Delve Deeper into My A film by Robin Hessman

This multi-media resource list, Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Ouimet, Matthew J. The Rise compiled by Gina Blume of the Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev's and Fall of the Brezhnev Monroe Township Public Library, : The Inside Story of an Doctrine in Soviet Foreign includes books, films and other American Adversary. New York: Policy. Chapel Hill: The materials related to the issues W.W. Norton and Company, University of North Carolina presented in the film My 2006. This work provides insight Press, 2001. Based on previously Perestroika. into Khruschev’s leadership and unreleased archival documents from foreign policy crises in the Middle Moscow, Ouimet offers perspective My Perestroika is an intimate look East, Central , and the into the collapse of the Eastern at the last generation of Soviet Caribbean during the height of the European communist system and children. Five classmates go from Cold War between 1956 and 1962. ultimate demise of the Soviet living sheltered childhoods to empire. experiencing the hopes of Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold Gorbachev’s reforms and the War: A New History. New York: Service, Robert. Lenin: A confusion of the USSR’s dissolution, Penguin, 2006. Yale History Biography. New York: Pan to searching for their places in Professor and Cold War historian Macmillan, 2010. This narrative of today’s Moscow. With candor and Gaddis provides the reader with a Lenin’s life provides insight into how humor, the punk rocker, single concise introduction about the Cold events of his childhood shaped his mother, entrepreneur and married War era. vision to make Russia a communist teachers paint a picture of the state. challenges, dreams and Hagenloh, Paul. Stalin's Police: disappointments of those raised Public Order and Mass Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: behind the . Through Repression in the USSR, 1926- Europe between Hitler and first-person testimony, vérité 1941. Baltimore: The John Stalin. New York: Perseus Book footage and vintage home movies, Hopkins University Press, 2009. Group, 2010. This is the story of this beautifully crafted documentary Formerly classified documents shed how two dictators ruthlessly killed reveals a Russia rarely seen on film. light on how Soviet leaders millions of people in the name of struggled to control their population colonization and collectivization of during the Stalin era. the land. ______ADULT NONFICTION Hixson, Walter L. Parting the Taubman, William. Khrushchev: Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, The Man and His Era. New York: The Communist Party of the and the Cold War, 1945-1961. W.W. Norton and Company, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Political Science Professor 1997. This book focuses on Taubman makes the case for how Barrass, Gordon. The Great American propaganda as part of Khrushchev’s acknowledgement and Cold War: A Journey Through U.S. diplomacy during the Truman denouncement of Stalin’s brutality the Hall of Mirrors. Palo Alto: and Eisenhower administrations and towards the Russian people made Stanford University Press, 2009. how propaganda helped to way for civil society to take shape Barrass presents an overview on destabilize the Communist Party in and ultimately pave the way for how lessons learned from the Cold the Soviet Union and perestroika. War era can affect policy making in countries. the modern era. Vogtech, Mastny, and Malcolm Kenez, Peter. The Birth of the Byrne. A Cardboard Castle? An Fleming, John V. The Anti- Propaganda State: Soviet Inside History of the Warsaw Communist Manifestos: Four Methods of Mass Mobilization, Pact, 1955-1991. : Books That Shaped the Cold 1917-1929. New York: Central European University War. New York: W.W. Norton Cambridge University Press, Press, 2006. Using alliance and Company, 2009. Princeton 1985. Kenez offers a detailed look archives, this text investigates the University Professor of Literature into how the Bolshevik Party Cold War-era Soviet military John Fleming reviews four developed the first propaganda complex and how it was perceived influential books authored by ex- used by the Soviet state. by the West. Communist Party members and shares insights into the subversive Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Volkogonov, Dmitri. Autopsy for activities of the authors. The novels Stalin: The Court of the Red an Empire: The Seven Leaders reviewed include: Darkness at Tsar. New York: Vintage, 2005. Who Built the Soviet Regime. Noon (1940) by Hungarian Based on previously unreleased New York: Simon & Schuster, journalist Arthur Koestler, Out of documents, Montefiore provides the 1999. Former Soviet Army officer the Night (1941) by German sailor reader with insight into Soviet and military advisor to Yeltsin and labor agitator Jan Valtin, I politics at the Kremlin and the provides a history of the lives of the Chose Freedom (1946) by Soviet lengths Stalin went to defend his seven men who led the Soviet Victor Kravchenko, and Witness power. Union for the seven decades of its (1952) by American journalist existence, from Lenin through Whittaker Chambers. Gorbachev.

Delve Deeper into My Perestroika A film by Robin Hessman

Ward, Christopher J. Cohen, Stephen F., and Katrina Mlynar, Zdenek. Conversations Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of Vanden Heuvel. Voices of with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, BAM and Late Soviet . : Interviews with the Spring, and the Pittsburgh: University of Gorbachev's Reformers. New Crossroads of Socialism. New Pittsburgh Press, 2009. This is a York: W.W. Norton and York: Columbia University look into the late Soviet-era 2,000 Company, 1991. Cohen and Press, 2003. Conversations mile railway project that was Heuvel collect interviews of former between exiled dissident Mlynar and intended to unite a nation and open Communist party officials and former Soviet leader Gorbachev in up trade routes for Soviet products. Gorbachev-era intellectuals. which they both reflect on their different life trajectories, their rise Wolfe, Bertram D. Three Who Gibbs, Joseph. Gorbachev's to power in the Communist party, Made a Revolution: A Glasnost: The Soviet Media in and life accomplishments. Biographical History of Lenin, the First Phase of Perestroika. Trotsky, and Stalin. New York: College Station: TAMU Press, Remnick, David. Lenin’s Tomb: Cooper Square Press, 1991. 1999. The evolution of the Soviet The Last Days of the Soviet Wolfe, an original founder of the press is examined as state control Empire. New York: Random American Communist Party and loosened under Gorbachev’s House, 1994. Soviet expert for the U.S. State reforms and as glasnost evolved. Remick gives an eloquent account Department, provides a biography Topics examined include the of the fall of the Soviet Union. of the personal and public lives of media’s lack of coverage on the these three revolutionaries. accident at Chernobyl and how Tarsulo, Isaac J., ed. Gorbachev media freedom provoked the and Glasnost: Viewpoints from discontent of the people as the the Soviet Press. Wilmington: US/USSR Diplomacy Soviet economy collapsed. SR Books, 1989. Translated from the Soviet press, over two dozen Brownlee, W. Elliot, ed., and Gorbachev, Mikhail. Gorbachev. articles provide viewpoints of the Hugh Davis Graham, ed. The New York: Columbia University supporters and opponents of Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Press, 2000. This trilogy of essays Gorbachev’s perestroika. Conservatism and Its Legacies. by the former Soviet leader covers Lawrence: University Press of topics ranging from the 1917 Zubok, Vladislav M. A Failed Kansas, 2003. revolution to the collapse of the Empire: The Soviet Union in the Brownlee and Graham give us a Soviet empire, and foreign Cold War from Stalin to comprehensive collection of essays relations. Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: The about Reagan’s domestic and University of North Carolina foreign policy. Authors include a Gorbachev, Mikhail. August Press, 2008. Zubok surveys the wide array of scholars ranging in Coup the Truth and the Lessons. history and motives of Soviet expertise from economics to New York: HarperCollins foreign policy during the Cold War. history. Publishers, 1991. Gorbachev’s perspective of events leading up to Schweizer, Peter, ed., and the August 1991 coup and his The Post-Soviet Period Wynton C. Hall, ed. Landmark reflections on lessons learned. Speeches of the American Brown, Archie, ed., and Liliia Conservative Movement. Höjdestrand, Tova. Needed by Fedorovna Shevtsova, ed. College Station: TAMU Press, Nobody: Homelessness and Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin: 2007. This collection includes Humanness in Post-Socialist Political Leadership in Russia's powerful speeches by noted modern Russia. New York: Cornell Transition. Washington, D.C.: conservative icons, such as Ronald University Press, 2009. Carnegie Endowment for Reagan’s landmark 1983 ‘evil Anthropological investigation into International Peace, 2001. empire’ speech. the homelessness epidemic in St. Brown and Shevtsova analyze the Petersburg as a result of the fall of political leadership during the the Soviet Union and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union and Perestroika & the Disintegration abolishment of Soviet-era vagrancy give insight into the factors that of the USSR laws. influenced the leadership style of Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. Caldwell, Melissa L., Not by McAuly, Mary. Soviet Politics Bread Alone: Social Support in 1917-1991. New York: Oxford Cohen, Stephen F. Soviet Fates the New Russia. Berkeley: University Press USA, 1992. and Lost Alternatives: From University of California Press, Survey of Soviet politics from Lenin to the New Cold War. 2004. Caldwell presents a study of through the breakup of the Soviet New York: Columbia University social welfare in post-soviet Russia Union and formation of the Press, 2011. Reexamining leaders through the perspective of Commonwealth of Independent from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's operations at soup kitchens across States. preeminent opponent, to Mikhail the country. Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history.

Delve Deeper into My Perestroika A film by Robin Hessman

Colton, Timothy J. Yeltsin: A Yurchak, Alexei. Everything Was Life. New York: Basic Books, Forever Until It Was No More. 2008. This is a comprehensive Princeton: Princeton University survey of Yeltsin’s rise and fall from Press, 2005. Yurchak asks the power. question: what was it about life during the period of “late socialism” DeSilva, Migara O., and Galina (-) that made the Kurlyandskaya and Elena collapse of the Soviet Union so Andreeva et al. unexpected to most insiders and Intergovernmental Reforms in outsiders? the Russian Federation: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER Washington, D.C.: World Bank READERS Publications, 2009. This in depth overview of fiscal policy in today’s The Communist Party of the Russia makes a strong case for Soviet Union greater decentralization. Dunn, John. The Russian Galeotti, Mark, ed. The Politics Revolution. Farmington Hills: of Security in Modern Russia. Gale, 1994. For the more mature Farnham (UK): Ashgate, 2010. middle school student, Dunn gives This is an objective and balanced stark insights into the lives and examination of the ways in which ruthless regimes of Czar Nicholas, security has played and continues Rasputin, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to play a central role in accompanied by photo contemporary Russian politics reproductions.

Orlov, Dmitry. Reinventing Matthews, John R. The Rise and Collapse: The Soviet Example Fall of the Soviet Union. and American Prospects. Farmington Hills: Gale, 1999. Gabriola Is. (BC): New Society This survey of the rise and fall of Publishers, 2008. The author the Soviet Union is perfect for the chronicles the Soviet collapse as junior high and high school reader. experienced through visits to his Russian homeland during the 80’s Sis, Peter. The Wall: Growing and mid 1990’s. Up Behind the Iron Curtain. New York: Farrar, Straus and Pearson, Landon. Children of Giroux, 2007. Sis’ autobiographical Glasnost: Growing Up Soviet. Caldecott Honor Book for young Seattle: University of readers is filled with illustrations Washington Press, 1991. and journal entries about the Pearon shares his experience author’s childhood in Cold War-era growing up in the Soviet Union Prague. during Gorbachev’s reforms. Topics include child development, O’Neill, Joseph R. The Bolshevik education, juvenile justice and Revolution. Edina: Abdo entertainment. Publishing, 2009. This concise history for the middle school Wegren, Stephen K., ed., and student covers events from the Dale R. Herspring, ed. After Romanov dynasty to the repressive Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, regime under Stalin and the Future Uncertain. Lanham: ultimate demise of the Soviet Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Union. Inc., 2009. This compilation of analyses by leading scholars covers US/USSR Diplomacy a wide range of topics of contemporary Russian social, Smith, Samantha. Journey to political, and security issues facing the Soviet Union. Santa Fe: President Dmitry Medvedev. Ocean Tree Books, 2005. This is a ten-year-old author’s Yeltsin, Boris. Midnight Diaries. account of her 1982 letter to Soviet London: The Orion Publishing President , his Group, 2001. In this memoir, response, and her subsequent Yeltsin reflects on his leadership journey to the Soviet Union. and the search for his successor, Vladimir Putin.