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Western Civilization--European History, Empire

Customized guides to research for specific courses in Western civilization and European history

Global Cold War History

 The Cambridge History of the Cold War. 3 volumes. Cambridge:
   Cambridge University Press, 2010. D842 .C326 2011 Reference Fl. 1

Global Cold War  [click for a list of sources]

Soviet Union Foreign Relations 1945-1991   [click for a full list of sources]

Ginat, Rami. “Soviet Policy Towards the Arab World, 1945-48.” Middle Eastern Studies 32, no. 4 (1996): 321-335.

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989  [click for a full list of sources]

O'Rourke, Lindsey A. Covert Regime Change : America's Secret Cold War. Ithaca New York:
   Cornell University Press, 2018.

Soviet Union - Chinese Relations  [click for a full list of sources]

Cold War (Social and Cultural Effects on U.S. and Soviet Society)  [click for a full list of sources]

Scott-Smith, Giles, and Hans Krabbendam. Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-60.
   London: Frank Cass, 2004.

 

The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press.

    Volume 14 The People’s Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949-1965.

    Volume 15  The People’s Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982

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The Cold War in Asia

Cultural Revolution

Korea and the Cold War

The Korean War

Kim Il-sŏng (1912-1994)

Kim Chŏng-il (1942-2011)

North Korean Socialism

Indochina

Vietnam and the Cold War

France and Vietnam

articles

Vietnam and Communism, Socialism

Japan and the Cold War

Japan 1945-1989

Korean War and China

Cold War Diplomacy

US Foreign Relations [click for a full list of sources]

LeoGrande, William M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992.
     Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Yaqub, Salim. Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s.
   Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Soviet Union Foreign Relations  [click for a full list of sources]

Barghoorn, Frederick Charles. Soviet Cultural Offensive. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Borhi László. Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union.
   Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004.

China Foreign Relations  [click for a full list of sources]

Barnett, A. Doak. China After Mao: With Selected Documents. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Perestroika

Stalin(ism)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mao Zedong

Chiang Kai-Shek

Nikita Khrushchev

Leonid Brezhnev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Ronald Reagan

Viet minh

Ho Chi Minh

People's Army of Vietnam

Kim Il-sŏng (1912-1994)

Kim Chŏng-il (1942-2011)

Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran)

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964. India)

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972. Ghana)

Mohammed Daoud Khan (Daud Khan) Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1953-1963

Fidel Castro

The Sandinistas (Nicaragua)

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (aka Jacobo Arbenz)

see also US coup in Guatemala

Enrique Peralta Azurdia (colonel who assumed leadership following Guatemalan coup)

Peralta, Gabriel Aguilera, and John Beverly. “Terror and Violence As Weapons of Counterinsurgency
   in Guatemala
.” Latin American Perspectives 7, no. 2-3 (1980): 91–113.

The Kim family, especially  Kim Il-Sung (North Korea)

Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980. Yugoslavia)

Primary Sources Josip Tito  https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/index.htm

Perović‡ Jeronim. “The Tito-Stalin Split: A Reassessment in Light of New Evidence.”
   Journal of Cold War Studies
9, no. 2 (2007): 32–63.

Alexander Dubček (Slovak politician, first Secretary Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1968-1969)

see also Czechoslovakia  1968-1989

The New Cold War History Series, University of North Carolina Press

The Cold War (various University Press publications)