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University of London Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold
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Folly Books Ltd The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring
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Watkins Media Empire of Deterrence
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SAR Press Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the
Book SynopsisThe long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates, this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.
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Harpia Publishing, LLC Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force
Book SynopsisThe Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion and in support of Cuban leader’s efforts to export their revolutionary ideals.The book casts an unprecedented look at the introduction and utilisation of all MiG models in Cuban service, since their arrival before the Cuban Missile Crisis, to current times, going through all of the conflicts in which Cuba was involved, from incidents with the Dominican Republic (‘Operación Pico’) and the Bahamas, to its entanglements in wars in Vietnam, Syria, Guinea, Southern Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua and the recent apprehension of ‘export goods’ to North Korea in the Panama Canal.The story of military aviation in Cuba before the arrival of the MiGs is also briefly presented, from the beginning of their air corps and its role in the political crises that affected the country, in Castro's Revolution and the ill-fated attempted invasion at the Bay of Pigs, contextualising the times when they happened.This is the result of extensive research using Cuban publications, documents, interviews with former pilots, historians and contributions by veteran Cuban airmen both in exile and residing in their homeland. The book is richly illustrated with over 170 photographs and colour profiles detailing the history of all twenty models of MiG fighters operated by Cuba from 1962 to the present.
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Casemate Publishers The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace,
Book SynopsisThe war on the Eastern Front during 1941-45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. The vast distances involved forced the Soviet political-military leadership to resort to new organizational expedients in order to control operations along the extended front. These were the high commands of the directions, which were responsible for two or more fronts (army groups) and, along maritime axes, one or more fleets.In all, five high commands were created along the northwestern, western, southwestern, and North Caucasus strategic directions during 1941-42. However, the highly unfavourable strategic situation during the first year of the war, as well as interference in day-to-day operations by Stalin, severely limited the high commands' effectiveness. As a consequence, the high commands were abolished in mid-1942 and replaced by the more flexible system of supreme command representatives at the front. A High Command of Soviet Forces in the Far East was established in 1945 and oversaw the Red Army's highly effective campaign against Japanese forces in Manchuria.The Far Eastern High Command was briefly resurrected in 1947 as a response to the tense situation along the Korean peninsula and the ongoing civil war in China, but was abolished in 1953, soon after Stalin's death. Growing tensions with China brought about the recreation of the Far Eastern High Command in 1979, followed a few years later by the appearance of new high commands in Europe and South Asia. However, these new high commands did not long survive the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and were abolished a year later.The book relies almost exclusively on Soviet and post-communist archival and other sources and is the first unclassified treatment of this subject in any country, East or West.Trade Review[P]rovides valuable and original research that reveals a great deal about the Soviet Union’s military command structure during World War II, with a few important insights into the almost fifty years that followed. * Journal of Military History 11/01/2023 *The book’s lively and colorful but precise style suits its highly technical and theoretical subject matter...an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the Soviet military. * Parameters 07/12/2022 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Imperial Antecedents 2. Soviet Antecedents 3. Organizing for War 4. The Northwestern High Command 5. The Western High Command 6. The Southwestern High Command 7. The North Caucasus High Command 8. The Stavka Representatives 9. The Far Eastern High Command 10. The Postwar High Commands Bibliography Index
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New Spur Publishing An Infographic History of the Cold War
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991
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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De Gruyter Beyond Boycotts: Sport during the Cold War in
Book SynopsisSport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events "beyond boycotts"many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States, but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an "apolitic" field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs. Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.
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Walter de Gruyter Warten Auf Godot?: Intellektuelle Seit Den 1960er
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Walter de Gruyter Verfolgung - Diskriminierung - Emanzipation:
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De Gruyter Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
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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Walter de Gruyter 1975
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Walter de Gruyter Hüter des Freistaats
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de Gruyter Überzeugungen Junger Westdeutscher Lehrpersonen
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de Gruyter Die Entdeckung Des Sterbens
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Leonid Breschnew: Staatsmann Und Schauspieler Im
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Bohlau Verlag Zeitgeschichte der Dinge: Spurensuchen in der
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln Kosmos und Kommunismus
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Harrassowitz Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus (1968-1988):
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Peter Lang AG Communism – Legitimacy – Nationalism: Nationalist
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history and presents the subject on the basis of an enormous amount of source files left by the Polish United Workers Party. The work is a substantial input into the knowledge on People’s Poland which shows with precision how the Polish communists used nationalistic arguments to legitimize and validate the system of power introduced by them. The author researches the fascinating source material with the help of a new and innovative concept.Table of ContentsThe Nationalist Legitimation of Political Authority – Communism – Legitimacy – Nationalism – Propaganda – Contemporary history of Eastern Europe – Social processes in communist countries – The Polish United Workers Party – The Soviet Union – People’s Poland
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Peter Lang AG Fear Management: Foreign Threats in the Post-War
Book SynopsisThe so-called ‘people's power’ – the communists – tended to make Poles afraid. At first – afraid of the Anglo-Saxon imperialists, then of the German revisionists, Zionist 5th column and ‘Kuroń and Michnik walking on the CIA’s leash’. The creation of the atmosphere of fear featuring Germans and their alleged ‘return’ lasted until 1970. In his Fear Management Bruno Kamiński reaches to the origins of this story. Based on a huge selection of sources this analytical study exhibits how in the first 15 postwar years Poles were threatened with the Western world. In the beginning, the Germans were chosen to play the role of the main enemy, dethroned later by the Americans. At the same time, the author proves that fear next to nationalism and ethnic hostility developed into one of the pillars legitimizing the communist system. Marcin Zaremba, Polish Academy of Science, University of WarsawTable of ContentsFear management – Stalinist Poland – Communist propaganda – Top-down manipulation – Media information – Propaganda figures of ‘German threat’, ‘American capitalist’ or ‘war provoker’ – History of emotions – Social reception of the fear management policy
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Peter Lang AG Sicherheit Denken: Entspannungspolitik auf der
Book SynopsisGerade wegen der Abkühlung des sowjetisch-amerikanischen Verhältnisses entwickelten sich die Beziehungen zwischen ost- und westdeutschen Instituten für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren beträchtlich weiter. Beide deutsche Staaten blieben sowohl an einem bi- wie multilateralen Entspannungsprozess über die Blockgrenzen hinweg interessiert und führten diesen teils auch gegen die explizit formulierten Erwartungen der jeweiligen Hegemonialmacht fort. Die Analyse greift sowohl den Perzeptionswandel einer deutsch-deutschen epistemic community als auch die sicherheits- und militärpolitischen Aspekte der Beziehungen zwischen Bonn und Ostberlin auf. Die Autorin holt somit die Bedeutung multilateraler Sicherheitspolitik in die Geschichte der Wiedervereinigung zurück und präsentiert eine neue Dimension der gegenseitigen Beeinflussung nicht nur der Institute sondern auch der Politikelite allgemein.
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Peter Lang AG The Cold War Re called
Book SynopsisThis book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of consequences of the Cold War for various countries and regions focusing on politics, economy, culture, and memory according to their own professional interests. Driven by research curiosity and a desire to look at events of the Cold War from different angles, they combined their efforts and prepared this volume. Through this process, the wide and multidimensional perspective of the Cold War has been highlighted. Its legacy appears to be increasingly important today, when the world, just three decades after the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet model of Communism, is experiencing another wave of dangerous tensions in international relations, called the New Cold War.
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Peter Lang AG Mnemonic Governance: Politics of History,
Book SynopsisThe publication is a collection of research articles that provide an insight to mnemonic governance – a process of shaping the shared social imaginary of the past by legislators, courts, scholars and other actors. This phenomenon can be observed as an element of political discourse or as changes in law consolidating certain officially recognized states. The contributions in this volume offer a political, legal and historical analysis of transitional justice legislation, emerging memory laws, and the societal perception of the past. With this publication, we intend to contribute to the ongoing and changing debate surrounding memory politics and highlight the practical consequences of mnemonic governance.Table of ContentsPart I Memory and Politics: Rule of Law, Criminal Law, and EU Policy - Part II Mnemonic Governance and Transitional Justice. Contemporary Politics and European Societies - Part III Mnemonic Governance in the Urban Space - Part IV Institutions and Social Actors: The Application of the Memory Law in Individual Cases
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Logos Verlag Berlin Elitenkontinuitat Und Politik in Der Dritten
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine: Putin’s War for Russia’s “Near Abroad”:
Book SynopsisRetired US Ambassador John J. Maresca draws on his personal papers to offer a first-hand account of his role in negotiating the end of the Cold War with the USSR. As a special American Ambassadorial envoy, he symbolically opened direct US diplomatic relations with each of the newly independent states from the former USSR following its dissolution. He recounts the situation in the region during that period, and how it has evolved into the situation of today. Maresca analyzes Putin's role and objectives, and concludes that the USA and the West in general must steadfastly oppose Putin's on-going effort to re-assemble Moscowʼs control over the full geographic scope of what was the USSR, starting with Ukraine.
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V&R unipress GmbH Radio Majak – Radiohören und Radiomachen in der
Book Synopsis1964 wurde der Radiosender Majak von den sowjetischen Machthabern und Rundfunkzuständigen geschaffen als Gegenangebot zu den westlichen Radiosendern BBC, VOA und RFE. Diesen Sachverhalt thematisiert der vorliegende Band und untersucht die Funktion, Konzeption und den Erfolg von Majak beim sowjetischen Publikum anhand dreier Akteur:innengruppen Regime, Medienmacher:innen und Publikum. Kristina Wittkamp leistet damit einen Beitrag zur sowjetischen Kultur- und Mediengeschichte und bietet Aufschlüsse über Handlungsspielräume, Teilöffentlichkeiten und Aneignungspraktiken. Konzeptionell fungiert Majak als Dispositiv, das eingebettet ist in eine Anordnungsstruktur der Akteur:innen, beteiligten Institutionen, technischen Gegebenheiten, diskursiven Strukturen, Programmkonzeptionen, Rezeptionspraktiken und Wahrnehmungen. In 1964 Soviet leadership and in charge media authorities created a new radiostation Majak' should compete with Western stations like BBC, VOA and RFE. This circumstance provides the basis for analyzing the concrete function, concept and success of Majak' via three different groups of agents - members of the Soviet Party leadership, broadcasters and audience. This book contributes to analyzing Soviet cultural and media history and provides Information about scopes of agency, public spheres and practices of media appropriation. Majak' acts as a dispositif, embedded in an arrangement of actors, participating institutions, technical structures, discourses, programme concepts, modes of reception and perception.
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Sandstein Verlag Der Blick Der Staatssicherheit: Fotografien Aus
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Wydawnictwo STRATUS, Artur Juszczak Mikoyan Gurevich Uti Mig-15 and Licence Build
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La batalla de la propagada
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Brill The Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet
Book SynopsisIn Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 Natalia Tsvetkova recounts how the United States and the Soviet Union aspired to transform overseas academic institutions according to their political aims during the Cold War. The book depicts how U.S. and Soviet attempts to impose certain values, disciplines, teaching models, structures, statutes, and personnel at universities in divided Germany, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, both Vietnams, and Cuba as well as Guatemala were foiled by sabotage, ignorance, and resistance on the part of the local academic elite, particularly professors. Often at odds with local academic communities, U.S. and Soviet university policies endured unexpected frustrations as their efforts toward Americanization and Sovietization faced developmental setbacks, grassroots resistance, and even political fear.
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Leiden University Press The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
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Canfora Grafisk Form The Soviet Army on Parade 1946-1991
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Tulika Islam, South Asia and the Cold War
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War
Book SynopsisThe Cold War is over - yet signs of it still exist. For forty years, the Iron Curtain divided the countries of Europe into East and West. The arms race was unleashed, nuclear fallout shelters were constructed, and everyone braced for the worst. Dutch photographer Martin Roemers (1962) spent ten years in search of the traces of this period, travelling through the countries of former enemies on both sides of the line. He explored and photographed abandoned underground tunnels, former barracks, rotting tanks, and destroyed monuments. His photographs, which are presented here with essays by H.J.A. Hofland and Nadine Barth, are a stark and moving document of this era of hostility, deterrence politics, and the arms race - and also serve as an appeal for future peace. Text in English and Dutch.
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Amsterdam University Press Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern
Book SynopsisWas there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist Eastern Europe? Who conducted them, where, how, and why? These are the questions answered in this volume, the first of its kind in any language. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, the book offers case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and former Yugoslavia. Together, these contributions demonstrate the variety of makers, production contexts, and aesthetic approaches that shaped a surprisingly robust and diverse experimental film output in the region. The book maps out the terrain of our present-day knowledge of cinematic experimentalism in Eastern Europe, suggests directions for further research, and will be of interest to scholars of film and media, art historians, cultural historians of Eastern Europe, and anyone concerned with questions of how alternative cultures emerge and function under repressive political conditions.Trade Review"This is a gem of a collection. It makes a unique and lasting contribution to film history, film studies, and the history of avant-garde/experimental cinema. The thirteen chapters, shepherded by expert curation by the two editors, provide the definitive, thoroughly researched, interconnected, and yet locally specific histories of experimental cinema in the East European countries under Soviet influence in the 1960s-70s, the most prolific period of this kind of filmmaking during the Cold War."– Anikó Imre, University of Southern California, editor of East European Cinemas and A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas "I am extraordinarily impressed by this collection—by its balance of diversity and coherence, the quality of the individual contributions and the “curatorial” work of the editors, the depth of research, and the thoroughness with which it covers its topic. This is a powerhouse collection of scholarship that provides an exceptional introduction to a sadly under-studied and under-represented topic. In both the introduction and the contributions, the editors and authors link their projects to larger questions—historical, theoretical, methodological—in the field, all of which are relevant and indeed at the forefront of current work in cinema and art studies."– Jonathan Walley, Denison University, author of Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia "It is among the first editions that do not simply concentrate on the history of local experimental filmmaking practices within Eastern Europe but attempt to give an overview of such practices in the aforementioned region. The publication of this book without a doubt can be a crucial step in the research of this field and will be important and inevitable literature for all the scholars focusing on the area." - Bori Máté, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Sep 2022Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 7 Introduction (Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi) Part I Key Figures 1. The Experimentalism of Gábor Bódy (Gábor Gelencsér) 2. Circles, Lines, and Documentary Designs: Tomislav Gotovac’s Belgrade Trilogy (Greg de Cuir Jr.) 3. From the Workshop of the Film Form to Martial Law: On the Intersecting and Bifurcating Paths of Pawel Kwiek’s and Józef Robakowski’s Cinematographic Work in the 1970s and the 1980s (Lukasz Mojsak) Part II Production, Support, and Distribution 4. Amateur Cinema in Bulgaria (Vladimir Iliev with Katerina Lambrinova) 5. The Polish Educational Film Studio and the Cinema of Wojciech Wiszniewski (Masha Shpolberg) 6. Home Movies and Cinematic Memories: Fixing the Gaze on Vukica Dilas and Tatjana Ivancic (Petra Belc) Part III Viewing Contexts, Theories, and Reception 7. Alone in the Cinemascope (Aleksandar Boskovic) 8. kinema ikon—Experiments in Motion (1970–89) (Ileana L. Selejan) 9. AudioVision: Sound, Music, and Noise in East German Experimental Films (Seth Howes) Part IV Intersection of the Arts 10. Intersections of Art and Film on the Wroclaw Art Scene, 1970–80 (Marika Kuzmicz) 11. Conceptual Artist, Cognitive Film: Miklós Erdély at the Balázs Béla Studio (Ksenya Gurshtein) 12. Works and Words, 1979: Manifesting Eastern European Film and/as Art in Amsterdam (Sonja Simonyi) 13. Wizardry on a Shoestring: Carodej and Experimental Filmmaking in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia (Tomás Glanc) Index
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Soviet Manipulation of Religious Circles ,
Book SynopsisThe term religious circles was coined by the World Peace Council (WPC), an organisation that during the Cold War was linked to the propaganda apparatus of the Artheist Communist of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In declassified reports Western intelligence services described the WPC as a Communist Party front organisation. The communists of the former Soviet Union are usually referred to as the Soviets. The Moscow-oriented communist also availed themselves of the Christian Peace Conference (CPC), another important communist front organisation which sought to manipulate Christian churches and the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva. The CPC was dominated by the Soviet controlled Russian Orthodox Church which became a member of the WCC in 1961. A supportive role was played by the former KGB, the Soviet intelligence and security service during the Cold War. Through the CPC and the Russian Orthodox Church the Soviets manipulated the debate in ecumenical circles and the peace movement. Soviet agents helped to draft policy statements on international affairs at WCC Central Committee meetings. These KGB agents were later identified by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin. They were Aleksei Buyewsky (agent Kuznetsov) and metropolitan Nikodim (agent Adamant). Nikodim became one of the WCCs six presidents in 1975. I identified Buyevsky as a possible KGB agent in 1977.
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Central European University Press Gorbachev and Bush: The Last Superpower Summits.
Book SynopsisThis book presents and interprets archival records of the meetings between Mikhail Gorbachev and George W. Bush between 1989 and 1991, including transcripts of conversations between top leaders on the rapid and monumental events of the final days of the Cold War. Particularly effective interlocutors were the foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and James Baker, especially interesting when they interacted directly with Bush or Gorbachev. The documents were obtained from the Gorbachev Foundation and the Russian State Archives and from the United States government through requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Taking place at a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, stimulated in part by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (the Solidarity movement, dissidents, reform communists), the Malta Summit of 1989 and subsequent meetings helped defuse any potential for superpower conflict. Each of the five summits is covered in a separate chapter, introduced by an essay that places the transcripts in historical context. The anthology offers a fascinating glimpse into the relationship that defined the last, waning years of the Cold War-a unique record of these historic, highest-level conversations that effectively brought it to a close. The quality and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented and is likely never to be repeated.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Main Actors Chronology of Events Chapter 1: The Malta Summit, 1989 Document No. 71: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 12:33 p.m. -12:46 p.m., January 23, 1989 Document No. 72: CIA Intelligence Estimate: "Moscow's 1989 Agenda for U.S.-Soviet Relations," February 1989 Document No. 73: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Getting Ahead of Gorbachev," March 1, 1989 Document No. 74: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Baker, Moscow, May 11, 1989 Document No. 75: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Scope Paper--Your Visit to Poland," June 29, 1989 Document No. 76: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, July 21, 1989 Document No. 77: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Shevardnadze, Washington, 2:00 p.m. - 3:05 p.m., September 21, 1989 Document No. 78: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, November 22, 1989 Document No. 79: Memorandum from Baker for the President: "Your December Meeting With Gorbachev," November 29, 1989 Document No. 80: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and John Paul II, December 1, 1989 Document No. 81: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, First Expanded Bilateral Meeting, Malta, 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m., December 2, 1989 Document No. 82: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, First Restricted Bilateral Meeting, Malta, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., December 2, 1989 Document No. 83: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Luncheon Meeting, Malta, 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m., December 2, 1989 Document No. 84: Memorandum of Conversation: Bush-Gorbachev, Second Restricted Bilateral Meeting, Malta, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., December 3, 1989 Document No. 85: Memorandum of Conversation: Bush-Gorbachev, Second Expanded Bilateral Meeting, Malta, 4:35 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., December 3, 1989 Document No. 86: Memorandum from Rice to Scowcroft, December 5, 1989 Document No. 87: Chernyaev Diary, January 2, 1990 Chapter 2: The Washington and Camp David Summit, 1990 Document No. 88: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Objectives for U.S.-Soviet Relations in 1990," January 1990 Document No. 89: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 7:04 a.m. - 7:30 a.m., January 31, 1990 Document No. 90: Memorandum of Conversation, Gates-Kryuchkov, KGB Headquarters, Moscow, 3:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., February 9, 1990 Document No. 91: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Kohl, Camp David, 2:37 p.m. - 4:50 p.m., February 24, 1990 Document No. 92: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 7:14 a.m. - 7:51 a.m., February 28, 1990 Document No. 93: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Shevardnadze, Washington, 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m., April 6, 1990 Document No. 94: Cable from U.S. Embassy Moscow to Department of State: "Gorbachev Confronts Crisis of Power," May 11, 1990 Document No. 95: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Baker (with delegations), Moscow, May 18, 1990 Document No. 96: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Scope Paper--The Gorbachev Summit," Late May 1990 Document No. 97: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Kohl, 7:34 a.m. - 7:43 a.m., May 30, 1990 Document No. 98: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, First Private Meeting, Washington, 10:54 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., May 31, 1990 Document No. 99: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Bush, Washington, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., May 31, 1990 Document No. 100: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Second Private Meeting, Washington, 11:00 a.m. - 11:48 a.m., June 1, 1990 Document No. 101: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Second Plenary Meeting, Washington, 11:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., June 1, 1990 Document No. 102: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Final Private Meeting, Camp David, 11:15 a.m. - 12:59 p.m., and 3:00 p.m., June 2, 1990 Document No. 103: "Briefing Allies on Washington Summit," U.S. Department of State Cable, June 15, 1990 Document No. 104: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 9:26 a.m. - 10:06 a.m., July 17, 1990 Chapter 3: The Helsinki Summit, Paris, and the War in the Gulf, 1990 Document No. 105: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Baker-Shevardnadze, 1:29 p.m., August 7, 1990 Document No. 106: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, August 20, 1990 Document No. 107: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, August 29, 1990 Document No. 108: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Your Meeting with Gorbachev in Helsinki," Circa early September, 1990 Document No. 109: Record of Conversation between Bush and Gorbachev, Private Meeting, Helsinki, September 9, 1990 Document No. 110: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Plenary Meeting, Helsinki, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., September 9, 1990 Document No. 111: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Kohl, 12:36 p.m. - 12:46 p.m., September 11, 1990 Document No. 112: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Shevardnadze, New York, 1:15 p.m. - 1:50 p.m., October 1, 1990 Document No. 113: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, October 20, 1990 Document No. 114: Letter from Gorbachev to Bush, November 6, 1990 Document No. 115: Memorandum from James Baker to the President: "My Day in Moscow, November 8, 1990," November 9, 1990 Document No. 116: Record of the Main Content of Conversation between Gorbachev and Bush, Paris, November 19, 1990 Document No. 117: Record of the Main Content of Conversation between Gorbachev and Bush, Paris, November 20, 1990 Document No. 118: Letter from Gorbachev to Bush, December 27, 1990 Document No. 119: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 8:02 a.m. - 8:25 a.m., January 11, 1991 Document No. 120: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 9:23 a.m. - 10:34 a.m., January 18, 1991 Document No. 121: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 11:15 a.m. - 11:43 a.m., February 23, 1991 Chapter 4: The Moscow Summit, 1991 Document No. 122: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Baker, Moscow, March 15, 1991 Document No. 123: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Shevardnadze, Washington, 1:40 p.m. - 2:25 p.m., May 6, 1991 Document No. 124: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 9:03 a.m. - 9:47 a.m., May 11, 1991 Document No. 125: Handwritten Memorandum from Hewett for the President: "President Gorbachev's Remarks on Relations with the U.S.," Circa May 25, 1991 Document No. 126: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 4:30 p.m. - 4:49 p.m., May 27, 1991 Document No. 127: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, June 19, 1991 Document No. 128: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Meeting on Soviet Economic Issues and the London Economic Summit," June 20, 1991 Document No. 129: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 10:00 a.m. - 10:38 a.m., June 21, 1991 Document No. 130: Letter from Bush to Gorbachev, Circa Early July 1991 Document No. 131: Letter from Gorbachev to Bush, July 14, 1991 Document No. 132: Memorandum of Conversation, Gorbachev-Bush, London, July 17, 1991 Document No. 133: Memorandum of Conversation, G-7 Meeting with President Gorbachev, London, 2:20 p.m. - 6:15 p.m., July 17, 1991 Document No. 134: Memorandum from Eagleburger for the President: "Your Visit to the USSR," July 25, 1991 Document No. 135: Record of Main Content of Conversation between Gorbachev and Bush, First Private Meeting, Moscow, July 30, 1991 Document No. 136: Memorandum of Conversation, Gorbachev-Bush, Expanded Bilateral Meeting, Moscow, 12:55 p.m. - 1:22 p.m., July 30, 1991 Document No. 137: Memorandum of Conversation, Gorbachev-Bush-Nazarbayev, Luncheon Meeting, Moscow, 1:28 p.m. - 2:07 p.m., July 30, 1991 Document No. 138: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Yeltsin, Moscow, 3:55 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., July 30, 1991 Document No. 139: Record of the Main Content of Conversation between Bush and Gorbachev, Novo-Ogarevo, July 31, 1991 Document No. 140: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Kravchuk, Kiev, 1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m., August 1, 1991 Epilogue: Madrid, 1991 Document No. 141: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gonzalez, 1:51 p.m. - 2:02 p.m., August 19, 1991 Document No. 142: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Yeltsin, 8:18 a.m. - 8:35 a.m., August 20, 1991 Document No. 143: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 12:19 p.m. - 12:31 p.m., August 21, 1991 Document No. 144: Memorandum from Scowcroft for the President: "Developments in the USSR," September 5, 1991 Document No. 145: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 9:22 a.m. - 9:50 a.m., September 27, 1991 Document No. 146: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., October 5, 1991 Document No. 147: Scene Setter for Meeting with President Gorbachev, Circa late October 1991 Document No. 148: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Luncheon Meeting, Madrid, 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., October 29, 1991 Document No. 149: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, Private Meeting, Madrid, 1:20 p.m. - 2:35 p.m., October 29, 1991 Document No. 150: Record of Dinner Conversation between Gorbachev, Bush, Gonzalez and King Juan Carlos of Spain, October 29, 1991 Document No. 151: Chernyaev Diary, November 2, 1991 Document No. 152: Memorandum of Conversation, Bush-Yakovlev, Washington, 3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., November 19, 1991 Document No. 153: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush- Gorbachev, 9:01 a.m. - 9:37 a.m., November 30, 1991 Document No. 154: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Yeltsin, 1:08 p.m. - 1:36 p.m., December 8, 1991 Document No. 155: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush-Gorbachev, 3:37 p.m. - 4:11 p.m., December 13, 1991 Document No. 156: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Baker, December 16, 1991 Document No. 157: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Gorbachev-Bush, 10:03 a.m. - 10:25 a.m., December 25, 1991 Selected Bibliography Index Photo Gallery
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Central European University Press Gorbachev and Reagan: The Last Superpower
Book SynopsisThis book is the culmination of twenty years of research in which the editors gathered thousands of pages documenting the most important conversations of the late Cold War. Every word Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said to each other in their five superpower summits from 1985 to 1988 is included in this volume. The editors argue in their contextual essays and detailed notes that these summits fueled a learning process on both sides of the Cold War. Their anthology provides insight into the nuanced shifts of monumentally important discussions, showing how Moscow's sense of threat was eased and how a hawkish Reagan softened his tone in negotiations during his second presidential term. Documents from foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and George Shultz offer a particularly intriguing look into the handful of conversations that ended almost half a century of conflict. These verbatim transcripts, until now top secret, are combined with fascinating photos and crucial information from declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both the Americans and Soviets, obtained in the US through the Freedom of Information Act and in Russia from the Gorbachev Foundation, the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal files of Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy adviser.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Main Actors Chronology of Events Chapter 1: The Geneva Summit, 1985 Document No. 1: Record of Conversation between Thatcher and Reagan, December 22, 1984 Document No. 2: Memorandum from Yakovlev to Gorbachev: "About Reagan," March 12, 1985 Document No. 3: Letter from Reagan to Gorbachev, April 30, 1985 Document No. 4: CIA Intelligence Analysis: "Gorbachev, the New Broom," June 1985 Document No. 5: Record of Main Content of Conversation between Gorbachev and U.S. Senate Delegation, September 3, 1985 Document No. 6: Memorandum Dictated by Reagan: "Gorbachev," November, 1985 Document No. 7: CIA paper: "Sharing SDI Technology with the Soviets," November 1, 1985 Document No. 8: Memorandum from McFarlane to the President: "Papers on the Soviet Union: Gorbachev and his Geneva Agenda," November 12, 1985 Document No. 9: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Private Meeting, Geneva, 10:20 a.m. - 11:20 a.m., November 19, 1985 Document No. 10: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Plenary Meeting, Geneva, 11:27 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., November 19, 1985 Document No. 11: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Plenary Meeting, Geneva, 2:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m., November 19, 1985 Document No. 12: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Private Meeting, Geneva, 3:40 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., November 19, 1985 Document No. 13: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Dinner Hosted by the Gorbachevs, Geneva, 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., November 19, 1985 Document No. 14: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Third Private Meeting, Geneva, 10:15 a.m. - 11:25 a.m., November 20, 1985 Document No. 15: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Third Plenary Meeting, Geneva, 11:30 a.m. - 12:40 p.m., November 20, 1985 Document No. 16: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Fourth Plenary Meeting, Geneva, 2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., November 20, 1985 Document No. 17: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Dinner Hosted by President and Mrs. Reagan, Geneva, 8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., November 20, 1985 Document No. 18: Draft Private Letter from Reagan to Gorbachev, November 28, 1985 Document No. 19: Letter from Gorbachev to Reagan, December 24, 1985 Chapter 2: The Reykjavik Summit, 1986 Document No. 20: Letter from Gorbachev to Reagan, January 14, 1986 Document No. 21: Letter from Reagan to Gorbachev, February 22, 1986 Document No. 22: Record of Conversation between Gorbachev and Members of the U.S. Congress Fascell and Broomfield, April 4, 1986 Document No. 23: Letter from Gorbachev to Reagan, September 15, 1986 Document No. 24: Meeting in the Secretariat Room with Members of the Politburo and Assistants, September 22, 1986 Document No. 25: Memorandum from Shultz to the President: "Reykjavik," October 2, 1986 Document No. 26: Gorbachev's Instructions to the Reykjavik Preparation Group, October 4, 1986 Document No. 27: Notes of a CC CPSU Politburo Session, October 8, 1986 Document No. 28: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Meeting, Reykjavik, 10:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., October 11, 1986 Document No. 29: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Meeting, Reykjavik, 3:30 p.m. - 5:40 p.m., October 11, 1986 Document No. 30: Record of Conversation in the Working Group on Military Issues, October 11-12, 1986 Document No. 31: Transcript of Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik Talks, October 12, 1986 Document No. 32: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Fourth Meeting, Reykjavik 3:25 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., October 12, 1986 Document No. 33: Transcript of Gorbachev-Reagan Reykjavik Talks, Final Meeting, October 12, 1986 Document No. 34: State Department: "Lessons of Reykjavik," October 12, 1986 Document No. 35: Gorbachev's Thoughts on Reykjavik, October 12, 1986 Document No. 36: Memorandum from Poindexter for the President: "Why We Can't Commit to Eliminating All Nuclear Weapons Within 10 Years," October 16, 1986 Document No. 37: Memorandum from Shultz for the President: "Visit of UK Prime Minister Thatcher," November 12, 1986 Document No. 38: Notes from the Conference with Politburo Members and Secretaries of the Central Committee, December 1, 1986 Chapter 3: The Washington Summit, 1987 Document No. 39: Memorandum from Yakovlev to Gorbachev: "Analysis of the Visit to the USSR of Prominent American Political Leaders (Kissinger, Vance, Kirkpatrick, Brown, et. al.)," February 25, 1987 Document No. 40: Memorandum of Conversation between Gorbachev and Shultz, April 14, 1987 Document No. 41: Plan of Negotiations with Reagan in Washington [Draft dictated by Gorbachev to Chernyaev], May 1987 Document No. 42: Notes of a CC CPSU Politburo Session, July 9, 1987 Document No. 43: Memorandum of Conversation between Gorbachev and Shultz, October 23, 1987 Document No. 44: Memorandum from Abramowitz to the Secretary: "Gorbachev's Private Summit Agenda," November 28, 1987 Document No. 45: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Meeting, Washington, 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., December 8, 1987 Document No. 46: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Meeting, Washington, 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m., December 8, 1987 Document No. 47: Record of Conversation between Akhromeyev and Nitze at the U.S. State Department, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., December 8, 1987 Document No. 48: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Third Meeting, Washington, 10:35 a.m. - 10:45 a.m., December 9, 1987 (with Information Memorandum by Ermarth from December 15, 1987) Document No. 49: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Fourth Meeting, Washington, 10:55 a.m. - 12:35 p.m., December 9, 1987 Document No. 50: Record of Conversation between Akhromeyev and Carlucci, December 9, 1987 Document No. 51: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Fifth Meeting, Washington, 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m., December 10, 1987 Document No. 52: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Working Luncheon, Washington, 12:40 p.m. - 2:10 p.m., December 10, 1987 Document No. 53: Record of Conversation between Bush and Gorbachev Following Summit, Washington, December 10, 1987 Document No. 54: Notes of a CC CPSU Politburo Session, December 17, 1987 Chapter 4: The Moscow Summit, 1988 Document No. 55: Memorandum of Conversation, Gorbachev-Shultz, Moscow, February 22, 1988 Document No. 56: Notes from a CC CPSU Politburo Session, February 25, 1988 Document No. 57: Notes from a CC CPSU Politburo Session, March 10, 1988 Document No. 58: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Private Session, Moscow, 3:26 p.m. - 4:37 p.m., May 29, 1988 Document No. 59: Memorandum of Conversation: "The President's Meeting with Monks in Danilov Monastery," Moscow, 2:28 p.m. - 2:47 p.m., May 30, 1988 Document No. 60: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, First Plenary Meeting, Moscow, 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., May 30, 1988 Document No. 61: Department of State Cable, "The President's Human Rights Reception a Success," May 30, 1988 Document No. 62: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Private Meeting, Moscow, 10:08 a.m. - 11:07 a.m., May 31, 1988 Document No. 63: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Second Plenary Meeting, Moscow, 10:05 a.m. - 11:20 a.m., June 1, 1988 Document No. 64: Notes of a CC CPSU Politburo Session "On Reagan's Visit to Moscow," June 6, 1988 Document No. 65: Memorandum from Arbatov to Gorbachev, June 1988 Chapter 5: The Governors Island Summit, 1988 Document No. 66: Memorandum from Dobrynin to Gorbachev, September 18, 1988 Document No. 67: Notes from a CC CPSU Politburo Session, November 3, 1988 Document No. 68: Special National Intelligence Estimate: "Soviet Policy During the Next Phase of Arms Control in Europe," November 16, 1988 Document No. 69: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Private Meeting, Governors Island, 1:05 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., December 7, 1988 Document No. 70: Memorandum of Conversation, Reagan-Gorbachev, Luncheon Meeting, Governors Island, 1:40 p.m. - 3:10 p.m., December 7, 1988
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Central European University Press Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners
Book SynopsisWestern democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. How to respond? During the Cold War, the West fought off similar Soviet propaganda assaults with shortwave radio broadcasts. Founded in 1949, the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored information to the Soviet republics in their own languages. About one-third of Soviet urban adults listened to Western radio. The broadcasts played a key role in ending the Cold War and eroding the communist empire. R. Eugene Parta was for many years the director of Soviet Area Audience Research at RFE/RL, charged among others with gathering listener feedback. In this book he relates a remarkable Cold War operation to assess the impact of Western radio broadcasts on Soviet listeners by using a novel survey research approach. Given the impossibility of interviewing Soviet citizens in their own country, it pioneered audacious interview methods in order to fly under the radar and talk to Soviets traveling abroad, ultimately creating a database of 51,000 interviews which offered unparalleled insights into the media habits and mindset of the Soviet public. By recounting how the “impossible” mission was carried out, Under the Radar also shows how the lessons of the past can help counter the threat from a once and current adversary.Trade Review"Most of Radio Free Europe’s research efforts were geared toward learning how to build listener trust and how to counter propaganda. Today, there is no centralized research organization that combines quantitative media surveys with analytical research into the target country’s economic, political, and sociocultural life. Parta’s final peroration is a call for the creation of such an institution: one that could provide insights into digital audiences and offer counternarratives, especially in light of contemporary Russian propaganda and its role in fueling the war in Ukraine." https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911038 -- Ana Cohle * Technology and Culture *"Stylishly written and fun to read, Parta’s book is ultimately more about people than policies or data. He describes his fellow employees and associates at the various contracting firms who conducted the actual interviews that provided raw data for statistical analyses. He elucidates how they worked and sometimes how they played, which gives the reader a sense of the personalities behind Cold War radio. These were not policy-formulating or policyimplementing automatons but real people with real virtues and failings." https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/25/4/261/118956/Cold-War-Radio-The-Russian-Broadcasts-of-the-Voice?redirectedFrom=fulltext -- Anatol Shmelev * Journal of Cold War Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction Prelude: My Road to Radio Liberty (amabile) First Movement (1965-1970): Early Years of Audience Research (andante) Second Movement (1970-1980): First Steps in Audience Interviewing (accelerato) Photo section. Third Movement (1981-1985): Audience Research Breaks New Ground (sforzando) Fourth Movement (1986-1990): Perestroika Changes the Game (fuocoso) Fifth Movement (1991-1994): The Post-Soviet Transition (vittorioso, capriccioso, lamentoso) Postlude: Past Successes and the Road Ahead (coda) Appendix 1: Charts and Graphs referenced in text Appendix 2: Vignettes: Max Ralis, Helmut Aigner, Christopher Geleklidis, Steen Sauerberg, Andrei Nazarov, Ivan Myhul, Viktor Nekrasov, Andrei Sinyavsky, Aleksandr Galich, Victor Grayevsky, Vladimir Shlapentokh, Boris Grushin, Yuri Levada, Irina Alberti Appendix 3: Methodologies. MIT Simulation. Contribution of Ithiel de Sola Pool Appendix 4: Excerpts from Questionnaires, BALEs, BGRs Appendix 5: Subsequent careers of SAAOR/MOR Staffers Bibliography Index
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NUS Press Southeast Asia After the Cold War: A Contemporary
Book SynopsisInternational politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But order and regionalism are now under seige, with a new global strategic rebalancing under way. The region is now forced to contemplate new risks, even the emergence of new sorts of cold war, rivalry and conflict.Ang Cheng Guan, author of Southeast Asia's Cold War, writes here in the mode of contemporary history, presenting a complete, analytically informed narrative that covers the region, highlighting change, continuity and context.Crucial as a tool to make sense of the dynamics of the region, this account of Southeast Asia's international relations will also be of immediate relevance to those in China, the USA and elsewhere who engage with the region, with its young, dynamic population, and its strategic position across the world's key choke-points of trade. This is essential reading for decisionmakers who wish to understand our current situation, looking back to the end of the Cold War thirty years ago, and forward to an uncertain future.Trade ReviewNo other author has matched the width and depth of analysis as has Ang Cheng Guan. His histories of Southeast Asian international politics, from the perspective of a Singaporean, the centre of a diverse and dynamic region, provides a prospective not achieved by any other authority. Southeast Asia After the Cold War brings his penetrating account up to date.|Deft and imaginative sourcing gives Southeast Asia After the Cold War a clear and compelling perspective from within the region—one that renders alternative perspectives trivial. In linking the evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism to the uncertain search for a new order, Ang Cheng Guan has written a brilliantly conceived book.
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NUS Press US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic
Book SynopsisAt the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation between the United States and Singapore. The author argues that Singapore might not have achieved its success so rapidly without the support of the US.As the war in Vietnam raged on, Singapore became a critical refueling point, also providing ship and aircraft repair for the US military. Commercial and strategic support from the United States lifted Singapore out of the economic doom predicted for the city-state after secession from Malaysia, cessation of Indonesian trade during Konfrontasi and Britain’s military withdrawal. By considering the importance of the US’s role in Singapore’s nation-building, this book provides an important supplement to the well-trodden narrative that attributes Singapore’s success to good governance.Trade Review"Daniel Chua deftly guides the reader through the complexities and nuances of this emerging relationship and in so doing, sheds new light on Singapore’s relations with the U.S. during the former’s first decade of independence. [...] In addition, his study provides fascinating insights into the twists and turns of Singaporean foreign policy at a crucial juncture in Asia’s regional politics. [...] a solid work of international history which makes a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the role of small regional powers in the unfolding of the Cold War in Southeast Asia." — H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XX.5
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NUS Press Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict,
Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking study of the diplomatic efforts in the aftermath of Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia. In retrospect, the resolution of the Cambodian conflict marked an important shift in the international relations landscape of the region. Cold War big power politics gave way to a diplomacy centred on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).This study is the first written based on the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, a key player in the complex diplomatic maneuvering of the period.
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NUS Press Britain and Sihanouk's Cambodia
Book SynopsisDiplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both nations. King Norodom Sihanouk's strategy of preserving the independence and integrity of Cambodia through a policy of neutrality grew ever more challenging as the Cold War heated up in Indochina and the conflict in Vietnam became a proxy war between the superpowers. Despite its alliance with the United States, Britain's diplomatic objectives in the region largely aligned with Cambodia's, and British criticism of US policy towards Cambodia was a problem in the alliance.British diplomatic records present a fascinating window into Cambodian decision-making, and the rationale behind Sihanouk's sometimes apparently irrational policies. The reports yield new insights into Sihanouk's efforts to sustain Cambodia's integrity vis-à-vis its more powerful neighbours. Equally, a fine-grained analysis of British-Cambodia relations reveals much about the dynamics of British foreign policy in the period. Britain's ultimate dependence on its powerful American ally limited its influence in the region. After 1967, indeed, it ceased to have a strategic role. Over the period, British frustrations grew, even as it remained consistent in its foreign policy objectives and approaches.
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