Links - Cold War

Did NATO Win the Cold War?
This site contains the text of twenty three documents which are a supplement to the article 'Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall' by Vojtech Mastny which appeared in Foreign Affairs May/June 1999 pages 176-189. They include declassified documents from US and Eastern European Communist r
Cold War Museum
The Cold War Museum records the history of the people, places and events of the Cold War (circa 1946-1991 CE) to inform about the fears, divisions, and dangers that the Cold War fostered...
Documents relating to American foreign policy : the cold war
Edited by Vincent Ferraro (Professor of International Politics at Mount Holyoke College), this site brings together a large amount of material relating to America's foreign policy during the Cold War.... The documents include presidential speeches, intelligence archives, conference minutes, Senate r
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources from the former Communist world.
National Archives: Cold War
This National Archives site focuses on international relations during the Cold War. Includes the origins and possible causes of the Cold War, the Allied Alliance between the UK, US, and the Soviet Union, 1941 - 1945, nuclear weapons and the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Berlin Wall and Soviet occupation
Harvard Project on Cold War History: Links
... studies declassified documents from the American government and government of the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc. Declassified documents include papers from the KGB and Politbureau as well as some multimedia online exhibitions. Topics include East-west relations, diplomacy and the history
Cold War History Research Center Budapest
The Cold War History Research Center Budapest includes the study of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, relations between Hungary and the Warsaw Pact, and the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991. The site is also creating an online database of information about current Cold war researchers based in central and East E
Rise and fall of the Berlin Wall: Cold War International History Project
Provides research materials on the history of the Berlin wall and its impact on Cold War international history. It offers free access to a collection of primary resource materials which include CIA and Russian government declassified documents.. Topics include the building of the wall, the Berlin Ai
CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers
The CIA Freedom of Information reading room provides free access to the full text of over 140 declassified documents (over 11,000) pages of American intelligence analysis of Chinese and Russian activities during the period 1953-1973. Includes analysis of Stalin; Khrushchev and Brezhnev; Soviet forei
US Intelligence and the Cold War
Provides a compendium of newly declassified US intelligence documents covering the years 1989-1991, encompassing events in the USSR and Eastern Europe that transformed the postwar world and much of the 20th century's geopolitical landscape.
BBC History : the Cold War
BBC History: The Cold War features essays on a variety of aspects of the Cold War, including Eminent historians such as Professor Archie Brown have contributed essays on subjects including smallpox and biological warfare; the end of Soviet Communism, the Korean conflict, the Cuban Missile Crisis and
Wende Museum
The mission of the Wende Museum is to preserve Cold War art, culture, and history from the Soviet Bloc countries, inspire a broad understanding of the period, and explore its enduring legacy.
Deterrence -- from Cold War to long war: lessons from six decades of RAND r
Provides access to the full text of the 122 page book by Austin Long which was published in 2008 by RAND ISBN 9780833044822. It considers US military and security strategies from the 1950s to 2008, focussing upon the role of deterrence as a military and security strategy.