Adrian, I started to read your paper, and what I found is that you have very few secondary sources and no primary source analysis that I can find. Most of your sources are non-academic and should be used for a paper like this – blog posts, time magazine articles, history.com, study.com. The majority of your paper should be devoted to analyzing primary source evidence. The historical context should come from secondary sources – peer reviewed academic articles and books.
So as you revise, what I’m looking for is a 20 page paper (double spaced), in which you make an argument supported by primary source analysis, contextualized using scholarly sources. Each paragraph (at minimum) should include a footnote that indicates the source of your ideas and information.
MUST USE THESE SOURCES
PRIMARY –
Gorbachev – memoirs, speeches, writings
Gorbachev advisors – Cherniaev, Ambassador to the US, other foreign policy officials
(memoirs, diaries)
–
Current digest (INF signed in December 1987 – so looking at articles on nuclear
arms/negotiations/ for 1986-1987s)
– Any primary source docs from negotiations
(Wilson Center? State department?
Congressional record? National Security Archive? CIA?)
Secondary Sources
–
Zubok, Failed Empire
– Zubok, Collapse (thinking on nuclear arms?
) => look at Zubok’s bibliography.
Vladislav M. “Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: Perspectives on History
and Personality.” Cold War History 2, no. 2 (2002): 61–100.
– Zubok, Vladislav. “The Soviet Union and Detente of the 1970s.” Cold War History 8, no.
4 (November 2008): 427–47.
