| The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23 J Smith Springer, 1999 | 326 | 1999 |
| Red nations: the nationalities experience in and after the USSR J Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 165 | 2013 |
| Soviet state and society under Nikita Khrushchev M Ilic, J Smith Routledge, 2009 | 93 | 2009 |
| Khrushchev in the Kremlin M Ilic Routledge, 2011 | 51 | 2011 |
| The Georgian affair of 1922—Policy failure, personality clash or power struggle? J Smith Europe-Asia Studies 50 (3), 519-544, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Beyond the limits: the concept of space in Russian history and culture J Smith (No Title), 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
| The education of national minorities: The early Soviet experience J Smith The Slavonic and East European Review, 281-307, 1997 | 33 | 1997 |
| Was There a Soviet Nationality Policy? J Smith The Russian Revolution and Stalinism, 90-111, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
| Georgia after Stalin: nationalism and Soviet power TK Blauvelt, J Smith Routledge, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Many faces of the Caucasus N Kemoklidze, C Moore, J Smith, G Yemelianova Europe-Asia Studies 64 (9), 1611-1624, 2012 | 24* | 2012 |
| Modernisation in Russia since 1900 M Kangaspuro, J Smith Finnish Literature Society/SKS, 2006 | 22 | 2006 |
| The Fall of Soviet Communism, 1986-1991 J Smith Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Leadership and nationalism in the Soviet Republics, 1951–1959 J Smith na, 1953 | 21 | 1953 |
| Stalin as Commissar for nationality affairs, 1918–1922 J Smith Stalin: a new history, 45-62, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
| The Battle for Language: Opposition to Khrushchev's Education Reform in the Soviet Republics, 1958–59 J Smith Slavic Review 76 (4), 983-1002, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| The Myth of eurasia—a Mess of Regions J Smith, P Richardson Journal of Borderlands Studies 32 (1), 1-6, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands: Interrogating Empire and Nation KA Goff, LH Siegelbaum | 16 | 2019 |
| A Region of Regions: The Historical Failure of Integration in the South Caucasus J Smith The South Caucasus beyond Borders, Boundaries and Division Lines, 1, 2015 | 15 | 2015 |
| Nation Building and National Conflict in the USSR in the 1920's J Smith Ab Imperio 2001 (3), 221-265, 2001 | 13 | 2001 |
| The transformation of Soviet Republic borders to international borders: Competing concepts of the Kazakhstan-Russia border J Smith Journal of Borderlands Studies 32 (1), 91-104, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
