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• Kinney:Rosa Luxemburg, “The Junius Pamphlet” (8)
• Vladimir Lenin, “Speech in Closing the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party” (42)
• Nikita Khrushchev, “Khrushchev Remembers” (46)
• Evgeniia Ginzburg, “Journey Into the Whirlwind” (51)
• Novoe Vremya, “Russian Women in Combat” (82)
• Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points Speech” (88)
• Henry Cabot Lodge, “On the League of Nations” (93)
• J. M. Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of Peace” (91)

1. Who are these people - quick identify and significance?
2. What ties all these writings/speakings together?
3. Were these people visionaries? - How accurate were their visions?
4. Did the time at which they wrote temper their vision?

• Kinney: Heinrich Hauser, “With Germany’s Unemployed” (146)
• George Orwell, “The Road to Wigan Pier” (149)
• Paul Comly French, “Children on Strike” (159)
• Alfredo Rocco, “The Weakness of the Liberal-Democratic State” (118)
• Benito Mussolini, “Fascist Doctrines” (123)
• Joseph Goebbels, “The Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and
  Propaganda” (134)
• Theodor Herzl, “The Jewish State” (4)
• McMahon/Balfour, “The McMahon Letter/The Balfour Declaration” (99)
• Government of Great Britain, “The British White Paper of 1939” (101)
• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, “The Palestinian Arab Case”
  (266)
• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, “Testimony by Chaim Weizmann”
  (270)
• UN Security Council/Palestinian National Council, “Resolution
  242/Palestinian National Charter” (273)

First Assignment Due in Tutorial.
Consider the near fifty years of debate that went into the creation of Israel. Drawing from at least two relevant documents from the list below, discuss the longstanding tensions
associated with the creation and realization of the Israeli state. What role have international bodies played in the creation and maintenance of Israel?

Questions to Consider for this Week’s Readings:

1. Who are these people authoring these selections - quick identify and significance?
2. What common theme can you identify amongst these writings/speakings?
3. Were these people visionaries? - How accurate were their visions?
4. How did the time at which these were written influence perspective?

• Kinney:Armenian National Institute, “Press Reports on the Armenian Genocide” (85)
• David Buffum, “On Kristallnacht” (140)
• Margaret Freyer, “Eyewitness Account of the Firestorm in Dresden”
  (169)
• Harold Timperley, “An Eyewitness Account at Nanjing” (171)
• Muriel Kitagawa, “Letters to Wes” (177)
• Victor Klemperer, “I Will Bear Witness” (183)
• Bronia Spira, “The Berlin-Bucharest Express” (186)
• Livia Bitton Jackson, “A Bowl of Soup” (188)
• Stella Wiseltier, “Rejoining the Human Race” (192)
• Gitta Sereny, “Into That Darkness” (194)
• United Nations, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (229)

• Kinney:Kwame Nkrumah, “Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism” (343)
• Frantz Fanon, “The Collaborating Class in Neo-Colonialism” (345)
• Frantz Fanon, “The Wretched of the Earth” (291)
• Julius Nyerere, “The Arusha Declaration” (348)
• P.J. O’Rourke, “Inside Tanzania” (351)
• The Atlantic Monthly, “Rwanda 1964” (355)
• P.T. Bauer, “Western Guilt and Third World Poverty” (360)

Second Assignment Due in Tutorial.
Examine the optimism and pessimism surrounding African independence. Drawing on at least two of the documents below, assess the post-colonial relationship between Africa and the western world.

The Movie that I wanted to remember to recommend to you in tutorial is: Lumumba! It’s a 2000 French production. Extremely well done. Not a happy story, but one which help to demonstrate a spirit of the time - 1960s Congo. I highly recommend this movie, but warn that it does have some rather graphic violence.

• Kinney: Winston Churchill, “Iron Curtain Speech” (209)
• Joseph Stalin, “Response to Churchill, 14 March 1946” (213)
• Alexandra Kollontai, “The Soviet Woman—A Full and Equal Citizen of
  Her Country” (220)
• Milovan Djilas, “The New Class” (222)
• Nikita Khrushchev, “Secret Speech” (225)
• Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., “Communism in the Americas” (247)
• Fidel Castro, “Havana Declaration” (258)

Third Assignment Due in Tutorial.
Compare and contrast Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech” with Stalin’s “Response to Churchill.” Discuss to what extent propaganda played a role in each excerpt and the nature of that propaganda with specific reference to their context.

• Kinney: Ito Hirobumi, “On the Constitution of 1889” (56)
• Sun Yat-sen, “Fundamentals of National Reconstruction” (65)
• Soong Ching-ling, “The Struggle for New China” (68)
• Yang Chengwu, “The Luding Bridge” (71)
• Mao Zedong, “The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains” (311)
• Mao Zedong, “On Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools
  of Thought Contend” (313)
• Fox Butterfield, “Lihua” (317)
• Chai Ling, “June Four: A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic
  Uprising” (319)
• Jiang Zemin, “China-US Relations” (322)

• Kinney: Eleanor Roosevelt, “Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do” (367)
• Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” (372)
• Redstockings, “A Feminist Manifesto” (376)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism” (377)

• Kinney: Vaclav Havel, “Disturbing the Peace” (394)
• Lech Walesa, “A Way of Hope” (396)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Rebuilding Russia” (404).

• Kinney: Naomi Klein, “No Logo” (417)
• Neil Mohindra, “Markets Should Be Free to Roam the World” (424)
• Robert Kaplan, “World Government” (427)
• Benjamin Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld” (428)
• Robert Kaplan, “Old Serbia and Albania” & “Moldova” (433)
• Edward Said, “Protecting the Kosovars” (439)
• Philip Gourevitch, “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be
  Killed With Our Families” (441)