MA Reading List: RUSSIAN TRACK

Required texts:

Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser, Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Roger Bartlett, A History of Russia. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

James H. Bater, Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Peter J.S. Duncan, Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Holy Revolution, Communism and After. New York: Routledge, 2000.

John B. Dunlop, The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

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

W. Bruce Lincoln, Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia. New York: Viking, 1998.

Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Old Regime. 2nd ed., New York: Collier Books, 1992.

Robert Service, A History of Twentieth-century Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

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

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1993.

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William E. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Primary Texts: [Return to top]

Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita.
Fedor Dostovevsky, Devils.
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Aleksandr Pushkin, Evgenii Onegin.
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons.

Recommended:

History [Return to top]

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Yitzhak M. Brudny, Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Geoffrey Hosking, Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism As Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Robert Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941. New York: Norton, 1990.

R. Craig Nation, Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Literature, Culture, and the Arts [Return to top]

J.H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture. 1964; reprint, New York: Random House, 1970.

William Brumfield, A History of Russian Architecture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Charles A. Moser, ed. The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Tamara Talbot Rice, A Concise History of Russian Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1963.

Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke and Terence Wade, The Russian Language Today. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Politics and Society [Return to top]

Eugene Huskey, Presidential Power in Russia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

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

Dale Herspring, Russian Civil-Military Relations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1996.

Jerry F. Hough, Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

Pal Kalsto, Political Construction Sites: Nation-Building in Russia and the Post-Soviet States. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

Robert G. Moser, Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties and Representation in Russia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

Steven S. Smith and Thomas F. Remington, The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Vladimir Tismaneanu, Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Andrew Wilson, Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press, 2005.

Religion and Philosophy [Return to top]

Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers. 1978; reprint, New York: Vintage, 1995.

Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy. Boulder: Westview, 1995.

Marc Raeff, Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology. New York: Humanity, 1966.

Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.

Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Geography, Economics, and Business [Return to top]

Robert W. Campbell, The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

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

Paul Lydolph, Geography of the USSR, Elkhart Lake, Wisc.: Misty Valley Pub.,1978.

Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991. 3rd ed. New York: Penguin, 1992.

Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski, The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism. United States Institute of Peace, 2001.

Against Democracy. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 2001.

David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Janine Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. 2d ed. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.