The Cold War

During the Cold War, dancers and musicians from the United States and the USSR were drawn into the battle for hearts and minds, crossing the Iron C...

The captivating story of an influential journalist demonstrates the value of a free press to democratic society In the decades between the Great D...

How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violen...

This book analyzes the Allied Occupation of Japan (19451952). It begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial...

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexolog...

Offering a global account of the long World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-19...

Among Eastern Europes postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europes liberal democ...

Among Eastern Europes postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europes liberal democ...

During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency's biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advi...

*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic ...

Cold War Narratives reveals the power that representations, understood as both cultural production and public discourse, have held in shaping the i...

The subject of the book is the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of th...

This collection of studies examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomat...

As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the ...

Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a c...

A gripping reconstruction of the world-changing day when hundreds of East Germans broke across the border to the West, leading to the collapse of t...

Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produc...

Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain th...

During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on th...

During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on th...