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Book Synopsis-Examines the way that the Jewish communities in America and the UK stood up the Nazi regime, when their governments were intent on appeasement. -Trade crossover title that should appeal to history readers and scholars alike.Trade ReviewNorwood's reader-friendly volume richly details how the US and Great Britain's appeasement of Hitler led to WW II and laid the foundation for the Holocaust * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Foundations of the Final Solution1. Portents: September 1930 to January 19332. Barbarism and Entrapment: The Cold Pogrom, 1933-19343. A Tidal Wave of Protest, March to May 19334. The Escalation of Judaea's War against Nazism, May to December 19335. Exposing and Boycotting the Third Reich, 19346. Disaster for the Jews: The Saar Plebiscite, January 19357. Entertaining Nazi Warriors in America and Britain, 1934-19368. 1935: Degradation, Appeasement, and Looming CatastropheEpilogue: Defeats, 1936-1939BibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis-Examines the way that the Jewish communities in America and the UK stood up the Nazi regime, when their governments were intent on appeasement. -Trade crossover title that should appeal to history readers and scholars alike.Trade ReviewNorwood's reader-friendly volume richly details how the US and Great Britain's appeasement of Hitler led to WW II and laid the foundation for the Holocaust * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Foundations of the Final Solution1. Portents: September 1930 to January 19332. Barbarism and Entrapment: The Cold Pogrom, 1933-19343. A Tidal Wave of Protest, March to May 19334. The Escalation of Judaea's War against Nazism, May to December 19335. Exposing and Boycotting the Third Reich, 19346. Disaster for the Jews: The Saar Plebiscite, January 19357. Entertaining Nazi Warriors in America and Britain, 1934-19368. 1935: Degradation, Appeasement, and Looming CatastropheEpilogue: Defeats, 1936-1939BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this volume Ivo Mijnssen uses the thirteen 'Hero Cities' of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus as a lens to understand how Soveit officials shaped war memory through ritualized space. He argues that the designation of hero cities created an idealized narative of collective heroism which served the state's needs. . . . His accessible monograph contributes to the fields of Russian and Soviet history, architecture, and cultural memory studies in general. It serves as an excellent resource for shcolars and students interested in all aspects of Soviet war commemoration, celebration of Soviet holidays, and youth culture. -- Adrienne M. Harris * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMap of Hero CitiesShort Description of Hero Cities1. Heroism across Generations2. Creating an Idealized Past: The Soviet Heroarchy from Stalin to Brezhnev3. Victory Square: The Place of Memory in Tula4. Great Expectations: From Postwar Ruins to a Worthy Life5. Novorossiysk as a Monumental Ensemble: Little Land and the Ideal of War6. Brezhnev's Beloved Novorossiysk: From Wartime Glory to Window to the World7. Impossible ContinuityAppendix: Archives and InterviewsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this volume Ivo Mijnssen uses the thirteen 'Hero Cities' of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus as a lens to understand how Soveit officials shaped war memory through ritualized space. He argues that the designation of hero cities created an idealized narative of collective heroism which served the state's needs. . . . His accessible monograph contributes to the fields of Russian and Soviet history, architecture, and cultural memory studies in general. It serves as an excellent resource for shcolars and students interested in all aspects of Soviet war commemoration, celebration of Soviet holidays, and youth culture. -- Adrienne M. Harris * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMap of Hero CitiesShort Description of Hero Cities1. Heroism across Generations2. Creating an Idealized Past: The Soviet Heroarchy from Stalin to Brezhnev3. Victory Square: The Place of Memory in Tula4. Great Expectations: From Postwar Ruins to a Worthy Life5. Novorossiysk as a Monumental Ensemble: Little Land and the Ideal of War6. Brezhnev's Beloved Novorossiysk: From Wartime Glory to Window to the World7. Impossible ContinuityAppendix: Archives and InterviewsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn some ways, the volume reminds me of a thoughtfully organized musical album in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and an end. Despite having multiple authors, the story develops logically from one chapter to the next—quite an accomplishment. -- Patryk Babiracki, author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957Wide-ranging in its Cold War geography, rigorously internationalist, and focused on the concept of media over a variety of forms and methods, Lovejoy and Pajala's volume will set the standard for any future scholarship on the topic. -- Rossen Djagalov, author of From Internationalism to PostcolonialismBallasted by primary sources in all relevant languages, together these meticulously researched essays complicate, through the fluid logic of media, the conventional epochal and geopolitical fault lines of post-WWII cultures. An indispensable volume. -- Nataša Ďurovičová, coeditor of World Cinemas, Transnational PerspectivesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari PajalaPart I: Mobile Forms2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener3. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston4. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s Finnish Television, by Anu KoivunenPart II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist Affinities, by Masha Salazkina6. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja Simonyi7. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav Švelch8. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish Audience in November 1989, by Marie CronqvistPart III: Translation9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova10. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone11. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel12. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s Television Diplomacy, by Laura SaarenmaaPart IV: Infrastructure and Production13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik14. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu15. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures during the Cold War, by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren16. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó ImreIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the United States Information Agency’s program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.Trade Review“Cold War Photographic Diplomacy’s major achievement is the way that it theorizes a large archive by showing the transatlantic interactions between the image makers, the imagery, and the audiences of the images. It is a fascinating read.”—Liam Buckley,Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University

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Book SynopsisFeatures Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. This book challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his foreign policy; and his role in instigating the Cold War.Trade Review"'... an astonishing defence of the Soviet dictator... This will provoke lively debate and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Stalin and his times.' BBC History Magazine 'There have been many books on Stalin in recent years, a few good, some not so bad and the rest pretty poor. This is one of the best, and one of the most useful. Why? Because for the first time we now have a balanced overall account of the great dictator's foreign policy in crucial years.' Paul Dukes, History Today"

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Book SynopsisAn important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the AtlanticTrade Review“Curley's thoughtful and carefully researched book promotes Warhol and Richter to positions of cultural centrality, thereby deepening our understanding not only of their work but of their perilous times—and ours.”—Richard Kalina, Art in America -- Richard Kalina * Art in America *

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Book SynopsisTwo high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War yearsTrade Review'Incredibly well-informed and immensely readable - a book that will be argued over for years to come.' - Jonathan Haslam, author of Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall'A wonderful Cold War parable in which both protagonists, Berlin and Deutscher, the liberal and the Marxist, reveal just how crooked the timber of humanity can be, especially when ideas collide with events. Caute metes out morality and mitigation in equal measure - a rare and wise combination.' - Petre Mandler, author of Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War“Readers . . . will find themselves informed and absorbed by Mr. Caute's portrait of the intellectual battles of the Cold War.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal -- Adam Kirsch * Wall Street Journal *“What could have been a minor academic squabble is transformed here into a wide-ranging discussion of some of the major ideological disputes of the 20th century – Marxism, Zionism, liberalism and the significance of the Russian revolution.”—The Economist * The Economist *“Trenchant, engaging . . . sharply argued . . . The author’s wit and biting analysis render this a most readable study.”—Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews *“A riveting account . . . of an intellectual feud for the ages.”—David Mikics, Los Angeles Review of Books -- David Mikics * Los Angeles Review of Books *“The book I most enjoyed was David Caute’s Isaac and Isaiah. Caute transforms an academic squabble between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher into a wide-ranging analysis of the ideological disputes of the 20th century – Marxism, the significance of the Russian revolution, liberalism and Zionism.”—Vernon Bogdanor, THES, Book of the Year -- Vernon Bogdanor * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThe Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewExceptionally illuminating for the current moment…What emerges from some of these essays…is a powerful sense that Putin’s wantonly destructive delusions and machinations have had the unintended effect of helping to consolidate Ukraine as the unified and distinctive nation whose existence he flatly denies. -- Larry Wolff * Times Literary Supplement *This collection is an excellent overview of some of the historical undercurrents which diffused the Ukrainian narrative—from west to east—across Ukraine’s Russified central and southeast oblasts over the past twenty years. Most importantly, these essays shed light on why the overwhelming majority of Ukraine’s citizens adopted this narrative and why they still defiantly resist returning to Russia’s colonial orbit. -- George O. Liber * Russian Review *

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Book SynopsisIn this sweeping and incisive work, Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.Trade Review"[Sara] Lorenzini . . . presents an in-depth analysis of the process of global development based on national and regional archives and published sources. . . . This well-researched and illuminating book is an essential contribution to the history of postwar global development."---D. A. Chekki, Choice"In this impressive history, Lorenzini traces the journey of development thinking from its nineteenth-century origins through its entanglements in the great geopolitical struggles of the twentieth century."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"As the best global intellectual and political history of development available, Lorenzini’s book should become the standard assignment in classes on the history of development. . . . It deserves wide readership."---Nils Gilman, H-Diplo"Lorenzini . . . not interested in praising or denouncing the development enterprise, but rather in historicizing it, considering its origins, how it has changed over time, and how scholars can go about studying it. That alone makes these volumes welcome and timely."---Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Journal of Contemporary History"[A] smart, concise survey of twentieth-century development ideology and practice."---Thomas C. Field Jr., The Middle Ground Journal"Through its ambitious exploration across time and space, Global Development has performed an extraordinary feat; it is a book that will be of value to scholars and nonspecialists alike."---Giuliana Chamedes, American Historical Review"Sara Lorenzini offers a lucid, well written and often insightful narrative on the main globaldevelopment concepts and policies between 1945 and 1989."---Iris Borowy, Cold War History"Global Development is a thorough and accessible account of a very complex and important topic. It is an essential reading that deserves a wide (both scholarly and general) readership and that should be on the shelves of everyone interested in the topic of international development specifically and of the Cold War more generally."---Bence Kocsev, Comparativ"[Global Development] provides an impressive new account of the history of international development. . . . An evocative book that, given its range and broad coverage of topics, may become the go-to introductory history of the twentieth-century history of development for some time to come.—Igor Logvinenko, Political Science Quarterly"

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Book SynopsisIn 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. The author's close analysis of the Kesselring case reveals how a network of veterans, lawyers, and German sympathizers in Britain and America achieved the commutation of Kesselring's death sentence and his eventual release.Trade ReviewHistorians have analyzed the postwar trials of German officers before, but none have done it so brilliantly. While truth may be the first casualty in war, Von Lingen shows that it often suffers in peacetime as well. A fascinating and essential book. Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 ""A superb study that is balanced, extremely thorough, and highly readable. What makes this book especially timely is its discussion of war crimes, command responsibility, and the process of conducting such trials."" James S. Corum, author of Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War ""An important contribution."" Richard Breitman, editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Book SynopsisAs populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order.Trade ReviewThe Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance. By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation. Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of the current travails of democracy." - Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power"The critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Son's illuminating book shows that skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with the entire postwar period." - Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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Book SynopsisArgues that the television series The Big Picture, like others produced during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public.Trade ReviewThe past is always a foreign country, but few media documents underline that more clearly than The Big Picture, the US Army’s documentary television program that played on US channels from the 1950s to the early 1970s. John W. Lemza’s pathbreaking study reveals the astonishing penetration of US government propaganda into Cold War homes through this program. He goes on to show how an analysis of that material can itself become an important window on shifting ideas of nation, race, and gender. This book is a remarkable addition to the literature on US Cold War media history, made all the more exciting by the new accessibility of the programs themselves online." - Nicholas J. Cull, author of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989"John W. Lemza turns our attention to a technology of warfare deployed far from the battlefield: the small screen. The Big Picture explains the significance of the television show the US Army used to tell its story and sell its relevance, from the interservice rivalries of the early Cold War through the social divisions of the US war in Vietnam." - Beth Bailey, Foundation Distinguished Professor and director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, University of Kansas

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Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016) 'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster 'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. US Empire: Statecraft in the Global South and Para-State Networks 2. Cold War Statecraft and the Covert Principle: ''Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government?" 3. US Counterinsurgency: The Growing Paramilitary Movement 4. The Institutionalization of Para-State Networks: Nicaraguan Contras and Beyond 5. Continuity After the Cold War: the Evolution of Para-State Networks 6. The Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror: Consolidation into the Future Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces 2. Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: 'Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government' 3. Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries and Contractors 4. Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft 5. Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes 6. The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare and the Global Projection of Force Conclusions Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation, improvisation, and engagement by individuals in positions of power ended the specter of a nuclear holocaust. Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, and George H. W. Bushand a host of other actorsengaged with adversaries and adapted to a rapidly changing international environment and information age in which global capitalism recovered as command economies failed. Eschewing the notion of a coherent grand strategy to end the Cold War, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of how leaders made choices; some made poor choices while others reacted prudently, imaginatively, and courageously to events they did not foresee. A book about the burdens Trade ReviewIf John Kerry ever gets to spend a day back home, the US secretary of state might wish to meet James Graham Wilson, a young scholar in his department's Office of the Historian. Wilson’s recent book, The Triumph of Improvisation, offers a fresh and valuable look at the end of the cold war. -- Robert Zoellick * The Financial Times *Overall, The Triumph of Improvisation is a solid account of the culmination of the Cold War.... It is a well-researched and well-written piece that gives a solid account of the decisions and actions that led to the end of the decades-long conflict. Wilson's emphasis on the contributions of so many players and their willingness to try unconventional means make this book a worthwhile read, as many of these topics have not recieved the attention that they deserve. -- Chris Booth * H-War *Wilson focuses on a quartet of actors, including George Shultz and George H. W. Bush along with Reagan and Gorbachev. His compact narrative—just 204 pages of text—proceeds in disciplined chronological order, which restrains the sort of sweeping and dubious generalizations that often mar other treatments of the Cold War's last decade. -- Steven F. Hayward * National Review *Wilson's real contribution, and the part that scholars of this period will find most interesting, is his coverage of Reagan and Schultz. White House policy making during the Reagan years can be a difficult and puzzling process for historians to describe, but Wilson accomplishes it with grace and impressive analysis as he chronicles the shift from confrontation to cooperation with the Soviet Union. This is an excellent book with the broad goal of explaining the end of the Cold War based on the actions of individual leaders. Wilson's lively prose and clear analysis of superpower relations will appeal to the general reader, and the illuminating sections on Reagan and Schultz will be of special interest to Cold War scholars. -- Christopher Maynard * Journal of American History *What is surprising is his thesis, which is original in its approach, that these men brought an end to the great Soviet-American rivalry through unscripted actions. In this and in other ways, including its provocative argument, The Triumph of Improvisation is a useful and welcome addition to the literature on the subject. -- Joseph M. Siracusa * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Individuals and Power 1. Reagan Reaches 2. Stagnation and Choices 3. Shultz Engages 4. Gorbachev Adapts 5. Recovery and Statecraft 6. Gorbachev's New World Order 7. Bush’s New World Order Conclusion: Individuals and Strategy

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Book SynopsisThroughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote...Trade ReviewSo if the mighty steel of US military strength did not tame the Russian bear, what did? Matthew Evangelista's answer to this question should pique the interest of argumentation scholars.... Evangelista's findings raise serious questions about realpolitik models of international relations that explain US Cold War victory over the Soviet Union in terms of one mammoth billiard ball smashing into and destroying its more fragile counterpart. His impressive empirical research illustrates how threats, policies, and norms were constructed and deconstructed by argumentation conducted in transnational channels of communication. If the significance of this finding for students of argumentation is not already apparent, it becomes obvious in Evangelista's final case study, which examines the influence of transnational activism on post-Soviet policy. * Argumentation and Advocacy *Matthew Evangelista's Unarmed Forces fills a key gap in Cold War historiography and international relations theory by examining how transnational actors (TNAs) affected Soviet and Russian security policies from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.... The book's most important theoretical contribution is its demonstration that, contrary to standard models, TNAs can affect security issues.... The book's remarkable empirical detail and clear theoretical argument will be invaluable for Cold War historians, arms control experts, international relations theorists, and aspiring transnational actors. -- Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University * Slavic Review *This is a highly detailed but readable book, punctuated by photographs and entertaining chapter captions.... Evangelista's book makes valuable reading for scholars interested in expanding their views about the end of the Cold War, as well as for those who will be inspired by the fact that transnational citizen influence could bring some amount of pressure to bear on one of the most brutal and tyrannical regimes of the twentieth century. -- Valerie Sperling, Clark University * Journal of Cold War Studies *This book will help educate those who think the course of the Cold War and its end—or for that matter any important dimension of international politics—were driven only by governments, national leaders, and vast political forces.... This is a smart, well-argued, and unassuming book. * Foreign Affairs *At the core of this book lies a thesis unsettling for conventional explanations of the cold war and its end: in terms of its professed aims of moderating Soviet conduct, U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union was a resounding failure.... At one level, this book functions as a massive indictment, sotto voce, of the U.S. security establishment, its government officials, allied academics, and media publicists. Evangelista cuts through their bluff, bluster, and baloney to reveal an astounding intellectual bankruptcy.... This is a powerful, path-breaking study. -- Michael Urban * Political Science Quarterly *To his credit, Matthew Evangelista has developed in Unarmed Forces a powerful argument that transnational movements of the past half century were able to influence the policies and decisions of a rigid, totalitarian USSR and a bureaucratized US foreign policy establishment.... He carefully marshals his arguments and provides a wealth of source material as an important dividend for the interested reader. -- Herbert L. Abrams, Stanford University * Physics Today *

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Book SynopsisStudy of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn’t fought. The reality, of course, is that many ‘hot’ conflicts did occur, some with the great powers’ weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan House plumbs in this volume.

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Book SynopsisThough it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the US and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Trade ReviewRed Reckoning assembles a remarkable set of authors and essays—provocative, bold, controversial, and enlightening—which suggest how much the Cold War changed America." - Thomas A. Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography"The unsuspected corners of American society that this book explores make Red Reckoning a volume to savor." - Stephen J. Whitfield, author of The Culture of the Cold War"Red Reckoning is an excellent catalyst for revisiting so much of what the Cold War altered about American life and discussing how these changes now influence our present politics." - Jack Adam MacLennan, assistant professor of political science and graduate program director for National Security Studies at Park University"By examining the Cold War's impact on U.S. society, Red Reckoning helps illustrate the degree to which our rights, laws, government policies, social culture, entertainment, and even our national identity were transformed by Cold War fears and assumptions." - Ralph G. Carter, author of Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making"Red Reckoning carefully explains how the military, economic, informational, and diplomatic perils of the struggles between the world's superpowers impacted domestic policy and family structures. I highly recommend it." - Maj. Gen. Byron S. Bagby (retired), former operations director of Joint Force Command Brunssum (NATO) and chief of staff for US Army, Europe

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as Weiss-Wendt. A Rhetorical Crime stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law."— David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History "New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "Anton Weiss-Wendt has presented clear and innovative arguments on a crucial topic and scrupulously supported them with relevant documents and other evidence. In so doing, he has written a salutary alternative narrative of human rights in the Cold War, one that has the potential to improve our understanding of Cold War dynamics as a whole."— Michigan War StudiesTable of ContentsForeword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War 2 Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned 3 Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia 4 The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq 5 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia 6 (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention 7 Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement 8 Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia 9 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 10 An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty Conclusion Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948‒1988 Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index 

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Book SynopsisThe first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.Trade ReviewReaders will be amazed by the interesting and engaging description of the dangerous and uncertain nature of submarine service. Leung reminds us that someone always stands the watch protecting our nation, its global interests and our democratic values. Standing Watch left me wanting to learn more and enhanced my appreciation for the men and women in today's submarine force."" - Regina T. Akers, historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC""As a career US Cold War submariner with a huge submarine library, I feel comfortable in saying that Standing Watch is the first book to my knowledge to examine the perceptions of the effect of the Cold War on junior US Submarine Force personnel."" - Alfred S. McLaren, author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Adventure’s Beginning Chapter 2. Underway Chapter 3. A Unique Culture Chapter 4. Fighting the War Chapter 5. Foreigner Chapter 6. Looking Back Epilogue: Parting Legacies Appendix A: Biographical Information Appendix B: US Submarine Losses (Cold War) Appendix C: Common US Navy Rates and Ranks Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303

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Book SynopsisTwelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. Together, these essays illustrate the complex positionalities, fluid identities, ambivalent embrace, and unpredictable agency of Japan's Americanists.

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Book SynopsisWell-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of US policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.Trade ReviewA balanced, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of these two nations to find common ground."" - Larry W. Blomstedt, Galveston College, author of Truman, Congress, and Korea

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Book SynopsisCryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics Attempts to understand the material architecture that was designed to protect and take life in nuclear war Zooms in on two types of structures - the nuclear bunker and the atomic missile silo Analyzes a broad range of sources through the lens of critical theory and argues for an appreciation of the two subterranean structures' complementary nature Trade Review'A serendipitous childhood discovery led the author on a personal and professional odyssey. Klinke immerses us in the zeitgeist of Cold War West Germany – a partitioned country created by post-war rivalries and foreign occupation. By investigating its subterranean qualities, he reveals a world far more complex and contradictory than accounts preoccupied with surface-level check-points and walls. Highly recommended.'Klaus Dodds, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Cryptic Concrete provides a fascinating and original exploration of how the distinctive German experiences of the Cold War and the aftermath of fascism can be read through their inscription in the architectural and landscape remains of atomic missile sites and nuclear bunkers. Ian Klinke reveals how the infrastructure of 20th century military destruction and survival informs the materiality of geopolitics in the present.'Rachel Woodward, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vi Preface vii 1 Of Blood and Soil 1 2 Lebensraum and Its Underside 22 3 Return to the Soil 45 4 Nuclear Living Space 67 5 Spaces of Extermination 91 6 Enter the Void 111 7 Conclusion 130 References 142 Index 167

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisA gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations. Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other wonder weapons for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, aTrade ReviewThrough participant vignettes, historian Crim provides insight into early Cold War decision-making in this well-documented, microhistorical, dissertation-like expose of Project Paperclip. Highly recommended.—ChoiceA very fine account concerning the internal dynamics of the Paperclip program, providing a more nuanced evaluation than has hitherto been available.—H-Net ReviewsAt a time when drones, cyberweapons, and other high technology continue to substitute for coherent foreign policy, Crim's book is a sober reminder of the moral hazards of a technocratic national security state.—Journal of American HistoryWhat distinguishes Our Germans is its emphasis on the role of the specialists in the emerging national security state of the early Cold War, where Project Paperclip 'exacerbated the growing rift between the State Department and an ascendant national security bureaucracy' (99). But most importantly, Our Germans is a much-needed update and expansion of Clarence Lasby's 1971 Project Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War.—American Historical ReviewIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the US government recruited hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including the designers of the V2 rocket, to staff American agencies and companies under the so-called Paperclip programme. Crim draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the history of the programme and the controversies it provoked.—International Institute for Strategic StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Aristocracy of Evil2. Implements of Progress3. Conscientious Objectors4. Their Germans5. Paperclip VindicatedEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War. Wolfe examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural diplomacy after World War II. During this period, the engines of US propaganda promoted a vision of science that highlighted empiricism, objectivity, a commitment to pure research, and internationalism. Working (both overtly and covertly, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations, scientists attempted to decide what, exactly, they mTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisExamines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists. On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations' Second Special Session on Disarmament. They demanded an end to the nuclear arms race and called for a shift from military funds to money allocated for human needs. In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi draws on archival materials and interviews with rally organizers and activists in Central Park to explore this demonstration from its inception through the months of organizing, recruiting, and planning, to the historic day itself.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Refugee Lifeworlds is a life-giving book, even as it dwells on war, genocide, and refugee experiences. Y-Dang Troeung has written a remarkable, moving, and courageous work that deserves a wide audience for its inspiring blend of criticism and memoir.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor at the University of Southern California, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War“To read Refugee Lifeworlds is to have the synapses connect, lighting up the ways that refugee legacies, disability, and mental health have always been meant to speak to each other, but only now can. It is also to meet history anew, as Y-Dang Troeung moves across an astonishing archive of documents, moments, and texts with a close-reader’s care and a storyteller’s grace. This book is stunning—at once beautiful and devastating. It is the work of grieving, so that we may better regroup.”—erin Khue Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities and Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Refugee Lifeworlds is a brilliant weaving of epistemological intervention, autofiction as political grievance, and abolitionist knowledge production. Argued with care and beautifully written, this profound book is invaluable for understanding the intersections of war, imperialism, and disability.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"[Troeung] incisively illustrates the importance of putting critical refugee studies in conversation with critical disability studies: the book’s main intervention."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes…. Y-Dang Troeung has bequeathed to us a small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.”—Pacific Historical Review"Troeung strongly and artfully argues that the so-called Cold War was not cold in Cambodia.... An effective storyteller, Troeung has produced a work of grieving that creatively interweaves discussions of autofiction, autotheory, political grievance, trauma, and disability, including the 'violence of benevolence' of the countries that received Cambodian refugees.... Though not a happy book, this is an excellent one. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With this book, the author has compiled an impressive refugee archive depicting the politics of refusal of state violence.... She skillfully connects the autobiographical self with both theory and experiences of gender, race, colonialism, refuge-seeking, survival and family inheritance as sources of knowledge. The result is a highly readable and interesting book."—International Institute for Asian Studies"Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final 'coda,' that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment.... Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes.... [A] small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial."—Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Refugee Lifeworlds is a life-giving book, even as it dwells on war, genocide, and refugee experiences. Y-Dang Troeung has written a remarkable, moving, and courageous work that deserves a wide audience for its inspiring blend of criticism and memoir.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor at the University of Southern California, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War“To read Refugee Lifeworlds is to have the synapses connect, lighting up the ways that refugee legacies, disability, and mental health have always been meant to speak to each other, but only now can. It is also to meet history anew, as Y-Dang Troeung moves across an astonishing archive of documents, moments, and texts with a close-reader’s care and a storyteller’s grace. This book is stunning—at once beautiful and devastating. It is the work of grieving, so that we may better regroup.”—erin Khue Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities and Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Refugee Lifeworlds is a brilliant weaving of epistemological intervention, autofiction as political grievance, and abolitionist knowledge production. Argued with care and beautifully written, this profound book is invaluable for understanding the intersections of war, imperialism, and disability.”—Jasbir K Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"[Troeung] incisively illustrates the importance of putting critical refugee studies in conversation with critical disability studies: the book’s main intervention."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes…. Y-Dang Troeung has bequeathed to us a small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial.”—Pacific Historical Review"Troeung strongly and artfully argues that the so-called Cold War was not cold in Cambodia.... An effective storyteller, Troeung has produced a work of grieving that creatively interweaves discussions of autofiction, autotheory, political grievance, trauma, and disability, including the 'violence of benevolence' of the countries that received Cambodian refugees.... Though not a happy book, this is an excellent one. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"With this book, the author has compiled an impressive refugee archive depicting the politics of refusal of state violence.... She skillfully connects the autobiographical self with both theory and experiences of gender, race, colonialism, refuge-seeking, survival and family inheritance as sources of knowledge. The result is a highly readable and interesting book."—International Institute for Asian Studies"Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in the Cambodia genocide in ways that implicate us all. Such is the power of this book including a final 'coda,' that no one reading it could doubt her general sentiments for a moment.... Given the book’s richly contextualized text and engagé human pacifist message, this short review can hardly do justice to a work replete with brilliant flashes.... [A] small masterpiece and poignant self-memorial."—Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisBridging East and West explores the literary evolution of one of Ukraine's foremost modernist writers, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, who was a major contributor in the intellectual debates of her time.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Standard Editions Introduction 1. The Art of Feminist Compromise 2. New Woman, New Myth 3. The Populist Trial 4. Hidden Modernism 5. War and Fiction 6. Between the Right and the Left Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.Trade ReviewAttempting to correct historical omissions that either neglect Latin America's role in the Third World or discuss only how US foreign policy impacted the region, this volume acknowledges how Latin America's engagement in global affairs fostered and contributed to conversations that challenged US imperialism and pushed for a multilateral approach to development that treated all states equally.--CHOICE

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Book SynopsisDrawing on previously unused sources such as oral histories, anthropologists’ field notes, military records, municipal and personal archives, and a private photograph collection, Sarah Foss analyses the uses and consequences of development and its relationship to ideas about race from multiple perspectives,.

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Book SynopsisThis biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Centering Beatriz's life within the global contours of the Cold War era, Tanya Harmer exposes the promises and paradoxes of the revolutionary wave that swept through Latin America in the 1960s.Trade ReviewWhile previous studies lionized or sentimentalized Beatriz, Harmer roots the subject in the context of the time period and brings to bear her own expertise in Cold War Latin America. A definitive biography of a female revolutionary." - Library Journal"[An] engaging, beautifully written biography. . . . The text is rich in stories as the author masterfully moves between Beatriz's personal life and the broader political history of Latin America. . . . Highly recommended." -CHOICE Reviews"In tracing Beatriz's life and her involvement with key domestic and international events, Harmer moves beyond studying just state-to-state relations or prominent male figures to examine how Cold War Latin America affected everyday people. In this, Harmer shows how women were protagonists and important historical actors in their own right. . . . An important and fascinating read." - H-Nationalism"A superb book about the 'sad but luminous days' of a female revolutionary." - European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"[A] compelling, elegantly-crafted biography. . . . The book is also far more than an individual life story. Harmer uses Beatriz and her generation to illuminate the cultural and political conflicts at the heart of the Cold War and Latin America's 'long 1960s'. . . . This book makes it clear that Chile lost a vital if unsung leader when Beatriz took her own life in 1977." - The Americas"A brilliant book that offers new and needed perspectives on the apex of the Latin American Cold War. . . . Owing to an extraordinary array of previously unconsulted primary sources, this book is a masterful example of how, by exploring one person's life and surroundings, researchers can scrutinize broader phenomena." - Hispanic American Historical Review"An intimate and gripping biography . . . a pathbreaking diplomatic and political history of the revolutionary sixties from below" - Diplomatic History"A micro-history and a portrait of everyday life in the Cold War that speaks to the wider political processes of Chile and Latin America."—H-LatAm

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Book SynopsisDuring the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the following morning launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy’s murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the Cagoule, a violent right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy’s murder and the investigation that followed. At the heart of this book lies a true crime that was sensational in its day. A microhistory that tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of France’s deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory.Trade Review"In their study of Marx Dormoy and his murder, Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite provide something for scholars and casual consumers of history alike. Fans of true crime, especially, will not be disappointed." -- Julie M. Powell * Origins, March 2021 *"The research and writing pair Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite have a knack for finding compelling stories that are historically revealing. With their new book, Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France, they again present a case study of a murder perpetrated by right-wing terrorists. As with their first book, they blend readability with intellectual rigor." -- Mattie Fitch, Marymount University * H-France *"Original in its content and insightful in its analysis, Assassination in Vichy will appeal not only to French history enthusiasts, but also to those who enjoy learning about the complex nature of wartime justice and France's rather complicated role in the Second World War." -- Catherine Gaughan, Ryerson University * The French Review *“A thrilling work of historical scholarship, thoughtful and scrupulous.” -- Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction July 26, 1941: Explosion 1. 1888–1941: Marx Dormoy and the Soul of France 2. 1941: A Long, Hot Summer 3. July 26–30, 1941: Anatomy of a Crime Scene 4. August 14, 1941: A Bombing in Nice 5. 1941: Recruiting the Assassins 6. August–October 1941: The Net Widens 7. October 1941–March 1942: The Waiting Game 8. April 18, 1942: The Return of Pierre Laval 9. January 23, 1943: German Intervention 10. August 26, 1944: Liberation Conclusion Today: The Legacy of Marx Dormoy Glossary Organizations Timeline Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzeviciute introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the.S and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of the very few permanent platforms where policy scientists from both sides of the Cold War divide could work together to articulate and solve world problems. This think tank was a rare zone of freedom, communication, and negotiation, where leading Soviet scientists could try out their innovative ideas, benefit from access to Western literature, and develop social networks, thus paving the way for some of the key science and policy breakthroughs of the twentieth century.Ambitious diplomatic, scientific, and organizational strategies were employed to make this arena for cooperation work for global change. Under the umbrelTrade ReviewThe Power of Systems is a first-rate monograph, best suited for graduate students, scholars of Soviet Russia and the Cold War, and scholars of the history and sociology of science. * American Historical Review *Combining a policy analyst's sensitivity to practical politics and a historian's instinct for contingency and context.... Rindzevičiūtė has provided a rare glimpse through the lens of boutique institutional history of a time and place. * SLAVIC REVIEW *The Power of Systems is a masterful study of a complex network of institutions and individuals—many of which were previously unregistered in the Anglo-American historiography—that made the international science of systems analysis possible. * Technology and Culture *

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Book SynopsisGeorge F. Kennan is well known as the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the author of the doctrine of containment. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer chronicles and assesses Kennan''s work in affecting US policy toward East Asia. Heer traces the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan''s strategic perspective on the Far East during his time as director of the State Department''s Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 1950. The author follows Kennan''s career and evolution of his thinking as he subsequently became a prominent critic of American participation in the Vietnam War. Mr. X and the Pacific offers readers a new view of Kennan, revealing his importance and the totality of his role in East Asia policy, his struggle with American foreign policy in the region, and the ways in which Kennan''s legacy still has implications for how the United States approaches the region in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched and well-crafted.... Paul Heer’s insightful look into George Kennan’s views of the region during the early years of the Cold War can help us better understand and cope with the geopolitical challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. * Asian Review of Books *Heer's work is clearly written, widely researched, fair and balanced in its assessments, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the influence of, and contradictory ideas sometimes held by, one of the most important foreign policymakers in the twentieth century. The organization by theme or nation works well due both to the nature of the material and to Heer's brief yet clear reminders of how one topic fits into another when appropriate. Also, although begun in the 1990s, as Heer explains in his opening, the work is quite timely. In the current international environment, a study that examines warnings against miscalculating America's interests, if not also capabilities, in East Asia is a welcome reminder that such miscalculations can often have serious and lasting ramifications for both the United States and the people in the region. * H-Diplo *There are insightful references to Kennan's hopes for reconciliation with Japan and China and much detail on Kennan's frustrations with US strategy changes in the Pacific and with Dean Acheson's replacing George Marshall as secretary of state. * Choice *[W]hat Heer has done in Mr. X and the Pacific is a success. His sober narrative proves worthy of his subject's powerful intellect in its careful analysis of the nuances of the historical record. * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *There has been no monograph focusing solely on Kennan's role in formulating U.S. Cold War policy in Asia, until Paul Heer's Mr. X and the Pacific. Heer's study meticulously traces Kennan's views of Asian countries and evaluates positive and negative legacies of Kennan's policy recommendations on the region. * Pacific Historical Review *Although known primarily as a Sovietologist, Kennan played a vital role in early Cold War US policy in East Asia, primarily with respect to the Chinese civil war and US policy in occupied Japan. Those several years are the primary focus of intelligence analyst-cum-scholar Paul Heer's meticulous and well-balanced critical study of Kennan's involvement in US East Asia policy. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Mr. X and the Pacific sheds light on how containment applied to East Asia... For those who are interested in US grand strategy in East Asia, especially in the era of the Cold War, this book is a must read. * H-War *

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Book SynopsisMatthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans. Losing Hearts and Minds is a narrative rife with historical ironies. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible versionTrade ReviewIn telling this fascinating and troubling transnational history, Shannon illustrates to diplomatic historians how much can be gained by attending seriously to the political significance of education. * History of Education Quarterly *Losing Hearts and Minds is an important intervention in the historiography of US-Iran relations. Shannon's work has broadened our gaze beyond diplomats, soldiers, and spies, in order to consider the significance of activists, students, and technocrats, amongst others, in shaping the relationship between Iran and the United States....This is a long-overdue development that will no doubt influence the future trajectory of the historiography, particularly as historians of US-Iran relations look ahead to the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution in 2019. * H-Net *Shannon deserves praise for his impressive archival research, broad scope, and focus on students as transnational actors... Losing Hearts and Minds is an important addition to the literature on U.S.-Iranian relations. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *In shedding light on the heretofore underappreciated importance of the Iranian student experience in the United States, Losing Hearts and Minds adds to our understanding of the Islamic Revolution and subsequent breakdown in U.S.-Iranian relations. Both a strong self-contained case study and part of a much larger, transnational narrative, it deserves a wide readership. * The Journal of American History *Shannon has written one of the finest available monographs on students as transnational actors. His book is also required reading for anyone wishing to comprehend the full story of U.S. relations with Pahlavi Iran. * Diplomatic History *American-Iranian Dialogues achieves what its authors set out to do. Its diverse chapters verify the significance of non-state actors in US-Iranian relations as well as the value of entangled history in that process. They also lay the groundwork for further work by authors and readers alike of editor Matthew Shannon's salutary anthology. * Michigan War Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisWhy did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union''s nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project''s intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi ''s plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?Houghton''s delightful retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a new look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As The Nuclear Spies shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union''s scientists, its rTrade ReviewIn this neat, enthralling study, Houghton wonders why this successful intelligence operation was followed by the failure to anticipate the first Soviet nuclear test in August 1949. * Foreign Affairs *A great read: Concise, fact-packed, laden with fascinating anecdotes, and chock full of insights... This book is for everyone, intelligence expert and layperson alike. A page turner. * The Cipher Brief *As Vince Houghton reports in this beautifully written and well-researched history, the American scientific and strategic community believed they were in a race with Nazi physics, and they had a nagging fear that they might not win that race. The Nuclear Spies explores the administrative, scientific, logistical, and intelligence aspects of the effort to collect, analyze, and disseminate information about a weapon that at the time was neither fully understood nor developed. * International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence *Vince Houghton has written an engaging and well-researched book focusing on the U.S. effort to gather scientific intelligence on the German atomic bomb program during World War II. Houghton expands his scope beyond the war to demonstrate that the scientific and atomic intelligence bureaucracy designed during the war withered in the immediate postwar era. * The Journal of American History *[A] useful introduction to the field of scientific intelligence. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Principal Uncertainty 1. A Reasonable Fear: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the German Nuclear Program 2. Making Something out of Nothing: The Creation of U.S. Nuclear Intelligence 3. Alsos: The Mission to Solve the Mystery of the German Bomb 4. Transitions: From the German Threat to the Soviet Menace 5. Regression: The Postwar Devolution of U.S. Nuclear Intelligence 6. Whistling in the Dark: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the Soviet Nuclear Program Conclusion: Credit Where Credit Is Due Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn To Kill Nations Edward Kaplan describesa long process of evolution and adaptation as U.S. political and military leaders grappled with integrating nuclear weapons into national defense after World War II. Strikingly, he sees not a sudden revolution but a gradual process of incremental changes in military preparedness policy and action. * Journal of American History *There are many other studies of weapons development and Eisenhower and Kennedy's approaches to national defense. The great strength of Kaplan's is his tracing of the evolution of US policy in response to perceived Soviet capabilities. He astutely demonstrates how the Berlin and Cuban missile crises exposed the drawbacks of preparing primarily for an atomic war with the Soviet Union.To Kill Nations will enlighten readers seeking an intelligent overview of the evolution of airpower strategy in the first twenty-five years of the Cold War as well as, more specifically, President Eisenhower's New Look security policy and Robert McNamara's influence on national security strategy during the Kennedy administration. * Michigan War Studies Review *Kaplan draws extensively on archival records, including declassified government documents, to tell the story of how US nuclear strategy went from being focused on winning nuclear war with the Soviet Union to being more in line with the [mutually assured destruction] thinking made famous by early nuclear deterrence scholars, such as Thomas Schelling.... The book is a well-researched, interesting history of SAC and SAC's influence on US national security strategy during the first twenty years of the Cold War. * H-NET Reviews *Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments into 223 pages of dense but readable text (260 including endnotes, etc.). The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field. * Strategy Bridge *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Antecedents 2. Declaration, Action, and the Air-Atomic Strategy 3. Finding a Place 4. The Fantastic Compression of Time 5. To Kill a Nation 6. Stalemate, Finite Deterrence, Polaris, and SIOP-62 7. New Sheriff in Town 8. End of an Era Conclusion Key to Sources and Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the national collective when faced with the priority of individual survival? What do nuclear weapons mean for transparency and accountability in government? What role should scientific experts occupy within a democratic government? Nuclear weapons created a new arena for debating individual and collective rights. In turn, they threatened to destabilize the very basis of American citizenship.As Sarah E. Robey shows in Atomic Americans, people negotiated the contours of nuclear citizenship through overlapping public discussions about survival. Policymakers and citizens disagreed about the scale of civil defense programs and other public safety measures. As the public learned more about the dangers of nuclear fallout, criticTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Wars to Come 1. Stop "Play[ing] Pattycake with the Whole Issue": Citizen Calls for Civil Defense 2. "Between the Devil and the Deep": Civil Defense and the Early Cold War Political Landscape 3. The Man in the White Lab Coat: The Uses of Scientists and Scientific Authority 4. The Fallout from Fallout: The Peacetime Threat 5. Atomic America: The Expert Public and Nuclear Dissent Conclusion: Renouncing the Nuclear in Nuclear Citizenship

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Book SynopsisArc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation.Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to US hegemony. Central to this revisionary strategic assessment is the place of British power and the effects of direct neocolonial military might and less overt cultural influences based on decades of colonial rule, as well as the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period. Arc of Containment demonstrates that AmTrade ReviewNgoei issues a sad warning about the costs for the peoples of the area subjected to the new and re-emergent Asian cold war challenges. This is an important scholarly contribution. * Choice *Wen-Qing Ngoei's Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia is a thought-provoking, compelling, and significant contribution to the study of American hegemony and intervention in postwar Southeast Asia. * Southeast Asian Studies *In this well-argued and convincing book, Wen-Qing Ngoei... delivers a perceptive and comprehensive... overview of the diplomatic and strategic evolution of Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. Arc of Containment situates the Vietnam War in a regional context, and students of history, diplomacy, politics, and security should find it interesting and illuminating. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Arc of Containment, which is based upon adroit trawling in the archives of the principal nations at issue—Great Britain, the United States, Singapore, and Malaysia—is certainly one of the more intriguing explorations of Washington's excruciating encounter in Southeast Asia; and, like many good books, it sheds light relentlessly on matters not necessarily addressed frontally: most pointedly, Washington's conflict then entente with China. * Diplomatic History *By bringing the agency and influence of Southeast Asian actors into his analysis, Ngoei's book offers more regional insight to interested readers seeking knowledge about American influence in Southeast Asia. The book itself represents a noteworthy intersection of historical, comparative, and security scholarship and would be of equal interest to historians, political scientists, and regional scholars alike. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *This relatively slim volume illuminates as it enlightens [a] vivid testament to its immense value. -- Diplomatic History

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Book SynopsisAmbassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements. By analyzing the intersection of disability and politics, Ambassadors of Social Progress enables a deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini significantly contributes to the little-studied history of disability in socialist Europe, and ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an import from the West in the post-1989 period, but rather had a long and meaningful tradition that was rooted in the socialist system of welfare and needed to be reinvented when this system fell apart.

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