Cold War: An International History, 2nd edition
Carole K. Fink
Suggestions for Further Study
Chapter 4: The Widening Conflict, 1953–1963
Primary Sources
“The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents: Electronic Briefing Book.” National
Security Archive. 2002. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/.
“Bay of Pigs Release.” Central Intelligence Agency. Last updated August 2, 2011.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/bay-pigs-release.
“Berlin Wall.” Newsreel Archive. British Pathé.
http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/rgallagher/Berlin-Wall-4.
Castro, Fidel. “Castro Speech Data Base.” Latin American Network Information Center.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html.
“CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents.” National Security Archive.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/guatemala/.
“Cuba Documentation Project.” National Security Archive.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/cuba.htm.
“Digital 1956 Archive.” Open Society Archives.
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“Final Communiqué of the Asian-African Conference of Bandung (24 April 1955).” Centre
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“Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and
Aftermath.” Office of the Historian, US State Department.
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Kennedy, John F. “Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
and Museum. Video, 16:00. http://www.jfklibrary.org/AssetViewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx.
———. “JFK on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962/10/22.” YouTube video, 3:08. Posted by
Universal Newsreels, September 13, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0MUbVQl9Ns.
1 ———. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Edited by
Ernest R. May and Philip Zelikow. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Khrushchev, Nikita S. “Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech—on the Cult of Personality,
1956.” Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchevsecret1.html.
Nixon, Richard M., and Nikita S. Khrushchev. “Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate.” C-SPAN
Video Library, 15:00. July 1, 1959. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/110721-1.
“The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953.” National Security Archive. 2000.
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“Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, Outer Space and Under Water.”
Entered into force October 10, 1963. NuclearFiles.org.
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“The U-2 Spy Plane Incident.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.
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Contemporary Writing
Djilas, Milovan. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. New York: Praeger,
1957.
Kissinger, Henry. Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. New York: Published for the Council
on Foreign Relations by Harper, 1957.
Rostow, W. W. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1960.
Wright, Richard. The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference. Foreword by Gunnar
Myrdal. Cleveland, OH: World, 1956.
Memoirs
Dayan, Moshe. Diary of the Sinai Campaign. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1969.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich. Khrushchev Remembers. Translated and edited by Strobe
Talbott. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.
———. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Translated and edited by Strobe Talbott.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
2 ———. Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes. Translated and edited by Jerrold L.
Schecter and Vyacheslav V. Luchkov. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
Morton, Kati. Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 2009.
Music
Cliburn, Van. “Van Cliburn.” YouTube video, 1:59, from a performance of “Moscow Nights,”
1958. Posted by “Posterfromus,” October 3, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vZWJTXGw.
Hvorostovsky, Dmitri. “Dmitri Hvorostovsky Moscow Nights.” YouTube video, 3:25, from a
concert recorded in Moscow, 2004. Posted by “Apomethe,” January 29, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHPhFHjn7Q.
Films
The Atomic Café. Directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, and Pierce Rafferty. Los Angeles:
The Archives Project, 1982.
Ballad of a Soldier. Directed by Grigoriy Chukhray. Moscow: Mosfilm, 1959.
Battle of Algiers. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Rome: Rizzoli Film, 1966.
Black Orpheus. Directed by Marcel Camus. Rio de Janeiro: Dispat Films, 1959.
Bridge of Spies. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Los Angeles: Walt Disney Studios, 2015.
Come Back, Africa. Directed by Lionel Rogosin. New York: Milestone Films, 1959.
Funeral in Berlin. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1966.
Gigant Berlin. Directed by Leo de Laforgue. Berlin: Leo Laforgue Filmproduktion, 1964.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Directed by Alain Resnais/ Paris: Argos Films, 1959.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Directed by Don Siegel. Los Angeles: Allied Artists Pictures,
1956.
Kanal. Directed by Andrzej Wajda. Warsaw: Studio Filmowe Kadr, 1957.
La Strada. Directed by Federico Fellini. Rome: Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, 1954.
Mon Oncle. Directed by Jacques Tati. Paris: Specta Films, 1958.
On the Beach. Directed by Stanley Kramer. Los Angeles: Stanley Kramer Productions, 1959.
One, Two, Three. Directed by Billy Wilder. Grünwald: Bavaria Filmstudios, 1961.
3 Pather Panchali. Directed by Satyajit Ray. Kolkata: Government of West Bengal, 1955.
The Seventh Seal. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Stockholm: Svesnk Filmindustri, 1957.
Fiction
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Astor-Honor, 1959.
Anselme, Daniel. On Leave. Translated by David Bellos. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014.
Arévalo, Juan José. The Shark and the Sardines. Translated by June Cobb and Raul Osegueda.
New York: L. Stuart, 1961.
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Mandarins: A Novel. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. Cleveland,
OH: World, 1956.
Beti, Mongo. Remember Ruben. Translated by Gerald Moore. London: Heinemann, 1980.
Carpentier, Alejo. Explosion in a Cathedral. Translated by John Sturrock. London: Gollancz,
1963.
Deighton, Len. The Ipcress File. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
Fleming, Ian. From Russia with Love. New York: Macmillan, 1957.
Grass, Günter. The Tin Drum. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Pantheon, 1962.
Greene, Graham. Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment. New York: Viking, 1958.
Lederer, William J., and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American. New York: W. W. Norton, 1958.
Pasternak, Boris. Dr. Zhivago. Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, Max Hayward, and
Manya Harari. New York: Pantheon, 1958.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Translated by Max
Hayward and Ronald Hingley. New York: Praeger, 1963.
Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. A Grain of Wheat. London: Heinemann, 1967.
Wright, Richard. The Outsider. New York: Harper, 1953.
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