Web Links

Post-Stalin
Stalin's speech at the Nineteenth Party Congress, August, 1952. (http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/SNPC52.html)



Entire text of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism, October 2, 1952. (http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/EPS52.html)



History of Stalin's last years and the transition of power in Russia. (http://www.socialistaction.org/news/200103/last.html) Includes chapters on Beria, Kruschev, and Tito.



Examines the power struggle during 1953-56, following Stalin's death, and the resulting E... (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/07/) Includes interactive map and multimedia section, as well as interview transcripts, documents, biographies, a timeline, and historical features.



Documents, photographs, and maps relating to the events in Russia after Stalin's death. (http://www.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/afterstalin/aftr_res.html)



Interactive map of Eastern Europe after Stalin's death. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/07/maps/revolt/) The uprisings that erupted after his death are described country by country.

Georgi Malenkov
Biography of Chairman Malenkov. (http://lego70.tripod.com/ussr/malenkov.htm)

Nikita Krushchev
Biography of Nikita Krushchev. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/khrushchev/)



Biography of Nikita Krushchev, with accompanying excerpts from his memoirs. (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSkhrushchev.htm)



Detailed timeline of Krushchev's life. (http://artnet.net/~upstart/khru.html)



Kruschev's Secret Speech at the Twentieth Party Congress, February 25, 1956. (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/krushchev-secret.html)



Kruschev's speech at the Twentieth Party Congress, February 25, 1956 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html) Speach accusing Stalin and the “cult of the individual” of crimes against the Communist Party.



Krushchev's analysis of the validity and ideology of Stalin (http://www.geocities.com/redcomrades/pers-cult.html) Stalin’s “cult of the individual.”



Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on Nikita Krushchev, 1957. (http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1957.html)

Lavrenti Beria
Political biography of Lavrenti Beria. (http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0807165.html)

Soviet Hydrogen Bomb
Chronicles the Soviet development of the hydrogen bomb, with pictures and diagrams. (http://www.aip.org/history/sakharov/hbomb.htm)



Analysis of beginning of nuclear arms race. (http://www.ippnw.ru/eng/_pubs/nukes/chap03.html) Emphasis on addressing science and "who gave away the secret."



Historical account of the USSR entering the H-Bomb age. (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/CWIHP/BULLETINS/b4a14.htm)

George Orwell and Politics
Political writings and editorials of George Orwell. (http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/)



Full text of George Orwell's Animal Farm. (http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/)

Monroe Doctrine
Original text of the Monroe Doctrine. (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/monroe.htm)

CIA
Central Intelligence Agency official website. (http://www.cia.gov/)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Historical account of Dien Bien Phu and the colonial consequences. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/spotlight/)



Account of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu with emphasis on individual experiences. (http://www.dienbienphu.org/english/)

B-52 bomber
Complete history of B-52 A-H. (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b052i.html)

B41 bomb
History of the B-41 bomb. (http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/B41.html)

US, USSR, and Asia
Essay analyzing Communist Bloc expansion into Asia during the Cold War through various th... (http://138.110.28.9/acad/intrel/macdon.htm)



US-Asia agreements in 1950s. (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/asiadip.htm)



Official website of the Organization of American States (OAS). (http://www.oas.org/)

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