Cold War: An International History, 2nd edition
Carole K. Fink
Suggestions for Further Study
Chapter 3: Cold War, 1945–1952
Documents
“China and the Korean War.” Woodrow Wilson Center Digital Archive.
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Churchill, Winston. “Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain Speech).” March 5, 1946. National Churchill
Museum. http://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/sinews-of-peace-iron-curtain-speech.html.
“Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945–63: Records of the U.S. State
Department Classified Files.” Archives Unbound. Gale Cengage Learning.
http://gdc.gale.com/archivesunbound/archives-unbound-czechoslovakia-from-liberation-tocommunist-state-1945-63-records-of-the-u.s.-state-department-classified-files/.
Dedijer, Vladimir. Tito Speaks: His Self-Portrait and Struggle with Stalin. London: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, 1953.
“Marshall Plan.” 1948. National Archives and Records Administration Featured Documents.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/marshall_plan.
“NATO Treaty, Washington, April 4, 1949.” Yale Law School Avalon Project: Documents in
Law, History and Diplomacy. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/nato.asp.
Parrish, Scott D., and M. M. Narinskii. New Evidence on the Soviet Rejection of the Marshall
Plan, 1947: Two Reports. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
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Person, James, ed. New Evidence on the Korean War. North Korea International Documentation
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https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/NKIDP_Document_Reader__New_Evidence_on
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Stokes, Gale. From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since
1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
“Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14
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1 Truman, Harry. “Atomic Explosion in the USSR.” September 23, 1949. Yale Law School
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Truman, Harry S., and Winston Churchill. Defending the West: The Truman-Churchill
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“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Adopted by the General Assembly in December
1948.” United Nations. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html.
Contemporary Writing
Lippmann, Walter. The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Harper, 1947.
Miłosz, Czesław. The Captive Mind. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Irony of American History. New York: Scribner, 1952.
Stone, I. F. The Hidden History of the Korean War. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1952.
X [George Kennan]. “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.” Foreign Affairs 25, no. 4 (July 1947):
566–582.
Memoirs
Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1969.
Dimitrov, Georgi. The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933–1949. Edited by Ivo Banac. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich. New York:
Harcourt Brace, 1962.
Philbrick, Herbert A. I Led Three Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1952.
Truman, Harry S. Memoirs. 2 vols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955–1956.
Films
The Day the Earth Stood Still. Directed by Robert Wise. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox,
1951.
Exodus. Directed by Otto Preminger. Los Angeles: Carlyle Productions, 1960.
The 49th Man. Directed by Fred F. Sears. Los Angeles: Katzman Corporation, 1953.
Gandhi. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Los Angeles: International Film Investors, 1982.
2 High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Los Angeles: Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.
The Inner Circle. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1991.
The Iron Curtain. Directed by William A. Wellman. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1948.
On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan. Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1952.
Pickup on South Street. Directed by Samuel Fuller. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1953.
The Murderers Are Among Us. Directed by Wolfgang Staudte. Berlin: Deutsche FilmAktiengesellschaft, 1946.
The Red Menace. Directed by R. G. Springsteen. Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1949.
The Steel Helmet. Directed by Samuel Fuller. Los Angeles: Deputy Corporation, 1951.
The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed. London: Carol Reed’s Production/London Film
Productions, 1949.
Fiction
Gouzenko, Igor. The Fall of a Titan. New York: W. W. Norton, 1954.
Ḥabībī, Imīl. The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist: A Palestinian Who Became a
Citizen of Israel. Translated by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick. New York:
Vantage, 1982.
Jin, Ha. War Trash. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan. New York: Grove, 1956.
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