Cold wars and proxy conflicts

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

Highlights the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War.

Gorbachev at the Helm (1987) analyses the policy decisions taken at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February-March 1986, declared at the time by the Soviet government as a major turning point in Soviet history.

Western Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain (1986) examines the development of broadcasting policy by Western democracies, levels of government control of policy, efforts by communist regimes to minimize the effects of western broadcasting, and Soviet and Eastern European audience opinions on such diverse subjects as the success or failure of socialism and the Korean airline disaster.

The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World.

Although by about 1950 both British Borneo, including the protected sultanate of Brunei, and Indonesian Borneo seemed settled under their different regimes and well on the way to post-war reconstruction and economic development, the upheavals which affected Southeast and East Asia during the Cold War period also deeply affected Borneo.

The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia's first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war.

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.

This book explores Soviet-North Korean relations during the Cold War (1945-1991).

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe.

Als die DDR und das franquistische Spanien 1973 diplomatische
Beziehungen aufnahmen, kam dies für viele Zeitgenossen überraschend
und brachte die politisch Verantwortlichen in Ost-Berlin
und Madrid gleichermaßen in Erklärungsnot.

This comparative analysis of the sometimes fraught process of achieving democratic governance of security intelligence agencies presents material from countries other than those normally featured in the Intelligence Studies literature of North America and Europe.

Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism.

This volume examines relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and socialist Eastern European states during the Cold War.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

'Rich, densely plotted.

Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age.

In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China.

An acclaimed examination of the global history of communism, from one of the finest historians of modern Russia.

De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world.

This book presents a selection of recent research on the events and developments of 1989 in Eastern Europe.

In many ways what is identified today as cultural globalization in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ( do-it-yourself underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad).

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era.

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War.

Soviet Local Politics and Government (1983) examines the local government system of the Soviet Union, an important part of the great bureaucracy that ran the country.

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality.

Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience.

In The Shock of War: Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945, Sean Kennedy shifts the reader's focus from the battlefields of the Second World War to the civilian experience.

The Soviet Union and Egypt, first published in 1993, sheds new light on Soviet policy towards the Middle East after 1945.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period.

This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s.

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time.

A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes.

The academic debate in Western social science about the growing "e;convergence"e; or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War.

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold War period.

At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba.

The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions.

Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence - a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security.

A comparison of Turkey''s and Egypt''s diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships'' nation making projects.

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin.

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.

The Russian Workers' Republic (1921) is a result of the author's two-month travels through Soviet Russia.

One of the most successful dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin transformed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into one of the world's leading political parties.