Soviet Union
Former CWIHP Fellow Publishes New Book on the Sino-Soviet Split
May 24, 2012
Former CWIHP Fellow Jordan Baev publishes new book on the Eastern European perspective of the Sino-Soviet split. more
NPIHP Working Paper #2 - Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China’s Nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960
May 22, 2012
Based on newly-available archival material from Chinese sources, the paper explores the relationship between Soviet Union and China during the 1950s and 1960s as the latter sought to establish their atomic industry and develop a nuclear weapon with Soviet scientific and technological assistance. more
Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China’s Nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960
May 22, 2012
The latest addition to the NPIHP Working Paper series explores the relationship between Soviet Union and China during the 1950s and 1960s as the latter sought to establish their atomic industry and develop a nuclear weapon with Soviet scientific and technological assistance. more
Former CWIHP Fellow Publishes New Book on the Sino-Soviet Split
May 24, 2012Former CWIHP Fellow Jordan Baev publishes new book on the Eastern European perspective of the Sino-Soviet split.
Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China’s Nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960
May 22, 2012The latest addition to the NPIHP Working Paper series explores the relationship between Soviet Union and China during the 1950s and 1960s as the latter sought to establish their atomic industry and develop a nuclear weapon with Soviet scientific and technological assistance.
A Chronology of the History of the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1991: Part 1, 1945-1950
May 21, 2012The Cold War History Research Center in Budapest is pleased to announce it has recently published "A Chronology of the History of the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1991: Part 1, 1945-1950" edited by Csaba Bekes, founding director of the Cold War History Research Center and visiting professor at Columbia University.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XVI, Soviet Union August 1974–December 1976
May 16, 2012This volume, the final of five covering relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon-Ford administrations, presents documentation on how matters as diverse as strategic arms limitation, European security, the Middle East, Jewish emigration, and Angola intersected to influence the course of Soviet-American relations during the presidency of Gerald R. Ford.
Trilateralism and Beyond: Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma During and After the Cold War
July 10, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
"Trilateralism and Beyond" brings together a collection of essays by leading American, South Korean, and Japanese scholars that probe the historical dynamics formed and driven by the Korean security dilemma. Drawing on newly declassified documents secured by the National Security Archive’s Korea Project, along with new archival resources in China and former Warsaw Pact countries, the contributors examine the critical relationship between the United States and South Korea, exploring the delicate balancing act of bolstering the security alliance and fostering greater democracy in South Korea.
Militant Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Scope and Limits of the Aggressive Ideological Strategy during the Early Phase of the Cold War
August 08, 2012 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
ECNU-WWICS Scholar Zhang Yang will give a presentation entitled "Militant Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Scope and Limits of the Aggressive Ideological Strategy during the Early Phase of the American Cold War."
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
September 05, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall, John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam in his latest book entitled Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam.
NPIHP Working Paper #2 - Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China’s Nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960
Based on newly-available archival material from Chinese sources, the paper explores the relationship between Soviet Union and China during the 1950s and 1960s as the latter sought to establish their atomic industry and develop a nuclear weapon with Soviet scientific and technological assistance.
e-Dossier No. 34 - Three Days in “Auschwitz without Gas Chambers”: Henry A. Wallace's Visit to Magadan in 1944
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive with an introduction by Vadim Birstein, biologist and historian. The newly translated documents reveal the Soviet perspective on Vice President Henry A. Wallace's 1944 trip to the Soviet Far East.
e-Dossier No. 32 - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition a new document collection to its online Digital Archive. This release contains newly-declassified US government documents obtained by A. Ross Johnson for his book 'Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond.'
Elena Sitnikova
Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Russian Academy of Justice, Central Branch, Voronezh
Erin Mahan
Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Erin Mahan is chief historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She previously served as associate research fellow at Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She is also an adjunct research historian for the Miller Center of...
