Bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union

==General surveys of Soviet history==

These works contain significant overviews of the Post-Stalinist era. • Cohen, S. F. (2011). Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917. New York: Oxford University Press. • Figes, O. (2015). Revolutionary Russia, 1891–1991. New York: Metropolitan Books. • Heller, M., Nekrich, A. M., & Carlos, P. B. (1986). Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present. New York: Simon and Schuster. • Hosking, G. (1987). The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Kort, M. G. (2019). The Soviet Colossus (8th Edition). London, UK: Routledge. • Kenez, P. (2017). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to its Legacy. New York: Cambridge University Press. • Lewin, M. (2016). The Soviet Century. (G. Elliot, Ed.). New York: Verso. • Malia, M. (1995). Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 1917–1991. New York: Free Press. • Mccauley, M. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London, UK: Routledge. • Nove, A. (1993). An Economic History of the USSR 1917-1991 (3rd Edition). London, UK: Arkana Publishing. • Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. • ——. (2013). The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ==Period studies==

• Beschloss, M. R. (1991). The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963. New York: E. Burlingame Books. • Cousins, N. (1972). The Improbable Triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev. New York: W.W. Norton. • Dornberg, J. (1974). Brezhnev: The Masks of Power. New York: Basic Books. • Hornsby, R. (2023). The Soviet Sixties. Yale University Press. • McCauley, M. (Ed.). (1987). Khrushchev and Khrushchevism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. • McGlinchey, E. (2014). Fast Forwarding the Brezhnev Years: Osh in Flames. Russian History, 41(3), 373–391. • Rutland, P., & Smolkin-Rothrock, V. (2014). Looking Back at Brezhnev. Russian History, 41(3), 299–306. • Strong, J. W. (1971). The Soviet Union under Brezhnev and Kosygin: The Transition Years. New York: NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold. • Tatu, M. (1974). Power in the Kremlin: From Khrushchev to Kosygin (2nd Edition). New York: Viking Press. • Tompson, W. J. (2014). The Soviet Union under Brezhnev. London, UK: Routledge. • Willerton, J. (1987). Patronage Networks and Coalition Building in the Brezhnev Era. Soviet Studies, 39(2), 175–204. • Zubok, V. M. (2007). A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ==Social history==

• Cook, L. J. (1993). ''The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Dimitrov, M. (2014). Tracking Public Opinion Under Authoritarianism: The Case of the Soviet Union During the Brezhnev Era. Russian History, 41(3), 329–353. • Galmarini, M. (2016). The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Hopkins, M. W. (1985). ''Russia's Underground Press: The Chronicle of Current Events.'' New York: Praeger. • Hosking, G. A. (1991). The Awakening of the Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Kerblay, B., & Swyer, R. (1983). Modern Soviet Society. New York: Pantheon. • Kozlov, D., & Gilburd, E. (Eds.). (2013). The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. • LaPierre, B. (2012). ''Hooligans in Khrushchev's Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw.'' Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. • Lorimer, F. (1979). The Population of the Soviet Union: History and Prospects. New York: AMS Press. • Mawdsley, E., & White, S. (2004). The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917–1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press. • Matthews, M. (1989). Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. • ———. (2011). Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions Since Stalin. London: Routledge. • Millar, J. R. (1988). Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Raleigh, D. (2011). ''Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation.'' New York: Oxford University Press. • Roucek, J. (1961). The Soviet Treatment of Minorities. Phylon, 22(1), 15–23. • Shtromas, A., Wenturis, N., & Hornung, K. (1990). Political Change and Social Development: The Case of the Soviet Union. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing. • Weinberg, E. (1992). Perestroika and Soviet Sociology. The British Journal of Sociology, 43(1), 1–10. Culture • Bittner, S.V. (2001). Remembering the Avant-Garde: Moscow Architects and the "Rehabilitation" of Constructivism, 1961–64. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2(3), 553–576. • Congdon, L. (2017). Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Epstein, M. (2019). The Phoenix of Philosophy. Russian thought of the late Soviet period (1953-1991). London: Bloomsbury Academic. • Johnson, P. (1965). Khrushchev and the Arts: The Politics of Soviet Culture, 1962–1964. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Kirk, T.C. (2020). Memory of Vorkuta: A Gulag Returnee's Attempts at Autobiography and Art. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21(1), 97–126 • Majsova, N. (2020). Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures. Lanham: Lexington Books. • Morson, G. S. (1979). Socialist Realism and Literary Theory. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38(2), 121–133. • Nove, A. (1983). The Class Nature of the Soviet Union Revisited. Soviet Studies, 35(3), 298–312. • Plamper, J. (2005). Cultural Production, Cultural Consumption: Post-Stalin Hybrids. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 6(4), 755–762. • Pyzhikov, A. V. (2011). The Cult of Personality During the Khrushchev Thaw. Russian Studies in History, 50(3), 11–27. • Reid, S. E. (2016). (Socialist) Realism Unbound: The Effects of International Encounters on Soviet Art Practice and Discourse in the Khrushchev Thaw. In J. Bazin, P. D. Glatigny, & P. Piotrowski (Eds.), Art beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) (pp. 267–295). Budapest: Central European University Press. • Senelick, L., & Ostrovsky, S. (Eds.). (2014). The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History. New Haven: Yale University Press. • Shkandrij, M. (2001). Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press. • Stites, R. (1992). Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. • Zubok, V. M. (2011). ''Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Ethnic groups • Armstrong, J. L. (1990). Policy Toward the Polish Minority in the Soviet Union, 1923–1989. The Polish Review, 35(1), 51–65. Religion • Adams, A. S., & Shevzov, V. (Eds.). (2018). Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Budnitskii, O., Engel, D., Estraikh, G., & Shternshis, A. (2022). Jews in the Soviet Union: A History. New York: NYU Press. • Dobson, M. (2014). Child Sacrifice in the Soviet Press: Sensationalism and the "Sectarian" in the Post-Stalin Era. The Russian Review, 73(2), 237–259. • Givens, J. (2018). The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • King, R. (1975). Religion and Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Brigham Young University Studies, 15(3), 323–347. • Kowalewski, D. (1980). Protest for Religious Rights in the USSR: Characteristics and Consequences. The Russian Review, 39(4), 426–441. • Larson, N. D. (2014). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question. New York: Columbia University Press. • Pinkus, B. (2009). The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Pospielovsky, D. (1984). The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime, 1917–1982. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. • Ramet, S. P. (1993). Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Ro'i, Y. (2009). The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948-1967 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Rosenthal, B. G. (Ed.). (1997). The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. New York: Cornell University Press. • Rywkin, M. (2015). ''Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia.'' New York: Routledge. • Smolkin-Rothrock, V. (2014). The Ticket to the Soviet Soul: Science, Religion, and the Spiritual Crisis of Late Soviet Atheism. The Russian Review, 73(2), 171–197. • Steeves, P. (1986). The June 1983 Plenum and the Post-Brezhnev Antireligious Campaign. Journal of Church and State, 28(3), 439–457. • Warhola, J. (1991). The Religious Dimension of Ethnic Conflict in the Soviet Union. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 5(2), 249–270. Gender and sexuality • Alexander, R. (2021). Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–91: A Different History. Manchester: Manchester University Press. • Cohn, E. (2009). Sex and the Married Communist: Family Troubles, Marital Infidelity, and Party Discipline in the Postwar Ussr, 1945-64. The Russian Review, 68(3), 429–450. • Dumanèiã, M. (2021). Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. • Engel, B. (1987). Women in Russia and the Soviet Union. Signs, 12(4), 781–796. • Engel, B. A. (2021). Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin (The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. • Ilic, M. (Ed.). (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan. • Kolchevska, N. (2005). Angels in the Home and at Work: Russian Women in the Khrushchev Years. ''Women's Studies Quarterly, 33''(3/4), 114–137. • Lapidus, G. W. (1979). Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change. Berkeley: University of California Press. • McCallum, C. E. (2015). Scorched by the Fire of War: Masculinity, War Wounds and Disability in Soviet Visual Culture, 1941–65. The Slavonic and East European Review, 93(2), pp. 251–285. • Shoemaker, S. (1983). The Status of Women in the Rural U.S.S.R. Population Research and Policy Review, 2(1), 35–51. Children and family • Edgar, A., & Frommer, B. (Eds.). (2020). Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. • Fitzpatrick, S. (2022). The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet "Displaced Persons" and Postwar Repatriation. The Russian Review, 81(2) 284–301. • Friedman, R. (2020). Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury. • Behrends, J. C., Kolář, P., & Lindenberger, T. (Eds.). (2022). Violence After Stalin: Institutions, Practices, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Bloc 1953–1989. Stuttgart: ibidem Press. • Bergman, J. (2009). Meeting the Demands of Reason: The life and thought of Andrei Sakharov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Bukovskiĭ, V. K. (2019). Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity. (A. Kojevnikov, Trans.) Westlake Village: Ninth Of November Press. • Prigge, W. (2004). The Latvian Purges of 1959: A Revision Study. Journal of Baltic Studies, 35(3), 211–230. • Snyder, S. B. (2013). Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. Rural life, labor, and agriculture • Frese, S. (2004). Comrade Khrushchev and Farmer Garst: East-West Encounters Foster Agricultural Exchange. The History Teacher, 38(1), 37–65. • Hale-Dorrell, A. (2015). The Soviet Union, the United States, and Industrial Agriculture. Journal of World History, 26(2), 295–324. • Laird, R. (1974). Soviet Agriculture in 1973 and Beyond in Light of United States Performance. The Russian Review, 33(4), 372–385. • Luxenburg, N. (1971). Soviet Agriculture since Khrushchev. The Russian Review, 30(1), 64–68. • Millar, J. R., & University of Illinois, & Symposium. (1971). The Soviet Rural Community: A Symposium. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. • Nove, A. (1970). Soviet Agriculture under Brezhnev. Slavic Review, 29(3), 379–410. • Volin, L. (1970). A Century of Russian Agriculture: From Alexander II to Khrushchev. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Urban life, labor, and industry • Colton, T. J. (2014). Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Conyngham, W. (2011). The Modernization of Soviet Industrial Management: Socioeconomic Development and the Search for Viability (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Filtzer, D. (2010). Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 1953-1964 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Gustafson, T. (1989). Crisis amid Plenty: The Politics of Soviet Energy under Brezhnev and Gorbachev. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Josephson, P. (1996). Atomic-Powered Communism: Nuclear Culture in the Postwar USSR. Slavic Review, 55(2), 297–324. • Mëhilli, E. (2012). The Socialist Design: Urban Dilemmas in Postwar Europe and the Soviet Union. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13(3), 635–665. • Morcom, S. (2020). Work and Soviet Society after Stalin: Discourses of 'Labour Discipline' and the Law in the USSR, 1956–1991. The Slavonic and East European Review, 98(1), 106–138. • Obertreis, J. (2013). Soviet Urban Planning, Housing Policies, and De-Stalinization. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 14(3), 673–682. • Reisinger, W. M. (1992). Energy and the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Politics after Stalin. Washington DC: NCROL. • Ruble, B. (2011). Soviet Trade Unions: Their Development in the 1970s (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Siegelbaum, L. H., & Suny, R. G. (1994). Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Siegelbaum, L. H. (2006). The Late Romance of the Soviet Worker in Western Historiography. International Review of Social History, 51(3), 463–481. • Varga-Harris, C. (2015). Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Ward, C. (2009). ''Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism.'' Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. • Zhuk, S. (2010). Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Other topics • Frank, W. D. (2013). Everyone to Skis!: Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. ==Government and politics==

• Albats, Y. (1994). The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. • Andrew, C. M., & Mitrokhin, V. (2001). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York: Basic Books. • Bacon, E., & Sandle, M. (2002). Brezhnev Reconsidered. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. • Beisinger, M., & Beissinger, M. (1982). Finding an Heir to Brezhnev. Harvard International Review, 5(2), 8–12. • Bhupinder Brar. (1994). Assessing Gorbachev. Economic and Political Weekly, 29(24), 1465–1475. • Belova, E., & Lazarev, V. (2013). Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party (Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes). New Haven: Yale University Press. • Blackwell, R. (1980). After Brezhnev: Muddling through the Succession. World Affairs, 142(4), 268–281. • Breslauer, G. W. (1983). Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics. London, UK: George Allen & Unwin. • ———. (2010). Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Brown, A. (1984). The Soviet Succession: From Andropov to Chernenko. The World Today, 40(4), 134–141. • ———. (2004). The Gorbachev Factor. New York: Oxford University Press. • Bryant, J., Trump, A., & Meyer, W. (1983). Andropov's Inherited Headache. Harvard International Review, 5(5), 39–41. • Duhamel, L. (2010). The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982–1987. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. • Gardner, T. (1984). Andropov: One Year Later. Harvard International Review, 6(4), 22–23. • Gidadhubli, R. (1977). The Brezhnev Constitution. Economic and Political Weekly, 12(48), 1981–1984. • ———. (1984). Andropov's Last Testament. Economic and Political Weekly, 19(16), 668–671. • Glazov, Y. (1983). Yuri Andropov: A New Leader of Russia. Studies in Soviet Thought, 26(3), 173–215. • Gorlizki, Y., & Khlevniuk, O. (2020). Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press. • Harasymiw, B. (1988). The CPSU in Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 21(2), 249–266. • Hoffmann, E. (1984). Soviet Politics in the 1980s. Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, 35(3), 227–240. • Hyland, W. (1985). The Gorbachev Succession. Foreign Affairs, 63(4), 800–809. • Jaura, J. (1979). Aftermath of 'Brezhnev Bombshell'. Economic and Political Weekly, 14(45), 1834–1834. • Kaiser, R. G. (1991). Gorbachev: Triumph and Failure. Foreign Affairs, 70(2), 160–174. • ———. (1992). Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs, His Failure, and His Fall. New York: Simon and Schuster. • Kelley, D. R. (1986). The Politics of Developed Socialism: The Soviet Union as a Post-Industrial State. New York: Greenwood Press. • ———. (1987). Soviet Politics from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. New York: Praeger. • Löwenhardt, J., Ozinga, J. 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Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–1964. New York: Routledge. • Surovell, J. (1994). Gorbachev's Last Year: Leftist or Rightist?. Europe-Asia Studies, 46(3), 465–487. • Tompson, W. J. (1991). The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev. Soviet Studies, 43(6), 1101–1121. • ———. (1993). Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Reformers: A Comparison. British Journal of Political Science, 23(1), 77–105. • Von Beyme, K. (1975). A Comparative View of Democratic Centralism. Government and Opposition, 10(3), 259–277. • Walker, M. (1988). ''The Waking Giant: Gorbachev's Russia.'' New York: Pantheon Books. • Wallace, M., Suedfeld, P., & Thachuk, K. (1996). Failed Leader or Successful Peacemaker? Crisis, Behavior, and the Cognitive Processes of Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. Political Psychology, 17(3), 453–472. • Zemtsov, I. (1983). Andropov: Policy Dilemmas and the Struggle for Power. Jerusalem: Israel Research Institute of Contemporary Society. • Willerton, J. (2009). Patronage and Politics in the USSR (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. De-Stalinisation • Blum, A., Koustova, E., Grieve, M., & Duthreuil, C. (2018). Negotiating Lives, Redefining Repressive Policies: Managing the Legacies of Stalinist Deportations. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 19(3), 537–571. • Bohn, T. M., Einax, R., & Abesser, M. (2014). De-Stalinisation Reconsidered: Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. • Dobson, M. (2009). ''Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin''. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • ———. (2011). The Post-Stalin Era: De-Stalinization, Daily Life, and Dissent. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 12(4), 905–924. • Filtzer, D. (1992). Soviet Workers and De-Stalinization: The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations, 1953–1964. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press • ———. (1993). The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinization and the Limits of Reform in the USSR, 1953–1964. London, UK: Macmillan. • Khlevniuk, O., & Dowling, R. (2015). No Total Totality: Forced Labor, Stalinism, and De-Stalinization. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 16(4), 961–973. • Kirk, T.C. (2020). Memory of Vorkuta: A Gulag Returnee's Attempts at Autobiography and Art. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21(1), 97–126 • Obertreis, J. (2013). Soviet Urban Planning, Housing Policies, and De-Stalinization. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 14(3), 673–682. • Tucker, R. (1957). The Politics of Soviet De-Stalinization. World Politics, 9(4), 550–578. • Weiner, A. (2006). The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics. The Journal of Modern History, 78(2), 333–376. • Wojnowski, Z. (2012). De-Stalinization and Soviet Patriotism: Ukrainian Reactions to East European Unrest in 1956. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13(4), 799–829. Glasnost and Perestroika • Aganbegi︠a︡n, A. G., & Barratt, B. M. (1988). The Challenge: Economics of Perestroika. London: Hutchinson. • Battle, J. (1988). Uskorenie, Glasnost' and Perestroika: The Pattern of Reform under Gorbachev. Soviet Studies, 40(3), 367–384. • Boym, S. (1990). Paradoxes of Perestroika. Agni, (31/32), 16–24. • Brown, A. (2013). Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. • Cohen, S. F., & Heuvel, K. (1989). ''Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers.'' New York: W.W. Norton & Co. • Frank, P. (1990). The End of "Perestroika". The World Today, 46(5), 87–89. • Gellner, E. (1990). Perestroika Observed. Government and Opposition, 25(1), pp3–15. • Gibbs, J. (1999). 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Glasnost, Democracy, and Perestroika. International Social Science Review, 63(4), 165–174. • McNair, B. (1991). Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Soviet Media. London: Routledge. • Nove, A. (2012). ''Glasnost' in Action: Cultural Renaissance in Russia.'' London: Routledge. • Parker, R. (1989). Assessing Perestroika. World Policy Journal, 6(2), 265–296. • Rand, R. (1989). Perestroika up Close. The Wilson Quarterly, 13(2), 51–58. • Shulgan, C. (2011). The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika. Toronto: Emblem. • Tarasulo, I. J. (1990). Gorbachev and Glasnost: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. • ———. (1991). Perils of Perestroika: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press, 1989–1991. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. • Vithal, B. (1988). Perestroika: The Revolution Resumed. Social Scientist, 16(10), 3–30. Soviet Armed Forces • Colton, T. J. (2014). Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority: The Structure of Soviet Military Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Kolkowicz, R. (1967). The Soviet Military and the Communist Party. London, UK: Routledge. • Odom, W. E. (2000). The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press. • Suvorov, V. Suvorov, V., & Hackett, J. (1987). Inside the Soviet Army. London: Grafton Books. • Suvorov, V. (1989). Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS. London: Grafton. Chernobyl Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Bloc during the 1991 August coup attempt For works about the history of post-Soviet Russia, see Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present) • Aleksievič, S., & Shayevich, B. (2017). Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. New York: Random House. • Allison, G. T., & Javlinskij, G. A. (1991). Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union. New York: Pantheon Books. • Baberowski, J., & Komljen, I. (2011). 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Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. London: Hamilton. • O'Clery, C. (2012). Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union. New York: PublicAffairs. • Petrov, K. (2008). Construction, Reconstruction, Deconstruction: The Fall of the Soviet Union from the Point of View of Conceptual History. Studies in East European Thought, 60(3), 179–205. • Pleshakov, C. (2013). There is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought down Communism. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. • Plokhy, S. (2014). The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. New York: Basic Books. • Pons, S. (2009). Western Communists, Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1989 Revolutions. Contemporary European History, 18(3), 349–362. • Remnick, D. (1993). ''Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.'' New York: Random House. • Sebestyen, V. (2009). Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: Pantheon Books. • Suny, R. G. (2004). The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. • Zubok, V. M. (2021). Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press. The legacy of the Soviet Union • Atai, F. (2012). Soviet Cultural Legacy in Tajikistan. Iranian Studies, 45(1), 81–95. • Daniels, R. V. (1993). The End of the Communist Revolution. London, UK: Routledge. • Spohr, K. (2020). Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989. New Haven: Yale University Press. ==Soviet territories==

• Beissinger, M., & Hajda, L. (Eds.). (1990). The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. • Beissinger, M. (2006). Soviet Empire as "Family Resemblance. Slavic Review, 65(2), 294–303. • Dobbs, M. (1997). Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. • Dunlop, J. B. (1984). The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • ———. (2011). The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Gleason, G., & Hazard, J. N. (2018). Federalism and Nationalism: The Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR. London, UK: Routledge. • Gorlizki, Y. (2010). Too Much Trust: Regional Party Leaders and Local Political Networks under Brezhnev. Slavic Review, 69(3), 676–700. • Hajda, L., & Beissinger, M. (1990). The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society. London: Routledge. • Miller, C. (2021). We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. • Olcott, M. (1985). Yuri Andropov and the 'National Question'. Soviet Studies, 37(1), 103–117. • Rigby, T. (1978). The Soviet Regional Leadership: The Brezhnev Generation. Slavic Review, 37(1), 1–24. • Roeder, P. (1991). Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization. World Politics, 43(2), 196–232. • Shanin, T. (1989). Ethnicity in the Soviet Union: Analytical Perceptions and Political Strategies. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31(3), 409–424. • Simm, G. (1991). Nationalism And Policy Toward The Nationalities In The Soviet Union: From Totalitarian Dictatorship To Post-stalinist Society. New York: Routledge. • Weiner, A. (2006). The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics. The Journal of Modern History, 78(2), 333–376. Baltics • Prigge, W. (2004). The Latvian Purges of 1959: A Revision Study. Journal of Baltic Studies, 35(3), 211–230. Byelorussia • Exeler, F. (2022). Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Urban, M. (2009). An Algebra of Soviet Power: Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-86 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Caucasus • Under construction Central Asia • Keller, S. (2020). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. • Khalid, A. (2021). Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Reeves, M. (2022). Infrastructures of Empire in Central Asia. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 23(2), 364–370. • Rywkin, M. (2015). ''Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia.'' New York: Routledge. Ukraine • Kuromiya, H. (2002). Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Wojnowski, Z. (2012). De-Stalinization and Soviet Patriotism: Ukrainian Reactions to East European Unrest in 1956. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 13(4), 799–829. ==Ideology and propaganda==

• Benn, D. (1969). New Thinking in Soviet Propaganda. Soviet Studies, 21(1), 52–63. • ———. (1985). Soviet Propaganda: The Theory and the Practice. The World Today, 41(6), 112–115. • Brunstedt, J. (2021). The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare). New York: Cambridge University Press. • Eberstadt, N. (1988). The Poverty of Communism. London: Routledge. • Ebon, M. (1987). The Soviet Propaganda Machine. New York: McGraw-Hill. • Fainberg, D. (2020). Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines'. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. • Mitchell, R. (1972). The Brezhnev Doctrine and Communist Ideology. The Review of Politics, 34(2), 190–209. • Nagorski, Z. (1971). Soviet International Propaganda: Its Role, Effectiveness, and Future. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 398, 130–139. ==Economy==

• Allen, R. (2001). The Rise and Decline of the Soviet Economy. ''The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne D'Economique, 34''(4), 859–881. • Evans, A. (1977). Developed Socialism in Soviet Ideology. Soviet Studies, 29(3), 409–428. • Gatrell, P. and Lewis, R. (1992). Russian and Soviet Economic History. The Economic History Review, 45(4), pp. 743–754. • Gidadhubli, R. (1983). Andropov on Soviet Economy after Brezhnev. Economic and Political Weekly, 18(4), 103–104. • Goldman, M. I. (1983). U.S.S.R. in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System. New York: Norton. • Hanson, P. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. London, UK: Longman. • Hewett, E. A. (1988). Reforming the Soviet Economy: Equality versus Efficiency. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. • Hoffmann, E. P., & Laird, R. F. (1982). The Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. • Marrese, M., & Vaňous, J. (1983). Soviet Subsidization of Trade with Eastern Europe: A Soviet Perspective. Berkeley, CA : Institute of International Studies, University of California Press. • Miller, C. (2016). The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. • Millar, J. R., & Linz, S. J. (1990). The Soviet Economic Experiment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. • Rowen, H. S., & Wolf, C. J. (1990). The Impoverished Superpower: Perestroika and the Burden of Soviet Military Spending. San Francisco: ICS Press. • Rutland, P. (2010). The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Shmelev, N., & Popov, V. (1989). The Turning Point: Revitalizing the Soviet Economy. London, UK: Tauris. • Simis, K. (1982). USSR: The Corrupt Society: The Secret World of Soviet Capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster. • Suri, J. (2006). The Promise and Failure of 'Developed Socialism': The Soviet 'Thaw' and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972. Contemporary European History, 15(2), 133–158. • Zweynert, J. (2014). 'Developed Socialism' and Soviet Economic Thought in the 1970s and Early '80s. Russian History, 41(3), 354–372. ==External relations==

The Soviet Bloc in Europe • Archard, L. (2018). ''Hungarian Uprising: Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956.'' Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Military. • Baring, A. (1972). Uprising in East Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. • Brzezinski, Z. K. (1960). The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Corda, M. (2007). Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. New York: Harper Perennial. • David-Fox, M. (Ed.). (2023). The secret police and the Soviet system: New archival investigations. University of Pittsburgh Press. • Dawisha, K. (1984). The Kremlin and the Prague Spring. Berkeley: University of California Press. • Eörsi, L. (2006). The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs. • Fehér, F., & Heller, A. (1983). Hungary 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution - A Quarter of a Century After. London, UK: Allen and Unwin. • Gati, C. (1986). 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• Aronova, E. (2021). Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War'. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Bruno, A. (2022). Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination. The Russian Review, 81(1) 92–109. • Cohen, S. F. (2011). Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press. • Erley, M. (2021). On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Fortescue, S. (1990). Science Policy in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge. • Hartley, J. M. (2021). The Volga: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press. • Josephson, P. R. (1997). New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press. • Suny, R. G. (1998). The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States (2nd Edition). Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press. • Walker, G. (2011). Soviet Book Publishing Policy (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ==Historiography==

• Boyer, J., Kirshner, J., Iurii Nikolaevich Afanas'ev, Barg, M., Cherniak, E., Danilov, V., Volobuev, P. (1990). Perestroika, History, and Historians. The Journal of Modern History, 62(4), 782–830. • Enteen, G. (2002). Recent Writings about Soviet Historiography. Slavic Review, 61(2), 357–363. • Feest, D., & Hein-Kircher, H. (2017). Introduction: National Minorities in the Soviet Bloc after 1945: New Historical Research in Micro and Regional Studies. Region, 6(1), 1–10. • Kenney, P. (2011). What's New, We Knew: Twentieth-Anniversary Appraisals of 1989. Diplomatic History, 35(3), 571–578. • Krylova, A. (2014). Soviet Modernity: Stephen Kotkin and the Bolshevik Predicament. Contemporary European History, 23(2), 167–192. • Magnúsdóttir, R. (2020). The Lives and Times of Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 21(1), 207–217 • Markwick, R. (2006). Cultural History under Khrushchev and Brezhnev: From Social Psychology to Mentalités. The Russian Review, 65(2), 283–301. • Penter, T. (2005). Collaboration on Trial: New Source Material on Soviet Postwar Trials against Collaborators. Slavic Review, 64(4), 782–790. • Ruivo, R. (2020). The Historiographical Invention of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Cultural Politics and the Return of the Lost Project. In S. Loosen, R. Heynickx, & H. Heynen (Eds.), The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s (pp. 227–242). Leuven University Press. • Siegelbaum, L. (1995). Robert V. Daniels and the Longue Duree of Soviet History. The Russian Review, 54(3), 330–340. • Siegelbaum, L. H. (2006). The Late Romance of the Soviet Worker in Western Historiography. International Review of Social History, 51(3), 463–481. * Viola, L. (2002). The Cold War in American Soviet Historiography and the End of the Soviet Union. The Russian Review, 61(1), 25–34. • Siegelbaum, L. H. (2012). Whither Soviet History?: Some Reflections on Recent Anglophone Historiography. Region, 1(2), 213–230. • Wolff, L. (2006). Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography. The Journal of Modern History, 78(1), 93–118. • Yanow, D., & Schwartz-Shea, P. (2010). Perestroika Ten Years After: Reflections on Methodological Diversity. Political Science and Politics, 43(4), 741–745. • Yaresh, L. (1957). The "Peasant Wars" in Soviet Historiography. American Slavic and East European Review, 16(3), 241–259. • Zelikow, P. (2009). The Suicide of the East? 1989 and the Fall of Communism. Foreign Affairs, 886), 130–140. Memory studies • Brunstedt, J. (2021). The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare). New York: Cambridge University Press. ==Biographies==

• Aron, L. R. (2001). Boris Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life. London: HarperCollins. • Brown, A. (1996). The Gorbachev Factor. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press. • Crankshaw, E. (1966). Khrushchev: A Career. New York: Viking Press. • Jenks, A. L. (2019). ''The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin'' (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Medvedev, R. A., & Medvedev, Z. A. (1977). Khrushchev. London: Oxford University Press. • Medvedev, Z. A. (1984). Andropov: His Life and Death. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. • Murphy, P. J. (1981). Brezhnev, Soviet Politician. Jefferson: McFarland. • Paloczi-Horvath, G. (1960). Khrushchev: The Making of a Dictator. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. • Ruge, G. (1991). Gorbachev: A Biography. London: Chatto & Windus. • Scammell, M. (1984). Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. • Sheehy, G. (1991). The Man Who Changed the World: The lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. New York: HarperPerennial. • Sullivan, R. (2015). ''Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva'' (Illustrated edition). New York: HarperCollins. • Taubman, W. (2003). Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. • Taubman, W. (2017). Gorbachev: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ==Academic journals==

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union. (1994). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. • Kasack, W. & Atack, R. (1988). Dictionary of Russian literature since 1917. New York: Columbia University Press. • Minahan, J. (2012). ''The Former Soviet Union's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook.'' Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. • Smith, S. A. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. New York: Oxford University Press. • Vronskaya, J. & Čuguev, V. (1992). The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union: Prominent people in all fields from 1917 to the present. London, UK: Bowker-Saur. ==Memoirs and literary accounts==

• Aleksievič, S. A., Whitby, J., & Whitby, R. (2015). Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War. New York: W. W. Norton. • Borovik, A. (2008). ''The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan.'' New York: Grove Press. • Brezhnev, L. (1978–79). ''Brezhnev's trilogy (3 vols. The Minor Land, Rebirth, & Virgin Lands''). Moscow: Progress Publishers. • Dobrynin, A. F. (1995). ''In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986).'' New York: Random House. • Gandlevsky, S. (2014). Trepanation of the Skull (1st edition; S. Fusso, Trans.). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. • Gorbachev, M. S. (1996). Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs. London, UK: Doubleday. • Khrushchev, N. S., Crankshaw, E., & Talbott, S. (1971). Khrushchev Remembers. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. • ———., & Talbott, S. (1974). Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. • ———., Talbott, S., Schecter, J. L., & Luchkov, V. V. (1990). Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. • Khrushchev, S. (2003). Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. • MacDuffie, M. (1955). The Red Carpet: 10,000 miles through Russia on a Visa from Khrushchev. New York: Norton. • Molotov, V. M., Čuev, F., & Resis, A. (2007). Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics: Conversations with Felix Čhuev. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. • Solzhenitsyn, A. I. (1991). The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union: A Memoir. London, UK: Collins-Harvill. • Vidali, V. (1984). Diary of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Westport: Lawrence Hill. ==English language translations of primary sources==

• Documents related to Soviet-US Relations (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to Soviet Foreign Relations (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to Soviet - North Korean Relations (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to Sino-Soviet Relations (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to Soviet Nuclear History (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • The Berlin Wall (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. The Khrushchev Era (1953–1964) Collections • The Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-1959 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • 1953 Post-Stalin Succession Struggle (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • 1953 East German Uprising (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • The Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents Related to Nikita Khrushchev (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Chang, L., & Kornbluh, P. (Eds.). (1999). The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York: The New Press. • Dallin, A., Harris, J., & Hodnett, G. (Eds.). (1963). Diversity in International Communism: A Documentary Record, 1961-1963. New York: Columbia University Press. • Hodnett, G., & McNeal, R. H. (Eds.). (1974). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Vol. 4 Khrushchev Years, 1953-1964. Toronto, ON: Toronto University of Toronto Press. • Kennedy, J. F., & Khrushchev, N. S. (1992). Back from the Brink: The Correspondence Between President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita S. Khrushchev on the Cuban Missile Crisis of Autumn 1962. Washington DC: US Information Agency. • Khrushchev, N. S. (1960). For Victory in Peaceful Competition with Capitalism. New York: E. F. Dutton & Co. • Khrushchev, N. S. (1960). ''Khrushchev in New York: A Documentary Record of Nikita S. Khrushchev's Trip to New York, September 19th to October13th, 1960.'' New York: Crosscurrents. • Khrushchev, N. S. (1961–1962). Letters to John F. Kennedy. Text • Stickle, D. M., Farrow, J. (1992). The Beria Affair: The Secret Transcripts of the Meetings Signalling the End of Stalinism. Commack: Nova Science Publishers. Individual Documents • Khrushchev, N. S. (1956). On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences Text. The Brezhnev Era (1964–1982) Collections • The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1965-68 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Documents related to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • 1980-81 Polish Crisis (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • McNeal, R. H., & Schwartz, D. V. (1982). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Vol. 5, The Brezhnev Years, 1964-1981. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. Gorbachev Era (1982–1991) Collections • The Sino-Soviet Reapprochement, 1985-89 (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. • Project RYaN (Document Collection). The Wilson Center Digital Archive. Individual documents • Gorbachev, M. (1989). The Progress of Perestroïka. The World Today, 45(6), 94–94. ==See also==