13. The Cold War Era and Beyond
Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. (From material passed to the British by Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB colonel and double agent.) RVS: DK 282 .C65 1993
Berezhkov,V. M. At Stalin’s Side: His Interpreter’s Memoirs from the October Revolution to the Fall of the Enpire. Translated by Sergei V. Mikheyev. New York: Carol Pub. Group, 1994. NRG: DK 268 .B38 A3 1994
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. RGC: DA 566.9 .C5 A5 1989.
Chuev, Felix. Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics: Conversations with Felix Chuev. Edited by Albert Resis. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993. RVS: DK 266 .C47513 1993
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1953-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. RGC: DA 566.9 .C5 A4 1990
Daniels, Robert V., ed. A Documentary History of Communism and the World: From Revolution to Collapse. 3rd ed. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994. (Years covered, 1914-1992.) RVS: HX 313 .D64 1994
Daniels, Robert, ed. Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev. 3rd ed. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1993. RVS: HX 313 .D644 1993
Garton Ash, Timothy. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. (Author a Btitish journalist who witnessed first-hand the events he describes. Originally written in 1990. Afterword written in 1993.) RVS: DJK 50 .G364 1993
Gorbachrev, Mikhail Sergeevich. At the Summit: Speeches and Interviews, February 1987-July 1988. New York: Richardson, Steirman & Black, 1988. RVS: DK 290.3 .G67 A25 1988
Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich. Memoirs. New York: Doubleday, 1989. (Gromyko was a Soviet diplomat and statesman. Served as ambassador to U.S. in the 1940s. Was Soviet foreign minister, 1947-1985; president of Soviet Union, 1985-1988. Coverage: 1909-1989.) NRG: DK 268 .G77 A3 1989
Gutman, Roy. A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning Dispatches for the Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia. New York: Macmillan, 1993. NRG, RGC: DR 1313 .G88 1993
Hammond, Thomas T., Ed. Witnesses to the Origins of the Cold War. (Publications on Russia and Eastern Europe of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. (Memoirs of ten eyewitnesses, all of them Americans who served either in the foreign service or the military and who were directly involved in the initial stages of the Cold War.) NRG: D 843 .W53 1982
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. (Khrushchev was Chairman of the Soviet Communist Party and premier of the Soviet Union in parts of the 1950s and 1960s.) RGC: DK 275 .K5 K487 1990
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. (Khruschev was Chairman of the Soviet Communist Party and premier of the Soviet Union in parts of the 1950s and 1960s.) NRG, RGC: DK 275 .K5 A324
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. (Khruschev was Chairman of the Soviet Communist Party and premier of the Soviet Union in parts of the 1950s and 1960s.) NRG: DK 275 .K5 A326
Marchenko, Anatoly. To Live Like Everyone. New York: Holt, 1989. (Author was, at one time, a political prisoner in the Soviet Union.) NRG: HV 9712.5 .M37 A3 1989
Parker, Tony. Russian Voices. New York: Henry Holt, 1991. (Series of tape-recorded interviews, probably made in 1990, with Russians from many walks of life, including businessmen, professional people, scientists, schoolchildren, the elderly, exercising their new freedom of speech to speak about various aspects of life in th Soviet Union in the 20th century.) NRG: DK 288 .P37 1992
Riha, Thomas, ed. Readings in Russian Civilization. 3 vols. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1969. (Vol. III, 1917-Present. About 70% of the readings are primary sources, the remaining are secondary source essays by scholars. Students will need to distinguish carefully between the two kinds of sources. Subjects include social structure, politics, diplomacy, literature, economics, etc.). NRG: DK 4 .R52 1969
Schwartz, Donald V., ed. The Brezhnev Years, 1964-1981. (Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Vol. 5.) Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1982 NRG: JN 6598 .K7 R455 Vol. 5 1982
Steinbeck, John. A Russian Journal. With photographs by Robert Capa. New York: Penguin, 1999. (Record of forty-day trip to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1947. Emphasizes the efforts of the ordinary people to rebuilt their lives and country following the Second World War.) NRG, RGC: DK 28 .S8 1999
Stokes, Gale, ed. From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Important note: While some of the documents are printed in their entirety, most have been condensed, as indicated in the text material for each document. There are no ellipses to indicate omissions. According to the editor, “obvious typographical or grammatiacal errors have been corrected.”) RVS: DJK 50 .F76 1996
Thatcher, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. (First vol. of author’s memoirs. Covers her tenure as British prime minister, 1979-1990.) NRG: DA 591 .T47 T476
Thatcher, Margaret. The Path to Power. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. (Second vol. of author’s memoirs. Covers her life before becoming British prime minister.) NRG: DA 591 .T47 A3 1995
Walsh, Warren B., ed. Readings in Russian History: From Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era. 4th edition, extensively revised. Vol.II: From the Reign of Alexander III to the Soviet Period. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1963. RVS: DK 3 .W3 1963 V.2
Yeltsin, Boris. Against the Grain: An Autobiography. New York: Summit Books, 1990. (Subject: Author’s knowledge of Soviet politics and government, with emphasis on the 1980s.) RGC: DK 290.3 .E48 A3 1990