Reading list for Paper 2 Russia

Reading list for Paper 2 Russia

Resource	Type	For students and/or teachers?
Peter Callaghan, Russia in Revolution (1881–1924) (CGP, 2011)	Revision textbook	Aimed at AS students. Written for Edexcel 2008 specification.
Chris Corin and Terry Fiehn, Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin (John Murray, 2002)	Textbook	Written for students. Covers period from 1917; includes sources useful for paper 2 and introduction to debates via excerpts from historians as well as clear narrative, charts and activities.
Graham Darby, The Russian Revolution: Tsarism to Bolshevism 1861–1924 (History in Depth series, Longman, 1998)	Textbook (topic book)	Written for students.
David Evans and Jane Jenkins, Years of Russia, the USSR and the Collapse of Soviet Communism 1855–1991 (Hodder, second edition, 2008)	Textbook	Written for students. Despite being an overview of a much broader period, is very detailed on episodes such as the 1905 Revolution.
Michael Lynch, Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894–1924 (Hodder, third edition, 2005)	Textbook	Written for students. A detailed textbook which covers the exact period of the paper 2 topic
Andrew Mitchell, AS History – Edexcel – Unit 1: Russia in Revolution, 1905–17 (Philip Allan Updates, 2006)	Textbook	Written for students. Designed for 2001 specification but has useful content summaries and sources useful for paper 2 nonetheless.
Derrick Murphy, Russia in Revolution 1881–1924: From Autocracy to Dictatorship (Pearson, 2009)	Textbook	Written for students. Designed for Edexcel’s 2008 specification.
Derrick Murphy and Terry Morris, Russia 1855–1964 (Flagship History series, Collins, 2008)	Textbook	Written for students. Chapters 3 and 4 cover the period of the paper 2 topic.
Peter Oxley, Russia 1855–1991: From Tsars to Commissars (Oxford University Press, 2001)	Textbook	Written for students.  Covers the full period and based on a wealth of research. Despite publication date is less obviously tailored to previous specifications than some.
Anthony Wood, The Origins of the Russian Revolution 1861–1917 (Lancaster Pamphlets series, Methuen, third edition, 2008)	Textbook (topic book)	Written for students.
Anthony D’Agostino, The Russian Revolution, 1917–1945 (Praeger, 2011)	Academic	For teachers and students. Short chapters should be accessible for students; useful up-to-date overview for teachers.
Vladimir Brovkin, Russia after Lenin: Politics, Culture & Society 1921–1929 (Routledge, 1998)	Academic	For teachers, but excerpts can be used by students. First three chapters contain relevant useful material (drawing extensively on contemporary sources).
Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924 (Pimlico, 1997)	Academic	For teachers, but excerpts can be used be students. Evocative, in-depth narrative of the full period covered by the topic.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (Opus, 1994)	Academic	For teachers and students. Concise overview.
Gregory Freeze, Russia, A History (Oxford University Press, 2009)	Academic	For teachers. Covers history of Russia from 1450.
Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: the Age of Social Catastrophe (Vintage, 2007)	Academic	For teachers and students. Very readable; emphasises violent methods of Lenin.
Abbott Gleason (editor),  A Companion to Russian History (Wiley Blackwell, 2014)	Academic	For teachers. Covers a much broader period but relevant chapters offer up-to-date commentary.
Mark von Hagen, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930 (Cornell University Press, 1990)	Academic	For teachers
Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis 1914–1921 (Harvard University Press, 2002)	Academic	For teachers. Sets Revolution in the context of war, with a particular focus on the Don Cossacks and issues of food supply.
Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2006)	Academic	Accessible for students as well as useful for teachers. Offers a clear and concise overview of the period from 1917.
Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (Vintage, 1990)	Academic	For teachers. Detailed, chronological and important account.
Richard Pipes, Three Whys of the Russian Revolution (Vintage 1997)	Academic	For teachers. Short book (84 pages) of essays addressing why Tsarism fell, why the Bolsheviks won and why Stalin succeeded Lenin.
Chris Read, The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (History in Perspective series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)	Academic	For teachers, but early sections could also be used be students.  Particularly strong on the role of the party in society and the state in the 1920s.
Aaron B Retish, Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity and the Creation of the Soviet State 1914–22 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)	Academic	For teachers. Recent work on the period.
Robert Service, The Russian Revolution 1900–1927 (Studies in European History series, Palgrave, fourth edition, 2012)	Academic	For teachers. Up-to-date summary of debates within a chronological structure.
Robert Service, A History of Modern Russia: From Tsardom to the Twenty-First Century, Robert Service (Penguin, third edition, 2009)	Academic	For teachers and students. Includes an overview of historiography of Russia since 1900 in the introduction.
Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Bolshevik Revolution (Public Affairs, 2012) (Previously published as Spies and Commissars: The Bolshevik Revolution and the West)	Academic	For teachers. Recent work from one of the leading writers in the field, focused on espionage.
Ronald Grigor Suny (editor), The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume III – The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006)	Academic	For teachers and students. Chapters 2–6 cover the period of the paper 2 topic and provide concise, readable up-to-date overviews.
Rex A Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)	Academic but designed to be accessible to the general reader	For teachers, but excerpts could be used by students.  Detailed overview of 1917 and early 1918.
Alistair Kocho-Williams (editor), The Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Routledge, 2011)	Academic reader (reprinting a series of selected, influential essays)	For teachers. Chapters 1–8 include recent and older influential essays on the Revolution by writers such as Leopold Haimson, Edward Acton, Sarah Badcock and Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Richard Sakwa, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917–1991 (Routledge Sources in History, Routledge, 1999)	Academic – sources and commentary	For teachers. An extensive collection of source material, useful for practising source aspects of paper, chapters 2–4.
Ronald Kowalski, The Russian Revolution 1917–21 (Routledge Sources in History, Routledge, 1997)	Academic – sources and commentary	For teachers. In depth selection of sources on part of the period for this topic, useful for practising paper 2 source analysis skills.
S A Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002)	Academic (but written for general readership)	For teachers and students. Concise overview by a leading writer on the period.
Orlando Figes, The Russian Revolution: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican, 2014)	Academic (but written for general readership)	For teachers and students. Concise, very recent overview.
Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography (Macmillan, 2000)	Biography	For teachers. Follows a detailed chronological structure.
Graham Darby, The October Revolution, New Perspective for Modern History Students, 1997	Article	Written for students, good on the position of the Bolsheviks in October 1917.
John Morison, Russia’s First Revolution, History Review, December 2000, pages 28–33: www.historytoday.com/john-morison/russias-first-revolution	Article	Written for students.
Andrew Hannah, Peter Stolypin: The Tsar’s last hope?, Modern History Review, September 1998, pages 31–33	Article	Written for students.
Peter Waldron, Why did the Imperial Russian government fail to learn the lessons of the 1905 revolution?, New Perspective for Modern History Students, Volume 6, Number 3, March 2001, pages 22–25	Article	Written for students.
James D White, The Russian Revolution of February 1917: The Question of Organisation and Spontaneity, New Perspective for Modern History Students, 1997	Article	Written for students.
Harold Shukman, Causes of the Russian Revolution: Tsars, Peasants and Revolutionaries, Modern History Review, September 1995, pages 2–5	Article	Written for students.
Sam Merry, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Doctrinaire Revolutionary, Modern History Review, September 1991, 30–32	Article	Written for students.
Christopher Read, Interpreting Lenin in the Post-Leninist World, New Perspective for Modern History Students, Volume 4, Number 1, September 1998, pages 21–25	Article	Written for students.
Sarah Newman, Alexandra and Rasputin, The Historian, Winter 2010	Article	Written for students.
Maureen Perrie, The Fall of the Romanovs, New Perspective for Modern History Students, 1997	Article	Written for students.