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Thursday, 4 February 2010

Further Reading re 'Stalin's Rise to Power'

Recommended by Dr. James Harris, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds.

Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Political Biography (London: Oxford University Press, 1949)

Leonard Schapiro, The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase, 1917-1922 (London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 1955)

R. V. Daniels, Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960)

Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1973)

Robert Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality (London: Chatto and Windus, 1974)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1917-1932 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982)

Lars Lih, Oleg V. Naumov, Oleg V. Khlevniuk eds., Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)

James Harris, “Stalin as General Secretary: The Appointments Process and the Nature of Stalin’s Power” in Sarah Davies and James Harris eds., Stalin, A New History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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