Drawing on all the assignments in the course, write a critical review of the Kissinger text, assessing its major theses.

Henry Kissinger, On China, Penguin Press, 2011 ISBN 978 1 59420 271 1

Other Readings,

Richard Pipes, The Formation of The Soviet Union 1917-1923 Revised Edition (1997- earlier- 1954 and 1967 editions) (Cambridge; MA: Harvard University Press, 1997) ISBN 0 674 30951-0

Joshua Rubenstein, The Last Days of Stalin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016) ISBN 978 03 001 922 23)

Henry Kissinger, On China, Penguin Press, 2011 ISBN 978 1 59420 271 1

Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union In the Cold War From Stalin to Gorbachev SECOND EDITION
(University of North Carolina Press, 2015) ISBN: 0807830984

Matthew J. Ouimet, The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy (University of North Carolina Press, c2003) ISBN 0807827401

Daniel C. Thomas, The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights and the Demise of Communism, Princeton University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-691-04859-2

Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
(Random House, 2004) ISBN 0 679 46323 2

Jacques L%u0413©vesque, The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe (translated from the French by Keith Martin) (University of California Press, 1997), Connect to this title online
Available as electronic book through the UW system

Walter C. Clemens, Jr. The Baltics Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security
New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 2001
AVAILABLE AS KINDLE BOOK VIA AMAZON

Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (New York: Random House, 2016) ISBN 97880399 588808 Also available as E Book

OPTIONAL
Sidney D. Drell, George P. Shultz, eds., Andrei Sakharov, The Conscience of Humanity ( Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2015)