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Russia and the Soviet Union

By Ken Webb, Tony Taylor, Copyright Year 2015, ISBN 9780170244107

The following links are referenced in your textbook

Chapter 1

Marxist Internet Archive. This digital archive includes an extensive range of primary source materials and biographical details about Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai, Bukharin, Stalin and the Bolshevik Party.
https://www.marxists.org/

Internet Modern History Source Book, The Russian Revolution
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.html#Russian Revolution

History Learning Site, Russia 1900 to 1939
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russia_1900_1939.htm

Alexander Palace
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/

Alexander Palace. An extensive digital archive of the Romanovs and the Alexander Palace. Includes primary and secondary source materials, biographical information and a virtual tour of the Alexander Palace.
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/mainpage.html

The Russian Empire 1905-1914. Simple overview of the period with a good range of links.
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/rusemp19051914.html

The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html

Chapter 2

Book review: Peter Gatrell, Russia’s First World War, A Social and Economic History
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/491

War and revolution in Russia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml

Marxist Internet Archive. This digital archive includes an extensive range of primary source materials and biographical details about Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai, Bukharin, Stalin and the Bolshevik Party.
https://www.marxists.org/

Internet Modern History Source Book: The Russian Revolution
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.html#Russian Revolution

Chapter 3

Book reviews: Orlando Figes, A Peoples Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 and Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets: the Russian People and their Revolution 1917-1921
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/45a

Marxist Internet Archive. This digital archive includes an extensive range of primary source materials and biographical details about Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai, Bukharin, Stalin and the Bolshevik Party.
https://www.marxists.org/

Internet Modern History Source Book: The Russian Revolution
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.html#Russian Revolution

Chapter 4

Leon Trotsky
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky

Marxist Internet Archive. This digital archive includes an extensive range of primary source materials and biographical details about Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai, Bukharin, Stalin and the Bolshevik Party.
https://www.marxists.org/

Internet Modern History Source Book: The Russian Revolution
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook4.html#Russian Revolution

Chapter 5

Revelations from the Russian Archives
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/index.html

Power struggle
http://ibhistory.wikidot.com/power-struggle

The Soviet Economy in the 1920s and 1930s
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/public/1978_cc_postprint.pdf

Stalinist Policies, Indigenous Agents, and Peasant Actors: Negotiating Collectivization in Uzbekistan, 1929-1932. A university thesis on collectivisation in Uzbekistan.
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/9868/Dooley_Kathryn_A_ma2009sp.pdf?sequence=1

Holodomor, 1932-33
http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html

Chapter 6

Book review: J Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1587

Stalin’s purges
http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html

Chapter 7

Reading History: Stalin’s Russia
http://www.historytoday.com/christopher-read/reading-history-stalins-russia

Book review: Timothy Johnston, Being Soviet: Everyday life under Stalin1939-1953
http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/being-soviet-everyday-life-under-stalin

Stalin
http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin

Chapter 8

Marxist Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/great-patriotic-war/

Hitler’s Invasion of Russia in the Second World War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_russia_invasion_01.shtml

Chapter 9

The Soviet Experience in the Second World War
http://www.eisenhowerinstitute.org/about/living_history/wwii_soviet_experience.dot

Stalin’s victory? The Soviet Union and the Second World War
http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/stalins-victory-the-soviet-union-and-world-war-ii/

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