Discussion Leadership Schedule
*Sign up for one day on which you will lead our discussion. Please remember: you are responsible for reading all posts on the blog before class, and you should prepare five discussion questions of your own, as well.
Week 3: Stalinization and Resistance
Feb 10: Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star
*Augustine Dugan
Week 4: Divided Germany
Feb 15: Sheffer, Burned Bridge, ch 1, 3-5
*Ian Anderson
Week 5: The Friendship Model
Feb 22: Sheffer, Burned Bridge, ch 7-9
*Mario Sanchez Isabas
Feb 24: Applebaum, Empire of Friends, chapters 1, 3, 4
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Week 6: The Consumer Cold War
Mar 3: The Kitchen Debate
*Joe Arencibia
Week 7: Gender in the Cold War
Mar 8: New Soviet Women and Fat Socialist Bodies
*Blake Aber
Week 9: Cultural Competition
Mar 22: Tomoff, Virtuosi Abroad and Oistrakh
*Fonatana Micucci
Week 10: Rock and Journalism
Mar 29: Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
*Bryton Altenbach
Mar 31: Fainberg, Cold War Correspondents, chapters 3 and 4
*Cole Leathers
Week 12: The Challenges of the Late Cold War
Apr 12: The Helsinki Effect
*Amanda Fitzpatrick
Apr 14: Dissent in Poland
*Hannah Flick
Week 13: The End of the Cold War
Apr 21: Peaceful revolutions of 1989
*John Henry
Week 14: Euphoria and Aftermath
Apr 26: The Velvet Revolution
*Veena Rings and Joe Arencibia
Apr 28: Goodbye, Lenin!
*Luke Webb
