Cold War Studies Seminar

Features scholars who have been working in the newly opened archives of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Intended to shed new light on events from the Cold War era and encourage the use of archival evidence to test theories of domestic and international politics. Sponsored by the Cold War Studies Project and chaired by Mark Kramer.

Event

Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
The Soviet Union and Mossadegh's Government in Iran at the Height of the Cold War
Survival Under Dictatorships: Nazism and Stalinism
From Disbelief to Dislocation to Rupture: Ukrainian and Russian Poets Against Russia's War of Aggression
European Cold War Neutrality in the Kremlin's Perspective: Historical and Present Implications
CIA Covert Operations in Soviet Ukraine During the Late Stalin Era
The Name 'White Russia' and the Origins of Belarusian Studies in the West After 1945
Book Talk: 'To Run the World' — Soviet Foreign Policy After 1945
Global Economic Shocks and the End of the Cold War, 1970-1990
War Crimes in Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
The Impact of the Cold War on International Human Rights Regimes
Resettlement of Displaced Soviet Persons After May 1945
World War II, Patriotic Memories, and the Russian Question in the USSR
US Policy and the Former USSR: From Gorbachev to the Early Post-Soviet Years
Top-Down and Horizontal Structures in Soviet-Bloc States: Policy Implementation in East Germany
The USSR and Yugoslavia After 1945: Alliance, Confrontation, Nonalignment, and European Security
Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang — Cold War Allies, Cold War Enemies, and the Implications for Today
US Policy and the End of the Cold War: A Firsthand Retrospective on Changes in Eastern Europe and the USSR,1987-1991
Communist Intellectuals and Politicians in Cold War-Era Poland
Archival Research in the Former USSR Before and After February 2022
Investigating Stalin's Terror Through Archival Photographic Evidence
Soviet-Bloc Active Measures, 1967-1989
US and Soviet Public Diplomacy in Africa During the Cold War
Nixon, Kissinger, and Cold War Europe
The Death and Legacy of Stalin: A 70-Year Retrospective
Archival Research in the Former USSR: The Situation Before and After February 2022
The Soviet Union and European Neutral and Non-Aligned Countries during the Cold War
Polish Foreign Intelligence Assistance to the U.S. Military during the 1991 Gulf War: Switching Sides after the Cold War
The Cold War and the Soviet Army in Austria, 1945-1955
The Soviet Union and the Neutral European Countries During the Cold War
Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Cold War Broadcasting and Its Lessons for Countering Russia's Disinformation under Putin
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: A Roundtable Discussion
The Cold War in Translation: Milovan Djilas in the English-speaking World
Fearing the Worst: How the Korean War Transformed the Cold War
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