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Read and Watch

BOOKS

Non-Fiction

  • The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis, 2006

  • The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad,, 2017

  • The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848, translated by Samuel Moore in cooperation with Friedrich Engels, 1888

  • Letters Over the Wall by David F. Strack, 2015

  • Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey, 2014

  • Stasi: the Untold Story of the East German Secret Police by John Koehler, 1999

  • Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg Khlevniuk, 2015

  • Krushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman, 2004

  • CIA Manual for Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare by Duane Ramsdell Clarridge, CIA, Tayacán, John Kirkpatrick, Dewey Moroni, 1983, edited by Alethea Veritas,

  • Just War in the Age of Terror by Jean Bethke Elshtain. 2003. (excerpts)

  • The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff., 2004. (Excerpts)

  • Russia’s Cold War by Jonathan Haslam, 2012 (excerpts)

  • Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick, 1994 (excerpts)

  • The Invention of Russia: the Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky, 2017

 

Novels, Short Stories, and Plays

  • 1984 by George Orwell, 1949

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1931

  • The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954

  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré,, 1963

  • Eighth Day of the Week by Marek Hlasko , 1958

  • The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer , 1958

  • On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957

  • The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 1984

  • Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 1986

  • The Things They Carried  by Tim O’Brien,  2009

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller, 1953

  • "There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury, 1950

  • “The Day Stalin Died,” by Doris Lessing, 1957

  • “The Children’s Story,” by James Clavell, 1964

 

FILMS AND TV SHOWS

American and British

  • War Games (1983)

  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

  • Bridge of Spies (2015)

  • Thirteen Days (2000)

  • North by Northwest (1959)

  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  • From Russia With Love (1963)

  • Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

  • The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

  • Star Trek, A Taste of Armageddon" (season #1, episode #23, production #23)

  • The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959-1964)

  • The Crucible (1996)

  • Hail, Caesar! (2016)

  • Fire Fox (1982)

  • Red Dawn (1987)

  • Red Dawn (2011)

  • Top Gun (1986)

  • Rocky IV (1985)

  • No Way Out (1987)

  • Hunt for Red October (1990)

  • Death of Stalin (2017)

German

  • Deutschland 83(2015)

  • Goodbye, Lenin! (2003)

  • Sonnenallee (1999)

Soviet

  • Ivan Vasilevich Changes Professions (1973)

  • Stalin (1992) 

  • Fall of Berlin (1950) – Soviet film (clips only)

  • I was Stalin’s Bodyguard, 1989 (clips)

Korean

  • Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

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