EPTI'm trying to look for some documentaries to give me some ideas, but I don't know of any. Can anyone give me some names?
Any history buffs?
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GTR
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I'm trying to look for some documentaries to give me some ideas, but I don't know of any. Can anyone give me some names? | ||
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pubbanana
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alexpnd
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gjg.instinct
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I would start with the Cold War as a precursor to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Collapse of the Soviet Union, and then you have a series of revolutions happening in Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. Talking about communism as an ideology and how it was implemented in the USSR, and how it was further implemented in eastern bloc countries would take up a lot of space / time. 1989 is pretty important. | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
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zatic
Zurich15324 Posts
Seriously you can maybe write about how the fall of communism impacted a specific, single Western or Eastern country, but even that would be ridiculously hard (well, depending on the country I guess). The impact of the Fall of Communism on history in general is just not doable. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
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Athos
United States2484 Posts
On June 12 2009 10:38 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I agree with zatic; the "fall of communism" is way too broad of a topic. Either narrow it down or choose something else. | ||
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kefkalives
Australia1272 Posts
That would be much much easier to write about. I definetly agree with Zatic. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
How in-depth is this assignment meant to be anyways? | ||
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GTR
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Maybe I should narrow my topic question to something like to how did it affect the US or something? | ||
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kefkalives
Australia1272 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
Yeah lol, do whatever the hell you want as long as it's comprehensible you'll do fine lol. | ||
FakeSteve[TPR]
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gchan
United States654 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On June 12 2009 16:05 GTR wrote: I'm planning to do around 3 to 4 pages. It's only something small to get us into the 'historical' mode of thinking. Maybe I should narrow my topic question to something like to how did it affect the US or something? You will at best, write a well argued incomplete paper that would leave the reader with more questions than answers. I wrote a similar topic to yours (focusing on the fall of Communism in Europe and its subsequent impact on the treatment of Chinese Communism by Western Powers) and that was 15 pages easy. And to focus on the US is still very much a broad topic considering the US had a multitude of things to consider, relations with the new countries/regimes, relations with allies that no longer have a common enemy, subsequent economic ties stemming from the previous, immigration, culture, public opinion, political theory, etc. So much you can write about. A better topic would be focused on a single particular event and how and/or why it was important. | ||
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
On June 12 2009 16:05 GTR wrote: I'm planning to do around 3 to 4 pages. It's only something small to get us into the 'historical' mode of thinking. Maybe I should narrow my topic question to something like to how did it affect the US or something? You need to narrow it an awful lot more than that to do 3-4 pages well. If you're doing Eastern Europe, do an individual country over a short time. You could illustrate how the ice broke in the bloc before the fall of the Soviet Union though a short case study of Hungary or Poland or Romania or something (all of these had notable levels of autonomy from the Warsaw Pact at certain points, some successfully in the long run). http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection This is a great resource for research involving the Cold War. It is a wealth of primary sources that should go a long way towards providing you with useful subject matter and towards impressing your prof/teacher. | ||
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Raithed
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Slaughter
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