| Magnetic mountain: Stalinism as a civilization S Kotkin, W Richardson History: Reviews of New Books 24 (1), 37-38, 1995 | 2710 | 1995 |
| Armageddon averted: the Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 S Kotkin Oxford University Press, 2008 | 897 | 2008 |
| Stálin: Paradoxos do poder 1878-1928 S Kotkin Objetiva, 2017 | 327 | 2017 |
| Uncivil society: 1989 and the implosion of the communist establishment S Kotkin Modern Library, 2009 | 326 | 2009 |
| Behind the Urals: an American worker in Russia's city of steel J Scott, S Kotkin Indiana University Press, 1989 | 275 | 1989 |
| Russia's perpetual geopolitics: Putin returns to the historical pattern S Kotkin Foreign Aff. 95, 2, 2016 | 222 | 2016 |
| Modern times: The Soviet Union and the interwar conjuncture S Kotkin Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2 (1), 111-164, 2001 | 217 | 2001 |
| Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 S Kotkin Penguin UK, 2017 | 175 | 2017 |
| 1991 and the Russian Revolution: sources, conceptual categories, analytical frameworks S Kotkin The Journal of Modern History 70 (2), 384-425, 1998 | 148 | 1998 |
| Mongol Commonwealth?: exchange and governance across the post-Mongol space S Kotkin Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8 (3), 487-531, 2007 | 143 | 2007 |
| Steeltown, USSR: Soviet society in the Gorbachev era S Kotkin Univ of California Press, 1992 | 137 | 1992 |
| Historical legacies of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe M Beissinger, S Kotkin Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 116 | 2014 |
| Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East: Siberia and the Russian Far East S Kotkin, D Wolff Routledge, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| The unbalanced triangle: What Chinese-Russian relations mean for the United States S Kotkin Foreign Affairs, 130-138, 2009 | 80 | 2009 |
| The historical legacies of communism: An empirical agenda S Kotkin, MR Beissinger Historical legacies of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1-27, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| The state-is it us? Memoirs, archives, and kremlinologists S Kotkin The Russian Review 61 (1), 35-51, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| Korea at the center: dynamics of regionalism in Northeast Asia CK Armstrong, G Rozman, SS Kim, S Kotkin ME Sharpe, 2005 | 68 | 2005 |
| Mongolia in the twentieth century S Kotkin, BA Elleman Routledge, 2015 | 67 | 2015 |
| The kiss of debt: the East Bloc goes borrowing S Kotkin The shock of the global: the 1970s in perspective, 80-93, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
| Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History: An International History B Elleman, S Kotkin Routledge, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
