MA Reading List
This list was compiled from the recommendations of REES faculty members and similar reading lists for other Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies programs. The collection of texts below therefore offers students a number of works long regarded as fundamental in the field as well as a representative selection of important current scholarship. This list is a guide and students should make every possible effort to familiarize themselves with the major themes from these works.
Available Reading Lists
- East European Track (Central European emphasis)
- East European Track (South Slavic emphasis)
- Russian and Eurasian Track
- Ukrainian Track
- Reference Materials
Purpose of the Reading Lists
The REES faculty has created an MA Reading List, with required and recommended titles, for the following reasons:
- The REES academic program is interdisciplinary and encompasses a huge body of ideas and information; consequently, students needs some guidance in identifying the more reliable and important concepts and works.
- Area studies covers a lot of territory. REES students pursue interests in a variety of disciplines and cross-disciplines and take courses that are sometimes general, but sometimes very specific. The course menu is fairly extensive, and no two REES students ever take the same sequence of courses. Yet all students taking the REES MA Examination in any given semester will be asked to address the same larger issues. The Reading List assures that all students know about the key texts that address central issues of the field.
- REES faculty want REES graduates to have a synthetic, as well as analytical, understanding of the different disciplines of area studies. To achieve this, students will need to read beyond the curriculum.
- The Reading List enhances course work to ensure that students achieve a more complete understanding of the area. It will assist students in preparing adequately for the REES MA Examination, which tests for both horizontal and vertical knowledge. The fact that a central concept may not have been covered in a particular course does not absolve the student from demonstrating knowledge of that central concept. You will use many of the required and recommended books on this list in your courses, but even if you do not, you are nevertheless responsible for knowing what is in them.
- A good interdisciplinary education extends far beyond the activities of the classroom. REES expect you to play an active role in your own education and to take personal responsibility for meeting all requirements.
East European Track (Central European emphasis)
Required
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National
Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Daniel Chirot, ed. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics
and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1989.
Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism with a
Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition. Budapest: Central
European University, 1998.
Andrew C. Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of
the Borderlands from Pre- to Postcommunism. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2000.
Roger Manser, Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Environment
since the Fall of Communism. New York: New Press, 1993.
Robin Okey, The Habsburg Monarchy from Enlightenment to Eclipse. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Tina Rosenberg, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism.
New York: Random House, 1995.
Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern
Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Peter F. Sugar and Ivo J. Lederer, eds. Nationalism in Eastern Europe.
Reprint edition: Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1984.
Jeno Szucs, The Three Historical Regions of Europe: An Outline, Acta
Historica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 29 (1983): 131-84.
Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland.
South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.
Janine Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to
Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Required for FAOs
Andrew A. Michta, ed. America's New Allies: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
Primary Texts
Gyorgy Konrad, Antipolitics.
Vaclav Havel, Open Letters.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz.
Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm.
Recommended
History
Timothy Garton Ash, The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate
of Central Europe. New York: Random House, 1989.
Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. 2nd ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2002.
Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century
Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist
Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
David Ost, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform
in Poland since 1968. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Brian Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in
Nineteenth-Century Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. Seattle,
University of Washington Press, 1974.
Joseph Rothschild and Nancy M. Wingfield, Return to Diversity: A Political
History of East Central Europe since World War II, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998.
Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing In
East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Piotr Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918. Seattle, University
of Washington Press, 1974.
Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind
of the Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Politics and Society
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration
of Communist Parties in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
Jiri Musil, ed. The End of Czechoslovakia. Budapest: Central European
University, 1995.
Jadwiga Staniszkis, The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The
Polish Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
David Stark and Laszlo Bruszt. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics
and Property in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998.
Vladimir Tismaneanu and Sorin Antohi, eds. Between Past and Future: The Revolutions
of 1989 and Their Aftermath. Budapest: Central European University Press,
2000.
Aleks Szczerbiak, Poles Together: The Emergence and Development of Political
Parties in Post-Communist Poland. Budapest: Central European University
Press, 2001.
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Thomas Dacosta Kaufman, Court, Cloister, and City: The Art
and Culture of Central Europe, 1450-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1995.
Peter Hanak, The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History
of Vienna and Budapest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Steven A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the
Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Czeslaw Milosz, History of Polish Literature. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1983.
Akos Moravanszky, Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination
in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1998.
Adam Zamoyski. The Polish Way: A Thousand-year History of the Poles and Their
Culture. London: J. Murray, 1987.
Geography and Economics
Iván T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993:
Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
__________ and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central
Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York, Columbia University Press,
1974.
Alan Dingsdale, Mapping Modernities: Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe,
1920-2000. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Grzegorz W. Kolodko, From Shock to Therapy: The Political Economy of Postsocialist
Transformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment
and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
__________, Eastern Europe: An Historical Geography, 1815-1945. New York:
Routledge, 1989.
__________, and F.W. Carter, eds. Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe.
New York: Routledge, 1996.
Philosophy and Religion
Barbara Falk, The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe:
Citizen Intellectuals and Philosopher Kings. Budapest: Central European
University, 2002.
Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches
to Western Civilization. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.
Jerzy Kloczkowski, A History of Polish Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.
Józef Tischner, Marxism and Christianity: The Quarrel and the Dialogue
in Poland. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1987.
Aviezer Tucker, Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka
to Havel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise
and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
East European Track (South Slavic emphasis)
Required texts
John Allcock, Explaining Yugoslavia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Daniel Chirot, ed. The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski, Capitalism with
a Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist Transition. Budapest: Central
European University, 1998.
Roger Manser, Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Environment
since the Fall of Communism. New York: New Press, 1993.
Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict
and International Intervention. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Peter F. Sugar and Ivo J. Lederer, eds. Nationalism in Eastern Europe.
Reprint edition: Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1984.
Jeno Szucs, The Three Historical Regions of Europe: An Outline, Acta
Historica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 29 (1983): 131-84.
Susan Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995.
Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern
Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Andrew Wachtel, Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural
Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Required for FAOs
James Gow, Legitimacy and the Military: The Yugoslav Crisis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Primary Texts
Ivo Andric, The Bridge over the Drina.
Milovan Djilas, The New Class.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Petar Petrovic Njegos, The Mountain Wreath.
Recommended
History
John Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country
2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History. Washington Square, N.Y.: New York
University Press, 1996.
Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century
Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii, eds. The Establishment of Communist
Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars. Seattle,
University of Washington Press, 1974.
Joseph Rothschild and Nancy M. Wingfield, Return to Diversity: A Political
History of East Central Europe since World War II, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment 1948-1974. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1977.
L.S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453. Reprint edition: New York: New
York University Press, 2000.
Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia.
New York: Norton, 1998.
Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997.
Miranda Vickers, The Albanians: A Modern History. Rev. ed. London: I.
B. Tauris, 1999.
__________, Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo. New York
: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Politics and Society
Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995.
Loring M. Danforth, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational
World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Eric D. Gordy, The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction
of Alternatives. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav
War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2000.
Julie Mertus, Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1999.
Nebojša Popov, ed. The Road to War in Serbia: Trauma and Catharsis.
Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.
Laura Silber & Allan Little, The Death of Yugoslavia. New York: Penguin
Books, 1995.
Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996.
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Ralph Bogert, The Writer As Naysayer: Miroslav Krleza and the
Aesthetic of Interwar Central Europe. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers,
1991.
Carl Darling Buck. Language and the Sentiment of Nationality. American
Political Science Review X (1916): 44-69.
Celia Hawkesworth, Ivo Andric: Bridge Between East and West. London:
Athlone Press, 1984.
Ivan Lovrenovic, Bosnia: A Cultural History. New York: New York University
Press, 2001.
Stephen A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the
Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Economics and Geography
Iván T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993:
Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
__________ and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central
Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York, Columbia University Press,
1974.
Alan Dingsdale, Mapping Modernities: Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe,
1920-2000. New York: Routledge, 2002.
John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson, Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950:
From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1982.
David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment
and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
__________, Eastern Europe: An Historical Geography, 1815-1945. New York:
Routledge, 1989.
__________, and F.W. Carter, eds. Environmental Problems in Eastern Europe.
New York: Routledge, 2002.
Philosophy and Religion
Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press,
1996.
Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.
Sabrina Ramet, Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central
Europe and Russia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Gerson S. Sher, Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise
and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Russian and Eurasian Track
Required texts:
Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser, Russian Politics: Challenges
of Democratization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Roger Bartlett, A History of Russia.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
James H. Bater, Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question
in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Peter J.S. Duncan, Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Holy Revolution, Communism
and After. New York: Routledge, 2000.
John B. Dunlop, The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature
Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations
in the Near Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
W. Bruce Lincoln, Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years
of Artistic Life in Russia. New York: Viking, 1998.
Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Old Regime. 2nd ed., New York: Collier
Books, 1992.
Robert Service, A History of Twentieth-century Russia. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.
Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Required for FAOs
William E. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Primary Texts
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita.
Fedor Dostovevsky, Devils.
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Aleksandr Pushkin, Evgenii Onegin.
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons.
Recommended
History
Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Yitzhak M. Brudny, Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet
State, 1953-1991. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Geoffrey Hosking, Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism As Civilization. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1997.
Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century
Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
Robert Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941.
New York: Norton, 1990.
R. Craig Nation, Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy,
1917-1991. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
J.H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History
of Russian Culture. 1964; reprint, New York: Random House, 1970.
William Brumfield, A History of Russian Architecture. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1993.
Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the
Classic Russian Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Charles A. Moser, ed. The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Tamara Talbot Rice, A Concise History of Russian Art. London: Thames
and Hudson, 1963.
Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke and Terence Wade, The Russian Language Today.
New York: Routledge, 1999.
Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since
1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Politics and Society
Eugene Huskey, Presidential Power in Russia. Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The
Politics of Upheaval. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Dale Herspring, Russian Civil-Military Relations. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press,1996.
Jerry F. Hough, Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Pal Kalsto, Political Construction Sites: Nation-Building in Russia and the
Post-Soviet States. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Robert G. Moser, Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties
and Representation in Russia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2001.
Steven S. Smith and Thomas F. Remington, The Politics of Institutional Choice:
The Formation of the Russian State Duma. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2001.
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the
New States of Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Andrew Wilson, Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World.
Yale University Press, 2005.
Religion and Philosophy
Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers. 1978; reprint, New York:
Vintage, 1995.
Nathaniel Davis, A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian
Orthodoxy. Boulder: Westview, 1995.
Marc Raeff, Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology. New York: Humanity,
1966.
Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.
Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise
and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Geography, Economics, and Business
Robert W. Campbell, The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Clifford Gaddy, The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy
of a Militarized Economy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996.
Paul Lydolph, Geography of the USSR, Elkhart Lake, Wisc.: Misty Valley
Pub.,1978.
Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991. 3rd ed. New York:
Penguin, 1992.
Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski, The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market
Bolshevism. United States Institute of Peace, 2001.
Against Democracy. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace,
2001.
David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment
and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Janine Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to
Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. 2d ed. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.
Ukrainian Track
Required texts:
James H. Bater, Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene: A Geographical Perspective. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Dmytro Chyzhevsky, A History of Ukrainian Literature from the
11th to the End of the 19th Centuries. 2d ed. New York: Ukrainian Academic
Press, 1997.
Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Paul D'Anieri, Robert Kravchuk, and Taras Kuzio, eds. Politics and Society
in Ukraine. Boulder: Westview, 1999.
Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature
Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations
in the Near Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,1998.
Zhores Medvedev, The Legacy Of Chernobyl. New York: Norton, 1990.
Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1994.
Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin,1993.
Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Kataryna Wolczuk, The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of
State Formation. Budapest: Central European University, 2001.
Required for FAOs
Sherman W. Garnett, Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine in the Emerging
Security Environment of Central and Eastern Europe. Washington, DC: Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, 1997.
William E. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1998.
Primary Texts
Ivan Franko, Selections: Poems and Stories.
Lenin, State and Revolution.
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Taras Shevchenko, Kobzar' and Zapovit'.
Lesya Ukrainka, Selections.
Recommended:
History
John Armstrong, Ukrainian Nationalism. 3d ed. Englewood,
NJ: Ukrainian Academic Press,1989.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, The Great Challenge: Nationalities
and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1991.
Jan T. Gross, Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western
Ukraine and Western Belorussia, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Hiroaki Kuromiya. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian- Russian
Borderland, 1870s-1990s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Paul Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1997.
Terry Dean Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism
in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Includes extensive discussion of Soviet policy toward Ukraine.
Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing In
East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union.
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000.
Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the
Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. A study
of Soviet rule in a town in western Ukraine in the post-war period.
Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001.
Literature, Culture, and the Arts
Ralph Lindheim and George S.N. Luckyj, eds. Towards an Intellectual
History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
George S.N. Luckyj, Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.
__________, ed. Shevchenko and the Critics, 1861-1980. Toronto: Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1980.
Thomas M. Prymak, Mykhailo Hrushevsky: The Politics of National Culture.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
__________, Mykola Kostomarov: A Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1996.
Politics and Society
Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Premature Partnership Foreign
Affairs 73, no. 2 (March 1994): 67-82.
Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The
Politics of Upheaval. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Taras Kuzio, Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation
and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Pal Kalsto, Political Construction Sites: Nation-Building in Russia and the
Post-Soviet States Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Alexander Motyl, Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism.
New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.
John Edwin Mroz and Oleksandr Pavliuk, Ukraine: Europe's Linchpin in
Foreign Affairs 75, no. 3 (June 1996): 52-62.
Catherine Wanner, Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Religion and Philosophy
Bohdan R. Bociurkiw, The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and
the Soviet State, 1939-1950. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Press, 1996.
Metropolitan Ilarion, The Ukrainian Church: Outline of the History of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Winnipeg: Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada,
1986.
Neil Harding, Leninism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism. 1957; reprint, Boulder: Westview, 1986.
Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise
and Fall of the Communist Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Geography and Economics
Robert W. Campbell, The Failure of Soviet Economic Planning.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Paul D'Anieri, Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.
I.S. Koropeckyj, ed. Ukrainian Economic History: Interpretive Essays.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1991.
I.S. Koropeckyj, ed. The Ukrainian Economy: Achievements, Problems, Challenges.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1992.
Paul Lydolph, Geography of the USSR, 5th ed. Elkhart Lake, Wisc.: Misty
Valley Pub., 1978.
Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991. 3rd ed. New York:
Penguin, 1992.
David Turnock, ed. East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Environment
and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Janine Wedel. Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to
Eastern Europe, 1989-1998. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Reference Materials
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. DK14 .M6 REF
Richard Frucht, ed. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of
Vienna to the Fall of Communism. New York: Garland, 2000.
Martin Gilbert, Atlas of Russian History. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey Matthews, Historical Atlas of East Central
Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.
Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey Matthews, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Robin Milner-Gulland, Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Former Soviet Union.
New York: Checkmark, 1998.
Harold Shukman, ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Dennis Hupchick, Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe.
New York: St. Martin's, 2001.
See also the individual volumes in Scarecrow Press's Historical Dictionaries of Europe series, published between 1996 and 2002: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Lands, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
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