Stalin's Quest for Gold: The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization

How electricity became a political project, from late tsarist engineers to Lenin's GOELRO plan and the NEP years. It shows the roots of Soviet planning in a single technology.

Jonathan Coopersmith

A history of Soviet nurses from the revolution and civil war through Stalin's 1930s and the Second World War. It shows daily life, ideology and medicine through the women who did the work.

Susan Grant

How propaganda posters turned Stalin into a father, teacher and saviour between 1929 and 1953. Richly illustrated with dozens of original posters in full colour.

Anita Pisch

Essays on Soviet Jews on the Eastern Front, as Red Army soldiers, war reporters and witnesses of the Holocaust, and on how the war was remembered in the USSR.

Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh

Everyday Soviet life seen through clothing, from the Moscow Fashion House to the GUM department store. A fresh look at consumer culture under Khrushchev and Brezhnev.

Jukka Gronow and Sergey Zhuravlev