The Cold War

This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, tr...

This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, tr...

Lying on the political fault line between East and West for the past seventy-five years, the significance of Hungary in geopolitical terms has far ...

This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It consi...

Stalking The Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarin...

This book questions the conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the CIA's backing ...

Acclaimed historian, and retired Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European History at the University of Glasgow, Geoffrey Swain, has written ext...

Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the new South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the econom...

In this book, Allen Lynch challenges the common wisdom that the revolutionary events in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet Union in 1991 mark...

Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experien...

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period. It combines a history of the UN with a broader account...

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the Congo crisis (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battlegrou...

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to t...

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of th...

After the Second World War, the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from the global migration regime and the migration...

Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic in the world. Scholars have ...

In this book, Allen Lynch challenges the common wisdom that the revolutionary events in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet Union in 1991 mark...

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension and violence i...

This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from t...

This collection of essays inverts the way we see the Cold War by looking at the conflict from the perspective of the so-called developing world, ra...

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Ministe...

Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War off...

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, ...

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, Am...

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin. Not least among these cha...

This book presents pieces of evidence, which - taken together - lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrati...

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth centurys biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one millio...

War of Words is a volume of essays on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe. Exploring a dime...

Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless ...

The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective...

Lindsey A. ORourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, an...

*WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024*A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the...

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process in the words of those who experienced i...