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Spring 2010 CWIHP Internship Opportunities

CWIHP Special Report: A Revolution in the Russian Archives - A Retrospective

CWIHP Senior Scholar Bernd Schaefer interviewed for O Estado de S. Paulo Newspaper Feature on the Berlin Wall

Roll Call Features "Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police"

New Book from CWIHP Partner Jamil Hasanli

New From the CWIHP Book Series: Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956, by Pawel Machcewicz
A new book published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press narrates the social history of Communism in 1956 Poland.

CWIHP Program Associate Mircea Munteanu Published in Diplomatic History




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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
Friday, October 09 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University, Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park, and Eric Lohr, Associate Professor of History, American University
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Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better Than a War
Thursday, October 01 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
W.R. Smyser, Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar, Library of Congress and Adjunct Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University; Mary Beth Stein, Associate Professor of German and International Affairs, The George Washington University; R. Gerald Livingston, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute; Bernd Schaefer, Senior Scholar, Cold War International History Project
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Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967
Wednesday, May 20 2009, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sergey Radchenko, London School of Economics; Mark Kramer, Harvard University
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Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
Monday, July 20 2009, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York at Albany; David S. Patterson Yale University; Stan Riveles, Institute for Defense Analyses
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Soviet-Taiwanese Relations During the Early Cold War
Wednesday, September 23 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Shin Kawashima, Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 (3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

Photo Exhibition: People's Republic of Poland. So Close and So Far Away
Thursday, December 03, 2009 (3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

Democracy: Traps and Question Marks
Thursday, December 03, 2009 (4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

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