Not political, view from an accredited Princeton Professor and Hoover Institution Senior. Published works
1991 Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era Berkeley: University of California; paperback with afterword in 1993 ISBN 0962262900
1995 Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East M. E. Sharpe ISBN 1563245469
1995 Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization Berkeley: University of California ISBN 0520069080
2001 Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 Oxford and New York: Oxford University; paperback with new preface, 2003; updated edition 2008 ISBN 0192802453
2002 Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook Co-authored with András Sajó Central European University Press ISBN 9639241466
2003 The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789–1991 Co-authored with Catherine Evtuhov Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 0742520625
2005 Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia Co-authored with Charles K. Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, and Samuel S. Kim M. E. Sharpe
2009 Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of Communist Establishment With a contribution by Jan Gross New York: Modern Library/Random House ISBN 978-0679642763
2010 Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History Edited with Bruce A. Elleman M. E. Sharpe ISBN 978-0765625144
2014 Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe Co-edited with Mark Beissinger Cambridge University Press ISBN 1107054176
2014 Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928[29] Penguin Press ISBN 1594203792
2017 Stalin: Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
1991 Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era Berkeley: University of California; paperback with afterword in 1993 ISBN 0962262900
1995 Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East M. E. Sharpe ISBN 1563245469
1995 Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization Berkeley: University of California ISBN 0520069080
2001 Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 Oxford and New York: Oxford University; paperback with new preface, 2003; updated edition 2008 ISBN 0192802453
2002 Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook Co-authored with András Sajó Central European University Press ISBN 9639241466
2003 The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789–1991 Co-authored with Catherine Evtuhov Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 0742520625
2005 Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia Co-authored with Charles K. Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, and Samuel S. Kim M. E. Sharpe
2009 Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of Communist Establishment With a contribution by Jan Gross New York: Modern Library/Random House ISBN 978-0679642763
2010 Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History Edited with Bruce A. Elleman M. E. Sharpe ISBN 978-0765625144
2014 Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe Co-edited with Mark Beissinger Cambridge University Press ISBN 1107054176
2014 Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928[29] Penguin Press ISBN 1594203792
2017 Stalin: Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941