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.
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.
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.