CWIHP Working Paper Series
The Cold War International History Project Working Paper Series is designed to provide a speedy outlet for historians who have gained access to newly-available archives and sources and would like to share their results.
Edited by Christian F. Ostermann, and supported generously by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, other foundations, and private donations from individuals and corporations.
Issues in this Series
The ‘Club of Politically Engaged Conformists’?
In CWIHP Working Paper No. 66, “The ‘Club of Politically Engaged Conformists’? The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Popular Opinion and the Crisis of Communism, 1956,” Kevin McDermott and Vítězslav Sommer argue that 1956 represented a ‘crisis of communism’ of monumental proportions in Eastern Europe, but that Czechoslovakia remained a haven of political stability, ideological orthodoxy and social cohesion despite the upheavals occurring in neighboring Poland and Hungary.
A Romanian INTERKIT? Soviet Active Measures and the Warsaw Pact “Maverick” 1965-1989
In CWIHP Working Paper No. 65, Larry L. Watts argues that Soviet propaganda campaigns against Romania presaged similar operations against China, may have had a direct influence on the development of later anti-Chinese structures and tactics, and were continued after the anti-Chinese effort concluded in 1986.
Beyond India: The Utility of Sino-Pakistani Relations in Chinese Foreign Policy, 1962-1965
In CWIHP Working Paper No. 64, Christopher Tang argues that the Sino-Pakistani relationship must be viewed within the larger context of China’s foreign policy.
The Interkit Story: A Window into the Final Decades of the Sino-Soviet Relationship
CWIHP Working Paper No. 63
The Soviet Pavilion at Brussels '58: Convergence, Conversion, Critical Assimilation, or Transculturation?
CWIHP Working Paper No. 62
Arming Nonalignment: Yugoslavia's Relations with Burma and the Cold War in Asia (1950-1955)
CWIHP Working Paper No. 61
The Blind Leading the Blind: Soviet Advisors, Counter-Insurgency and Nation-Building in Afghanistan
CWIHP Working Paper No. 60
The Kuklinski Files and the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: An Analysis of the Newly Released CIA Documents on Ryszard Kuklinski
CWIHP Working Paper No. 59
Exploiting and Securing the Open Border in Berlin: The Western Secret Services, the Stasi, and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961
CWHIP Working Paper No. 58
Hope and Reality: Poland and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1964–1989
CWHIP Working Paper No. 56
Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Post-WWII Egyptian Quest for Arms and the 1955 Czechoslovak Arms Deal
CWIHP Working Paper No. 55
North Korea's Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives
CWIHP Working Paper No. 53
"We Need Help from Outside": The North Korean Opposition Movement of 1956
CWIHP Working Paper No. 52
Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979
CWIHP Working Paper No. 51
The Quarrelling Brothers: New Chinese Archives and a Reappraisal of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1962
CWIHP Working Paper No. 49
The Soviet Union and the North Korean Seizure of the USS Pueblo: Evidence from Russian Archives
CWIHP Working Paper No. 47
Poland and Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the "Maneli Affair"
CWIHP Working Paper No. 45
The Soviet's Best Friend in Asia. The Mongolian Dimension of the Sino-Soviet Split
CWIHP Working Paper No. 42
Gheorghiu-Dej and the Romanian Workers' Party: From de-Sovietization to the Emergence of National Communism
CWIHP Working Paper No. 37
Revolution By Degrees: Stalin's National-Front Strategy For Europe, 1941-1947
CWIHP Working Paper No. 31
"One Finger's Worth of Historical Events": New Russian and Chinese Evidence on the Sino-Soviet Alliance and Split, 1948-1959
CWIHP Working Paper No. 30
The End of the Soviet Uranium Gap: The Soviet Uranium Agreements with Czechoslovakia and East Germany (1945/1953)
CWIHP Working Paper No. 29. This Working Paper is not available at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Merchants of the Kremlin—The Economic Roots of Soviet Expansion in Hungary
CWIHP Working Paper No. 28
Who Murdered "Marigold"? New Evidence on the Mysterious Failure of Poland's Secret Initiative to Start U.S.-North Vietnamese Peace Talks, 1966
CWIHP Working Paper No. 27
"The Allies are Pressing on You to Break Your Will..." Foreign Policy Correspondence between Stalin and Molotov and Other Politburo Members, September 1945-December 1946
CWIHP Working Paper No. 26
The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese Triangle in the 1970's: The View from Moscow
CWIHP Working Paper No. 25
77 Conversations Between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, 1964-77
CWIHP Working Paper No. 22
"On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981" Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland
CWIHP Working Paper No. 21
Archives of Russia Seven Years After: "Purveyors of Sensations" or "Shadows Cast to the Past"?
CWIHP Working Paper No. 20
Beijing and the Vietnam Peace Talks, 1965-68: New Evidence from Chinese Sources
CWIHP Working Paper No. 18
The Soviet-Polish Confrontation of October 1956: The Situation in the Polish Internal Security Corps
CWIHP Working Paper No. 17
The 1952 Stalin Note Debate: Myth or Missed Opportunity for German Unification?
CWIHP Working Paper No. 14
The Big Three After World War II: New Documents on Soviet Thinking about Post-War Relations with the United States and Great Britain
CWIHP Working Paper No. 13
Stalin, the Cold War, and the Division of China: A Multi-Archival Mystery
CWIHP Working Paper No. 12
The United States, the East German Uprising of 1953, and the Limits of Rollback
CWIHIP Working Paper No. 11
"To Know Everything and To Report Everything Worth Knowing": Building the East German Police State, 1945-49
CWIHP Working Paper No. 10
New Evidence on the Soviet Rejection of the Marshall Plan, 1947: Two Reports
CWHIP Working Paper No. 9
Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-50: New Evidence From the Russian Archives
CWIHP Working Paper No. 8
Ulbricht and the Concrete "Rose": New Archival Evidence on the Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-61
CWIHP Working Paper No. 5
Soviet Intelligence and the Cold War: The "Small" Committee of Information, 1952-53
CWIHP Working Paper No. 4
Archival Research on the Cold War Era: A Report from Budapest, Prague and Warsaw
CWIHP Working Paper No. 2. This Working Paper is not available online. We apologize for the inconvenience.