Step 1: Pick an -ism. Say you pick Stalinism. Ok, that's perfect.
Step 2: Go to ABC-CLIO (ABC-CLIO Modern World History, http://worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Authentication/LogOn?returnUrl=%2F) for an introduction. Look for a biography and some primary sources.
Bio? Check. https://worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/309409?terms=Stalinism&sType=quick
Primary Source? I found a speech easily. https://worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/309214
Step 3: Go to History Today (http://www.historytoday.com/user/login) to check out how scholars are discussing Stalin's legacy today.
Article? Done. http://www.historytoday.com/martin-mccauley/stalin-and-stalinism
Wow. I already have three sources and I just started.
Step 4: I'm going to check out the Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook (http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.asp)
Ok, I skimmed through the titles and found this: Stalin's essay on Dialectical and Historical Materialism.
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook39.asp#Stalinism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
Step 5: Try JStor, http://www.jstor.org.proxy.uchicago.edu/
That was easy. A 2003 peer-reviewed article entitled, Looking Back on Stalin.
And look! One directed underneath that one: Stalin and His Era.
Step 6: One last search. I'm going to try Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.uchicago.edu/ .
Found a good one. 2012 and about Stalin's genocides.
Step 7: Start compiling a bibliography using http://www.citationmachine.net/
I'm finished and I'm going to read these articles beginning in class on Monday.
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