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Archive for June, 2008

Arthur S. Link on Wilson’s Vision

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Woodrow Wilson’s perspective on the League of Nations and the American debate over it is developed by Arthur S. Link of Princeton University in the first essay. A prominent Wilson biographer, Link explains the politics of the question and lauds Wilson as a prophet.

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THE SECOND GENERATION OF COMMUNISTS: JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH STALIN, SOCIAL ARCHITECT

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Read THE SECOND GENERATION OF COMMUNISTS: JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH STALIN, SOCIAL ARCHITECT

Respond to these questions

Here are my lecture notes: Stalin: Hero or Villain?

Here is an Explanation of Stalin’s purges from a Soviet History Text

Here is Khrushchev’s 1956 Secret Speech on Stalin’s Cult of Personality

First Generation of Communists: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Revolutionary

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Read First Generation of Communists: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Revolutionary from excerpted from this Soviet history

Respond to these questions

Primary Source Readings: Origins of the Cold War

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

1. A Communist Perspective (Ponomaryov)

2. Patterns of Western European Integration (Puchala)

3. The Truman Doctrine

4. The Marshall Plan

5. The Marshall Plan: An Instrument of Peace? (Sweezy)

    Read these five documents and respond to these 15 questions

    Here is a lesson plan for the ensuing discussion

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