Bibliography
Andrei Sakharov. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
This is a picture of Andrei Sakharov, a key figure when involving human rights in the Soviet Union. As a postgraduate, Sakharov studied nuclear fusion under Nobel laureate Igor Tamm in Moscow, Russia. However, his concerns with the safety of nuclear tests led him to campaign for a nuclear test-ban and improved civil rights. This picture would be needed because since our group is doing a documentary film, images and videos would be crucial. However, this is just another photo, so of course, there is no real informational value from this source.
Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Print.
This book could provide evidence about the Gulags in the USSR. The Gulags are Russian prisoner camps. This information could be very useful when we do in depth analysis on our topic. However, since it is a book, there are a lot of personal opinions and biases.
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Print.
The facts and stats that are found in this book are very useful when trying to find supporting information for any opinions or vague facts. The information from the source should be pretty reliable because it reassess an event, and generally does not have to many biases or opinions from the author. A downside to this is that it has very little actual interviews or primary sources, making it only a purely informative source.
Crimes of Soviet Communists. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
Although not an informative website in itself, though it could serve as a database to find other information. It has a lot of links and sources of examples that could be very useful from Finland to Hungary to Afghanistan. Since this sort of is a database, there is not real actual information from this website itself and so no real informative value.
"History of the Soviet Union (1982-1991)." Wikipedia.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This site is considered a secondary source because it has important information about the Soviet Union that other sites failed to represent but the information on the site can be edited by anyone and so it becomes a secondary source because some of the information isn't reliable. The site talks about different areas and aspects of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union itself. It talks about the leadership transition and the rise of a new leader. It gives a summary of all the information in the site because there is so much and it gives dates that can be used to piece together a timeline.
Patenaude, Bertrand M. "REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS: THE USSR." Spice-Stanford. Stanford University, n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013.
This source is very reliable overall and gives us a lot of overall information on Human Rights in the Soviet Union and events related to it, including the results of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being passed. This resource is also very reliable, as it was compiled by a professor from Stanford, who is very well regarded. Drawbacks if this source would be that we would not be able to go in-depth using this source.
Reagan, Ronald. "Reagan's Support for Human Rights." Making the History of 1989. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, 2007. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This website includes a speech that President Ronal Reagan made regarding Human Rights in the Soviet Union. We could use this source by seeing if the points that President Reagan made were indeed incorporated into the Soviet Union. This sources does not have a lot of hard facts, however. Also this source would not give us much information and can not be counted as an informative source.
Sakharov, Andreĭ. Memoirs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Print.
This is a memoir by Andrei Sakharov, a famous physicist and human rights activist about his experience in life in the USSR. The is very useful because the information was from a person actual at the events that occurred at that time. Also in a way, his opinions are also beneficial because it shows the personal opinions of people alive at that time. But, as always with books and personal written documents, some information is clouded by biases and personal opinions.
"Seventy Years of Evil", by Michael Johns, Policy Review, September 1987, Pp. 10-23." UNZ.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This source has a good timeline on the history and main events of the USSR. This could potentially help us when we are trying to organize our ideas and potentially provide us with examples of Human Right problems in USSR. Drawbacks of this would be that the author is constantly pretty biased, making it hard to separate opinions from facts.
Three, Jess. "Human Rights in the Soviet Union." C-SPAN Video Library. Cable, n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This is a video of the assistant secretary of state discussing human rights changes in the soviet union under perestroika in 1990. This information is very valuable because we are getting firsthand information from a highly reliable person who is very well connected. However, since this kind of involved politics, some information might have been cut out of the video in a result in not trying to offend anyone.
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Image. Corel. American History. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
This is an image of Eleanor Roosevelt holding a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international agreement that she played an important role in crafting in 1948. Since we are making a documentary film, images and videos would be vital to the success of our project. However, this is only an image, so there would not be anything productive from this source other than being used in the doc film as an image/slide.
Yakunin, Gleb, and Lev Regelson. "RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHT. LETTERS FROM MOSCOW. Father Gleb Yakunin and Lev Regelson." RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHT. LETTERS FROM MOSCOW. Father Gleb Yakunin and Lev Regelson. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
These are firsthand letters translated to English from Soviet era Moscow. They could be used to provide Primary Source evident in our project. They give good information about the peoples emotions and thoughts at that time. However, since they are a translation, there are always changes that some parts were translated wrong. Also, these letters are not very informative, giving us no new real information.
This is a picture of Andrei Sakharov, a key figure when involving human rights in the Soviet Union. As a postgraduate, Sakharov studied nuclear fusion under Nobel laureate Igor Tamm in Moscow, Russia. However, his concerns with the safety of nuclear tests led him to campaign for a nuclear test-ban and improved civil rights. This picture would be needed because since our group is doing a documentary film, images and videos would be crucial. However, this is just another photo, so of course, there is no real informational value from this source.
Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Print.
This book could provide evidence about the Gulags in the USSR. The Gulags are Russian prisoner camps. This information could be very useful when we do in depth analysis on our topic. However, since it is a book, there are a lot of personal opinions and biases.
Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Print.
The facts and stats that are found in this book are very useful when trying to find supporting information for any opinions or vague facts. The information from the source should be pretty reliable because it reassess an event, and generally does not have to many biases or opinions from the author. A downside to this is that it has very little actual interviews or primary sources, making it only a purely informative source.
Crimes of Soviet Communists. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
Although not an informative website in itself, though it could serve as a database to find other information. It has a lot of links and sources of examples that could be very useful from Finland to Hungary to Afghanistan. Since this sort of is a database, there is not real actual information from this website itself and so no real informative value.
"History of the Soviet Union (1982-1991)." Wikipedia.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This site is considered a secondary source because it has important information about the Soviet Union that other sites failed to represent but the information on the site can be edited by anyone and so it becomes a secondary source because some of the information isn't reliable. The site talks about different areas and aspects of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union itself. It talks about the leadership transition and the rise of a new leader. It gives a summary of all the information in the site because there is so much and it gives dates that can be used to piece together a timeline.
Patenaude, Bertrand M. "REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS: THE USSR." Spice-Stanford. Stanford University, n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013.
This source is very reliable overall and gives us a lot of overall information on Human Rights in the Soviet Union and events related to it, including the results of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being passed. This resource is also very reliable, as it was compiled by a professor from Stanford, who is very well regarded. Drawbacks if this source would be that we would not be able to go in-depth using this source.
Reagan, Ronald. "Reagan's Support for Human Rights." Making the History of 1989. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, 2007. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This website includes a speech that President Ronal Reagan made regarding Human Rights in the Soviet Union. We could use this source by seeing if the points that President Reagan made were indeed incorporated into the Soviet Union. This sources does not have a lot of hard facts, however. Also this source would not give us much information and can not be counted as an informative source.
Sakharov, Andreĭ. Memoirs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Print.
This is a memoir by Andrei Sakharov, a famous physicist and human rights activist about his experience in life in the USSR. The is very useful because the information was from a person actual at the events that occurred at that time. Also in a way, his opinions are also beneficial because it shows the personal opinions of people alive at that time. But, as always with books and personal written documents, some information is clouded by biases and personal opinions.
"Seventy Years of Evil", by Michael Johns, Policy Review, September 1987, Pp. 10-23." UNZ.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This source has a good timeline on the history and main events of the USSR. This could potentially help us when we are trying to organize our ideas and potentially provide us with examples of Human Right problems in USSR. Drawbacks of this would be that the author is constantly pretty biased, making it hard to separate opinions from facts.
Three, Jess. "Human Rights in the Soviet Union." C-SPAN Video Library. Cable, n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This is a video of the assistant secretary of state discussing human rights changes in the soviet union under perestroika in 1990. This information is very valuable because we are getting firsthand information from a highly reliable person who is very well connected. However, since this kind of involved politics, some information might have been cut out of the video in a result in not trying to offend anyone.
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Image. Corel. American History. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
This is an image of Eleanor Roosevelt holding a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international agreement that she played an important role in crafting in 1948. Since we are making a documentary film, images and videos would be vital to the success of our project. However, this is only an image, so there would not be anything productive from this source other than being used in the doc film as an image/slide.
Yakunin, Gleb, and Lev Regelson. "RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHT. LETTERS FROM MOSCOW. Father Gleb Yakunin and Lev Regelson." RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHT. LETTERS FROM MOSCOW. Father Gleb Yakunin and Lev Regelson. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.
These are firsthand letters translated to English from Soviet era Moscow. They could be used to provide Primary Source evident in our project. They give good information about the peoples emotions and thoughts at that time. However, since they are a translation, there are always changes that some parts were translated wrong. Also, these letters are not very informative, giving us no new real information.