This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Lectures will be online. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary. Students are expected to keep up with readings for weekly meetings, and to participate in the class discussions. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT.
Barrass, G, The Great Cold War (2009); Gaddis, J L, The Cold War: A New History; Hanhim?ki, J & Westad, O A, The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts; Leffler, M P, For the Soul of Mankind (2007); Leffler, M P & Painter, D, Origins of the Cold War (2005); Reynolds, D, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (2001); Sarotte, M, 1989 (2009); Westad, O A, Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (2000); Westad, O A, The Global Cold War (2005);
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the LT. Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the ST. Presentation (15%) and class participation (15%) in the MT and LT.