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Book SynopsisThe Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all of the European countries with which it came into contact. This book considers each aspect of the encounter of Stalin with Europe: the attempt to create a kind of European state by accelerating the European model of industrial development; mass murder in anticipation of a war against European powers; the actual contact with Europe''s greatest power, Nazi Germany, during four years of war fought chiefly on Soviet territory and bringing untold millions of deaths, including much of the Holocaust; and finally the reestablishment of the Soviet system, not just in the reestablished Soviet system, but in the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany. The contributors take up not just high politics but also theTrade ReviewStalin and Europe continues a process of reorientation that seeks to incorporate Eastern European and Russian history into European history. The issue of Stalinism and its place in Europe is a particularly treacherous challenge, which this volume resolves in a series of probing essays that explore the Soviet Union's paradoxical relation to the rest of Europe. A diverse group of historians on Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union presents the results of voluminous, recent research on the subject. They are an important reminder, and provide ample food for thought, on Russia as a force in European history. * Michael Geyer, University of Chicago *I read this fascinating, lively collection through from beginning to end in one sitting. That speaks highly for the quality and the challenges that each of the pieces offers. The contributions are primarily from top national and international experts in the field, including a number of rising stars and scholars from Central Europe. All of the essays are grounded in the archives and based on original research. The volume features a variety of methods, perspectives, and approaches, from newer social history to more traditional military and diplomatic history. The collection as a whole reminds us of the seamless transition from the 1930s in the Soviet Union, into war and conquest, and on into the Cold War. * Robert Gellately, author of Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War *Table of ContentsContributors ; Introduction: Soviet History and European History- Timothy Snyder ; 1. The Gulag and Police Colonization in the Soviet Union- Lynne Viola ; 2. The Sino-Kazakh Border and the Kazakh Famine- Sarah Cameron ; 3. Stalin, Espionage, and Counter-Espionage- Hiroaki Kuromiya and Andrzej Peplonski ; 4. The Polish Underground under Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941- Rafal Wnuk ; 5. Soviet Economic Policy in Annexed Eastern Poland, 1939-1941- Marek Wierzbicki ; 6. Lviv under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941- Christoph Mick ; 7. German Economic Plans for the Soviet Union, 1941-1944- Alex J. Kay ; 8. The Holocaust in Ukraine- Dieter Pohl ; 9. Belarusian Partisans and German Reprisals- Timm Richter ; 10. Stalin's Wartime Vision of the Peace, 1939-1945- Geoffrey Roberts ; 11. The Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1948- Mark Kramer ; 13. The Tito-Stalin Split and the Reconsolidation of the Bloc, 1948-1953- Mark Kramer ; Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? This book explores the transformation of East German society from the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich to a modernizing industrial state. It also examines changing conceptions of normality within an authoritarian political system.Trade Review"'... a fresh, flowing, thoughtful account... an immensely readable book... Above all, this empathetic account puts East Germans back into their own history. As such, it will surely act not only as a standard work on GDR society, but also as a model for the emerging social history of post-war Europe.' Josie McLellan, Reviews in History / History in Focus 'One does applaud Mary Fulbrook for writing a book that is extremely rich in detail and one that is certainly different from other works on the German Democratic Republic. It provides an excellent framework for further debate on the pros and cons of the first socialist experiment on German soil.' Peter Hylarides, Contemporary Review"

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Book SynopsisAt the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox - unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. This title tells the story of their rescue.

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Book SynopsisTurkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners specifically the UK, US and Turkey from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d''état on 27 May 1960. The book shows that our understanding of the Cold War as a binary rivalry between the two blocs is too simple an approach and obscures important characteristics of intelligence cooperation among allies. Egemen Bezci shows that a pragmatic approach offers states new opportunities to protect national interests, by conducting 'intelligence diplomacy' to influence crucial areas such as nuclear weapons and to exploit cooperation in support of their own strategic imperatives. This study not only reveals previously-unexplored origins of secret intelligence cooperation between Turkey and West, but also contributes to wider academic debates on the nature of the Cold War by highlighting the potential agency Trade ReviewTurkish Intelligence & The Cold War will broaden many readers knowledge of Turkish intelligence. A worthwhile contribution to the literature. * Studies in Intelligence *In April 1957 US Ambassador Fletcher Warren burst into Prime minister Menderes’s cabinet meeting to try and prevent him from taking military action in Syria. Menderes had to make a hard choice. This is one of the more dramatic moments in Egemen Bezci’s new book Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War. * Duvar English *Overall, the book is highly likely to be beneficial for scholars and students who are interested in Cold War history, Middle Eastern history, Turkish history and Intelligence Studies. It focuses on an under-studied topic, challenges the conventional wisdom and makes a significant contribution to the literature. * Middle Eastern Studies *Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War is unique in several ways, it gets us to think about the Cold War from outside the simple binary of the East-West divide, enables us to examine non-Western approaches to espionage and gets us to analyse how weaker powers respond to the asymmetrical relationships. * The New Arab *A useful contribution to the intelligence literature, in particular on the subject of international intelligence cooperation and the role of intelligence in foreign policy. * Intelligence and National Security *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Dark Origins of the Turkish-British-American Alliance 1. Machinery in Comparison 2. Historical Background, 1923-1945 3. (Dis)Trusting your Allies: NATO and CENTO 4. Spies, Atoms and Signals 5. Counter-Subversion: Our Common 'Enemies' 6. Covert Action: The Turks' Hidden Hand in Syria 7. Conclusion: Keeping up with the Alliance 8. Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of RevengeTrade Review'A racy and readable account of a range of Soviet intelligence operations carried out during the Cold War.' -- Telegraph‘An enjoyable read’ -- The Times'Entertaining.' -- Tablet'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' -- Tom Bower, author of Revenge'From honey traps to hit jobs, the plot twists like The Third Man in post-war Vienna. Mark Hollingsworth ably traces the history of active measures from Lenin’s Chekists to the present day. Deeply researched, fluently written and insightful, this book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the threat Putin’s Russia poses to us here in Britain.' -- Edward Lucas, author of Deception'A valuable account of an important and highly topical subject – Russian intelligence operations against the West… A must-read for anyone wishing to understand the origins of the malign mindset and obsession of Vladmir Putin and his acolytes.' -- Christopher Steele, former MI6 officer in Russia, 1990-93‘Gripping and insightful… We meet an intriguing list of characters through which the Soviets aimed to gain an advantage over the West. Motivated by ideology, or in other cases by money, they are an exotic list whose stories are explored in detail and give the book a feeling of a real-life spy novel… A good read with fascinating insights, Hollingsworth’s book is to be recommended.’ -- Kevan Jones MP, PoliticsHome

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Book SynopsisIn 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets.

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Book SynopsisJan Bardsley is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.Trade Review[This] valuable book … will be a great read for both students and scholars of postwar discourses on gender in Japan. * Journal of Japanese Studies *Richly evidenced and engrossing ... This volume provides the reader with an insightful and well researched analysis of gender roles and discussions in post-war Japan, and is a welcome addition to the literature. * English Historical Review *[T]his a fascinating book that offers a compelling look at how the ‘Japanese housewife’ was mobilized in debates over postwar democracy. It will be of great interest to those who study postwar Japanese women’s history and literature. * Japan Forum *The richness and variety of the book’s sources, and the consistently high level of Bardsley’s analysis across multiple textual and visual genres, make her account convincing, informative, and even entertaining ... Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan is an engaging and intellectually stimulating piece of scholarship that will enhance discussions on the history of Japan’s Allied Occupation and of postwar Japan, on gender in modern Japan and in Cold War politics, and on the cultural dimensions of U.S.-Japan relations. * Monumenta Nipponica *Through close readings of popular media—from contentious letters to newspaper editors to debates covered in women's magazines, from tales of flawed fashionistas to satirical cartoons—Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan takes an innovative approach to the gender politics shaping Japan in the 1950s. Jan Bardsley effectively challenges the notion that the liberation of Japanese women was primarily the result of the American occupation of Japan after World War II. In addition, her analysis of the media construction of housewives, princesses, and beauty queens places Japan’s postwar era squarely in the geopolitics of the Cold War. Accessible and provocative, Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan will be a very useful book for classes in gender studies in a variety of disciplines. * Barbara Molony, Professor of History, Santa Clara University, USA *In Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan, Jan Bardsley invites us into a dynamic world of post-WWII Japan where the process of “democratization” initiated by American occupiers has unleashed a series of events and controversies involving women, homes, and nation. Offering fascinating tales of “Kitchen Princess,” “Beauty Queen,” “Real Estate Siren,” and “Desiring Women,” all of whom enlivened the Cold War Japan with their womanly determination and domestic ingenuity, Bardsley gives us an enchanting moment to re-imagine Japan in a manner far more complex and nuanced than ever attempted before. Against the backdrop of constitutional reform, gender democratization, and domestic modernization, Japanese women were historical agents of exceptional complexity, whose sentiments and practices hardly if ever followed any predictable route. Re-introducing women and the home to the center stage of the postwar Japanese history, Bardsley’s book charts a new territory of analysis where richness of archival research is coupled with deftness of storytelling to reward its readers. * Mire Koikari, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Tales of the Kitchen Princess 2. Dueling Etiquettes: Mrs. Mogi takes on the Occupationnaires 3. The Housewife Debate of 1955 4. What Women Want: The Postwar Appetite 5. Fashioning the People’s Princess: Shoda Michiko and the Royal Wedding of 1959 6. Japan’s Miss Universe: Beauty Contests and Postwar Democracy 7. From the Housewife’s Kitchen to the Witches' Den: Fantasies of Female Power in Enchi Fumiko’s Masks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity -- the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a family in the nuclear age.Trade Review“Moving beyond the customary view of Cold War civil defense as a monumental failure to mobilize the public, Bishop provides an insightful, fascinating examination of fathers who took action to protect their families from the expected horror of nuclear war.”- David F. Krugler, author of This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War ; “Bishop does yeoman’s work in bringing nuclear Cold War scholarship into the realm of masculinity and makes a key contribution.”- Robert A. Jacobs, author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic AgeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter One The Log Cabin of the Nuclear Age Chapter Two The Fallout Shelter Father on the New Frontier Chapter Three Fatherhood in the Target Zone Building a Fallout Shelter in Colorado Chapter Four Family Room of Tomorrow: Fallout Shelter Salesmen Chapter Five Fatherhood, Survival and Violence at the Shelter Doorway Conclusion Take to the Hills: Fatherhood and Survival in the Nuclear Age and Beyond

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region's little-known connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left offers insights into the effect of international collaboration on the identities, ideologies, strategies, and survival of organizers and groups.Featuring contributions from historians working in six different countries, this collection includes chapters on Cuba's hosting of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference that brought revolutionary movements together; Czechoslovakian intelligence's logistical support for revolutionaries; the Brazilian Left's search for recognition in Cuba and China; the central role played by European publishing houses in disseminating news from Latin America; Italian support for Brazilian guerrillainsurgents; Spanish ties with Nicaragua's revolution; and the solidarity of European networks with Guatemala's Guerrilla Army of the Poor.Through its expansive geographical perspectives, this volume positions Latin America as a significant force on the international stage of the 1960s and 70s. It sets a new research agenda that will guide future study on leftist movements, transnational networks, and Cold War history in the region.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Globalizing Latin America's Revolutionary Left; Historiography, Approaches, and Context Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez Part I. Latin America's Revolutionary Left in the Age of the Tricontinental 1. Czechoslovakia and Latin America's Guerrilla Insurgencies: Secret Services, Training Networks, Mobility, and Transportation Michal Zourek 2. Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Third World: Historicizing the Tricontinental Conference from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Blanca Mar León 3. The Brazilian Far Left, Cuba, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1963: New International Evidence on a Discordant "Struggle for Ascendancy" James G. Hershberg Part II. Latin America's Revolutionary Left and Europe 4. The Italian Communist Party between "Old Comrades in Arms" and the Challenges of the New Armed Left Gerardo Leibner 5. The Influence of Latin America's Revolutionary Left in Europe: The Role of Left-Wing Editors Eduardo Rey Tristán 6. Solidarity and Diplomatic Work of the Guatemalan Revolutionary Movement in Europe: The Case of the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guerrilla Army of the Poor) Arturo Taracena Arriola 7. Spanish Internationalists in the Sandinista Revolution: An Approach to the Ambrosio Mogorrón Committee (1986–1990) José Manuel Ágreda Portero Afterword: The Americas, North and South Van Gosse List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGermany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship. Such was the broken state of the nation in which a British civilian and military force arrived in the spring and summer of 1945. Their zone of occupation was the northern and northwestern part of Germany, the country’s former industrial heartland. Their task? To build democracy from the ruins of Hitler’s Reich, and, having defeated Nazism on the battlefield, to ‘win the peace’ by eradicating Nazism from German hearts and minds. As well as offering a vivid narrative of the British occupation in political and military terms, from the Potsdam Conference to the Berlin Airlift, Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans explores the day-to-day experiences of the ordinary Britons who worked for the Control Commission for Germany between 1945 and 1949. Some reconstructed bridges and schools, supervised the destruction of military matériel and brought fugitive Nazis to justice; while others became entangled in black marketeering, corruption and sexual scandal. In time, they would find themselves on the front line of the Cold War, as irreconcilable tensions divided Europe between East and West.Trade ReviewImmensely readable ... Cowling expertly navigates his narrative through a post-war Europe of conflicting ideas, difficult decisions, brilliant minds and flawed people -- Katja Hoyer * Daily Telegraph *Candid and illuminating -- Richard Overy * Literary Review *Very readable ... The real strength of the book is in the tiny details that Cowling's painstaking research uncovers -- Glenda Cooper * Mail on Sunday *A gripping account of the post-war period detailing life in the British Zone. The Allies may have won the war but with Germany in ruins and millions homeless, hopeless and starving, would they win the peace? * Julia Boyd, author of A Village in the Third Reich *An endlessly wonderful evocation of the post-War years when we tried, despite the chaos of the times, understandably bitter feelings, and ruinous expense, to create a new, democratic Germany, even as our Empire crumbled around us. It may not have been our finest hour - yet, to the infinite benefit of Europe, we really did win the peace. A clear, grand idea mixed with unforgettable new details make this unputdownable. * James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Germany *An excellent, vivid, readable social history of the British and their Zone in Post-War Germany. * Giles MacDonogh *The British occupation of Germany after 1945 was sometimes shameful, sometimes heroic, but often just chaotic. Cowling’s brilliantly researched book reveals it all, and must surely become the standard work on the subject. * Keith Lowe *Meticulously researched and skilfully written, Daniel Cowling’s narrative evokes a shattered post-war world in which British men and women were given the herculean task of rebuilding a democratic Germany. As they sought to round-up ex-Nazis, racketeers and corrupt officials, some found themselves drawn to an underworld rife with crime, drunkenness and sex. A ground-breaking account of a little-known period. * Giles Milton, author of Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare *

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the Second World War, it quickly dawned on the West that the defeat of one totalitarian enemy - Hitler''s Germany - had left another, our late ally turned potential foe: Soviet Russia. This official assessment of the Red Army''s strength and standing, published in 1949, is therefore of consuming interest to students of the Cold War. It comprises a history of the Red Army from its formation in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution to its triumph in the Second World War. Then follows a section on the army''s command and control structure; notes on its post-war re-organisation; and two long chapters on tactics - including such subjects as tanks, air support; night attacks and artillery. There are more chapters on weapons, equipment, conditions of service, supply and airborne operations. With charts of command structures, and photographs and diagrams of important weapons, this is as complete a snapshot of a potentially hostile enemy force as can be imagined.

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Book SynopsisAfter the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the United States became deeply involved in Greek affairs. By 1952, however, the pro-Western government of Marshal Papagos began to support the nationalist ‘Enosis’ movement in Cyprus and called for an end to British colonial rule in the island. The opposition of the US, Britain and Turkey to these demands brought Greece face-to-face with its closest allies at the United Nations in 1954 and led to the outbreak of the first major crisis within NATO since its creation. Greece and the Cold War examines these developments from the novel perspective of critical international theory and exposes the unexplored connections between dependence and nationalism in Greek foreign policy. Drawing on a wide range of American, British and Greek archival sources, it argues that nationalism and compliance with the collective interests of NATO were two irreconcilable objectives in Greek foreign policy after 1952. At the same time, the book tells the story of how the post-Civil War governments of Greece, for a variety of political, cultural and ideological reasons, treated these two objectives as essentially compatible, resulting in the adoption of a dualist policy. This self-contradictory diplomatic doctrine, which the author refers to as “dependent nationalism”, lies at the heart of Greece’s post-War failures both to emancipate its politics from US intervention and to peacefully end its regional dispute with Turkey over Cyprus. The book deploys an interdisciplinary approach which brings together the diverse perspectives of diplomatic history, foreign policy analysis and political sociology.Trade ReviewA compelling history that alerts the reader to the geopolitics of the Greek world and the word. Absorbing in its details while eye-opening in its transnational conceptualization. * Gonda Van Steen, Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King’s College London, UK *Interweaving an account of Greek foreign policy in the wake of Greece’s civil war with the latest International Relations theory, Alexander Kazamias achieves the impossible: a solid work of history, based on extensive archival research, which is located within a sophisticated conceptual framework. * Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History, UCL, UK *In this trenchant analysis of Greek foreign policy, Alexander Kazamias shows how resurgent irredentism, far from being independent of colonialism, could fatally fuse with the self-interested goals of a declining but still massively powerful British imperium and the virulent anti-communism of the Cold War. Rejecting political and cultural stereotypes, Kazamias crafts a disturbingly credible account of how this toxic ideological brew has continued to plague Greek foreign relations while concomitantly condemning Cyprus to geopolitical limbo. He thereby elucidates the long-term effects of colonialism and its reincarnation in postcolonial hegemonies. * Michael Herzfeld, author of Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage *Table of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing the Dualism of Greek Foreign Policy Hegemony, Dependence and the US Policy Review of 1952 The Domestic Structures of the Post-Civil War Political System From Dependence to Dualism: Cyprus enters Greek Foreign Policy Dependent Nationalism: ‘Operating between two Notions’ The Semi-Internationalization of the Cyprus Question: The UN Appeal The Dualist Aspects of Foreign Economic Policy Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises intelligence, technology and religion, as well as highlighting themes that are relevant to the present day. A rich array of popular culture examples is used to demonstrate how the crisis was understood and perceived by mainstream audiences across the world, and the book includes three ‘snapshot’ chapters, which offer an overview of the state of play at pivotal moments in the conflict – 1946, 1968 and 1980 – in order to illuminate the inter-relationship between apparently discrete situations. This is an essential introduction for students studying Cold War, twentieth century or Global history.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart One: Between Wars? 1945-19672. Origins: The World In 19463. The Struggle For Europe4. Nuclear Perils5. Asian Theaters6. Decolonization and Third World Struggles7. Khrushchev and KennedyPart Two: Living in the Cold War8. National Security and Repression9. Spies, Saboteurs, and Defectors10. Cold War CulturesPart Three: The Struggle Redefined: 1968-199111. Crisis of Ideologies: The World in 196812. A Cold Peace, or War by Other Means?13. Four Minutes to Midnight: The World in 198014. The New Struggle15. Endgame16. Conclusion: Winners, Losers, and Inheritors

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.

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Book Synopsis''White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carré'' Sunday Times, Books of the Year''Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . ambitious, intelligent, searching history'' The TimesIn this age of 24-hour news coverage, where rallying cries are made on Twitter and wars are waged in cyberspace as much as on the ground, the idea of a novel as a weapon that can wield any power feels almost preposterous. The Cold War was a time when destruction was merely the press of a button away, but when the real battle between East and West was over the minds and hearts of their people. In this arena the pen really was mightier than the sword. This is a gripping, richly-populated history of spies and journalists, protest and propaganda, idealism and betrTrade ReviewAbsorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history -- Laura Freeman * The Times *A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *[A] compulsive read . . . properly cinematic, full of clandestine cross-border flights, double-crossings, arrests, internments and interrogations . . . history has rarely seemed as compelling, and as pertinent, as through the lens of White's journey through this icy age -- Peter Murphy * Irish Times *Duncan White's fascinating new book on the role of literature in the Cold War . . . It frequently grips like a thriller, even in the sections in which White is dealing with intellectual ideas rather than blackmail and violence -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph *Brilliant * Choice *Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller * Kirkus *Consistently absorbing * Wall Street Journal *[White's] research is impressive, presented in crisp, efficient prose with an eye for the encapsulating detail . . . Cold Warriors fascinates * Spectator *White guides us expertly through the tangled terrain of the literary Cold War * Literary Review *Cold Warriors is itself written in the style of a spy thriller, echoing and invoking the countless page-turners the clash of ideologies inspired . . . the assembling and stitching together of so many competing narratives is so skilfully done . . . an important book * Times Literary Supplement *Cold Warriors is a formidable, engrossing and almost flawless achievement * Sydney Morning Herald *White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carré * Sunday Times *White has a sharp eye for the telling anecdote - for the absurd as well as the fearful -- John Mullan * Guardian *Deft and wide-ranging * Prospect *

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Book SynopsisThe gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.

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Book SynopsisThe Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.

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Trade Review"Grant presents 10 articles exploring the history of British statecraft during the Cold War. Contributors first discuss issues of nuclear weapons, examining British nuclear strategy, disarmament and non proliferation policy, and civil defense policy. The focus then turns to diplomacy, broadly defined, in chapters that look at British- West German relations, Anglo-French nuclear cooperation and British policy towards the European Community, and transatlantic nuclear cooperation. The final major theme of the volume is intelligence, which is examined in terms of perceived threats to national security, Soviet missile defense and the British nuclear deterrent, and British economic intelligence activities." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.Table of ContentsForeword - Peter Hennessy; Introduction - Matthew Grant; Part One: The Bomb! 1.British nuclear strategy during the Cold War - Kristan Stoddart; 2.Disarmament and non-proliferation - Stephen Twigge; 3.Civil defence and the nuclear deterrent - Matthew Grant; Part Two: Diplomacy; 4.A coalition of 'compromise and barter' :Britain and West Germany in the Cold War 1945-75 - R. Gerald Hughes; 5.Transformation and tradition: Anglo-French nuclear co-operation and Britain's policy towards the European Community 1960-1974 - Helen Parr; 6.Transatlantic nuclear co-operation: the British perspective 1945-1991 - Melissa Pine; Part Three: Intelligence; 7.The British way in intelligence - Michael S. Goodman; 8.British intelligence and threats to British national security after the Second World War - Calder Walton; 9.British intelligence, Soviet missile defence and the British nuclear deterrent - Catherine Haddon!; 10. The British way of economic intelligence - Pete Davies; Notes on contributors.

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Book SynopsisOranges Are Not the Only Fruit meets Goodbye Lenin.''I hadn''t expected the Berlin Wall to be clean and white and smooth. It looked more like the edge of the swimming baths than the edge of the Cold War. On the grass of No-man''s Land, fat rabbits ate and strolled about as if they''d never been hunted and nothing could disturb them. This was their land and they ruled it, and there were three parts to Berlin: East, West and Rabbit.''It is 1978, Jess is thirteen and she already has a reputation - as the daughter of the only communist in town. But then, it''s in the blood. The Mitchells have been in the Party since the Party began. Jess and her mother Eleanor struggle to sell socialism to Tamworth - a sleepy Midlands town that just doesn''t want to know.So when Eleanor is invited to spend a summer teaching in East Germany, she and Jess leap at the chance to see what the future looks like. On the other side of the Iron Curtain they turn from villains into heroes. And when Eleanor meets widower Peter and his daughter, Martina, a new, more peaceful life seems possible.But the Cold War has no time for love and soon the trouble starts. Peter is dispatched for two years of solidarity work in Laos. Friends become enemies, and Jess discovers how easy it is to switch sides, and how sides can be switched for you, sometimes without you even knowing.Motherland is a tender mother-daughter story and a tragi-comic portrait of a childhood overcome with belief. It''s about loss of faith and loss of innocence, and what it''s like to grow up on the losing side of history.Trade ReviewFunny, smart, and packed full of all the melancholy you would expect from a novel that slowly sheds a child's innocence * Red *There's a great deal of humour in Motherland, all underpinned with a sober tone . . . Jess makes an engaging narrator * alifeinbooks *In its warm and witty portrait of offbeat mother-daughter relations, Motherland often recalls Nina Stibbe's Man At The Helm. Jess's gift for wry observations also gives rise to some wonderfully quotable lines * Lady *Motherland cuts a swathe through history without feeling like a lesson . . . Even though Motherland is full of historical detail, between 1980s Tamworth and the GDR, the oppression of the era never overwhelms. At the heart, and most important are the human relationships and which bonds survive * Emerald Street *I'm sure that these are characters (and the voice of a new novelist) that I for one will gladly revisit over and over again . . . A beautiful story tinged with fun, sadness and insight * Bookbag *A delightful tragi-comic novel, primarily about a mother/daughter relationship (hence the title) and also about coming of age and disillusionment . . . Motherland combines a teenager's cold-eyed view of adult absurdities and a wistfulness for lost certainties; a compelling blend * Historical Novel Review *A funny and poignant first novel * Daily Mail *This assured debut from Jo McMillan was a delight from start to finish; I was immediately drawn into the lives of the main characters and was sorry to get to the end. McMillan is now based in Berlin and she writes convincingly of both sides of the Cold War, she has a very distinct voice and will be a writer to watch in the future * We Love This Book *McMillan's writing is excellent; she captures brilliantly the voice of Jess, naive and committed at the start of the book, knowing and more questioning by the end. Although there's perhaps a certain irony in places in her portrayal of the various members of the counter-culture groups, she never belittles their belief and their faith in their cause . . . Motherland is McMillan's debut, and it's an excellent one - highly recommended! * Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings *For those of us who remember how well youthful politics can entangle teenage love, this funny, sweet, sad first novel is both a delight and a glorious journey back to a time and place many of us only recall with a wry shake of the head * Stella Duffy *An ambitious coming-of-age novel from debut author Jo McMillan, which is wonderfully written and filled with quirky details and descriptions . . . A touching and poignant read, which uniquely explores this period in time in a way in which few other authors have attempted to * Herald *Genuinely funny * Socialist Worker *A touching and poignant read, which uniquely explores this period in time in a way in which few other authors have attempted to * Press Association *An ambitious coming-of-age story, filled with quirky details and descriptions * Scotsman *It's an ambitious coming-of-age novel from debut author Jo McMillan, which is wonderfully written and filled with quirky details and descriptions . . . a touching and poignant read, which uniquely explores this period in time in a way in which few other authors have attempted to * Catholic Universe *The book (sometimes very funny, sometimes desperately embarrassing and sad, always absorbing and moving) is full of her ineradicable love for her batty, determined Stalinist mother . . . I urge you to [read it] * Mail Online *

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Book SynopsisA brilliant novel of espionage and betrayal from 'one of Britain's most accomplished thriller writers' (Daily Mail)Trade ReviewRich, densely plotted . . . If le Carré needs a successor, Williams has all the equipment for the role * Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year *Williams is an accomplished thriller writer and this may be his best book yet. London in the 1960s, its smoky pubs, damp streets and crackle of sexual liberation is so well portrayed that reading Witchfinder is almost like time travel. Williams blends fact and fiction to make a captivating read * Financial Times *Seamlessly combining real-life characters with fictional, Andrew Williams has fashioned an absolutely cracking espionage novel * Irish Independent *If a good spy novel needs anything, it's uncertainty, a hall of mirrors; and Witchfinder delivers it in spades. Great stuff.The most authentic spy novel ever written . . . an utterly fascinating account of a very dangerous time in British history when elements of the Secret State were out of control.Every bit as cynical in tone as Mick Herron's Slough House mob... a painstakingly recreated account of the cold war's darkest days * Irish Times *Gripped me not just because of its crisp writing but because of its unusually skilful blending of history and imagination... A clever, cautionary tale. * Tablet *Praise for The Suicide Club * - *Andrew Williams has established himself as a master of the intelligent political/historical thriller. The Suicide Club, set partly at Field Marshal Haig's headquarters in 1917 and partly in German occupied Beligum, is his best novel yet: gripping and disturbing * The Scotsman Books of the Year *Williams has become one of Britain's most accomplished thriller writers. Rich in the politics of war and based on spectacular research into the reality,The Suicide Club delivers a delicate portrait of the intricacies of war, while never neglecting the bravery. * Daily Mail *Meticulously researched and classily written . . . offers a distinctive perspective * The Sunday Times *The war-damaged Innes is a strong, sympathetic character and the meticulously researched background is fascinating * The Times *

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Book SynopsisWith case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, 'Cold War Film Genres' explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

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Book SynopsisIn 1953 Dag Hammarskjöld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used his office to act on the basis of anti-hegemonic values, including solidarity and recognition of otherness. The dubious circumstances of Hammarskjöld’s death have received much attention, including a new official investigation; but have perhaps overshadowed his diplomatic legacy--one that has often been hotly contested. Henning Melber explores the years of African decolonisation during which Hammarskjöld was in office, investigating the scope and limits of his influence within the context of global governance. He paints a picture of a man with strong guiding principles, but limited room for manoeuver, colliding with the essential interests of the big powers as the ‘wind of change’ blew over the African continent. His book is a critical contribution to the study of international politics and the role of the UN in the Cold War. It is also a tribute to the achievements of a cosmopolitan Swede. Trade Review'Melber’s book is a compelling one, based on assiduous research, which avoids slipping into hagiography. … [Dag Hammarskjöld] provides a forceful counterargument that explains how Hammarskjöld embodied a short-lived zeitgeist and why his application of an ethical vision to international diplomacy remains pivotal today.' -- Journal of African History

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Book SynopsisIn 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow. Sixty years after Camus’ death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.Trade Review'Mr. Catelli's case is compelling ... his book provides a clear and useful window into the currents that political writers were forced to navigate during the Cold War.' -- Wall Street Journal‘An investigation into the astonishing claim that the Nobel prize winner was killed by the Soviet secret police.’ -- The Sunday Times‘Published in English for the first time, the Italian poet and historian Giovanni Catelli argues that Camus, author of the existential masterpiece "The Stranger", was murdered by the Soviet security agency.’ -- The Telegraph'Kisil maintains that Zabrana did his utmost to find "credible and objective sources" of information in the USSR. "It’s possible -- and actually even probable -- that he could have met someone from this circle of people who told him about the assassination of Camus, and who themselves had heard it from someone close to the upper echelons of the Communist Party," he said.' -- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty'Catelli learned not to give up hope in the time since he discovered the testimony of Jan Zábrana. His book reads like a detective novel without resolution or punishment –– no one was or will be jailed for murdering Camus.' -- Pagina 12 (Argentina)'A text of seductive literary, biographical, critical and historical value.' -- Avvenire'Catelli succeeds in convincing us that Camus could have been assassinated by the KGB.' -- Le Monde Libertaire'Fast-paced and entertaining, reads like a spy novel.' -- La Capital (Argentina)'Catelli contends that the KGB was responsible for the auto accident that killed Camus […] More controversially, he also argues that the French government was complicit in the killing.' -- Inside Hook'Eloquently written.' -- Green Left

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Book SynopsisThe death of Stalin; the Revolution in Cuba and the beginning of the Castro regime; the assassination of President Kennedy; the Watergate Scandal; and the dawn of perestroika. Iain Sutherland enjoyed a ring-side seat for all of these key moments of the 20th century, among many others. 'From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond' offers a lively and unique account of his experiences over the course of his long and fruitful diplomatic career. This culminated in the position of British Ambassador to Moscow at the tail end of the Cold War, when the Sutherlands witnessed the deaths of three Russian heads of state within three years - Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov - and the epoch-changing election of Gorbachev. Iain Sutherland and his wife, Jeanne, were posted to Russia, Cuba the United States and elsewhere, as the Foreign Service dictated. 'From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond' vividly evokes the joys as well as the difficulties of life as an expatriate and diplomat under Stalin, Tito and Castro, as well as of the particular demands of diplomatic life in the USA. Their unique perspective offers a stimulating and penetrating view of the 20th century which will be invaluable for anyone with an interest in diplomatic or political history.Trade Review"'A career centred largely on countries under communist rule calls for special qualities. It calls for a sense of service, willingness to be posted more than once to a capital where the political climate may at times be acutely uncongenial. It requires discretion, careful behaviour, cheerfulness, patience, the skills needed to interpret communist jargon, and ability cautiously to evaluate the signs of change. It helps if the diplomat and his wife take an interest in the history, the culture and the people of the country to which they are assigned and make it their task to develop personal relations within the limits of what is permitted. These qualities Iain and Jeanne Sutherland had in high degree.' - Lord Brimelow, former Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office"Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 Cold War in Moscow 1951-52 2 Stalin’s Death and after, Moscow 1952-54 3 Bloodshed at Bled, Yugoslavia 1956-59 4 Cuba Yes Yankee No! Revolution and Communism Cuban Style 1959-62 5 The Missile Crisis and the Crime of the Century: Washington 1962-65 6 Recovering from Sukarno and Konfrontasi: Indonesia 1967-69 7 Academe and Watergate, Harvard 1973-74 8 Sandwiches for the Chargé, Moscow Again 1974-76 9 Democracy in Athens 1978-82 10 Three Funerals, Moscow 1982-85 ______________________________________ Notes Bibliography Index Map

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Book SynopsisStalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA. Never tried, Field and his wife were imprisoned in Budapest until 1954, then granted political asylum in Hungary, where they lived out their sterile last years. This new biography takes a fresh look at Field's relationship with Dulles, and his role in the Alger Hiss affair. It sheds fresh light upon Soviet espionage in the United States and Field's relationship with Hede Massing, Ignace Reiss and Walter Krivitsky. It also reassesses how the increasingly anti-Semitic East European show-trials were staged and dissects the 'lessons' which Stalin sought to convey through them.Trade Review'Sharp's gripping book provides the most detailed account of Noel Field, [whose] journey from a pro-communist Westerner to a pawn in Stalin's Hungarian show trials is unusual and enlightening... invaluable for gaining an insight into one of the many mysteries of the Cold War.' * Budapest Business Journal *'Stalin's American Spy is a compelling piece of work. It is historically rich, and yet moves along like a novel. Noel Field can be seen as an emblem of the ideology war of the '30s and its lost history. Moving and impressive.' * Robert Dover, author of Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History *'This is a superb and original book in a much under-researched area. A fine work of history.' * Gerry Hughes, Lecturer in Military History, Aberystwyth University, and author of Britain, Germany and the Cold War: the search for a European Detente, 1949-1967 *'This is the first truly authentic, comprehensive and factual analysis in English of the fascinating life of Noel Field, one of the most mysterious figures on Stalin's chessboard of spies, agents and stooges. The author's gripping account is more than a personal biography of a legendary figure. This book is also essential reading for understanding the world of Stalinist show trials and key chapters of the Cold War in Europe.' * Paul Lendvai, journalist and author of Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism and Austria: New Challenges, Old Demons *

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Book SynopsisThis guide exposes the reality behind the war between capitalism and communism, two ideologies divided by the Iron Curtain. New revelations show that what was once regarded as simply a struggle between good and evil was in fact a far more complex affair. Merrilyn Thomas peels back the layers of deception and intrigue and offers a penetrating assessment of the legacy of instability that continues today.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a study of Yiddish in the Cold War through the ideological confrontations between Communist Yiddish literati in the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, France and Israel. It discusses the intellectual environments of the Moscow literary journal Sovetish Heymland.Trade Review...a concise, fascinating, and highly readable account of the role and fate of Yiddish during the Cold War...' -- Jewish Book World Jewish Book World This meticulously researched book is the first comprehensive English-language study of Yiddish in the Communist world after the murder of Soviet Yiddish writers on 12 August 1952. Estraikh's story more or less begins where everyone else's ends. For this alone, Estraikh's book is an important corrective to our understanding of Yiddish in general, and Soviet Yiddish culture in particular. Just because Stalin said he'd killed off Yiddish culture didn't make it so... Full of amazing research. -- East European Jewish Affairs East European Jewish Affairs Yiddish in the Cold War tells an important story in the history of twentieth-century Yiddish. The book's focus on the internal machinations of the editorial boards of Communist Yiddish periodicals, though, cuts short any broader observations about the Cold War per se... One hopes that Estraikh's new work will stimulate more research into Yiddish culture in the postwar Soviet Union. -- The Russian Review The Russian Review A carefully researched monograph about a hitherto hidden corner of Yiddish culture during a period of contraction. -- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of Contents1. Pain and Consolation 2. Soviet Jewish Life in the 1950s 3. Cultural Diplomacy 4. Imagining Soviet Jews 5. A Brave Face on a Sorry Business

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Book SynopsisIn the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. The authors illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.Trade Review"This is an important book, one that should be read not just by historians of science but by anyone interested in the unique intellectual culture of Cold War America." (Hunter Heyck, University of Oklahoma)"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a really important story. Jones has set out to reframe much of what we know about twentieth-century environmental history, particularly of the oceans. His archival work is extraordinarily impressive, and the oral history interviews with Russian whalers and marine biologists are, to my knowledge, unique in English-language historical scholarship. But it is Jones's incorporation of whale science and his own personal vignettes that make this book special. Soviet whaling had the single greatest impact on world whale populations in the postwar period, but no other historian has told its inside story. Red Leviathan is a game-changer." -- Jason M. Colby, University of Victoria, author of "Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator" "American environmentalists are inclined to see the United States' Cold War opponent as a villain. Telling the story of the Soviet role in modern whaling, Jones complicates this perspective by acknowledging the Soviets' disproportionate impact while also looking beyond it. He illuminates the contradictions and tensions among different players within the Soviet whaling industry-whalers, the whale scientists who worked with them, and other Russians not directly involved in but still impacted by and shaping the demands of the industry. From the first attempts at whaling in Peter's Russia to the protest era and pushback against whaling by Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherds, Red Leviathan combines thorough research and great storytelling to fill a necessary gap in the history of global whaling." -- Jakobina K. Arch, Whitman College, author of "Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan"Table of ContentsPreface 1 Russia's Whale Problem 2 The Whales of Distant Seas 3 A Revolution in Whaling 4 North Pacific Numbers 5 War and Glory in the Antarctic 6 Aleksei Solyanik and the End of Area V 7 The Kollektiv and the Long Ruble 8 The Cetacean Genocide 9 Scientists Locate Their Prey 10 Whales in the Home 11 A Whale Is Not a Fish: Back to the North Pacific 12 Greenpeace and the View from the Dal'nii Vostok Conclusion Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel. Crowds swarm when US presidents travel abroad, though many never hear their voices. The presidential body, moving from one secured location to another, communicates as much or more to these audiences than the texts of their speeches. In The World is Our Stage, Allison M. Prasch considers how presidential appearances overseas broadcast American superiority during the Cold War. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prasch examines five foundational moments in the development of what she calls the global rhetorical presidency: Truman at Potsdam, Eisenhower's Goodwill Tours, Kennedy in West Berlin, Nixon in the People's Republic of China, and Reagan in Normandy. In each case, Prasch reveals how the president's physical presence defined the boundaries of the Free World and elevated the United States as the central actor in Cold War geopolitics.Trade Review"A first-rate piece of scholarship . . . impressively researched and rich in detail and some of the nuggets that Prasch has unearthed are fascinating. She masterfully weaves the political and historical context that presidents dealt with into a compelling narrative that enriches our understanding of an important time in American and world history that continues to affect us today." * Congress and the Presidency *“A must-read book for scholars and students of political communication, the presidency, and international relations, Prasch’s The World Is Our Stage adds ‘going global’ to the critical lexicon and provocatively refashions our understanding of how the global rhetorical presidency shaped the Cold War and post–Cold War world.” -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of 'Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President; What We Don't, Can’t, and Do Know'“The World Is Our Stage is an engaging and insightful analysis of how presidents exploited emergent media and transportation technologies to create and sustain an audience for the image of the US as the ‘leader of the free world’ during the Cold War. Focusing on this moment of national unity in foreign policy, this book will be of interest to general readers and scholars with interests in the US presidency, foreign relations, the Cold War, and the rhetorical construction of politics.” -- Mary E. Stuckey, author of 'Deplorable: The Worst Presidential Elections from Jefferson to Trump'Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Global Rhetorical Presidency 2 Truman at Potsdam 3 Eisenhower and the “Good Will” Tours 4 Kennedy in West Berlin 5 Nixon and the “Opening to China” 6 Reagan at Normandy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUnsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.Trade ReviewIn Unsettling Exiles, the story of postwar Hong Kong is not simply one of socioeconomic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment. -- Leo K. Shin, founding convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British ColumbiaBold and exquisite, this book exhumes from history a “Southern Periphery” at the doorstep of the People’s Republic of China. Nurtured by the visions and voices of forgotten exiles, refugees, and deportees falling through the cracks of conventional analytical categories—nations, borders, citizenship, and diaspora—the legacies of this unique political landscape still reverberate today. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive FrontierDoes geography shape destiny? How have the borders of land and sea that bind Hong Kong to China shaped the fates of Hong Kongers, many of whom fled CCP authoritarianism and found no other home amid the racist legacies of decolonization and the Cold War’s political divides, which fueled Hong Kong’s insecure sovereignty. Published in the aftermath of China’s sweeping National Security Law, Chin’s nuanced study of Hong Kongers’ limited mobility and precarious immobility throbs with poignant hindsight. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model MinorityUnsettling Exiles introduces the Southern Periphery of the PRC: a place of permeable borders, political exiles, unwelcome migrants, unidentified corpses, idealists, grifters, and wary state apparatuses. Chin gives close and compassionate attention to people creating lives in circumstances they did not choose, all the while imagining a future China they could call home. A powerful argument that understanding the center requires acknowledging the loyalties, longings, and traumatic memories of those on the periphery. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn this pioneering and captivating book, Angelina Chin shows how Cold War Hong Kong became a dumping ground for Chinese refugees, deportees, and a host of other “undesirables.” Instead of finding cosmopolitanism and success, as the triumphal “Hong Kong story” goes, these exiles often faced despair and marginality. Unsettling indeed! -- John M. Carroll, author of The Hong Kong-China Nexus: A Brief HistoryStimulating and provocative. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. “Refugees” or “Undesirables”: The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s and 1960s2. The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong3. Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong Sea Territories4. The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?5. The Three Escapees6. Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of MemoriesEpilogueGlossary of Chinese CharactersNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUnsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.Trade ReviewIn Unsettling Exiles, the story of postwar Hong Kong is not simply one of socioeconomic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment. -- Leo K. Shin, founding convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British ColumbiaBold and exquisite, this book exhumes from history a “Southern Periphery” at the doorstep of the People’s Republic of China. Nurtured by the visions and voices of forgotten exiles, refugees, and deportees falling through the cracks of conventional analytical categories—nations, borders, citizenship, and diaspora—the legacies of this unique political landscape still reverberate today. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive FrontierDoes geography shape destiny? How have the borders of land and sea that bind Hong Kong to China shaped the fates of Hong Kongers, many of whom fled CCP authoritarianism and found no other home amid the racist legacies of decolonization and the Cold War’s political divides, which fueled Hong Kong’s insecure sovereignty. Published in the aftermath of China’s sweeping National Security Law, Chin’s nuanced study of Hong Kongers’ limited mobility and precarious immobility throbs with poignant hindsight. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model MinorityUnsettling Exiles introduces the Southern Periphery of the PRC: a place of permeable borders, political exiles, unwelcome migrants, unidentified corpses, idealists, grifters, and wary state apparatuses. Chin gives close and compassionate attention to people creating lives in circumstances they did not choose, all the while imagining a future China they could call home. A powerful argument that understanding the center requires acknowledging the loyalties, longings, and traumatic memories of those on the periphery. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn this pioneering and captivating book, Angelina Chin shows how Cold War Hong Kong became a dumping ground for Chinese refugees, deportees, and a host of other “undesirables.” Instead of finding cosmopolitanism and success, as the triumphal “Hong Kong story” goes, these exiles often faced despair and marginality. Unsettling indeed! -- John M. Carroll, author of The Hong Kong-China Nexus: A Brief HistoryStimulating and provocative. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. “Refugees” or “Undesirables”: The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s and 1960s2. The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong3. Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong Sea Territories4. The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?5. The Three Escapees6. Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of MemoriesEpilogueGlossary of Chinese CharactersNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe stories of Chingiz Aitmatov and Azamat Altay are best told together, a herculean task which Jeffrey B. Lilley's Have The Mountain's Fallen? Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War manages deftly. . . . Their story—because it is, in essence, a single story—is that of Kyrgyzstan itself, replete with tragedy and sacrifice, hope and triumph. * The Diplomat *The book is the perfect combination of exhaustive research, beautiful writing, page-turning action, inspirational heroes and verbal pictures of a little known land, people and culture. With fast-paced storytelling we experience life in the Soviet Union from Stalin's Great Purges when thousands of innocent people were executed, all the way up to its collapse in 1991. We experience the torture and misery of World War II, through both men's completely different first hand experiences, the acute longing for one's homeland when one can't return, and the outwitting of the Soviet censors by a brilliant Kyrgyz author who exposes the cruelty and soulessness of the ideal "Soviet Man" in his books. And we are deeply inspired by their efforts—one inside the Soviet Union, and one outside it—to preserve the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan, and the soul of its people. * KPC News *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationList of NamesPart I1. Flight2. Seeds of Rebellion3. Have the Mountains Fallen?4. The Burdens of WarPart II5. Chinese with a Dog6. Recovering Dignity7. The Sting of Rejection8. Balancing ActsPart III9. American Rendezvous10. Standing up to Injustice11. Waves of Change12. An Expiring IdeologyPart IV13. The Wheels of Truth14. New Beginnings15. Times of Tumult16. Holy GroundEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe stories of Chingiz Aitmatov and Azamat Altay are best told together, a herculean task which Jeffrey B. Lilley's Have The Mountain's Fallen? Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War manages deftly. . . . Their story—because it is, in essence, a single story—is that of Kyrgyzstan itself, replete with tragedy and sacrifice, hope and triumph. * The Diplomat *The book is the perfect combination of exhaustive research, beautiful writing, page-turning action, inspirational heroes and verbal pictures of a little known land, people and culture. With fast-paced storytelling we experience life in the Soviet Union from Stalin's Great Purges when thousands of innocent people were executed, all the way up to its collapse in 1991. We experience the torture and misery of World War II, through both men's completely different first hand experiences, the acute longing for one's homeland when one can't return, and the outwitting of the Soviet censors by a brilliant Kyrgyz author who exposes the cruelty and soulessness of the ideal "Soviet Man" in his books. And we are deeply inspired by their efforts—one inside the Soviet Union, and one outside it—to preserve the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan, and the soul of its people. * KPC News *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationList of NamesPart I1. Flight2. Seeds of Rebellion3. Have the Mountains Fallen?4. The Burdens of WarPart II5. Chinese with a Dog6. Recovering Dignity7. The Sting of Rejection8. Balancing ActsPart III9. American Rendezvous10. Standing up to Injustice11. Waves of Change12. An Expiring IdeologyPart IV13. The Wheels of Truth14. New Beginnings15. Times of Tumult16. Holy GroundEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, memory in Ukraine was released, creating alternate visions of the past, new national heroes, and new victims. This release of memories led to new conflicts and memory wars.How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is being researched and understood. Drawing on work from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a country seeking to create a hopeful future.Trade ReviewThis book is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly literature on Ukrainian identity and memory politics. . . . The two editors can be commended for having produced an excellent book, an important addition to ongoing discussions of Ukrainian memory politics in Ukraine. -- Taras Kuzio * Europe - Asia Studies *This volume, edited by Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, presents a remarkably consistent scholarly concept and a clear civic, or even political, agenda. . . . Both scholars of Ukraine and memory studies specialists will enjoy this solid and thought-provoking volume, which it is to be hoped will succeed in influencing ongoing conversations in Ukraine on such important topics for the future of the country. -- Alessandro Achilli, Monash University * Modern Language Review *Using an interdisciplinary approach, Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper have succeeded in assembling a well-selected array of fieldwork and comparative research that explores hidden and forbidden memory of Ukraine's recent past. They have also effectively questioned how political as well as sociocultural and religious markers of today's identities polarize Ukrainian society given the lack of a common frame of reference and unhealed wounds. . . . It is a milestone collection of memories and testimonies of those who still remember and those who have forgotten; of those who continue to look critically at the present without forgetting their past. -- Francesco Trupia * Harvard Ukranian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper and Anna WylegałaPart I: The Memory of Holodomor1. Idle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothing. Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine / Daria Mattingly2. The lieux de mémoire of the Holodomor in the Cultural Landscape of Modern Ukraine / Wiktoria Kudela-ŚwiątekPart II: World War II in the Ukrainian Memory3. The War of Memory in Times of War: 9th of May Celebrations in Kyiv in 2014–2015 / Tetiana Pastushenko4. (In)different Memory: The World War II in the Memory of the Last War Generation in Ukraine / Mykola BorovykPart III: Heroes or Traitors: Creating Heroic Canon5. Symon Petliura, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and National Commemoration in Contemporary Ukraine / Matthew D. Pauly6. Glory to the Heroes? Gender, Nationalism and Memory / Olesya KhromeychukPart IV: Traces of the Lost Multiethnicity and Memory of the Ethnic Cleansing 7. Memory, Monuments and the Project of Nationalization in Ukraine. The Case of Chernivtsi / Karolina Koziura 8. Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Anna Chebotariova9. Extermination of the Roma in Transnistria during the World War II: Construction of the Roma Collective Memory / Anna Abakunova10. Poland and Poles in the Collective Memory of Galician Ukrainians / Anna WylegałaPart V: History and Politics in a Post-Soviet State: Ukraine, Russia and Independence11. Ukraine between the EU and Russia since 1991: Does it have to be a Battlefield of Memories? / Tomasz Stryjek12. A Desired but Unexpected State. The 90s in the Memory and Perception of Ukrainians in the Twenty-First Century / Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly literature on Ukrainian identity and memory politics. . . . The two editors can be commended for having produced an excellent book, an important addition to ongoing discussions of Ukrainian memory politics in Ukraine. -- Taras Kuzio * Europe - Asia Studies *This volume, edited by Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, presents a remarkably consistent scholarly concept and a clear civic, or even political, agenda. . . . Both scholars of Ukraine and memory studies specialists will enjoy this solid and thought-provoking volume, which it is to be hoped will succeed in influencing ongoing conversations in Ukraine on such important topics for the future of the country. -- Alessandro Achilli, Monash University * Modern Language Review *Using an interdisciplinary approach, Anna Wylegała and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper have succeeded in assembling a well-selected array of fieldwork and comparative research that explores hidden and forbidden memory of Ukraine's recent past. They have also effectively questioned how political as well as sociocultural and religious markers of today's identities polarize Ukrainian society given the lack of a common frame of reference and unhealed wounds. . . . It is a milestone collection of memories and testimonies of those who still remember and those who have forgotten; of those who continue to look critically at the present without forgetting their past. -- Francesco Trupia * Harvard Ukranian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper and Anna WylegałaPart I: The Memory of Holodomor1. Idle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothing. Cultural Memory of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine / Daria Mattingly2. The lieux de mémoire of the Holodomor in the Cultural Landscape of Modern Ukraine / Wiktoria Kudela-ŚwiątekPart II: World War II in the Ukrainian Memory3. The War of Memory in Times of War: 9th of May Celebrations in Kyiv in 2014–2015 / Tetiana Pastushenko4. (In)different Memory: The World War II in the Memory of the Last War Generation in Ukraine / Mykola BorovykPart III: Heroes or Traitors: Creating Heroic Canon5. Symon Petliura, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and National Commemoration in Contemporary Ukraine / Matthew D. Pauly6. Glory to the Heroes? Gender, Nationalism and Memory / Olesya KhromeychukPart IV: Traces of the Lost Multiethnicity and Memory of the Ethnic Cleansing 7. Memory, Monuments and the Project of Nationalization in Ukraine. The Case of Chernivtsi / Karolina Koziura 8. Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Anna Chebotariova9. Extermination of the Roma in Transnistria during the World War II: Construction of the Roma Collective Memory / Anna Abakunova10. Poland and Poles in the Collective Memory of Galician Ukrainians / Anna WylegałaPart V: History and Politics in a Post-Soviet State: Ukraine, Russia and Independence11. Ukraine between the EU and Russia since 1991: Does it have to be a Battlefield of Memories? / Tomasz Stryjek12. A Desired but Unexpected State. The 90s in the Memory and Perception of Ukrainians in the Twenty-First Century / Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin

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