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“We do not want to overthrow him”: Beijing, Moscow, and Kim Il Sung, 1956

Drawing on a new tranche of Soviet documents, Sergey Radchenko offers a riveting narrative of the attempted overthrow of Kim Il Sung in 1956, an event that redefined North Korea's relations with Beijing and Moscow.
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North Korean leader Kim Il Sung alongside Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, 1958
Modern Korean History

Mythbuster: Beijing’s Relationship with Pyongyang

The CIA's TPBEDAMN and Stay-Behind Operations in Iran

Truman Shah 1949

India’s Nuclear History, Frozen in Time

Portion of a recovered document. Courtesy of Ms. Francoise Rey.

Sino-Soviet Nuclear Relations: An Alliance of Convenience?

Syngman Rhee: Socialist

Syngman Rhee in 1956

Syngman Rhee: Socialist

By: David P. Fields

Tracking Down Oral History Sources

By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23455043

‘When the Elephant Swallowed the Hedgehog’: The Prague Spring & Indo-Soviet Relations, 1968

Prague Spring

‘When the Elephant Swallowed the Hedgehog’: The Prague Spring & Indo-Soviet Relations, 1968

By: Swapna Kona Nayudu

A Lesson from the 1981 Raid on Osirak

Defense and Acquiescence: Alexander Grantham, Hong Kong, and China

A panorama of the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon skyline at night,
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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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Publication Series

  • 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.

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Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
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Charles Kraus
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