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Soviet Memoir Literature in English Translation
Abdulin, Mansur. Red road from Stalingrad : recollections of a Soviet infantryman. Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Military, 2004.
Agabekov, Grigorii Sergeevich. OGPU : the Russian secret terror. New York : Brentano’s, 1931.
Allilueva, Svetlana. Only one year. New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
Allilueva, Svetlana. 20 letters to a friend. London : Hutchinson, 1967.
[U.S. edition: Twenty Letters to a friend. New York : Harper & Row, 1967.]
Ameel, Joseph. Red Hell : Twenty Years in Soviet Russia. London : R. Hale, 1941.
Andreev-Khomiakov, Gennady. Bitter waters : life and work in Stalin's Russia : a memoir. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.
Arbatov, Georgi Arkadevich. The system : an insider’s life in Soviet politics. New York : Times Books, 1992.
Atbashian, Oleg. Hotel USSR : memoirs of a Soviet 'non-artist'. [United States?] : [publisher not identified], [2018].
Babchenko, Arkadii. One soldier's war. New York : Grove Press, 2008.
Babel, Isaac. 1920 Diary. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995.
Baiev, Khassan. The Oath : a surgeon under fire. New York : Walker & Company, 2003.
Baital´skii, M. Notebooks for the grandchildren : recollections of a Trotskyist who survived the Stalin terror. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1995.
Balabanoff, Angelica. My life as a rebel. London : H. Hamilton, 1938.
Begin, Menachem. White nights : the story of a prisoner in Russia. London : Macdonald, 1957.
Bektore, Atilla. A Nomad’s Journey. Lincoln NE : iUniverse, 2007.
Bek, Anna. The life of a Russian woman doctor : a Siberian memoir, 1869-1954. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2004.
Belozerskaia-Bulgakova, Liubov E. My life with Mikhail Bulgakov. Ann Arbor : Ardis, 1983.
Berezhkov, V. M. At Stalin's side : his interpreter's memoirs from the October Revolution to the fall of the dictator's empire. Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, 1994.
Berezhkov, V. M. History in the making : memoirs of World War II diplomacy. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1983.
Berg, Raisa. Acquired traits : memoirs of a geneticist from the Soviet Union. New York : Viking, 1988.
Berger, Joseph. Shipwreck of a generation : the memoirs of Joseph Berger. London : Harvill, 1971.
[U.S. edition: “Nothing but the truth”. New York: John Day Co., 1971.]
Bessonov, Evgeni. Tank rider : into the Reich with the Red Army. London : Greenhill, 2003.
Braun, Leopold. In Lubianka’s shadow : the memoirs of an American priest in Stalin’s Moscow, 1934-1945. Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame, 2006.
Brezhnev, Leonid Il’ich. Trilogy. New York : International Publishers, 1980. [consists of three short memoirs: “Little Land”, “Rebirth”, “The Virgin Lands”.
Brezhneva, Luba. The world I left behind : pieces of a past. New York : Random House, 1995.
Britnieva, Mary. One woman’s story. N.Y. : Alfred H. King, Inc., 1934.
Bukovskii, Vladimir Konstantinovich. To build a castle : my life as a dissenter. New York : Viking Press, 1979.
Chavez, Judy. Defector's mistress, the Judy Chavez story. New York : Dell, 1979. [She was mistress of Arkadii Nikolaevich Shevchenko (see also) after he defected]
Chekhov, Michael. The path of the actor. Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2005.
Chukovskii, Kornei. Diary, 1901-1969. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2005.
Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896-2000. We didn't ask Utopia : a Quaker family in Soviet Russia. New York : Prentice-Hall, 1939.
Contract, Alexander. The Back Room : my life with Khrushchev and Stalin. New York : Vantage Press, 1991.
Deriabin, Peter S. Inside Stalin’s Kremlin: an eyewitness account of brutality, duplicity and intrigue. Washington DC : Brassey’s, 1998.
Dmitriew, Helen. Surviving the storms : memory of Stalin’s tyranny. Fresno, CA : Press at California State University, Fresno, 1992.
Dobrynin, Anatoly. In confidence : Moscow's ambassador to American's six Cold War presidents (1962-1986). New York : Times Books, Random House, 1995.
Dolgun, Alexander. Alexander Dolgun’s story : an American in the Gulag. New York : Knopf, 1975.
Draitser, Emil. In the Jaws of the Crocodile : a Soviet Memoir. Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.
Dune, Eduard Martynovich. Notes of a Red Guard. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Dymshits, Mark. Hijack for Freedom: The Memoirs of Mark Dymshits: Soviet Pilot, Jew, Breacher of the Iron Curtain. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2021.
Dzhirkvelov, Il’ia. Secret servant : my life with the KGB and the Soviet Elite. London : Collins, 1987. [Several book reviewers mention they suspect possible falsification/fictionalization]
Emelianenko, Vasilii. Red star against the swastika. London : Greenhill, 2005.
Emmens, Robert G. Guests of the Kremlin. New York : MacMillan Co., 1949. [Emmens was co-pilot on crew number 8 of the Doolittle Raiders. His aircraft diverted to the Soviet Union due to fuel shortage and the crew was interned by the Soviets.]
Erenburg, Ilia. First Years of Revolution, 1918-21. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1962. [Comprises volume 2 of Erenburg's memoirs "People, years -- life"
Erenburg, Ilia. Memoirs, 1921-1941. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1966. [Comprises volumes 3 and 4 of Erenburg's memoirs "People, years -- life"
Erenburg, Ilia. People and Life : Memoirs of 1891-1917. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1961. [Comprises volume 1 of Erenburg's memoirs "People, years -- life"
Erenburg, Ilia. The Post War Years, 1945-1954. Cleveland, OH : World Publishing Company, 1967. [Comprises volume 6 of Erenburg's memoirs "People, years -- life"
Erenburg, Ilia. The War, 1941-45. London : MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Comprises volume 5 of Erenburg's memoirs "People, years -- life"
Fischer, Markoosha. My lives in Russia. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1944.
Formakov, Arsenii. Gulag letters. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017].
Futerfas, Mendel. My Gulag Life : stories of a Soviet Prisoner. Brooklyn, NY: Kehot Publication Society, 2021.
Garbštienė, Onutė. Hell in ice. Vilnius : Ethnos ’91, 1992.
Gershtein, Emma. Moscow memoirs : memories of Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and literary Russia under Stalin. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2004.
Ginzburg, Evgeniia Semenovna. Journey into the whirlwind. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
Ginzburg, Evgeniia Semenovna. Within the whirlwind. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Ginzburg, Lidiia. Blockade diary. London : Harvill Press, 1995.
Goldovskaia, Marina Evseevna. Woman with a movie camera : my life as a Russian filmmaker. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Gorbachevskii, Boris. Through the maelstrom : a Red Army soldier's war on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945. Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Gorbatov, Aleksandr Vasil´evich. Years off my life : the memoirs of General of the Soviet Army A. V. Gorbatov. London : Constable, 1964.
Got’e, Iurii Vladimirovich. Time of Troubles, the diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got’e : Moscow, July 8, 1917 to July 23, 1922. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1988.
Gouzenko, Igor. The iron curtain. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1948.
Granovsky, Anatoli. All pity choked : the memoirs of a Soviet secret agent. London : W. Kimber, 1955. [U.S. edition titled: I was an NKVD agent.]
Grechishkin, Sergey. Everything is normal: the life and times of a Soviet kid. Oakland : Inkshares, 2018.
Grigorenko, Petr Grigor’evich. Memoirs. New York : Norton, 1982.
Grinkevičiūtė, Dalia. Shadows on the tundra. London : Peirene, 2018.
Gromyko, Andrei. Memoirs. New York : Doubleday, 1989.
Gromyko, Andrei. Memories. London : Hutchinson, 1989.
Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich. A writer at war : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. London : Pimlico, 2006.
IAkir, Petr Ionovich. A childhood in prison. New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.
Ihnatowicz-Suszyński, Jadwiga. We will uproot you. Lublin : Liber Duo, 2005.
Ivanov-Razumnik. The memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik. New York : Oxford University Press, 1965.
Ioffe, Nadezhda. Back in time : my life, my fate, my epoch : the memoirs of Nadezhda A. Joffe. Oak Park, Mich. : Labor Publications, Inc., 1995.
Kalugin, Oleg. The First Directorate. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Kaminskaya, Dina. Final judgment : my life as a Soviet defense attorney. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Kardinalovskaia, Tatiana. Ever-present Past : the memoirs of Tatiana Kardinalowska. Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2004.
Kasparov, Garri Kimovich. Child of Change. London : Hutchinson, 1987.
Kaznacheev, Aleksandr Iur’evich. Inside a Soviet embassy : experiences of a Russian diplomat in Burma. Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1962.
Kharlamov, Nikolai Mikhailovich. Difficult mission : war memoirs : Soviet admiral in Great Britain during the Second World War. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1986.
Khokhlov, Nikolai. In the name of conscience. New York : D. McKay Co., 1959.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University, 2004-
Kindermann, Karl Gustav. In the toils of the O.G.P.U. London : Hurst & Blackett, 1933?
Kollontai, Aleksandra. The autobiography of a sexually emancipated Communist woman. New York : Herder and Herder, 1971.
Konarska, Felicja. Leaves in the Wind. Warsaw : Wydawnictwo Agade, 2004.
Konstantin, Anatole. A red boyhood : growing up under Stalin. Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Kopelev, Lev. Ease my sorrows : a memoir. New York : Random House, 1983.
Kopelev, Lev. The education of a true believer. New York : Harper & Row, 1980.
Kozyrev, Andrei. The Firebird: The elusive fate of Russian democracy: a memoir. Pittsburgh PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
Krasnov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. The hidden Russia : my ten years as a slave laborer. New York : Holt, 1960.
Kravchenko, Victor. I chose freedom : the personal and political life of a Soviet official. New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1946. [2nd ed. with new introduction: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, 1989.]
Kreiser, Maria. Though my soul more bent : memoir of a Soviet German. Bismarck, North Dakota : Germans from Russia Heritage Society, 2003.
Krivitsky, Walter G. In Stalin’s secret service. New York : Enigma Books, 2000. [original edition: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1939.]
Krotkov, Yuri. I am from Moscow. New York : Dutton, 1967.
Kuznetsov, N. G. Memoirs of wartime Minister of the Navy. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1990.
Lachman, Feliks. I was a gulag prisoner (1939-42). London : Caldra House, 1991.
Larina, Anna. This I cannot forget : the memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's widow. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1991.
Leder, Mary M. My life in Stalinist Russia : An American woman looks back. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.
Lembersky, Galina. Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia. Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, 2022.
Leonhard, Wolfgang. Child of the revolution. Chicago, IL : Henry Regnery Co., 1958.
Ligachev, Egor Kuzmich. Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin : the memoirs of Yegor Ligachev. New York : Pantheon Books, 1993.
Lipper, Elinor. Eleven years in Soviet prison camps. London : Hollis & Carter, 1951.
Litvin, Nikolai. 800 days on the Eastern Front : a Russian soldier remembers World War II. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Lomsargytė-Pukienė, Silvija. The Parallels of Dita : surviving Nazism and Communism in Lithuania - a memoir. Rainbow, California : Lymer & Hart, 2021.
Lugovskaia, Nina. The Diary of a Soviet schoolgirl : 1932-1937. Chicago, IL : Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Lunev, Stanislav Through the eyes of the enemy : Russia’s highest ranking military defector reveals why Russia is more dangerous than ever. Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., 1998.
Lysyvets, Anastasiia. Speak of the happy life : memoir of the Holodomor. Kyiv : Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, 2023.
Malkish, Aryeh. The Guards spoke Russian : memoir of a Ukrainian Jew in a Soviet Gulag. Jefferson N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2023.Mandel’shtam, Nadezhda. Hope abandoned. New York : Atheneum, 1974.
Mandel’shtam, Nadezhda. Hope against hope: a memoir. New York : Atheneum, 1970.
Marchenko, Anatolii. My testimony. New York : E.P. Dutton, [1969].
Mariinskii, Evgenii. Red Star Airacobra : memoirs of a Soviet fighter ace, 1941-45. Solihull : Helion, 2006.
Marynovych, Myroslav. The Universe behind barbed wire : memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet dissident. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2021.
Meretskov, Kirill Afanas´evich. Serving the people. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1971.
Meshcherskaya, Ekaterina. A Russian princess remembers : the journey from tsars to glasnost. New York : Doubleday, 1989.
Mikoian, A. I. Memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan. Madison, Conn. : Sphinx Press, 1988.
Mikoian, Sergo. Stalinism as I saw it. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1991.
Mochulsky, Fyodor Vasilevich. Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir. Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012.
Moniushko, Evgenni D. From Leningrad to Hungary : notes of a Red Army soldier, 1941-1946. London : Frank Cass, 2005.
Morozova, Olga. Living a delusion : a memoir from Soviet Russia. Cape Town : Oshun Books, 2004.
Nekrich, A. M. (Aleksandr Moiseevich). Forsake fear : memoirs of an historian. Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1991.
Obryn’ba, Nikolai. Red partisan : the memoirs of a Soviet resistance fighter on the Eastern Front. Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword, 2006.
Orlov, Alexander. The March of Time : Reminiscences. London : St. Ermin’s Press, 2004.
Orlova, Raisa Davydovna. Memoirs. New York : Random House, 1983.
Panin, Dimitrii Mikhailovich. The Notebooks of Sologdin. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Parvilahti, Unto. Beria's gardens : ten years' captivity in Russia and Siberia. London : Hutchinson, 1959.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich. An essay in autobiography. London : Collins and Harvill Press, 1959.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich. Safe conduct : an autobiography, and other writings. New York : New Directions, 1958.
Patolichev, N.S. Measures of maturity : my early life. Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1983.
Pavlychenko, Liudmyla Mykhailivna. Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, 2018.
Pazukhina, Eudoxia. Collective farm “Trud”. London : Modern Books, 1930?
Petkevich, Tamara Vladimirovna. Memoir of a Gulag actress. DeKalb Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Petrushevskaia, Liudmilla. The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia. New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
Peszkowski, Zdzisław. Memoirs of a prisoner of war in Kozielsk. Warszawa : Polish Katyń Foundation, 1993.
Petrov, Vladimir. Escape from the future. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973.
[earlier editions: “It happens in Russia: seven years forced labour in the Siberian goldfields” and “Soviet Gold: my life as a slave labourer in the Siberian mines”.]
Piatnitskii, Osip. Memoirs of a bolshevik. New York : International Publishers, 193-?.
Pirozhkova, Antonina Nikolaevna. At his side : the last years of Isaac Babel. South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, 1996.
Plisetskaya, Maya. I, Maya Plisetskaya. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001.
Prokofiev, Sergey. Prokofiev by Prokofiev : a composer’s memoir. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1979.
Pyl’cyn, Alexander V. Penalty strike : the memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander. Solihull, UK : Helion, 2005.
Qadiri, Abd al-Majid al-. Muslim subjectivity in Soviet Russia : the memoirs of 'Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri. Paderborn : Brill Schöningh, [2022].
Rachlin, Rachel. Sixteen years in Siberia. Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 1988.
Ratushinskaia, Irina. Grey is the color of hope. New York : Knopf, 1988.
Rawicz, Slavomir. The long walk. New York, NY : Lyons Press, 1997.
Razgon, Lev Emmanuilovich. True stories : the memoirs of Lev Razgon. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis, 1997.
Reshetnikov, Vasilii Vasil’evich. Bomber pilot on the Eastern Front : 307 missions behind enemy lines. Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008.
Robinson, Robert. Black on Red : my 44 years inside the Soviet Union : an autobiography. Washington, D.C. : Acropolis Books, 1988.
Rodríguez, Irina. My Soviet youth : a memoir of Ukrainian life in the final years of Communism. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019].
Rokossovskii, Konstantin Konstantinovich. A soldier's duty. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1985.
Romanov, A. I. Nights are longest there: Smersh from the inside. London : Hutchinson, 1972.
Rosenberg, Suzanne. A Soviet odyssey. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Scott, John. Behind the Urals : an American worker in Russia's city of steel. Cambridge, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
Serge, Victor. Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941. New York : Oxford University Press, 1963.
Shaiakhmetov, Mukhamet. The Silent Steppe : the story of a Kazakh nomad under Stalin. London : Stacey International, 2006.
Shatravka, Alexander. Escape from paradise : a Russian dissident's journey from the Gulag to the West. London : Academica Press, 2019.
Shepilov, Dmitrii Trofimovich. The Kremlin's scholar : a memoir of Soviet politics under Stalin and Krushchev. New Haven CT : Yale University Press, 2007.
Shevardnadze, Eduard Amvrosievich. The future belongs to freedom. New York : Free Press, 1991.
Shevchenko, Arkady N. Breaking with Moscow. New York : Knopf, 1985.
Sheymov, Victor. Tower of secrets : a real life spy thriller. Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 1993.
Shklovskii, Viktor Borisovich. A Sentimental journey : memoirs, 1917-1922. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1984.
Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich. Testimony : the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich. New York : Harper & Row, 1979.
Simmons, Cynthia. Writing the siege of Leningrad : women’s diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Skariatina, Irina. First to go back: an aristocrat in Soviet Russia. Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1933.
Skriabina, Elena. After Leningrad : from the Caucasus to the Rhine, August 9, 1942-March 25, 1945 : a diary of survival during World War II. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.
Skriabina, Elena. The Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
Skriabina, Elena. Coming of age in the Russian Revolution : the Soviet Union at war. New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, 1985.
Skriabina, Elena. Siege and survival : the odyssey of a Leningrader. Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.
Smirnova-Medvedeva, Zoia Matveevna. On the road to Stalingrad : memoirs of a Soviet woman machine gunner. New York : Legas, 1996
Stajner, Karlo. Seven thousand days in Siberia. New York : Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1988.
Stakhanova, Nadia et al. Separated at Stavropol : a Russian family’s memoir of wartime flight. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2005.
Starinov, Anna K. Behind fascist lines : a firsthand account of guerilla warfare during the Spanish Revolution. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001.
Starinov, I. G. Over the Abyss : my life in Soviet special operations. New York : Ivy Books, 1995.
Sudoplatov, Pavel. Special tasks : the memoirs of an unwanted witness, a Soviet spymaster. Boston : Little, Brown, 1994.
Tarlap, Tiit. Chernobyl 1986 : memoirs of an Estonian cleanup worker. Tallinn, Estonia : Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine (IECM), 1995.
Tchernavin, Tatiana. Escape from the Soviets. New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1934.
Tchernavin, Tatiana. We Soviet women. New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1936.
Temkin, Gabriel. My just war : the memoir of a Jewish Red Army soldier in World War II. Novato, CA : Presidio, 1998.
Tokaev, Grigori Aleksandrovich. Betrayal of an ideal. London : Harvill Press, 1954.
Tokaev, Grigori Aleksandrovich. Comrade X. London : Harvill Press, 1956.
Trotsky, Leon. My life : an attempt at an autobiography. New York : Pathfinder Press, 1970.
Vogeler, Robert A. I was Stalin’s Prisoner. New York : Harcourt Brace, 1952.
Vogelfanger, Isaac J. Red tempest : the life of a surgeon in the Gulag. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
Wayne, Kyra Petrovskaya. Shurik : a story of the siege of Leningrad. New York : Lyons & Burford, 1992.
Werner, Ruth. Sonya's report : The fascinating autobiography of one of Russia's most remarkable secret agents. London : Chatto & Windus, 1991.
Wittlin, Tadeusz. Reluctant Traveller in Russia. London : W. Hodge, 1952.
Yakushin, Ivan. On the roads of war : a Soviet cavalryman on the eastern front. Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Military, 2005.
Zaltzman, Hillel. The Jewish underground of Samarkand : how faith defied Soviet rule: a memoir and a history. CT; Mandel Vilar Press, 2023.
Zeisel, Eva. A Soviet prison memoir : recounting 16 months in a Soviet prison, 1936-37. o.O. : Brent C. Brolin, [2014].
Zelikson-Bobrovskaia, TSetsiliia Samoilovna. Twenty years in underground Russia : memoirs of a rank-and-file Bolshevik. New York : International Publishers, 1934.
Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich. Marshal of victory : the WWII memoirs of General Georgy Zhukov. Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2015.
Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich. The memoirs of Marshal Zhukov. New York : Delacorte Press, 1971.
Zhukova, Iuliia Konstantinovna. Girl with a sniper rifle : an Eastern front memoir. London : Greenhill Books, 2019.
Zissman, Harold. The warriors : my life as a Jewish Soviet partisan. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Barbarossa and the retreat to Moscow : recollections of fighter pilots on the Eastern Front / [interviews by] Artem Drabkin. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2007.
Memories of the Dispossessed : descendents of Kulak families tell their stories. Nottingham, UK : Bramcote Press, 1998. [Personal histories collected by Olga Litvinenko]