I.                    Russian Revolution

a.       Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak

                                                               i.      Battleship Potempkin

b.       We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

                                                               i.      Brazil or V For Vendetta

II.                 Stalinism

a.       Journey Into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg

                                                               i.      Stalin

b.       A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic, Alexandr Solzhenitzyn

                                                               i.      Stalin

c.       Animal Farm, George Orwell

                                                               i.      Stalin

III.               Prague Spring

a.       The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

                                                               i.      Kolya

IV.              WWI

a.       All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

                                                               i.      Galipoli

b.       A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

                                                               i.      All Quiet on the Western Front

V.                 WWII

a.       Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

                                                               i.      The Pianist

b.       Night, Elie Wiesel, and Hiroshima, John Hersey

                                                               i.      Europa, Europa

c.       Catch-22, Joseph Heller

                                                               i.      MASH

d.       The War of the Rats, David L. Robbins

                                                               i.      Enemy at the Gates

VI.              Cold War

a.       Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

                                                               i.      Dr. Strangelove

b.       The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John Le Carre

                                                               i.      The Hunt for Red October

VII.            Spanish Civil War

a.       Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

                                                               i.      Land and Freedom or Pan’s Labyrinth

VIII.         British India

a.       Burmese Days, George Orwell

                                                               i.      Ghandi

b.       Kim, Rudyard Kipling

                                                               i.      Ghandi

c.       A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

                                                               i.      Ghandi

IX.               Totalitarianism

a.       Farenheight 451, Ray Bradbury

                                                               i.      Brazil or V For Vendetta

b.       Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

                                                               i.      Brazil or V For Vendetta

X.                 Yugoslavia

a.       The Balkan Express, Slavenka Drakulic

                                                               i.      No Man’s Land

XI.               The Revolutions of 1989

a.       The Magic Lantern, Timothy Gorton Ash

                                                               i.      Kolya

XII.            Post-Communist Eastern Europe

a.       How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Slavenka Drakulic

                                                               i.      Goodbye Lenin

b.       Café Europa, Slavenka Drakulic

                                                               i.      Goodbye Lenin

XIII.          Vichy France / NAZI Collaboration

a.       Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco, and The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck

                                                               i.      Charlotte Grey

XIV.         The Palestinian Conflict

a.       The Haj, Leon Uris

                                                               i.      Exodus

b.       Exodus, Leon Uris

                                                               i.      Munich

XV.            Post-Colonial Africa

a.       The Stranger, Albert Camus

                                                               i.      Nowhere in Africa

b.       Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala

                                                               i.      Hotel Rwanda

XVI.         Afghanistan

a.       The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

                                                               i.      9th Company

XVII.       Contemporary Britain

a.       High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

                                                               i.      The Full Monty

b.       About a Boy, Nick Hornby

                                                               i.      The Full Monty

XVIII.    British Track and Field

a.       The Perfect Mile, Neal Bascomb

                                                               i.      Chariots of Fire

XIX.          Anglo-Irish Conflict

a.       Redemption, Leon Uris

                                                               i.      In the Name of the Father

b.       Bloody Sunday: How Michael Collins’ Agents Assassinated Britain’s Secret Service in Dublin on November 21, 1920, James Gleeson

                                                               i.      Michael Collins

c.       1916: The Easter Rising, Tim Pat Coogan

                                                               i.      Michael Collins