Overall histories

• Freeze, Gregory L. (ed.). Russia: A History . 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0198605110.
• McKenzie, David & Michael W. Curran. A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond . 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0534586988.

• Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia . 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 800 pages. ISBN 0195153944
  Pre-revolutionary Russia

• Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia . Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0631208143.
• Russia : a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress; edited by Glenn E. Curtis. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress,1998. DK510.23 .R883 1998
• Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution , 1789–1848 Vintage, 1996, 368 pages. ISBN 0679772537
• Manning, Roberta. The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government . Princeton University Press, 1982.
• Moss, Walter G. A History of Russia . Vol. 1: To 1917 . 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2002.
• Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China . Cambridge U Press, 1988, 448 pages ISBN 0521294991
  Soviet era
• Cohen, Stephen F. Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
• Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution . New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, 208 pages. ISBN 0192802046

• Gregory, Paul R. and Robert C. Stuart, Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure , Addison-Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2001/
• Lewin, Moshe. Russian Peasants and Soviet Power . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968.
• McCauley, Martin. The Soviet Union 1917–1991 . 2d ed. London: Longman, 1993, 440 pages. ISBN 0582013232
• Moss, Walter G. A History of Russia . Vol. 2: Since 1855. 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2005.
• Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991 . 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0140157743.
• Remington, Thomas. Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.
• Service, Robert. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia . 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0674403487.

Post-Soviet era

• Cohen, Stephen. Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia . New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, 320 pages. ISBN 0393322262

• Paul R. Gregory and Robert C. Stuart, Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure , Addison-Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2001.
• Medvedev, Roy. Post-Soviet Russia A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era , Columbia University Press, 2002, 394 pages. ISBN 0231106076
• Moss, Walter G. A History of Russia . Vol. 2: Since 1855 . 2d ed. Anthem Press, 2005. Chapter 22.