Primary Sources

USSR

• Charter of the United Nations  
• Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill, 1946  
• George Kennan Views Soviet Post-War Foreign Policy, 1946  
• Soviet Sources on the Cold War  
• Truman Doctrine, 12 March 1947  
• North Atlantic Treaty 1949  
• The Warsaw Pact, 1955  

Soviet Bloc

• Roy Medvedev on Leonid Brezhnev  
• The Czech Hardliners' "Request" for Soviet Intervention, August 1968  
• The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968  
• Declassified Soviet Documents on the Polish Crisis if 1980-1981  
• Constitution of the USSR (1977)  
• Sources on Soviet Intellectual Policy  
• Petition on the Legality of the Trial of Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovol'skii and Lashkova (1968)  
• Political Anecdotes  
• Soviet Foreign Policy During the Cold War: A Documentary Sampler on Vietnam and Afghanistan  

• The First Provisional Government, 1917  
• V. I. Lenin, "Tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution" (1917)  
• Lenin, "Alliance between the workers and the exploited peasants" (1917)  
• Lenin, "Draft decree on nationalization of banks..." (1917)  
• Lenin, Speech on the Nationalisation of the Banks (1917)  
• Lenin, "War and Revolution" (1917)  
• First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, June 1917  
• Lenin on the Organization of an Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counterrrevolution [Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917]  
• Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars to the Moslems of Russia and the East, 3 December 1917  
• The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918  
• Lenin's Interview with the Manchester Guardian  
• 1918 Constitution of the RSFSR  
• Lenin--Anti-Religious Campaigns  
• Lenin's Testament  

• 1936 Constitution of the USSR  
• Soviet Repression and Terror: Kirov Murder and Purges 
• Indictment in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)  
• Prosecution Argument in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)  
• Verdict in the Purge Trials of "the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terroist Centre" (August 1936)  
• N.I. Bukharin's Last Plea before the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., 12 March 1938  
• Hymn to Stalin  
• Trotsky, "Stalinism and Bolshevism" (1937)  
• Sources on Soviet Intellectual Policy

• A 1922 Description of the Fascists in Italy  
• A Pro-Fascist View of the March on Rome  
• Benito Mussolini, "What is Fascism?" (1932)  
• Wartime Speech by Mussolini, 1941

• Weimar Republic, Elections  
• Adolf Hitler's First Antisemitic Writing (1919)  
• An Early Nazi Program: The 25 Points (1920)  
• A Hitler Speech from 4 May 1923  
• U.S. Diplomatic Dispatches on the Nazi Movement in Germany (1932)
• Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party 
  • The Nazi State as Described by the Nuremberg Trials: 
  • The Nazi Party The SS (Schutzstaffel)  
  • The SA (Stürmabteilungen)  
  • The Gestapo (Geheimstatzpolizei)  
  • The General Staff 

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook  
• Internet African History Sourcebook  
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook  
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook  
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook  
• Internet Global History Sourcebook  
• World History, 1500-Present  
• The Historical Text Archive  
• The 20th Century: Conflict,Attitude and Changing Religions  

Asia

• Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945  
• The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, July 21, 1954  
• The French "Loi-Cadre" of June 23, 1956  
• British Government Policy Statement on Burma, 1945  
• British White Paper on Palestine, 1939  
• Declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948  
• The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council, July 1-17, 1968  
• Treaty Between Israel and Egypt, 1979  
• Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization Agreement, 1993  

Africa

• United Nations Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,1960  
• Kwame Nkrumah "I Speak for Freedom", 1961  
• South Africa's Nuremberg Laws  
• Old Shapes in New Rags: Instruments of Apartheid Rule 
• Oliver Tambo, "Racial Problems in Africa" (1961)  
• Oliver Tambo, "Apartheid - the Indictment" (1964)  
• Oliver Tambo, "Nelson Mandela in 1965"  
• Oliver Tambo, "Whites in a Changing South Africa" (1989)  
• Communique of Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi (1969)  
• Qadhafi Speaks on Africa (1998)  
• Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front  
• De Gaulle's Speech at Constantine, Algeria, October 3, 1958  
• Douglas Dryden on the Situation in the Western Sahara  
• Regional Accords Regarding Angola, Cuba and South Africa  

China & India

• Mao Tse-Tung, The People's Democratic Dictatorship, 1949  
• Lu Ting-yi, Let Flowers of Many Kinds Blossom, Diverse Schools of Thought Contend!, 1956  
• Two Soviet Documents on Sino-Soviet Relations in 1980  
• European Parliament Resolution on the Situation in Tibet  
• Mao Tse-Tung "On Khrushchev's Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World"  
• Excerpt from Ghandi's Autobiography  
• Tribute to Mahatma Ghandi, January 1948  
• Reminiscences of Mahatma Ghandi  
• Documents on the Issue of Jammu and Kashmir  
• Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir, 1966  
• Prime Minister Nehru: Speech to Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955  

The Americas

• Juan Peron on Justicialism, 1950  
• Eva Perón: History of Perónism, excerpts, 1951  
• U. S. State Department on Communism in Latin America, 1958  
• Operation Pan-America, 1959  
• John Kennedy on the Alliance for Progress, 1961  
• Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana, 1962  
• Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963  
• Fidel Castro on the Export of Revolution  
• The North American Free Trade Agreement 
• Latin American Network Information Center

• Ching Chun Wang, "A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic" (1913)
• Letter of Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs Chicherin to Sun Yat-Sen, 1 August 1918  
• Sun Yat-sen, "Fundamentals of National Reconstruction" (1923)  
• Mao Tse-Tung, "Report of an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" (1927)  
• Fourteen Years of Destruction-- How Mainland Chinese Experienced the War  
• Chinese Version of the Nanking Massacre  
• Mao Tse-Tung On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism  
• Mao Tse-Tung on The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan  
• Mao Tse-Tung, "Win the Masses in Their Millions for the Anti-Japanese National United Front"