Cold War Edition. Contents:
7 A Literature So Immense: The Historiography of Anticommunism
Marc J. Selverstone
13 The Cold War and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Jeff Woods
19 History and Haggar Pants: the Cold War on Tape
Mitchell Lerner
25 “I am too young to die”
Donna Alvah
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Twentieth-century Russian music is often thought of as dark and brooding, a reflection of life under the thumb of a brutal state. When it was funny, it usually had a kind of gallows humor.
Yet many of the same composers whose concert works often reflected a dark reality also wrote cartoon music for kids.
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The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, but few of the news stories marking the anniversary have explained the event’s full significance. The Cold War had been raging for 14 years before the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961. How could its collapse, on Nov. 9, 1989, have heralded the Cold War’s demise?
Fred Kaplan explains at Slate
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This George Orwell piece was originally published by the Tribune on October 19, 1945 within two months after atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan by the only country ever to have used them to kill people and destroy cities, viz., the U.S.A. Orwell had written enough about the same (re: A. Bomb) but this particular piece was exceptional for the insights it shared about the world dispensation that lay ahead in the age of atomic weaponry. In addition, it was clear that the groundwork for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four had been completed by this writing.
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The Woodrow Wilson School offers this tremendous resource
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To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the NSA published this
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Excerpt from From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War by Robert M. Gates. Simon and Schuster, 604 pp.
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FOREIGN SERVICE DISPATCH 116, of September 8, 1952
FROM AMERICAN EMBASSY, MOSCOW
TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON
SUBJECT: The Soviet Union and the Atlantic Pact
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President Richard Nixon acknowledged that he had given instructions to “do anything short of a Dominican-type action” to keep the democratically elected president of Chile from assuming office, according to a White House audio tape posted by the National Security Archive today. A phone conversation captured by his secret Oval Office taping system reveals Nixon telling his press secretary, Ron Zeigler, that he had given such instructions to then U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry, “but he just failed, the son of a bitch…. He should have kept Allende from getting in.”
Peruse the recently released NSA files on Pinochet
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