Junior History Tutorial: Ending the Cold War
CSS 340
Spring 2010
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02
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| Certificates: International Relations |
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the relative stability that had prevailed between the United States and Soviet Union since the end of the Cuban missile crisis (and, more fundamentally, since the East and West German governments were formed in 1949) broke down. By mid-1982, well-informed figures in both Washington and Moscow feared nuclear war. Hostility between the two governments only intensified over the succeeding months.
Yet by the end of 1988 the Cold War had ended and a new mode of cooperation between the Soviet and U.S. leaders began to emerge. How and why did this profound transformation occur? The tutorial will concentrate on this question. It will call into question both the liberal and the conservative explanations that have reigned in the United States over the past two decades. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - 3rd Quarter |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Vladislav M. Zubov, A FAILED EMPIRE: THE SOVIET UNION IN THE COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO GORBACHEV (2009)
John Lewis Gaddis, STRATEGIES OF CONTAINMENT: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY DURING THE COLD WAR (rev. ed., 2005)
Kiron K. Skinner, ed, TURNING POINTS IN ENDING THE COLD WAR (2008)
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., REAGAN AND GORBACHEV: HOW THE COLD WAR ENDED (2004)
Pavel Palazchenko, MY YEARS WITH GORBACHEV AND SHEVARDNADZE: THE MEMOIR OF A SOVIET INTERPRETER (1997) - selected chapters
Anatoly S. Chernyaev, MY SIX YEARS WITH GORBACHEV (2000) - selected chapters
Plus selected chapters of other volumes, scholarly articles, and primary documents.
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Open to CSS Juniors Only |
| Instructor(s): Schatz,Ronald W. Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC421; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 15 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
| SECTION 02 - 4th Quarter |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Same as Section 01 Above |
| Examinations and Assignments: Same as Section 01 Above |
| Additional Requirements and/or Comments: Same as Section 01 Above |
| Instructor(s): Schatz,Ronald W. Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC421; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 15 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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