USEFUL BOOKS AND WEBSITES

Books

The USSR 1917–1939, Including the Show Trials case study Martin Amis, Koba the Dread, Jonathan Cape, 2002. Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Anchor, 2004. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Phoenix, 2007. Edvard Radznsky, Stalin, Anchor, 1997. Martin Sixsmith, Russia: A Thousand Year Chronicle of the Wild East, BBC Books, 2011. Dmitri Volkogonov, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire, Harper Collins, 1999.

Germany 1920–1939, including the Nuremberg Rallies case study Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History, Pan, 2001. Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, Penguin Books, 2003. Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power, Penguin Books, 2006. Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred, Penguin, 2009. Joachim C. Fest, Hitler, Mariner Books, 2002. Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936, Hubris Penguin Books, 1999. Richard Overy, The Third Reich: A Chronicle, Quercus, 2011. Laurence Rees, The Nazis: A Warning from History (book or DVD), BBC, 2006.

Britain 1920–1939, including the Jarrow March case study Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now, Ebury Press, 2018. Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain, Harper Press, 2011. Stephen Lee, Aspects of British Political History 1914–1995, Routledge, 1996. Andrew Marr, The Making of Modern Britain, Pan, 2010.

Websites

The USSR 1917–1939, including the Show Trials case study

• http://gulaghistory.org/

Feature on the Gulag from George Mason University in the United States. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials

Examination of the Show Trials from Wikipedia. • http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch20.htm

Good article about Stalin’s Russia called ‘Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union’. • http://art-bin.com/art/amosc_preeng.html

Interesting piece on the Show Trials called ‘And they all confessed...’ • http://soviethistory.msu.edu/

One of the best sites on the internet with narrative and a wide host of sources – written, audio and visual – about many relevant events in history. Click a relevant date at the top of the page and then on the toolbar to find what articles there are about the year you have chosen. A simple registration process is required to access some of the material. • https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/Site-prior-to-Easyweb-migration/chrono3.html

Chronology of Russian history from the Soviet period up to 1990.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOI8wKFCEIA

A brief animated biography of Stalin. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JpnWlEfvE

Youtube video about the Third Show Trial involving Bukharin as the star defendant in 1938. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnK0LAoyMo

An examination of the Purges from the TimeGhost History. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwKl8VUZHA

Profile of the NKVD from TimeGhost History. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jil4OCsxT_U

Video from House of History called Stalin's Great Purge – The Great Terror.

Germany 1920–1939, including the Nuremberg Rallies case study • http://www.ushmm.org/

Website of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum – a vast resource for students about all aspects of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. • http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/

Excellent site from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum about propaganda in Nazi Germany, it includes many visual sources from the period. • http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144

Good biography of Hitler with five short videos – from the Biography Channel. • http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/

Series of articles about the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany. • http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=13

Very professional site from the German Historical Institute in Washington called ‘German History in Documents and Images’. This section of the site examines a number of topics from Nazi

Germany with articles and primary documents. Go to the introduction and choose a topic – click on the topic to find an article about it, e.g. propaganda. There are links to the primary sources in each of the articles. • http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

Good website that shows sites and images from Nazi Germany and what they look like today. • http://www.tracesofevil.com

A good site that examines the different parts of the Nuremburg Party Rally grounds. • http://www.kubiss.de/reichsparteitagsgelaende/englisch/stationen.htm

Detailed examination of the different buildings in the Nazi Party Rally grounds, includes some video excerpts. • http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm

Collection of propaganda sources from Nazi Germany, 1933-1945. • https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey

Full-length video of Leni Riefenstahl’s movie Triumph of the Will. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hJVaTW45M

An examination of Triumph of the Will and the power of propaganda. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYjHpC2u7ck

A biography of Leni Reifenstahl from TimeGhost History.

Britain 1920–1939, including the Jarrow march case study • http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/04.TU.04/

Feature from the Science Museum in London about Britain between the wars – very studentfriendly and very relevant. • http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstudies/the-general-strike.htm

An examination of the General Strike with the aid of the British Cabinet Papers – from the British

National Archives. • http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstudies/1930-depression.htm

An examination of the Depression in Britain in the 1930s using the primary sources of the British

Cabinet Papers. • www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/jarrow_01.shtml

An excellent summary of the Jarrow Crusade from the BBC, including the background to the march and a brief biography of local MP, Ellen Wilkinson. • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/3121722.stm

BBC article about the death of the last surviving marcher in 2003. • http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,6051,127027,00.html

An article from the Guardian newspaper written a week after the start of the march. It gives a reporter’s account of the march. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNt61S_4Clk

Youtube video from BBC Four about the effects of the Great Depression; it includes Britain –11 minutes in length. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpNcHTG4uM

Good video that examines poverty in 1930s’ Britain. • http://www.britishpathe.com/video/jarrow-unemployed-march-to-london

Very short British Pathé newsreel of the Jarrow marchers. • http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7483/economics/the-uk-economy-in-the-1930s/

An examination of the performance of the British economy in the 1920s and 1930s, with graphs to aid explanation. It could also be used by students who are studying economics. • https://heritagecalling.com/2021/10/04/the-story-of-the-jarrow-march/

A profile of the Jarrow March called People and Protest: The Story of the Jarrow March from the

Historic England Blog.