Texts for Soviet Union
Required Texts
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Robert Service | A History of Modern Russia | Harvard, 2005 |
| Robert Service | Stalin: A Biography | Harvard, 2006 |
| Richard Conquest | The Great Terror: A Reassessment | Oxford, 1991 |
| David Holloway | Stalin and the Bomb | Yale, 1996 |
| David Murphy | What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa | Yale, 2006 |
| Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali | Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary | Norton, 2006 |
| Allen Weinstein | The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era | Modern Library, 2000 |
The books listed above are required. They can be checked out from your local library in your hometown or throughout the state of Kansas by using the appropriate hyperlink. Kansas Library Catalog will indicate where the book is located and perhaps can be found not far from your location.
The books can also be purchased at the Memorial Union Bookstore or the Textbook Corner. Likewise, students can go online at Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and E. R. Hamilton Booksellers for cheap and affordable books for this course.