Events
New From the CWIHP Book Series: A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964
A new book published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press reveals West Africa as a significant site of Cold War conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Explaining North Korean Migration to China
NKIDP e-Dossier no. 11, "Explaining North Korean Migration to China," is introduced by Hazel Smith and features 11 translated Chinese documents which provide a window into historical cases of legal and illegal migration between the DPRK and China.
Section 7 - Research Notes
The Russian Nuclear Declassification Project: Setting up the A-Bomb Effort, 1946 by G.A. Goncharov, N.I. Komov, and A.S. Stepanov***Khrushchev's 1960 Troop Cut: New Russian Evidence by Vladislav M. Zubok***
Book Discussion--Mitterand, the End of the Cold War and German Unification: From Yalta to Maastricht
On Wednesday, February 1, at 4:00 p.m., author Frédéric Bozo will discuss France's role in ending the Cold War, with special emphasis on François Mitterand's views toward Europe's emancipation from communism, the unification of Germany, and the disintegration of the USSR. This event is open to the public.
The United States, the East German Uprising of 1953, and the Limits of Rollback
CWIHIP Working Paper No. 11