Tag: Cold

Art and Politics During the Cold War


Free Download Art and Politics During the Cold War: Poland and the Netherlands
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032453354 | 157 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries.

(more…)

Remaking the World Decolonization and the Cold War [Audiobook]


Free Download Jessica M. Chapman, Suzie Althens (Narrator), "Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3Y5F6S | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~12:30:00 | 391 MB
Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order. Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War. Through six carefully selected case studies-India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran-historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernization, the role of the United Nations, the often-outsized influence of regional actors like Israel and South Africa, and seminal post-Vietnam War shifts in the international system. Each of the case studies analyzes at least one geopolitical turning point, demonstrating that the Cold War and decolonization were mutually constitutive processes in which local, national, and regional developments altered the superpower competition.
Chapman describes a picture of the complexities of international relations and the ways in which local communist and democratic movements differed from their Soviet and American counterparts, including their visions for independence and success.

(more…)

Russia in the Wake of the Cold War Perceptions and Prejudices


Free Download Dorothy Horsfield, "Russia in the Wake of the Cold War: Perceptions and Prejudices"
English | ISBN: 149855217X | 2017 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Amid widespread and increasing alarm in Western strategic and foreign policy circles following Russia’s capture of Crimea, support for rebels in Ukraine, and military intervention in Syria, this study provides a timely and sophisticated analysis of the nature and intentions of post-Soviet government under President Vladimir Putin. Based on both Russian and non-Russian sources, this book examines the enduring Cold War legacies underpinning Western perceptions of contemporary Russia. It analyzes the ways in which the West has interpreted and reacted to Russia’s domestic authoritarianism and foreign policy behavior and argues for diplomatic engagement based on liberal pluralism.

(more…)

Lay Them to Rest On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless


Free Download Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton
English | October 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 0306828804 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 11.79 MB
Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases.

(more…)

Freedom to Win A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People―And Ol


Free Download Ethan Scheiner, "Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People―And Ol"
English | ISBN: 1639363513 | 2023 | 416 pages | EPUB | 26 MB
A classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games-with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation’s resistance.

(more…)

Cold War Film Genres


Free Download Homer B. Pettey, "Cold War Film Genres "
English | ISBN: 1474412947 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the ‘rogue cop’ film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined the ‘new woman’,

(more…)