SovMode workshops are built around collective discussions of historical and contemporary texts.
For the 2024 workshop, the following materials have been curated:

Георгий Сафаров. Колониальная революция (Опыт Туркестана). [1921]. Reprint: Oxford: The Society for Central Asian Studies, 1985.
Георгий Сафаров. Национальный вопрос и пролетариат. Изд. второе. Москва: Главполитпросвет, 1923.
- Глава 7. Национальный вопрос и гражданская война (210–250);
- Глава 8. Национальная политика Советской власти и РКП (250–267);
- Глава 9. Национальный вопрос в переходную эпоху от капитализма к коммунизму (267–285).

Agha Shaukat Ali. Modernization of Soviet Central Asia. An Example of Socialist Construction. Lahore: The Penjab University Press, 1964.
- Preface.
- Ch. 3. Basmachi Movement – Formation of Central Asian Republics (31–40);
- Ch. 6. Cultural Development of Central Asia (87–95);
- Conclusion.

Artemy M. Kalinovsky. Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Ch. 5. Nurek, “A City You Can Write About” (117–143);
- Ch. 7. The Countryside Electrified (175–198);
- Conclusion: A Dream Deferred (244–255).

Alessandro Iandolo. Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Ch. 2. Brave New World: The Soviet Union and the Making of the Third World (39–61);
- Ch. 3. First Contact (62–91);
- Ch. 4. The Heart of the Matter (92–146);
- Ch. 6. The End of the Affair (197–219).

Masha Salazkina. World Socialist Cinema Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.
- Ch. 6. World Cinema of Socialist Industrial Modernity (176–204);
- Ch. 8. World Socialist Cinema of Armed Struggle (242–274)
Anna Whittington. A House Divided: Glasnost and the Fate of the Soviet People, 1985–1991 (unpublished work).