The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism

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 Stalin's regime paid for industrialization by trading food for the gold, silver and dollars of hungry citizens during the famine years. Based on archives opened after 1991.

Elena Osokina

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