Books:
* "The Years of the Great Purge, 1936-1938" (1985): This book is considered a seminal work on the Great Purge, a period of political repression in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
* "The Stalinist System and its Aftermath: A Comparative Analysis" (1986)
* "The Russian Revolution: A History in Documents" (1988)
* "The Moscow Trials and the Purge of the Old Bolsheviks" (1992)
* "Stalin's War on the Bolsheviks: A Political Biograpy of Andrei Vyshinsky" (2002)
* "The Stalin Era" (2008)
Articles:
* Potash has also published numerous articles in academic journals, including The American Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, and The Russian Review.
His works have been translated into several languages and are widely used in university courses.
Potash is a Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship, including the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize.