Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR. People's Diplomacy in the Cold War, Hardback - Sergei I. Zhuk

This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Ru...

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Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Lati...

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Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by t...

How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of s...

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The conflict played out between communism and capitalism for most of the second half of the twentieth century came quickly to be termed the Cold War.

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Exploring the advances in science and technology, the changes in society and the artistic developments that came out of turbulent periods in history.

The People's Journal regularly published readers' letters, stories, and especially their poetry. Collected here are more than 100 examples, written...

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The first comprehensive study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party's science diplomacy. Based on a wide range of archival research, includ...

Publisher: Purdue University PressAuthor(s): Walther Leisler KiepIllustration(s): 42 black & white figuresNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 201...

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Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

Detailed graphic account of the three great offensives launched by the Republican People's Army in 1937-38.

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Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

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This book examines major political movements during the Cold War through the rhetorical trope of the Nazi analogy. The examination pits ideas conce...

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Service that spanned 50 years, over 60 RAF squadrons, license-built in the US (the B-57) and Australia, combat from the Suez War to the Vietnam War...

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Focusses on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom's role as an air defence fighter.

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