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...