C. J., and A. K. Sokolov, The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet village,1918-1932, Annals of Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013)

Stites, Richard, The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (New York ; Oxford: OUP USA, 2013)

Thurston, Robert W., and Bernd Bonwetsch, The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (University of Illinois Press, 2000)

Vernadsky, George, and S. G. Pushkarev, eds., A Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917 (New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 1972)

Viola, Lynne, Viktor Petrovich Danilov, and Denis Kozlov, eds., War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005)

Von Geldern, James, and Louise McReynolds, eds., Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917, Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies (Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 1998)

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