100.346 Soviet American cold war t- th-1:30-2:45 Jeffrey Brooks Gilman 392 O-hours t-th 1:30-2:45
Updated 1/7/14
Monday 1/27 first day
Spring vacation march 17 -23
Last day to with draw march 28
Last day of classes may 2
May Reading 3Exams 7-15.
Wk 1 Origins and WWII and the Cold War 2 two traditions, two experiences
1/28 Content of the course and the nature of the Cold War
1/30 The American experience and where it leads: Hersey, A Bell for Adano.
Wk2 WWII the Soviet Side: Postwar politics & Representations of the Soviet order.
2/4 Compare idea of CW: Zubok, to 94/; Barrass (e-reserve) (to page 75);
2/ 6 Discussion Soviet culture and where it leads: Von Bremzen, 117-205 (e-reserves); journal 1
Wk 3: Cold War Culture: Stalin and Truman
2/11 Taubman, to p. 71; Gaddis, to 47
2/13 Taubman, 72-178.
Wk 4 Cold War Culture: Competing ideas of National Identity;
2/18 Taubman, 179-235; Watch “Kitchen Debate” on utube (various versions); Gaddis, 48-82;
e-reserves: Brooks & Zhuk; compare 2 cultural Traditions. Journal 2
2/20 / E. May, to 108.
Week 5 Cold War Culture and 1950s
2/25 Taubman, 236-324;
2/27 E. May, 109-73, Zubok, 123-62; Brooks, “Stalin’s Ghost.” Brooks, “Totalitarianism,”
Review essay. Quiz 1
Week 6 East Europe and Crises
3/4 Taubman, 325—441; Gaddis, 83-118/
3/6 Zubok, 163-92; E. May 174-216 Journal 3
Week 7: Khrushchev era 1960s
3/11 Taubman, 442-506, Pasternak, to 105; Burleigh, Small Wars (e- reserves, 437-56.
3/13 Taubman, 507-577 (Cuban Missile Crisis); Yevtushenko, “Heirs of Stalin” (e-text);
SPRING vacation march 18 -24 Pasternak, 106-364; watch On the Waterfront
Week 8 Eisenhower and Khrushchev: Vietnam and the 1960s
3/25 Taubman, 578-619; Pasternak, 334-390
3/27 Gaddis, 119-55. L. May, to 174.
Week 9 Counter Culture: 1970s
4/1 Pasternak, 390-613;
4/3 Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 1-22 (e-reserves); Grossman, Life and Fate, vii-42, 404-29.
Paper Due by email brooksjef@gmail.com BEFORE CLASS to facilitate discussion.
Week 10 Counter Culture 1970s
4/8 L. May, 175-269. 4/2 Fleming, From Russia with Love (the novel).
4/10. Discussion: May, “Teaching American Politics and Global Hollywood.”
Week 11 Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon: Vietnam and other wars: Cold War Movies:
4/15 Watch: North by North West; Burleigh, Small Wars (e-reserves), 457-498.
4/17 Watch: Solaris (1972)
Week 12 Brezhnev: and the Lingering Legacy
Fall of Khrushchev (14 October 1964) and Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
(late December 1979) ; Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago Abridged, xi-39 Journal 4
4/22 ; Pasternak, 614-53; Zubok, 265-335; Solzhenitsyn
4/24 In Yevtushenko, Akhmatova, “Requiem.”
QUIZ 2
Week 13 Reagan Bush and Gorbachev
4/29 Marcus Schulzke, “Refighting the Cold War,” in Kapell and Elliott (e-reserves) Finish
Gaddis, 237-66; and Zubok, 336- 44; E. May, 217-28; Etkind, “Fear of the Past,” in
Facing Fear, 183-201.
5/1. Discussion. Journal 5
Assigned books available in bkstore all paperback editions
Elaine Tyler May, homeward bound (basic books, 2008, updated ed.(Only new revised edition.
0465010202
Lary May, the big tomorrow (Chicago, 2002) 13: 9780226511634
John Lewis Gaddis, the cold war: a new history (penguin 2006 13: 9780143038276
William Taubman. Khrushchev: the man and his era (Norton,
Vladimir Zubok, A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War
Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, Pevear and Volokkonsky Trans. (Viking, 2011) This edition only
978—0-307-39095-0
John Hersey, A Bell for Adano. Vintage, 1988 0-394-75695-9
E-RESERVES
Gordon S. Barrass, The Great Cold War (Stanford, 2009), 11-75.
Brooks, “Totalitarianism Revisited” The Review of Politics, (Volume 68, No. 2, 2006), 1-11;
“Stalin’s Ghost” in The Cold War After Stalin’s Death, eds. Larres and Osgood,
(Rowman and Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Series, 2006). 115-36 ; Thank You,
Comrade Stalin,195-247, 295-305; “Totalitarianism Revisited” The Review of Politics,
(Volume 68, No. 2, 2006), 1-11; Brooks and Zhuk, Chapter 7, typescript in press in the
Oxford Handbook of Of Twentieth Century Russia, Oxford University Press, (2013)
Maybe available online by the time we need it.
Burleigh, Small Wars, Faraway Places, (NY: Viking, 2013), 436-98 (Chapters, 17, 8, conclusion
(Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Conclusion)
Alexander Etkind, “Fear of the Past,” in Facing Fear: History of an Emotion, eds, Laffan and
Weiss, (Princeton, 2012) ,183-201 (ISBN-10: 0691153604/ ISBN-13: 978-0691153605
Grossman, Life and Fate, vii-42, 404-29. Only this edition (New York Review Classics, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0061253804
Lary May, "Teaching American Politics and Global Hollywood in the Age of 9/11, Organization
of American Historians Magazine of History," Vol. 25, Number 3, July 2011, pp 45-53.
Louis Menand, “Getting Real,” New Yorker, (Nov. 14, 2011), 76-83. Recommended
Anya Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
(Crown, 2013), 117-205. 978-0-307-88681-1
Marcus Schulzke, “Refighting the Cold War,” in Playing with the Past, eds. Matthew Kapell and
Andrew Elliott (2013), 261-75.
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.).
1-39. (ISBN-13: 978-0061253805 ) Harper, 2007. Only this edition.
Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking (Crown, 2013), 117-205
Yevtushenko, ed., Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel. An Anthology.180-87
(Akhmatova, “Requiem”), 807-9 (Yevtushenko, “Heirs of Stalin”),
Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, 1-22 (e-reserves
Films: On the Waterfront; North by Northwest; Solaris 1972 (Soviet film). Recommended:
Seven Year Itch, From Russia with Love, Fall of Berlin (Mosfilm; 1945); Dawns are Quiet
Here 1972 parts 1 and 2. If possible, all should be available through streaming.
ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADES
No final and no midterm. There will be 2 quizzes, 5 journal entrees comprised of 500 words of
analysis of the assigned readings for the week, and one short paper of 2500 words on an assigned
topic. Each will count for one third of the grade. All journals are due at noon on Thursday. All
assignments should be sent to me at: email brooksjef@gmail.com
Approved forms of notation must be used in journal entrees and papers. Entrees must have page
numbers and should be in single spaced in times roman 12 point type. Pages should be
numbered. Late papers or journals will lose a plus or minus per day. Papers not in the proper
format will not be accepted. All citations should follow one of the approved forms given online
through our library in
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.proxy1.library.jhu.edu/16/ch14/ch14_toc.html
ALSO ON RESERVE: You may also consult for questions of grammar: The Gregg Reference
Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting (Tribute Edition by William A.
Sabin (2010), which should be on reserve or in reference.