Nonostante le grandi trasformazioni del suo paesaggio urbano negli ultimi 30 anni, Berlino rimane il luogo migliore per scoprire la storia della divisione e della riunificazione tedesca.
Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.
Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.
This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom's contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.
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 committed by the Nazis.
Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia's Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russia's storied past.
Bereits in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland durch den Aufbau einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Erdölproduzenten und baute diese Position in der Sowjetzeit weiter aus.
Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of Cold War cosmopolitanism.
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.
The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time.
Flying saucers display characteristic features, transmitted by an important strand of early science fiction, which express religious concerns entangled with new technologies and scientific discoveries.
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.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution brought Islamists to power, dashed generations of hope for democracy, and forever changed the course of history throughout the region.
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.
