HIS 242 Documents

Anna M. Cienciala, "The Katyn Syndrome" (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Anne Appelbaum, Understanding Stalin: Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue (2014) (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

The April Theses, 1917 aka "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution"

Leon Aron, "The Problematic Pages: To Understand Vladimir Putin, We Must Understand His View of Russian History," The New Republic (24 September 2008). (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Carl Ackerman, "How the Czar Was Doomed," Current History (February 1919) (PDF)

Author Lawrence Sheets Answers a Few Questions about His Book, Pieces of 8 (2011) (PDF)

Brian Glyn Williams, "Caucasus Belli: New Perspectives on Russia's Quagmire" (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Christopher John Bright, "The Quiver of Zeus:Nike Anti-Aircraft Missiles in Fairfax County" (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Declaration of the Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties, November 1960 (in Russian for now, PDF) followed by Khrushchev's explanation of what went on at that meeting, За новые победы мирого коммунистичого движения (On to new victories of the worldwide communist movement), which he gave at a meeting of the communist party organizations at the Higher Party School in Moscow, 6 January 1961 (in Russian for now, PDF)

Denise J. Youngblood, "Apocalyptic Visions of the Great Patriotic War: Elem Klimov's Come and See" (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Durnovo Memorandum (PDF). Complete version from Frank Golder, Documents.

The [East] German Peace Plan 1961 (PDF)

Eisenhower Letter to Premier Nikolai Bulganin, 1958 (PDF)

"Enigma Variations: A Special Report on Russia" by The Economist (29 November 2008). (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

John Embry, "Bolshevist Atrocities in Siberia" (an eyewitness account, published in Current History, (September 1919) (PDF)

Final Exam, Spring 1988, Twentieth Century Russian History (*.doc file)

Kate Weinberg, "Could This Woman Be Putin's Real Mother. (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

Kerry Hite, An Explanation of the Declassification Process Foreign Relations of the United States, Cuban Missile Crisis and Its aftermath (PDF)

Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 1956. I also have this available as a *.PDF or *.doc file. This is the complete version of the speech published by the US government, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United State Senate, (85th Congress, 1st Session), 1957)

Khrushchev 1959 Speech to the Supreme Soviet "On the International Situation and the Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union. This is the analysis by Soviet Affairs Analysis Service (PDF)

Khrushchev Report on the Moscow Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties January 1961 (The Conference met in November 1960.) (PDF)

The Lenine-Trotzky Government: Definite Declarations Concerning It by American and British Ambassadors

Order #2 of the Petrograd Soviet, 1917 (PDF)

Petr Stolypin, "We Need a Great Russia." (Log into Canvas and look for the article under "Course Documents" for HIS 242.)

The Prinkipo Conference Plan: An Attempt to Arrange a Meeting between Delegates of the Allies and of Russian Factions (PDF), Current History (March 1919)

Professor Charles Evans, "Debate in the Soviet Union? Evgenii Varga and His Analysis of Postwar Capitalism, 1946-1950" (PDF)

Radio Liberty, A Fresh Look at Liberation, 1957 (PDF)

Recollections of the Cold War in Bulgaria

Red Russia Described by Eyewitnesses: Senate Inquiry into Bolshevism (PDF), Current History (March 1919)

Russian Imperial Manifesto, Announcing the Start of War in August 1914

Soviet Humor--Laughter through Tears by Professor Blois