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Soviet Archives Publications

The Hoover Soviet Archives Research Project has yielded numerous insights into the Soviet communist dictatorship. Publications associated with the project have been issued by the Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism and the Cold War and the Hoover Press, in addition to other academic publishers and journals.

The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War

Hoover Press books

A Selection of Other Books and Articles

  • Alexopoulos, Golfo. 2008. Stalin and the Politics of Kinship: Practices of Collective Punishment, 1920s-1940s. Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 , pp 91-117
  • Belova, Eugenia, and Valery Lazarev. 2008. Communism, Inc. The Hoover Digest, no. 1
  • Belova, Eugenia, and Valery Lazarev. 2007. Why party and how much? The Soviet State and the party finance. Public Choice 130:3-4, pp. 437-456.
  • Belova, Eugenia, and Valery Lazarev. 2008. Secret Public finance. Revenues and Expenditures of hte Soviet Commuist Party, 1938-1965. Europe-Asia Studies 60:3, pp. 455-482.
  • Gregory, Paul R. 2004. The Political Economy of Stalinism. New York: Cambridge University Press. Awarded the 2004 Ed. A. Hewett Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
  • Gregory, Paul R. 2008. Exhuming Secrets. The Hoover Digest, no. 3.
  • Gregory, Paul R., and Mark Harrison. 2005. Allocation Under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives. Journal of Economic Literature 43:3, pp. 721-61.
  • Gregory, Paul R., et al., eds. 2004. Istoriia Stalinskogo Gulaga (History of Stalin's Gulag), in seven volumes. Moscow: Rosspen.
  • Harrison, Mark. 2009. A No Longer Useful Lie. The Hoover Digest, no. 1.
  • Heinzen, James W. 2007. Informers and the State under Late Stalinism: Informant Networks and Crimes against "Socialist Property," 1940-53. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8:4, pp. 789-815.
  • Lazarev, Valery, and Paul R. Gregory. 2003. Commissars and Cars: A Case Study of the Political Economy of Dictatorship. Journal of Comparative Economics, 31(1). Awarded the 2004 John M. Montias Prize of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.
  • Markevich, Andrei, and Mark Harrison. 2006. Quality, Experience, and Monopoly: the Soviet Market for Weapons Under Stalin. Economic History Review 59:1, pp. 113-142.
  • Service, Robert. 2007. Comrades: A World History of Communism. London and Cambridge, Mass.: Macmillan.