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Lisa Yang

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  1. Oct 21

    The problems and failures of the Great Leap Forward (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of the Great Leap Forward with various historians' views on the causes and consequences. Historians mentioned in the podcast: Becker, Jasper. Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine.  Dikötter, Frank. Mao’s Great Famine.  Jisheng, Yang. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962.  Lynch, Michael. China: From Empire to People’s Republic.  MacFarquhar, Roderick & Schoenhals, Michael. Mao’s Last Revolution.  Meisner, Maurice. Mao’s China and After.  Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China.  Teiwes, Frederick. The Tragedy of Lin Biao.

  2. Oct 20

    The Second Cold War (Year 12 History)

    A discussion about the historical interpretations of the Second Cold War. Resources:Carter, Jimmy. "State of the Union Address, 23 January 1980." In Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1980.  NATO. "Special Meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers, Brussels, 12 December 1979." NATO Official Texts. https://www.nato.int  Reagan, Ronald. "Address to the National Association of Evangelicals, 8 March 1983." In Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1983.  US Department of State. "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan." In Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2005. https://history.state.gov  Fischer, Beth A. The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.  Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.  Garthoff, Raymond L. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1994.  Inboden, William. The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. New York: Dutton, 2023.  Matlock, Jack F. How the Cold War Ended: Reagan and Gorbachev in the Global Arena. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.  Reynolds, David. One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.  Schweizer, Peter. Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994.  Colbourn, Susan. Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.  Fischer, Benjamin B. "A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983 Soviet War Scare." CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997. https://www.cia.gov  Jones, Nate. Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2021.  "Sources, Methods, and Competing Perspectives on the End of the Cold War." Diplomatic History 21, no. 2 (1997): 283–308.  "Historicizing the Cold War." In The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.  "20th-century International Relations: Gorbachev, Soviet, New Thinking." Britannica. https://www.britannica.com  "The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the US Response." US Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov  "Able Archer 83: The Nuclear War Game That Put US-Soviet Relations on a Hair Trigger." National Security Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu  "Nuclear Close Calls: Able Archer 83." Nuclear Museum. https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org  "Reagan's 'Evil Empire' Speech." EBSCO Research Starters. https://www.ebsco.com

  3. Oct 20

    Detente (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion about detente. Some resources that may be useful: Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hanhimäki, Jussi, and Angela Romano, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. Leffler, Melvyn P., and Odd Arne Westad, eds. The Cambridge History of the Cold War. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Vol. II: Crises and Détente, 1962–1975.) Lundestad, Geir. “The Cold War and the Historiography of the Cold War.” In The Cold War as History, edited by various, 2004. Romano, Angela. “Détente in Europe, 1962–1975.” In The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. II, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, 2010. Thomas, Daniel C. “The Helsinki Final Act four decades on.” Central Asian Survey 36, no. 3 (2017): 1–18. Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Williams, William Appleman. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1959 (rev. ed.). Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996

  4. Sep 30

    A historiographical look at the creation of Israel (Year 12 History)

    Useful resources and some of the historians mentioned in this episode: United Nations. “History of the Question of Palestine.” United Nations, Question of Palestine. United Nations. “About the Nakba.” United Nations, Question of Palestine. United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 181 (II): Future Government of Palestine, 29 November 1947.  United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 194 (III): Palestine—Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator, 11 December 1948.  British Government. The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917.  British Government. Palestine White Paper, 1939.  Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. London: Croom Helm, 1987.  Gelber, Yoav. Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.  Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. 1896.  Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

  5. Sep 30

    The role of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" on the rise of Deng Xiaoping (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion of the syllabus point about socialism with Chinese characteristics. Historians mentioned in the podcast: Deng Xiaoping, “Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts and Unite as One in Looking to the Future” (speech, 13 December 1978) Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2011.read.dukeupress+1  MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao’s Last Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2006.reviews.history.ac+1  Goodman, David S. G. Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography. Routledge, 1994.oxfordbibliographies+3  O’Halloran, Louis. “Deng Xiaoping and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: a Capitalist Revolution?” The Manchester Historian, 2020.

  6. Sep 30

    Mao's Cult of Personality and Socialist Education Movement (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion of Mao's use of the cult of personality and the SEM Historians discussed in the podcast: MacFarquhar, R. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution.  MacFarquhar, R. & Schoenhals, M. Mao’s Last Revolution.  Meisner, M. Mao’s China and After.  Walder, A. Fractured Rebellion.  Teiwes, F. & Sun, W. The Tragedy of Lin Biao.  Chang, J. & Halliday, J. Mao: The Unknown Story.  Perry, E. Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition.

  7. Sep 30

    The EU and Eurozone: a historiographical look (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of the different historiographical views on the creation of the EU Reference list European Central Bank, “History,” https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/history-arts-culture/history/ec/html/index.en.htmlecb.europa  European Union, “History of the European Union – 1945–59,” https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1945-59_eneuropean-union.europa  Europa, “Key dates in the history of European integration,” https://europa.eu/abc/12lessons/key_dates_en.htmeuropa  European Parliament, “The First Treaties,” Fact Sheets on the European Union, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/1/the-first-treatieseuroparl.europa+1  European Parliament, “The enlargement of the Union,” Fact Sheets, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/167/the-enlargement-of-the-unioneuroparl.europa  European Commission, “History of enlargement: From 6 to 27 members,” https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/history-enlargement-6-27-members_enenlargement.ec.europa  European Union, “History of the European Union – 1980–89,” https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1980-89_eneuropean-union.europa  Britannica, “European Union – Creation of the European Economic Community,” https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Union/Creation-of-the-European-Economic-Communitybritannica  Chatham House, “Date with history: The birth of the European Union,” https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2024-02/date-history-birth-european-unionchathamhouse  Academic overview on integration theories: “Theories of European integration” (PDF), https://www.ucg.ac.me/skladiste/blog_13577/objava_47295/fajlovi/Theories%20of%20European%20integration.pdfucg.ac  Analysis of historiography beyond Milward vs federalism: “European Integration History: Beyond the Milward Vs. Federalism Debate,” https://hal.science/hal-04672237/documenthal  On Maastricht: “Thirty years since the Maastricht Treaty,” Yearbook of European Law, https://academic.oup.com/yel/article/doi/10.1093/yel/yeac008/6967127academic.oup  On Maastricht’s consequences: “The Maastricht Treaty: Negotiations and Consequences,” Nomos, https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0947-9511-2013-1-5.pdfnomos-elibrary  Encyclopedia.com, “Treaty On European Union 1992,” https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/treaties-and-alliances/treaty-european-u-nion-1992encyclopedia  On the Single European Act: Oxford Academic, “The Single European Act,” https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34380/chapter/291561559academic.oup  On EU enlargement economics: “The Economic Dynamics of European Union Enlargements,” Springer, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-20186-7_3link.springer+1  On Eurozone crisis interpretations: “The Political and Economic Dynamics of the Eurozone Crisis,” Oxford Academic, https://academic.oup.com/book/26087/chapter/194052417academic.oup  On ordoliberalism and the crisis: “Mediating ‘the German ideology’? Ordoliberalism and the Euro Crisis,” https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/44692540/Harjuniemi_Ojala_European_Studies.pdftuhat.helsinki  Critical/core–periphery perspectives: “Europe’s Twin Crises: The Logic and Tragedy of Contemporary …,” https://academics.hamilton.edu/documents/Cafruny%20Valdai.pdfacademics.hamilton  On crisis as historical legacy: CFR, “Eurozone Crisis as Historical Legacy,” https://www.cfr.org/reports/eurozone-crisis-historical-legacycfr  On Brexit interpretations: EUI Cadmus, “Why did the UK leave the EU? The state of the …,” https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstreams/4579b9e9-5ebf-5f2f-a502-550e8a63b562/downloadcadmus.eui  EUI Cadmus, “Brexit – the EU membership crisis that wasn’t?,” https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/77500/Brexit_EU_2024.pdf

  8. Sep 29

    The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine (Year 12 History)

    A discussion about the significance of the Prague Spring and Brezhnev Doctrine. Further resources: Brown, A. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Communism. London: Bodley Head.  Gaddis, J. L. (2005). The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin.  Judt, T. (2005). Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. London: Penguin.  Kenez, P. (2006). A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  McCauley, M. (2014). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. London: Routledge.  Service, R. (2015). The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991. London: Pan Macmillan.  Westad, O. A. (2017). The Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books.  Navrátil, J. (Ed.). (1998). The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. Budapest: Central European University Press.  Williams, K. (1997). The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Prague Spring." https://www.britannica.com  Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Brezhnev Doctrine." https://www.britannica.com  United States Department of State, Office of the Historian. The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. https://history.state.gov  Wilson Center Digital Archive. Prague Spring and Soviet Intervention Collection. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org  National Security Archive, George Washington University. Prague Spring Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu

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