Nikita Khrushchev attending Soviet Youth Day festivities, either 1958 or 1960.  Photo courtesy Thomas T. Hammond

• Read the textbook chapters 40 and 41.
• Check the remarks by Professor Blois and Professor Evans on the Thaw.
• Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the Unit.
• Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this Unit's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.

• Read Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (if you are going to submit the optional Solzhenitsyn paper).
• Submit the optional Solzhenitsyn paper. If you don't understand why I call this an optional paper, take a look at the Explanation of Assignments and Grading.

• Khrushchev Resigns! 1964/10/15
• Nikita Khrushchev: Between black & white
• Khrushchev Threatens Hammarskjöld & UN 1960/10/3
• The Kitchen Debate (Nixon and Khrushchev, 1959) Part I of II
• Czechoslovakia Invasion Documentary part 1 Cold War
• Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth
• Czechoslovakia 1968 Part 1
• The Prague Spring of 1968 (Czech uprising against the Soviets)
• Seven Days to Remember - 53 minute documentary – trailer
• Czechoslovakia and The Prague Spring of 1968
• Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard Address
• aleksandr solzhenitsyn 1/10
• The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn 1/19
• Nobel prize winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
• For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.

• For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Letyat zhuravli (Cranes are Flying) and explain the purpose of the film in a one-page paper.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit--maybe more--watch Sibiriada (Siberiade) and explain why your professor finds this film so fascinating in a one-page paper.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, watch Moskva Slezam ne Verit (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears) and assess the movie's portrayal of Russian society in the 1970s in a one-page paper.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Vladimir Voinovich, Ivankiad and,  in a one-page paper, comment upon the author's portrayal of Soviet society under Brezhnev.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Ilya Ehrenburg, The Thaw (1955) and write a one-page paper explaining what the "Thaw" was.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Khrushchev Remembers (1970) and also Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974) and Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes (1990)--any of these--and assess the content and accuracy of what Khrushchev had to say in a one-page paper.
  
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism (1971)--a very important and interesting work--and write a one-page paper in which you explain Medvedev's analysis of Stalinism.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), My Country and the World (1975) and write a one-page paper in which you explain Sakharov's political ideas.
• For 50 points maximum extra credit, read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Letter to Soviet Leaders (1974) and write a one-page paper assessing what Solzhenitsyn wrote in his letter.