Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political moveme...Loe edasi...
Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions answered in this volume, the first of its kind in an...Loe edasi...
Extensive in scope and drawing on newly available evidence from multinational archives, this book reconsiders Sino-Indian border issues during the middle Cold War using multiple established analytical frameworks....Loe edasi...
This book comprises the biographies of the North Korean politicians whose actions played a pivotal role in shaping the formation of the country during the late 1940s, the Korean War of 1950-53 and the power struggles of the mid-1950s....Loe edasi...
This volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present....Loe edasi...
Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet and American sources, Ang provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam war (1954 to 1975) from the Vietnamese communists perspective....Loe edasi...
This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society. It covers much neglected conflicts and wars and provides new insights about its complex politics, military, diplomacy, and people....Loe edasi...
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first in-depth account of the UKs contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975....Loe edasi...
The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives situates the NIEO within the interregnum of the 1970s, addressing its core features, intellectual antecedents, contradictions, absences, and afterlives....Loe edasi...
In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of the Global 1980s brings together specialists from across the world to examine how the decade was shaped by these changes to politics, economics, culture, societies, and protest movements....Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the extent to which the Gehlen Organization, the intelligence organization created by the United States at the end of World War Two, recruited and used controversial individuals who had been heavily involved in the atrocities comm...Loe edasi...
Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russias Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russias storied past....Loe edasi...
The debate in Western social science about the growing convergence between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the relationships of the global Cold War. This book explores the consequences and challenges of convergence th...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the key role of the transfer of naval technology from the United States to China in building up the Chinese Navy during the Cold War....Loe edasi...
Despite Chinas alignment with Russia being one of the most significant factors shaping international order, the dynamics of their historic relationships and the sources of Chinas alignment policy remain under-explored. This book investigates this by...Loe edasi...
This book, spanning the years 19611964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federations Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the...Loe edasi...
This book, spanning the years 19541957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federations Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the...Loe edasi...
This book, spanning the years 19651967the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six Day Waris the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archives portraying relations between...Loe edasi...
This book, spanning the years 19571961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federations Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and th...Loe edasi...
This book examines U.S. defense policy toward Israel during the Cold War, emphasizing arms sales, intelligence sharing, and other security cooperation. It argues that strategic interests drove American policy with other considerations, such as domes...Loe edasi...
This book offers an overview and analysis of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the history of conservatism in the United States from the 1960s to the 2020s....Loe edasi...
This handbook provides an overview of scholarly research on sexuality in East Central Europe for both students and academics, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, from the late nineteenth century to the present....Loe edasi...
Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture....Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process....Loe edasi...
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it provides...Loe edasi...
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia....Loe edasi...
The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process in the words of those who experienced it first hand. It helps to identify the ways in which Soviet artistic and intellectual production was s...Loe edasi...
The Making of the Soviet Citizen (1987) examines the distinctive feature of Soviet education the crucial importance it gives to the formation of a new type of person, the model socialist citizen. It brings together the results of research devoted t...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold W...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the now considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. It will appeal to academics, postgraduate researchers, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in recent international h...Loe edasi...
This book is a primary source collection of thirty speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia....Loe edasi...
Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increas...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the phenomenon of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba that developed between the beginning of the John F. Kennedy administration and the Cold War détente of the mid-1970s....Loe edasi...
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architectu...Loe edasi...
Miller examines Britain and Japans involvement in the Middle East peace process after the October war of 1973 and how it contributed to the resolution of the oil crisis of 1973-1974. An insightful and illuminating read for scholars of the diplomatic...Loe edasi...
This book examines the Vogeler/Sanders espionage case that ruptured ties between the US and UK and Hungary in 1949, and analyses this as an example of Western covert operations in the early Cold War....Loe edasi...
The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America. Following the uneasy wartime alliance, Russias tightening grip on Eastern Europe and the Berlin B...Loe edasi...
Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe. It also analyses Asian and Latin American Communist systems and their challenge...Loe edasi...
The Road to Intervention (1988) uses rarely-seen British government papers to analyse the position of the Allied and Russian governments in the last year of the First World War, as the Russian revolution ended their participation in the war....Loe edasi...
Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts. It contains the texts of all four Soviet constitutions, a chapter of commentary pr...Loe edasi...
This book begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats to surrender before being invaded....Loe edasi...
This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue...Loe edasi...
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores the Cold War cultural exchange between so-called smaller powers of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspect...Loe edasi...
