History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett
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Updated as of 2 October 05

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On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. 

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Texts for Soviet Union

Required Texts

Author Title  Publisher
Robert Service A History of Modern Russia Harvard, 2005
Robert Service Stalin: A Biography Harvard, 2006
Richard Conquest The Great Terror: A Reassessment Oxford, 1991
David Holloway  Stalin and the Bomb  Yale, 1996
David Murphy What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa Yale, 2006
Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary Norton, 2006
Allen Weinstein The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era Modern Library, 2000

The books listed above are required. They can be checked out from your local library in your hometown or throughout the state of Kansas by using the appropriate hyperlink. Kansas Library Catalog will indicate where the book is located and perhaps can be found not far from your location.

The books can also be purchased at the Memorial Union Bookstore or the Textbook Corner. Likewise, students can go online at Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and E. R. Hamilton Booksellers for cheap and affordable books for this course.