Lost your password?

Blogs about: Cold War History

Featured Blog

A newsworthy history of Soviet espionage: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America1 comment

jeffersonflanders wrote 4 months ago: It’s the rare work of historical scholarship that also makes news but Spies: The Rise and Fall … more →

Tags: Cold War, communism, espionage, History, intelligence, Alexander Vassiliev, Alger Hiss, Englebert Broda, Harvey Klehr

The Sovietologist Speaks

sanjeevbery wrote 4 months ago: A good book review is a platform for a skilled sweep of history and society. Andrew O’Hehir … more →

Tags: media clippings, Media Musings!, Andrew O'Hehir, salon.com, The Rise and Fall of Communism, Archie Brown, O'Hehir, Oxford University, Sovietologist

The Vassiliev notebooks, American elites, and Cold War espionage2 comments

jeffersonflanders wrote 5 months ago: Since the end of the Cold War we have learned a great deal more about how American and British elite … more →

Tags: Journalism, intelligence, classified information, History, espionage, Cold War, communism, Kgb, GRU

Chris Matthews, Cold Warrior1 comment

sanjeevbery wrote 7 months ago: Amidst all the buzz around new U.S.-Cuba relations, Chris Matthews found a way to sound the old Cold … more →

Tags: Latin America, Sanjeev Bery, U.S. Foreign Policy, US President Barack Obama, Barack Obama, obama, u.s.-cuba, US-Cuba Relations, President Barack Obama

Worlds in Collision: New Evidence on the Role of Ideology in the Origins and Early Development of the Cold War

Alexander Olteanu wrote 10 months ago: The Resurrection of A Russian Hero… As Stalin’s rehabilitation proceeds with renewed vigor in … more →

Tags: Cold War, WiMW Posts, epistemic communities, Global Order, Ideology, moral purpose of states, society of states, Stalin, USSR

National Security Agency Releases History of Cold War Intell

Aaron Pendell wrote 11 months ago: Soviet Strategic Forces Went on Alert Three Times during September-October 1962 Because of Apprehens … more →

Tags: History, Cold War, National Security Archive, Cuban Missile Crisis, NSA, National Security Agency

“The Road Not Taken”: Reassessing the Cold War In light of NSC-68 and the Korean War

Alexander Olteanu wrote 11 months ago: “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, an … more →

Tags: Cold War, Strategy, U.S. Foreign Policy, China, Conjoncture, epistemic communities, Gen. D. McArthur, Korean War, NATO

The US Arms Control Epistemic Community under Eisenhower and the Emergence of an International Arms Control Regime

Alexander Olteanu wrote 1 year ago: Commentary on Emanuel Adler, The Emergence of Cooperation: National Epistemic Communities and the In … more →

Tags: Article Commentary, Military History, Arms race, Cold War, Eisenhower, military industrial complex

Was the Cold War an inevitable outcome of World War Two?

Alexander Olteanu wrote 1 year ago: If we are to determine whether the Cold War (which I would define as the global ideological, politic … more →

Tags: U.S. Foreign Policy, WiMW Posts, Churchill, Cold War, FDR, Policy Networks, Stalin, Truman, USSR


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS