| Life and terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 RW Thurston Yale University Press, 1998 | 308 | 1998 |
| Liberal city, conservative state: Moscow and Russia's urban crisis, 1906-1914 RW Thurston Oxford University Press, 1987 | 110 | 1987 |
| Fear and Belief in the USSR's “Great Terror”: Response to Arrest, 1935-1939 RW Thurston Slavic review 45 (2), 213-234, 1986 | 83 | 1986 |
| The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union RW Thurston, B Bonwetsch University of Illinois Press, 2000 | 77 | 2000 |
| Social dimensions of Stalinist rule: humor and terror in the USSR, 1935-1941 RW Thurston Journal of Social History, 541-562, 1991 | 64 | 1991 |
| The Soviet family during the great terror, 1935–1941 RW Thurston Soviet Studies 43 (3), 553-574, 1991 | 64 | 1991 |
| Coffee: A comprehensive guide to the bean, the beverage, and the industry RW Thurston, J Morris, S Steiman Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
| Witch, wicce, mother goose: the rise and fall of the witch hunts in Europe and North America RW Thurston (No Title), 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| The witch hunts: A history of the witch persecutions in Europe and North America R Thurston Routledge, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Lynching: American mob murder in global perspective RW Thurston Routledge, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Police and people in Moscow, 1906-1914 RW Thurston The Russian Review 39 (3), 320-338, 1980 | 37 | 1980 |
| The Stakhanovite Movement: The Background to the Great Terror in the Factories, 1935–1938 R Thurston Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, 142-60, 1993 | 34 | 1993 |
| Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews RW Thurston Evangelical Quarterly 58, 133-43, 1986 | 29 | 1986 |
| Mildrash and “Magnet” words in the New Testament RW Thurston Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology 51 (1 …, 1979 | 16 | 1979 |
| Cauldrons of Loyalty and Betrayal: Soviet Soldiers’ Behavior, 1941 and 1945 RW Thurston The People’s War. Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union, 235-57, 2000 | 14 | 2000 |
| On Desk-Bound Parochialism, Commonsense Perspectives, and Lousy Evidence: A Reply to Robert Conquest RW Thurston Slavic Review 45 (2), 238-244, 1986 | 13 | 1986 |
| Liberal City RW Thurston Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's UrbanCrisis 1914, 1906 | 12 | 1906 |
| The rise and fall of judicial torture: Why it was used in early modern Europe and the Soviet Union RW Thurston Human Rights Review 1 (4), 26-26, 2000 | 11 | 2000 |
| Developing Education in Late Imperial Russia: The Concerns of State,“Society,” and People in Moscow, 1906-14 R Thurston Russian History 11 (1), 53-82, 1984 | 10 | 1984 |
| Lynching and Legitimacy: Toward a Global Description of Mob Murder RW Thurston Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an …, 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
