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Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Przemyslaw Piotr Damski
To the enlisted sources I propose also:
Mikhail Geller and A. M. Nekrich, Utopia in power: the history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present (New York : Summit Books. 1986),
John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History. (New York, NY: The Penguin Press. 2005).

Interesting view from East-Central Europe you can find in more general works by Piotr Stefan Wandycz:
P.S. Wandycz, The price of freedom : a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present (London and New York : Routledge. 1992).
P.S. Wandycz, United States and Poland, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980).
A. Kemp-Welch, Poland under Communism: A Cold War History, (Cambridge University Press. 2008)

To the list of primary sources I would add:
Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. (Allen Lane. 1999).
Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World (Allen Lane. 2005)
(The original documents in Russian are available here: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/52/mitrokhin-archive)
American documents are available here: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments
Links to different documents and materials you can also find here: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm and here: http://millercenter.org/academic/dgs/primaryresources/cold_war

I hope it is useful


Przemyslaw Piotr Damski
Faculty of Bussines and International Relations
Vistula University
Warsaw, Poland

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Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by A Ross Johnson
I also suggest the Soviet documents related to countering Western broadcasting, in Johnson and Parta, eds., Cold War Broadcasting, CEU Press, and online in the Wilson Center Digital Archive, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/cold-war-broadcasting

Another suggestion: The Media and Intra-Elite Communication in the USSR, RAND report, http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2869.html

E sobre a América Latina: 

Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Richard Grossman
Quick suggestions on Latin America:

Secondary sources:
Stephen Rabe The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America (Oxford)
Clara Nieto The Masters of War: Latin America and US Aggression (Seven Stories Press)

Primary go to National Security Archives which is a private research organization.which has published lots of declassified documents.

Hope this is helpful.

Richard Grossman
Department of History
Northeastern Illinois University

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Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Robert Larson
You know, in terms of Soviet domestic politics, the secondary source I keep going to is Vladislav Zubok's A Failed Empire. It's very accessible. For primary sources, I'm no expert, but maybe something from Khrushchev's memoirs, or a bit of Samizdat literature? The latter could be a good discussion piece.

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Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Jenny Smith
Moshe Lewin's Gorbachev Phenomenon is pretty good, although not a comprehensive overview like Zubok's (which is also very good and I second the recommendation)

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Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Laura Deal
Zubok's book is a good one. CWIHP's Digital Archive (which I work for) also has some primary sources on censorship and mass media in the Soviet Union that might be useful: http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/51/mass-media-and-cens...

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Re: Sources for teaching - Cold War course

by Grant Weller
I concur with Mr Larson. I've had great success with Zubok's _A Failed Empire_ in class, as well as the volume he coauthored with Constantine Pleshakov, _Inside the Kremlin's Cold War_. Though _Inside_ is an earlier work, students found the biographies included to be of great interest and made it a favorite. Another great primary source for the USSR would be the cartoons from _Krokodil_, many available online or in a collected published volume. Many anekdoti can be found on like and used to great effect, as well.