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UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
Resources:
An
excellent resource for research and writing history is the UI History Writing Center. On the website you will find a variety of
resources. You can also seek writing
assistance from highly skilled graduate students who are there to help you with
all aspects of historical research and writing, from the development of a topic
to the format of bibliographies. Call
335-2584, email history-writing@uiowa.edu,
or stop by SH 303 for an appointment.
Plan ahead, as their schedule can fill up quickly.
Reference
librarians are another outstanding campus resource. You should feel free to stop by the reference
desk in the Main Library to consult with them.
I recommend you bring a copy of
the syllabus and some sense of what topic might be of interest to you. They will set you off in the right direction
with enthusiasm.
And,
of course, the instructor is available to you during office hours, via email,
or by phone for consultation.
The
internet provides access to a wide array of sources, but be careful about
evaluating sites. You need to learn how
to distinguish between serious scholarly sites, and those that are less
reliable. If you need guidance with
this, please talk to the instructor.
Some
recommended sources available on the web include:
General Reference
Ericka
Raber’s Resource Page for 16E:051
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
(free access to the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia; this is the instructor’s
most highly recommended encyclopedic source, as it is laden with hyperlinks
embedded in the text that allow you to quickly move to related topics).
Encarta (free
access to Microsoft's reference site)
Encyclopedia
Brittanica (free UI access to the Encyclopedia Brittanica; for a fee from
remote access)
Oxford
Reference (also free UI access, but remote access for a fee)
Google and similar
search engines often yield very useful information.
Library of
Congress Country Studies
Maps, both political and
geographic, including:
Historical Maps
of the World, both ancient and modern
Europe 2000 (this is clearer
than most maps available on the Web)
Historical Atlas of the
Twentieth Century
Gateways to Primary Sources
Internet Modern History
Sourcebook: covers history in all periods and places
The
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Documents relating to
the Cold War
History and
Politics Out Loud: audio archive of major speeches
US
National Archives and Records Administration
US State
Dept's Office of the Historian's Foreign Relations Document Collection
Newspapers from
around the nation and around the globe
Marxist
Internet History Archive, which includes pages on:
Revelations from Soviet
Archives (Library of Congress)
History Wiz on
Russia and the Soviet Union
Specialized Sites of Interest
Photographer
Antanas Sutkus’s photo gallery of Soviet daily life
Illustrated
History of Russia and the USSR
Communist Writings,
from Marx to Mao
Khrushchev's
"Secret Speech," 1956 (annotated)
The
Soviet-Afghanistan War, from a military history perspective
Whatever
happened to the Soviet dissidents? (includes audio)
Nobel
Foundation's Andrei Sakharov Page, 1975 Peace Prize winner
On Andrei
Sakharov at the American Physics Institute
International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
The Failed Coup of
August 1991
The Causes and
Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union: a links page from
"Chernobyl
and the Collapse of Soviet Society," Jay Gould (March 1993, The
Nation)
"Reform,
Coup, and Collapse: The End of Soviet Communism and the Soviet State,"
Archie Brown
"Explaining
the Soviet Collapse," Peter Rutland
"Ten
Years after the Soviet Collapse," Alexander Motyl (August 2001)
"Trashcanistan:
A Tour through the Wreckage of the Soviet Empire," Stephen Kotkin
(April 2002, The New Republic): a review essay
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