Topic 12: Cold War

Helpful Resources

• Breakdown of Grand Alliance

  • Historiography on the Cold War

  • 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 - Numerous Primary Sources on the 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

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.

  • Primary - various primary sources related to detente

  • 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

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

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

  • Chomsky, Aviva; Carr, Barry; Smorkaloff, Pamela María, The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Duke University Press Books, 2004

  • 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

  • Font, Mauricio A., and Tinajero, Araceli. (Parts of the Book) Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts : New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change. Herndon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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  • Kapcia, Antoni, A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba: Revolution, Power, Authority and the State from 1959 to the Present Day, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 

  • Kirk, Emily J., Clayfield, Anna, and Story, Isabel, eds. Cuba's Forgotten Decade : How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution. Blue Ridge Summit: Lexington Books, 2018. 

  • Lorini, Alessandra, & Basosi, Duccio, (Many Essays are in Spanish) Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba: Essays on Cuban History, Politics and Culture, Firenze University Press, 2009

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  • Smith, Rosi, Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016

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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

  • Primary - Yugoslav Exception YUGOSLAV, COMINFORM, AND SOVIET CORRESPONDENCE. 1948, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

  • 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

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• Crisis - Berlin Blockade

  • Primary - Numerous Primary Sources on the 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.

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  • 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

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  • Wells Jr., Samuel, Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War, Columbia University Press, 2020

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  • 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

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