Cold War Publications

The Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: A Critical Oral History Conference

Nov 28, 2011
HAPP is pleased to announce the release of "The Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: A Critical Oral History Conference" The publication features the transcript of a critical oral history conference convened by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ History and Public Policy Program and Africa Program on September 23-24, 2004. more

e-Dossier No. 27 - Molotov's Proposal that the USSR Join NATO, March 1954

Nov 21, 2011
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1954 proposal by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in which he proposed that the USSR Join NATO. more

Soviet Soft Power and the Polish Thaw, 1943-57

Nov 12, 2011
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e-Dossier No. 26 - Soviet Policy in Indonesia during the “Liberal Democracy” Period, 1950-1959

Nov 08, 2011
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. The nine documents released today – reports by the Soviet ambassadors to Indonesia – provide new archival evidence of Soviet policy and activities in Southeast Asia in the 1950s. more

e-Dossier No. 25 - Vietnam Covertly Supplied Weapons to Revolutionaries in Algeria and Latin America

Nov 02, 2011
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. The two documents released today provide new evidence of Vietnam’s covert provision of weapons to revolutionaries in Algeria and Latin America. more

e-Dossier No. 24 - The Beginning of the End for Détente: The Warsaw Pact Political Consultative Committee

Oct 17, 2011
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new documents to its online Digital Archive. Mircea Munteanu analyzes new archival evidence on the Warsaw Pact's internal relations and military policy – meeting notes taken by Romanian Ambassador Vasile Sandru at a 1978 session of the Political Consultative Committee. more

e-Dossier No. 23 - New Evidence on the Building of the Berlin Wall

Aug 12, 2011
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. Hope M. Harrision (George Washington University) analyzes new archival evidence on the building of the Berlin Wall – the notes of an August 1, 1961 meeting between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and East German leader Walter Ulbricht. more

After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War

Jul 18, 2011
After Leaning to One Side traces the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing tension over the Korean and Vietnam wars.  more

The Road to Helsinki

Jul 16, 2011
A CWIHP Document Reader compiled for the international Conference "The Road to Helsinki, The Early Steps to the CSCE," Florence, Italy, 29-30 September 2003 more

CWIHP Index - Subject Keyword

Jul 14, 2011
Index of articles published by CWIHP, sorted by subject keyword. more

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Way of the Knife

May 22, 2013 – May 29, 2013

This week on Dialogue at the Wilson Center our guest is Mark Mazzetti, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of the new book, “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.” We also spoke with Curtis Brainard, Editor of The Observatory, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “lens on the science press,” to survey the landscape of science journalism.

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