Examine the reasons for the breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
Vocab
Cold War
Superpowers
Grand Alliance
Twin Blights
Harry Truman
Josef Stalin
Atlantic Charter
Long Telegram
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Percentages Agreement
London Poles
Lublin Poles
Warsaw Uprising
Declaration for Liberated Europe
Iron Curtain
Salami Tactics
COMINFORM
“Ace in the Hole”
Baruch Plan
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
“Two Halves of the Same Walnut”
Dollar Imperialism
Molotov Plan
COMECON
Orthodox
Revisionist
Post-Revisionist
Helpful Resources
Breakdown of Grand Alliance
Primary - Various primary documents on all apsects on the Origins of the Cold War
Primary - "Atlantic Charter," 14 August 1941, Avalon Project
Primary - “Yalta Conference Agreement, Declaration of a Liberated Europe,” February 11, 1945, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, National Archives.
Primary - “Speech Delivered by Stalin at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow,” February 09, 1946, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Gospolitizdat, Moscow, 1946
Primary - “George Kennan's 'Long Telegram',” February 22, 1946, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, National Archives and Records Administration, Department of State Records (Record Group 59), Central Decimal File, 1945-1949, 861.00/2-2246; reprinted in US Department of State, ed., Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Volume VI, Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1969), 696-709.
Primary - “Churchhill's "Iron Curtain" Speech, "Sinews of Peace",” March 05, 1946, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, CWIHP archives
Primary - Joseph Stalin, "Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech," 1946 March, Pravda
Primary - “Telegram from Nikolai Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to the US, to the Soviet Leadership,” September 27, 1946, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, AVP SSSR, f. 06. op. 8, p. 45, p. 759, published in Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn' #11, 1990, pp. 148-154, translated for CWIHP by Gary Goldberg.
Primary - “Truman Doctrine, 'Recommendations for Assistance to Greece and Turkey',” March 12, 1947, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Truman Library
Primary - “The Marshall Plan, Speech by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall,” June 05, 1947, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Congressional Record.
Primary - National Security Council, "CIA Authorized to Carry Out Covert Operations," 1948 June 7, AlphaHistory
Primary - North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1949 April 4, AlphaHitory
Primary - Dean Achenson's ‘White Paper’ on China," 1949 August, AlphaHistory
Primary - National Security Council Report 68, 1950 April, AlphaHistory
Primary - “Warsaw Pact Treaty,” May 14, 1955, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, American Foreign Policy, 1950-1955: Basic Documents Vol 1, Department of State Publication 6446, General Foreign Policy Series 117 (Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 19).
Primary - A Decade of American Foreign Policy Basic Documents 1941-1949, The Avalon Project
Appleman Williams,William, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition) Dell Publishing Co., Inc.,1972
Frank Costigliola, Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, Princeton University Press, Year: 2012
Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006
Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941–1947, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972
Gaddis, John Lewis. “The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War.” Diplomatic History 7, no. 3 (1983): 171–90.
Gaddis, John Lewis. "The Cold War: A New History" New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
Gibianskiĭ, Leonid I︠A︡novich; Naimark, Norman (ed), The establishment of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949, Westview Press, 1997
James, Harold, and Marzenna James. “The Origins of the Cold War: Some New Documents.” The Historical Journal 37, no. 3 (1994): 615–22.
Hasanli, Jamil, At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis Over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941-1946, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006
Hasanli, Jamil, Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945–1953, Lexington Books, 2011
Leffler, Melvyn & Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Lewkowicz, Nicolas. The Role Of Ideology In The Origins Of The Cold War. Scholar's Press, 2019
Lewkowicz, Nicolas. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, London: Anthem Press, London, 2018
Margolies, Daniel ed., A Companion to Harry S. Truman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Naimark, Norman, The Russians in Germany : A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949, The Belknap Press, 1995
Naimark, Norman, Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty, Harvard University Press, Year: 2019
Offner, Arnold, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953, Stanford University Press, Year: 2002
Radchenko, Sergey, To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Radchenko, Sergey, Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, 2014
Roberts, Geoffrey, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953, Yale University Press, 2006.
Swain, Geoffrey & Swain, Nigel, Eastern Europe Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
van Dijk, Ruud et al, Encyclopedia Of The Cold War, Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Wettig, Gerhard, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
White, Timothy J. “Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies.” International Social Science Review 75, no. 3/4 (2000): 35–46
Zubok, Vladislav &Pleshakov, Constantine. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev, Harvard University Press,1996
Zubok, Vladislav, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Youtube - Telegram That Started the Cold War, The Cold War
Youtube - How the Soviets Took Over the Baltics, The Cold War
Youtube - From Potsdam to Death of Stalin, The Cold War
Youtube - Potsdam 1945 - Where the Cold War Started, The Cold War
Youtube - How the CIA and NSA Were Created, The Cold War
Youtube - World in 1946, The Cold War
Youtube - World in 1947, The Cold War
Youtube - World in 1948, The Cold War
Youtube - World in 1949, The Cold War
Youtube - The Myth of Communist Unity during the Cold War, The Cold War
Youtube - USSR in NATO? The Cold War
Youtube - How the US Outspent the USSR - Point Four Program, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.1/24 - (1917-1945) Comrades, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.2/24 - (1945-1947) Iron Curtain, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.3/24 - (1947-1952) Marshall Plan, CNN
Crisis - Berlin Blockade
Primary - "Byrnes’ ‘Speech of Hope' on German Autonomy" September 1946, AlphaHistory
Primary - “Warsaw Pact Treaty,” May 14, 1955, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, American Foreign Policy, 1950-1955: Basic Documents Vol 1, Department of State Publication 6446, General Foreign Policy Series 117 (Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 19).
Primary - "Reply of the Soviet government to the notes of Great Britain, U.S.A., and France on the Berlin situation", Soviet news. 04.10.1948, n° 2027. London: Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London. p. 1-4.
Primary - "Measures to safeguard the Soviet Zone (June 1948) Soviet news. 21.06.1948, No 1965. London: Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London. , p. 2.
Harrington, Daniel F. “The Berlin Blockade Revisited.” The International History Review 6, no. 1 (1984): 88–112.
Harrington, Daniel F. “United States, United Nations and the Berlin Blockade.” The Historian 52, no. 2 (1990): 262–85.
Harrington, Daniel F. Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012
Larson, Deborah Welch. “The Origins of Commitment: Truman and West Berlin.” Journal of Cold War Studies 13, no. 1 (2011): 180–212.
Lewkowicz, Nicolas, The German Question and the International Order,1943-48, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Miller, Roger, To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949, Texas A&M University Press, 2000
Spencer, Robert. “Berlin, the Blockade, and the Cold War.” International Journal 23, no. 3 (1968): 383–407.
Stivers, William. “The Incomplete Blockade: Soviet Zone Supply of West Berlin, 1948–49.” Diplomatic History 21, no. 4 (1997): 569–602.
Youtube - Berlin Airlift 1948-1949 - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY, The Cold War
Youtube, West Germany is Born, The Cold War
Youtube - Post-war Austria: From Occupation to Independence, The Cold War
Youtube - German Economic Miracle, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.4/24 - (1948-1949) Berlin, CNN
Crisis - Korean War
Primary - “Conversation, V.M. Molotov and A.Y Vyshinsky with Mao Zedong, Moscow, 17 January 1950,” January 17, 1950, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, AVP RF, f. 07, op. 23a, d. 234, pap. 18, ll. 1-7. Obtained by Odd Arne Westad and translated by Daniel Rozas.
Primary - "Dean Acheson's Perimeter Speech," January 1950, Alphahistory
Primary - ANZUS Treaty, 1951 September, AlphaHistory
Coleman, David, "The Berlin-Korea Parallel: Berlin and American National Security in Light of the Korean War," Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (July, 1999), pp. 19-41
Günther Hilpert, Hanns, "A Comparison of German and Korean Division: Analogies and Differences," International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2010, pp. 126-156
Jervis, Robert. “The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 24, no. 4 (1980): 563–92.
Wells Jr., Samuel, Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War, Columbia University Press, 2020
Zhihua, Shen. “Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin’s Strategic Goals in the Far East.” Journal of Cold War Studies 2, no. 2 (2000): 44–68.
Zhihua Shen; Yafeng Xia, A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976. Columbia University Press, 2018
Youtube - "20th Century Battlefields - Korea" BBC
Youtube - Cold War Ep.5/24 - (1949-1953) Korea. CNN
Youtube - South Korea: Brutal Dictatorship in the Post-War Period, The Cold War
Youtube - How North Korea Became What It Is, The Cold War
Youtube - Korean War from the Chinese Perspective, The Cold War
Discuss the change in relationship between the superpowers
Vocab
Sino-Soviet Treaty
Revisionism
Trotskyist
Sino-Soviet War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Sino-Soviet War
One China Principle
Contain and Isolate
Realpolitik
Ping-pong Diplomacy
Treaty for Friendship
Open Door Policy
Hallstein Doctrine (1955)
Willy Brandt
Ostpolitik
Moscow Treaty (1970)
Basic Treaty (1972)
Helsinki Accords (1975)
SALT 1
SALT 2
Dual Track
Jihad
New Cold War
Operation Cyclone
Helpful Resources
Soviet-US - Containment, Peaceful Coexistence, Detente
Primary - various documents on all aspects of Peaceful Coexistence
Primary - “Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 23 October 1956,” October 23, 1956, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, TsKhSD, F. 3, Op. 12, D. 1006, Ll. 4-4ob, compiled by V. N. Malin. Published in CWIHP Bulletin 8-9, pp. 388-389
Primary - “Mikoyan-Suslov Report,” October 24, 1956, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Archive of Foreign Policy, Russian Federation (AVP RF) F. 059a, Opis 4, Papka 6, Delo 5, Listy 1-7
Primary - various documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Avalon Project
Primary - “Notes on the Conversation of Comrade N.S. Khrushchev with Comrade W. Ulbricht on 1 August 1961,” August 01, 1961, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, RGANI, f. 52, op. 1, d. 557. Obtained and translated by Hope M. Harrison and included in CWIHP e-Dossier No. 23.
Primary - “Letter from Ulbricht to Khrushchev on Closing the Border Around West Berlin,” September 15, 1961, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Published in CWIHP Working Paper No. 5, "Ulbricht and the Concrete 'Rose.'" Translated for CWIHP by Hope Harrison. SED Archives, IfGA, ZPA, Central Committee files, Walter Ulbricht's office, Internal Party Archive, J IV 2/202/130.
Bange, Oliver, and Villaume, Poul, eds. The Long Détente : Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s-1980s. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017.
Craig, Gordon & Loewenheim, Francis, (eds), The Diplomats, 1939-1979, Princeton University Press, 1994
Daigle, Craig. The Limits of Détente : The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis. NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc : Alliance Analysis and Reporting, 1951-69. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis & Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios, NATO's First Enlargement: A Reassessment, Routledge, 2016
Hunt, Michael, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (2nd Ed.) Yale University Press, 2009
Hunt, Michael, A Vietnam War reader : a documentary history from American and Vietnamese perspectives, The University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Hunt, Michael & Levine, Steve, Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam, University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Kieninger, Stephan. The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz, Routledge, 2018
Leffler, Melvyn & Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 2, Crises and Détente, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Lightbody, Bradley. The Cold War. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999.
Mikkonen, Simo, and Koivunen, Pia, eds. Beyond the Divide : Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2015.
Roberts, Geoffrey. The Soviet Union in World Politics : Coexistence, Revolution and Cold War, 1945-1991. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999
Roberts, Geoffrey, Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior, Potomac Books Inc., 2011
Sarotte, M. E.. Dealing with the Devil : East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Williamson, Richard D.. First Steps Toward Détente : American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2012.
Woodroofe, Louise P.. Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden : The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Detente. Ashland: The Kent State University Press, 2013.
Zubok, Vladislav, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Youtube - John Foster Dulles: Defender of Global Security or Hawkish Interventionist?, The Cold War
Youtube - Warsaw Pact: Creation, Structure and Effectiveness, The Cold War
Youtube - Crisis in the Middle East: An Introduction to Suez 1956, The Cold War
Youtube - Suez Crisis 1956: The War, The Cold War
Youtube - Hungary Before the Revolution of 1956, The Cold War
Youtube - Hungarian Revolution of 1956, The Cold War
Youtube - Development of Nuclear Weapons and Industry, The Cold War
Youtube - Eisenhower: Soldier, General, President, The Cold War
Youtube - To End the Cold War: Khrushchev Comes to America, The Cold War
Youtube - How the Cold War Changed in the 1950s, The Cold War
Youtube - How the Berlin Wall Started - Berlin Crisis 1961, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.7/24 - (1953-1956) After Stalin, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.8/24 - (1949-1961) Sputnik, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.9/24 - (1958-1963) The Wall, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.10/24 - (1959-1962) Cuba, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.12/24 - (1960-1972) MAD, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.14/24 - (1960s) Red Spring, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.16/24 - (1969-1975) Detente, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.17/24 - (1967-1978) Good Guys Bad Guys, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.18/24 - (1954-1990) Backyard, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.19/24 - (1977-1981) Freeze, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.20/24 - (1977-1988) Soldiers of God, CNN
Sino-US - Conflict & Rapproachment
Primary - "Dean Acheson's Perimeter Speech," January 1950, Alphahistory
Ang, Cheng Guan, Southeast Asia’s Cold War: an Interpretive History, University of Hawaii Press, 2018
Ang, Cheng Guan, The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation, Routledge, 2021
Chen, Jian. Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Kochavi, Noam. “Kennedy, China, and the Tragedy of No Chance.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 7, no. 1/2 (1998): 107–16
Li, Jing. China's America : The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
Miller, Alice Lyman, Wich, Richard. Becoming Asia : Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations since World War II. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Shambaugh, David, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972-1990, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993
Wiseman, Geoffrey, Isolate or engage: adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy, Stanford University Press, 2015
Zhai, Qiang, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975, University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Zhai, Qiang, Beijing and the Vietnam Peace Talks, 1965-68: New Evidence from Chinese Sources, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010
Zhang , Shu Guang, Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963, Stanford University Press, 2001
Youtube - American Sponsored Anti-Soviet Alliances in Asia and Oceania, The Cold War
Youtube - Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-1958, The Cold War
Youtube - How China Annexed Tibet, The Cold War
Youtube - Hong Kong during the Cold War, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.11/24 - (1954-1968) Vietnam, CNN
Sino-Soviet - Friendship & Split
Primary - “Conversation, V.M. Molotov and A.Y Vyshinsky with Mao Zedong, Moscow, 17 January 1950,” January 17, 1950, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, AVP RF, f. 07, op. 23a, d. 234, pap. 18, ll. 1-7. Obtained by Odd Arne Westad and translated by Daniel Rozas.
Danhui Li & Yafeng Xia. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973 A New History, Lexington Books, 2018
Khoo, Nicholas. Collateral Damage : Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Li, Mingjiang. Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet Split : Ideological Dilemma. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
Schaufelbuehl, Janick Marina et al, Europe and China in the Cold War : Exchanges Beyond the Bloc Logic and the Sino-Soviet Split. Boston: BRILL, 2018.
van Dijk, Ruud et al, Encyclopedia Of The Cold War, Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Wishnick, Elizabeth. Mending Fences : The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014
Zhihua Shen & Yafeng Xia. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959 A New History. Lexington Books, 2015
Zhihua Shen, A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991, Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Youtube - How did the Soviets and China become enemies, The Cold War
Youtube - How the USSR and China became enemies again, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.15/24 - (1949- 1972) China, CNN
Youtube - Damansky incident - How China and USSR Almost Went to War, The Cold War
Youtube - The End Of The Sino-Soviet Friendship | Mao's Cold War, Timeline
Evaluate the reasons for the end of the Cold War
Vocab
Stagnation
Perestroika
Law on State Enterprises
Law on Joint Enterprises
Law on Individual Labour Activity
Shatalin Plan
Reagan Doctrine
Star Wars
Gorbachev Doctrine
Geneva Summit
Reykjavik Conference
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
START
Glasnost
walkabouts
Demokratizatsiya
nomenklatura
Congress of People’s Deputies
Supreme Soviet
Tbilisi Massacre
Singing Revolution
January Events
New Union Treaty
Solidarity
Gdansk Agreement
Round Table Agreements
Honecker
two-plus-four talks
Boris Yeltsein
Helpful Resources
Primary - various primary sources looking at the fall of the Berlin Wall
Primary - Gorbachev, Mikhail, Memoirs New York: Doubleday, 1996\
Primary - Gorbachev, Mikhail, Archie. Brown, Mikhail. Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar, and George. Shriver. Conversations with Gorbachev : On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism. New York,: Columbia University Press,, 2003.
Primary - Law on Cooperatives 1988
Primary - New Union Treaty, 1991
Primary - Bertaux, Daniel, Rotkirch, Anna, and Thompson, Paul, eds. On Living Through Soviet Russia. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.
Blumenau, Bernhard et al, New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War: Unexpected Transformations? Routledge, 2018
Breslauer, George W. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Brown, Archie. The Gorbachev Factor Archie Brown. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Brown, Archie. Chapter 9 & 10 in Seven Years That Changed the World : Perestroika in Perspective Oxford, [England] ;: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Desai, Padma. Perestroika in Perspective : The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform - Updated Edition Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,, 2014.
Deudney, Daniel, and G. John Ikenberry. "Soviet Reform and the End of the Cold War: Explaining Large-Scale Historical Change." <i>Review of International Studies</i> 17, no. 3 (1991): 225-50.
Gaddis, John Lewis vs. Deudney & Ikenberry, "Did President Reagan Win the Cold War" 1992
Greenburg, Jon, "Ronald Reagan's son says his father got the Saudis to pump more oil to undercut USSR, "Politifact, 13 March 2014
Hansen, Philip The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991 Taylor & Francis, 2014
Knight, Amy. "The KGB, Perestroika, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union." <i>Journal of Cold War Studies</i> 5, no. 1 (2003): 67-93.
Kotkin, Stephen, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000: Soviet Collapse Since 1970, Oxford University Press, 2003
Lane, David. Soviet Society under Perestroika. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1992.
Leffler, Melvyn & Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Miller, Chris. “Gorbachev’s Agriculture Agenda: Decollectivization and the Politics of Perestroika.” Kritika (Bloomington, Ind.) 17, no. 1 (2016): 95–118.
Molyneux, Maxine. “The ‘Women Question’ in the Age of Perestroika.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 10 (1991): 89–108.
Koulinka, Natalia. Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part I - NYU Jordan Center. [online] NYU Jordan Center, 2020.
Pei, Minxin, From Reform to Revolution : The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998
Reynolds, Douglas B. "Soviet Economic Decline: Did an oil crisis cause the transition in the Soviet Union?" The Journal of Energy and Development 24, no. 1 (1998): 65-82.
Sarotte, M. E.., The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, Basic Books, 2014
Savranskaya, Svetlana et al, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, Central European University Press, 2010
van Dijk, Ruud et al, Encyclopedia Of The Cold War, Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Zubok, Vladislav, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, Yale University Press, 2021
Youtube - Cold War Ep.22/24 - (1981-1988) Star Wars, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.23/24 - (1989) The Wall Comes Down, CNN
Youtube - Cold War Ep.24/24 - (1989-1991) Conclusions, CNN
Video Series - Curtis, Adam, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, BBC, 2022 (Note: You will need a VPN for Britain)
Youtube - Interview with Chris Miller The Reasons Why the Soviet Union Collapsed – Myths and Realities, Readara
Youtube - The Dissolution of the USSR, Megaprojects
Discuss the impact of the Cold War on 2 countries, each chosen from a different region
Helpful Resources
USSR
Baldwin, Kate A.. The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen : From Sokol'niki Park to Chicago's South Side. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2016.
Brodinsky, Ben. “The Impact of Perestroika on Soviet Education.” The Phi Delta Kappan 73, no. 5 (1992): 378–85.
Chernyshova, Natalya. Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Clark, Shellie, Soothing the Savage Beast: Music in the Cultural Cold War, 1945-1991, Thesis, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, 2015
Crowley, David & Reid, Susan, Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe, Bloomsbury Academic, 2000
Crowley, David & Reid, Susan, Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc, Bloomsbury, 2002
Crowley, David & Reid, Susan, Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc, Northwestern University Press, 2010
Edelman, Robert, & Young, Christopher, The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War, Stanford University Press, 2019
Engel, Barbara Alpern, Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Gronow, Jukka, and Sergey Zhuravlev. Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Vol. 20. Finnish Literature Society, 2015.
Guttmann, Allen. “The Cold War and the Olympics.” International Journal 43, no. 4 (1988): 554–68.
Howell, Reet. “The USSR: Sport and Politics Intertwined.” Comparative Education 11, no. 2 (1975): 137–45
Lakhtikova, Anastasia, Brintlinger, Angela, and Glushchenko, Irina, eds. Seasoned Socialism : Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Long, Delbert H. “Continuity and Change in Soviet Education under Gorbachev.” American Educational Research Journal 27, no. 3 (1990): 403–23.
Parthé, Kathleen. “What Was Soviet Literature?” The Slavic and East European Journal 38, no. 2 (1994): 290–301.
Reid, Susan E. “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the De-Stalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev.” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (2002): 211–52.
Rudevichrusskaya, Alexei, Worth going to prison for: Getting hold of jeans in the USSR, Russia Beyond, September 16, 2014
Schwarz, Boris. “Soviet Music since the Second World War.” The Musical Quarterly 51, no. 1 (1965): 259–81.
Soares, John. “The Cold War on Ice.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 14, no. 2 (2008): 77–87.
Tsipursky, Gleb. “Jazz, Power, and Soviet Youth in the Early Cold War, 1948–1953.” The Journal of Musicology 33, no. 3 (2016): 332–61
Wagg , Stephen, & Andrews , David (eds) East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War, Routledge, 2007
Weickhardt, George,“Dictatorship and Music: How Russian Music Survived the Soviet Regime.” Russian History 31, no. 1/2 (2004): 121–41.
Zajda, Joseph. “Education for Labour in the USSR.” Comparative Education 15, no. 3 (1979): 287–99.
Youtube - Soviet Citizens' Reaction to the early Cold War years - KGB Dossiers, The Cold War
Youtube - Real Life of a Soviet Soldier, The Cold War
Youtube - Soviet Tourism: How did People Get In and Out? The Cold War
Youtube - Soviet Education System, The Cold War
Youtube - Soviet Television and Radio, The Cold War
Youtube - Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union, The Cold War
Youtube - Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union #2, The Cold War
Youtube - Shopping in the Soviet Union, The Cold War
Youtube - How the Soviet Courts Worked, The Cold War
Youtube - Soviet Anti-American Propaganda, The Cold War
Youtube - Judaism in the USSR in the post-Stalin Era, The Cold War
Youtube - How the Space Race Influenced Soviet Society, The Cold War
Cuba
Bott, Sandra, et al, Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: The Non-Aligned Movement in the East-West Conflict, Routledge, 2016
Bunck, Julie Marie, “The Politics of Sports in Revolutionary Cuba.” Cuban Studies 20 (1990): 111–31.
Chappell, Robert Sport in Cuba: Before and After the “Wall” Came Down, The Sport Journal, Vol 24
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Chomsky, Aviva, A History of the Cuban Revolution, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Crahan, Margaret, Religion, Culture, and Society: The Case of Cuba, Woodrow Wilson Center Reports on the Americas
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Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto. "Chapter 4: The Fiesta in Twentieth-Century Cuban Literature " In Cuban Fiestas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto. "Chapter 5: From the Sugar Kings to the King of Sugar Baseball and Revolution" In Cuban Fiestas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Kapcia, Antoni, A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba: Revolution, Power, Authority and the State from 1959 to the Present Day, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
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Yugoslavia
Primary - Documents (Yugo-Soviet Split), Wilson Digital Archive
Primary - The Soviet-Yugoslav dispute : text of the published correspondence. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1948
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Bott, Sandra, et al, Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: The Non-Aligned Movement in the East-West Conflict, Routledge, 2016
Perović, Jeronim. "The Tito-Stalin Split: A Reassessment in Light of New Evidence." <i>Journal of Cold War Studies</i> 9, no. 2 (2007): 32-63.
Rajak, Svetozar, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War: Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957, Routledge, 2010
Rajak, Svetozar, The Balkans in the Cold War, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017
Youtube - How The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia Became Enemies, The Cold War
Youtube - Josip Broz ‘Tito’: Too Tough for Stalin, Biographies
Compare and contrast the causes of two Cold War crises, each from a different region. (May 2018)
Examine the influence of two leaders, each chosen from a different region, on the development of the Cold War. (Nov 2021)
Helpful Resources
Crisis - Berlin Blockade
Primary - "Byrnes’ ‘Speech of Hope' on German Autonomy" September 1946, AlphaHistory
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Harrington, Daniel F. Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012
Larson, Deborah Welch. “The Origins of Commitment: Truman and West Berlin.” Journal of Cold War Studies 13, no. 1 (2011): 180–212.
Lewkowicz, Nicolas, The German Question and the International Order,1943-48, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Miller, Roger, To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949, Texas A&M University Press, 2000
Spencer, Robert. “Berlin, the Blockade, and the Cold War.” International Journal 23, no. 3 (1968): 383–407.
Stivers, William. “The Incomplete Blockade: Soviet Zone Supply of West Berlin, 1948–49.” Diplomatic History 21, no. 4 (1997): 569–602.
Youtube - Berlin Airlift 1948-1949 - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY, The Cold War
Youtube, West Germany is Born, The Cold War
Youtube - Post-war Austria: From Occupation to Independence, The Cold War
Youtube - German Economic Miracle, The Cold War
Youtube - Cold War Ep.4/24 - (1948-1949) Berlin, CNN
Crisis - Korean War
Primary - “Conversation, V.M. Molotov and A.Y Vyshinsky with Mao Zedong, Moscow, 17 January 1950,” January 17, 1950, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, AVP RF, f. 07, op. 23a, d. 234, pap. 18, ll. 1-7. Obtained by Odd Arne Westad and translated by Daniel Rozas.
Primary - "Dean Acheson's Perimeter Speech," January 1950, Alphahistory
Primary - ANZUS Treaty, 1951 September, AlphaHistory
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Wells Jr., Samuel, Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War, Columbia University Press, 2020
Zhihua, Shen. “Sino-Soviet Relations and the Origins of the Korean War: Stalin’s Strategic Goals in the Far East.” Journal of Cold War Studies 2, no. 2 (2000): 44–68.
Zhihua Shen; Yafeng Xia, A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976. Columbia University Press, 2018
Youtube - "20th Century Battlefields - Korea" BBC
Youtube - Cold War Ep.5/24 - (1949-1953) Korea. CNN
Youtube - South Korea: Brutal Dictatorship in the Post-War Period, The Cold War
Youtube - How North Korea Became What It Is, The Cold War
Youtube - Korean War from the Chinese Perspective, The Cold War