General Reference
Frucht, Richard C. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the
Fall of Communism. New York: Garland Pub, 2000. DJK6 .E53 2000 Reference Fl. 1
Stearns, Peter N. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000.
New York: Scribner, 2001. HN373 .E63 2001 Reference Fl. 1
Cook, Bernard A. Europe Since 1945 : An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2001.
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Russia/Soviet Union
Brown, Archie. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1982. DK14 .C35 1982 Reference Fl. 1
Perrie, Maureen, et al. The Cambridge History of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
DK40 .C36 2006 Reference Fl. 1
Germany
Kaes, Anton, et al. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
DD240 .W39 1995 Reference Fl. 1
Zentner, Christian, et al. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
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Megargee, Geoffrey P. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps
and Ghettos, 1933-1945.
Volume 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps.
Volume 2, Ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe
Benz, Wolfgang, et al. Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement. New York:
Continuum, 1997. DD256.5 .L51313 1997 Reference Fl. 1
History
Europe from French Revolution to 1900
Blanning, T. C. W. The Oxford History of Modern Europe. 3rd ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Roessler, Shirley E., et al. Europe, 1715-1919: From Enlightenment to World War.
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Social Conditions, etc.
Sample sources:
Woolf, Stuart. J. Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader. London: Routledge, 1996.
World War I
Sample sources:
Crocker, Terri Blom. The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War.
Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates. First World War in the Middle East. London: Hurst, 2014.
World War II
Bell, Philip Michael. H. Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
France. Library of Congress - DC
Time periods
1914-1918 (World War I)
1939-1945 (World War II)
1940-1945 (Fall of France)
Sample Topics
Popular Front (include in French)
The Somme (1st Battle)
German occupation of France 1940-1945
Rist, Charles. Season of Infamy: A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945.
Translated by Michele McKay Aynesworth. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
People
Germany. Library of Congress - DD
Time
World War, 1914-1918 Germany Causes (World War I)
Papayoanou, Paul A. “Interdependence, Institutions, and the Balance of Power:
Britain, Germany, and World War I.” International Security 20, no. 4 (1996): 42–76.
1918-1933 (Between the World Wars)
1933-1945 (National Socialism, i.e. Nazi Germany)
Sample Topics
Weimar Republic (Germany between the World Wars)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Turda, Marius. Blood and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central
and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940. Herndon: Central European University Press, 2006.
People and Groups
Wilhelm II (Kaiser)
Hitler-jungend (Hitler youth)
Great Britain. Library of Congress - DA
Time
Great Britain Politics and government 1936-1945
Donnelly, Mark. Britain in Second World War. London: Routledge, 1999.
Sample Topics
abdication
Easter Rising (Ireland, 1916)
Knight, Lionel. Britain in India, 1858-1947. London: Anthem Press, 2012.
People and Groups
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901)
Winston Churchill (as subject)
Winston Churchill (speeches, letters, etc.)
Lloyd George
George V
Italy. Library of Congress - DG
Time
1914-1945 (beginnings of fascism, fascist rule)
1914-1922 ('red years' through 'black years')
De Grand, Alexander J. The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy
from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Fascism, 1882-1922.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.
Politics and government 1922-1945
1939-1945 (World War II)
1943-1947 (Liberation of Italy, Allied occupation)
Sample Topics
Chamedes, Giuliana. “The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-Communism
in the 1930s.” Journal of Contemporary History 51, no. 2 (2016): 261–90.
People and Groups
Antonio Gramsci (Italian Communism)
Russia. Library of Congress - DK
Time
Russia in the 19th century (from defeat of Napoleon to World War I)
1894-1917 (Tsarist Russia to the 1917 Revolution)
1914-1918 (World War I)
Russia and causes of World War I
People and Groups
Library of Congress - DS
Time
1917-1921 (Bolshevik revolution)
Five year plans (see detailed contents)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
1917-1936 (Congress of Soviets)
1941-1944 (German occupation of Soviet Union)
1939-1945 (World War II)
1936-1953 (Supreme Soviet to death of Stalin)
Shearer, David R. Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order
in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Sample Topics
gulags (Soviet prison camps)
Political prisoners Soviet Union
People and Groups
Bolsheviks
Peasants Soviet Union
Paris Peace Conference (December 1918-May 1919)
Yalta Conference (February 1945)
Plokhy, Serhii. Yalta : The Price of Peace. New York: Viking, 2010.
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Paul, T. V. The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Partitioning of Palestine (1947)
Partitioning of Ireland (1921)
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
German History (2008-present; Oxford UP)
German History (1998-12 months ago; Academic SP)
The Slavonic and East European Review
Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hugaricae
International Journal of African Historical Studies