Annals of Communism Series

31 primary works • 31 total works
Yale University Press

Annals of Communism is a multivolume documentary history, spanning the entire seventy-five year history of the Soviet Union. Leading Western and Russian scholars present never-before-seen, historically significant, documents from former Soviet state and party archives, along with informative introductions, incisive commentary, …
Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936
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3.60 · 40 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2014 · 9 editions
"It is thus important to a) fundamentally purge th…

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    The Secret World of American Communism
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    3.68     · 38 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 8 editions
    For the first time, the hidden world of American c…

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    The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution
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    3.75     · 95 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1995 · 8 editions
    "All around me is treachery, cowardice, and deceit…

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    The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
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    4.17     · 65 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions
    Published for the first time in its entirety, the …

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    The Soviet World of American Communism
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    3.82     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    T he Secret World of American Communism (1995), fi…

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    The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive
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    3.68     · 41 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1996 · 9 editions
    Edited and introduced by an eminent Russian schola…

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    Enemies within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · published 2001 · 6 editions
    This compelling work of documentary history tells …

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    The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36
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    3.78     · 9 Ratings · published 2003 · 4 editions
    From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black …

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    Voices of Revolution, 1917
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    3.57     · 35 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions
    Although much has been written about the political…

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    Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
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    3.87     · 38 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 11 editions
    In this unique book, we hear the poignant voices o…

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    KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2005 · 4 editions
    Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist…

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    War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930: The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside
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    4.14     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the …

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    Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
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    4.00     · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 8 editions
    In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet J…

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    Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits
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    3.67     · 24 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2006 · 2 editions
    What did the rulers of the Soviet Union truly thin…

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    Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment
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    4.44     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
    The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes…

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    Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2007 · 4 editions
    Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among th…

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    The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
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    4.01     · 208 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions
    This gripping book assembles and translates into E…

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    Children of the Gulag
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    4.25     · 8 Ratings · published 2010 · 2 editions
    This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive do…

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    The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
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    4.36     · 11 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2010 · 2 editions
    Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret…

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    Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union Under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2007 · 3 editions
    This book explores Soviet prosecution records to t…

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    Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War
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    3.90     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 10 editions
    The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of l…

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    Gulag Voices: An Anthology
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    4.20     · 188 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
    Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge o…

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    The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
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    3.56     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 11 editions
    Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bul…

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    Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932
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    3.20     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 3 editions
    This book presents the first comprehensive collect…

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    The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror
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    3.84     · 45 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2004 · 6 editions
    The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp…

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    The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
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    4.09     · 11 Ratings · published 2007 · 5 editions
    Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archiv…

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    Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
    Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded teleg…

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    Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · published 2014 · 6 editions
    This fascinating documentary history is the first …

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    Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
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    4.27     · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 2 editions
    Roughly ten million children were victims of polit…

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    The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
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    4.27     · 202 Ratings · 29 Reviews · published 2015 · 21 editions
    The terror and purges of Stalin’s Russia in the 19…

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    Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    A critical edition of the text that defined commun…

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