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The Chinese Communist Party’s Relationship with the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s

Utilizing untapped Chinese primary sources, Wang Chenyi argues that Mao Zedong’s “ideological victory” in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge translated into a strategic failure for China’s post-Mao leadership.
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Mao Zedong (center) and Deng Xiaoping (right), 1959

The Chinese Communist Party’s Relationship with the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s

By: Chenyi Wang

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North Korea and the Stasi Archives

A group of North Koreans visit a borough in East Berlin in 1989. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0215-032.

Vladimir Putin’s Stasi ID: A Press Sensation and Its Historical Reality

A photo ID card issued to a young Vladimir V. Putin by the Stasi. Source: BStU, MfS, BV Dresden, HA KuSch, Nr. 7216, pp. 4a-4b.

The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962

The Handley Page H.P.67 Hastings, the same aircraft used by the RAF in missions over Laos in 1962, pictured in 1977. Source: Mike Freer/Wikimedia Commons.

The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962

By: Priscilla Roberts
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The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War. // Read more

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  • Working Papers

    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.

  • e-Dossiers

    Cold War International History Project “e-Dossiers” present new and important accessions to the CWIHP Digital Archive. New documents are added to the Digital Archive and introduced by leading scholars of Cold War history, who provide background and context for this new archival evidence.

  • CWIHP Bulletin

    The Cold War International History Project's flagship publication.

  • CWIHP Book Series

    Cold War International History Project books published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Stanford University Press.

  • Document Readers

    Large collections of documents complied by the Cold War International History Project for scholarly conferences and events.

  • CWIHP Publication Indexes

    Publications are indexed by subject keyword and article title.

Experts & Staff

Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
Charles Kraus
Senior Program Associate, History and Public Policy Program
Pieter Biersteker
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Kian Byrne
Program Assistant