History Paper

4) Essay # 2 (Document Analysis, 15% of the final mark): By the beginning of the class of November 20, you will submit through the Moodle an analysis of one of the following historical documents: 

1. Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

2. Kollontai, Communism and the Family, 1920

3. The Program of NSDAP, 1921

4. Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932

5. NKVD’s Operational Order, 1937

6. The Munich Pact, 1938,  and The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939

7. Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech, 1939

8. The Wannsee Conference Protocols, 1942

9. George F. ("X") Kennan, Sources of Soviet Conduct. 1947

10. The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968

In your work on this assignment, you should follow the same document analysis guidelines that are uploaded to the Moodle in a separate file. Your essay should be appropriately footnoted and should cite at least four relevant secondary sources of scholarly nature (books, book chapters, journal articles, but not websites!)

Some stylistic rules to follow:

Avoid excesses of language and judgment as well as meaningless comments (e.g. ‘this is a most interesting document’). Be more creative in expressing what makes the document unique or intriguing. Do not use personal pronouns and adjectives (‘I’,‘me’, ‘we’, ‘my’). Type your document analysis essay double-spaced, using 12-point font. Word length: 1200.