The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book
tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope …

The 1956 Page 1 The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution A History
in Documents A History in Documents edited by A National Security Archive Cold War Reader …

A reassessment of the relationship between the UK and the USSR at a troubled time. The
then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West détente and to improve Anglo-Soviet …

Nicolae Ceauşescu of Romania was well-known during the Cold War as a non-conformist
voice in the Communist bloc, especially because of his opposition to the Soviet Union and …

Throughout history, dictators have constructed secret police agencies to neutralize rivals
and enforce social order. But the same agencies can become disloyal and threatening. This …

This paper is based on the lost and found sources from the former Hungarian National
Pedagogic Institute (OPI) and the National Educational Institute (OKI): due to the generosity …

This research project explores Romania's process of detachment from Moscow from 1953 to
1963 within the context of the global Cold War. Through a multi-archival investigation, the …

This article, based on newly available materials from the former Soviet archives, deals with
the famine that struck a large part of the North Korean countryside in the winter of 1954 …

This dissertation constructs the first analytical account of Poland's role in East and Southeast
Asia during the Cold War from 1949 until 1965. It proposes that Poland was neither …

Based on the example of university party organizations, the article discusses the function of
information scarcity in the daily work of lower-level functionaries in the Stalinist period of …