Mack Smith, Denis.
Modern Italy: A Political History
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
McCarthy, Patrick.
The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi and Beyond
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Miller, James Edward.
The United States and Italy: The Politics and Diplomacy of Stabilization
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Putnam, Robert.
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Sassoon, Donald.
Contemporary Italy: Economy, Society, and Politics since 1945
. New York: Longman, 1997.
Zamagni, Vera.
The Economic History of Italy, 1860-1990
. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Poland
Davies, Norman.
Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Garton Ash, Timothy.
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Gomulka, Stanislaw, and Antony Polonsky.
Polish Paradoxes
. London: Routledge, 1991.
Gross, Jan T.
Polish Society Under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Quinn, Frederick.
Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East
. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Schatz, Jaff.
The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Toranska, Teresa.
“Them”: Stalin’s Polish Puppets
. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Zamoyski, Adam.
The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
. New York: F. Watts, 1988.
Romania
Boia, Lucian.
History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness
. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001.
Deletant, Dennis.
Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorgiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
———.
Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989
. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995.
Fischer-Galati, Stephen.
Twentieth-Century Romania
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Ionescu, Ghita.
Communism in Rumania, 1944-1962
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Mitu, Sorin.
National Identity of Romanians in Transylvania
. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001.
Shafir, Michael.
Romania, Politics, Economics, and Society: Political Stagnation and Simulated Change
. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner Publishers, 1985.
Tismaneanu, Vladimir.
Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Verdery, Katherine.
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
———.
Transylvanian Villagers: Three Centuries of Political, Economic, and Ethnic Change
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Spain & Portugal
Aguilar, Paloma.
Memory & Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy
. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
Boyd, Carolyn P.
Historia Patria: Politics, History, and National Identity in Spain, 1875-1975
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Carr, Raymond, and Juan Pablo Fusi.
Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy
. London: Allen & Unwin, 1981.
Gallagher, Tom.
Portugal: A Twentieth-Century Interpretation
. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983.
Guirao, Fernando.
Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-57: Challenge and Response
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Herr, Richard.
An Historical Essay on Modern Spain
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Hooper, John.
The New Spaniards
. London: Penguin Books, 1995.
Kinder, Marsha.
Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Payne, Stanley G.
Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century Spain
. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976.
Pérez-Díaz, Víctor.
Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics, and the Rule of Law
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Pinto, Antonio Costa.
Salazar’s Dictatorship and European Fascism: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 1994.
Preston, Paul.
The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in Twentieth-Century Spain
. New York: Routledge, 1995.
———.
Spain in Crisis: The Evolution and Decline of the Franco Régime
. Hassocks, UK: Harvester Press, 1976.
United Kingdom & Ireland
Addison, Paul.
Now the War Is Over: A Social History of Britain, 1945-51
. London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Barnett, Correlli.
The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation
. London: Macmillan, 1986.
Benson, John.
The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980
. London: Longman, 1994.
Coogan, Tim Pat.
The IRA
. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Hennessy, Peter.
Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
McKibbin, Ross.
Classes and Cultures: England, 1918-1951
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
McKittrick, David.
Making Sense of the Troubles
. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 2002.
Morgan, Kenneth O.
The People’s Peace: British History, 1945-1989
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Parliamentary Reform 1933-1960: A Survey of Suggested Reforms
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Patterson, Henry.
Ireland Since 1939
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Porter, Roy.
London: A Social History
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Reynolds, David.
Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
. London: Longman, 1991.
Sked, Alan, and Chris, Cook.
Post-War Britain: A Political History
. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.
Woodhouse, C. M.
British Foreign Policy since the Second World War
. New York: Praeger, 1962.
Young, Hugo.
This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair
. Wood-stock, NY: Overlook Press, 1999.
USSR/Russia
Amalrik, Andrei.
Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
New York: Penguin Books, 1980.
Applebaum, Anne.
Gulag: A History
. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Bardach, Janusz.
Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Butenko, I. A., and Kirill Razlogov.
Recent Social Trends in Russia, 1960-1995
. Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.
Deutscher, Isaac.
Russia After Stalin
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
Dobb, Maurice Herbert.
Soviet Economic Development since 1917
. New York: International Publishers, 1967.
Hosking, Geoffrey A.
Church, Nation, and State in Russia and Ukraine
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
———.
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Keep, John L. H.
Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
King, Charles.
The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture
. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2000.
Kotkin, Stephen.
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Malia, Martin E.
The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991
. New York: Free Press, 1994.
McAuley, Mary.
Soviet Politics, 1917-1991
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Nove, Alec.
An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-1991
. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Petrone, Karen.
Life has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Polian, P. M.
Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR
. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004.
Reid, Anna.
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.
Rosenberg, William G., and Marilyn Blatt Young.
Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Schapiro, Leonard.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
. New York: Random House, 1970.
Suny, Ronald Grigor.
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Wilson, Andrew.
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Yakovlev, A. N., Anthony Austin, and Paul Hollander.
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Yugoslavia
Allcock, John B.
Explaining Yugoslavia
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Carter, April.
Democratic Reform in Yugoslavia: The Changing Role of the Party
. London: Frances Pinter, 1982.
Dedijer, Vladimir.
The Battle Stalin Lost: Memoirs of Yugoslavia, 1948-1953
. New York: Viking Press, 1970.
Drakulić, Slavenka.
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
. London: Hutchinson, 1992.
Judah, Tim.
The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Lampe, John R.
Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country
. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Lampe, John R.
Yugoslav-American Economic Relations since World War II
. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990.
Malcolm, Noel.
Kosovo: A Short History
. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Ron, James.
Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Tanner, Marcus.
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans
. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment, 1996.
Wachtel, Andrew.
Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.
West, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Jugoslavia in 1937
. London: Melbourne Macmillan, 1968.
TOPICS
The Cold War
Cronin, James E.
The World the Cold War Made: Order, Chaos and the Return of History
. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Dockrill, M. L.
The Cold War, 1945-1963.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988.
FitzGerald, Frances.
Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Gaddis, John Lewis.
The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
———.
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Gray, William Glenn.
Germany’s Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949-1969
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Gress, David.
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and its Opponents
. New York: Free Press, 1998.
Halle, Louis Joseph.
The Cold War as History
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
Hanhimäki, Jussi, and O. A. Westad, eds.
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Isaacs, Jeremy, and Taylor Downing.
Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991
. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
Leffler, Melvyn P., and David S. Painter.
Origins of the Cold War: An International History
. London: Routledge, 2005.
Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey.
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Weiler, Peter.
British Labour and the Cold War
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Zubok, V. M., and Konstantin Pleshakov.
Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.