Cold War

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• SOURCE: Prospect Magazine
  3/26/2020
  

  Interview With Historian Archie Brown: Rethinking the Cold War

  There's a widespread assumption that the Soviet Union had no alternative to ending the Cold War in the way they did. But that's wrong, says the Oxford historian.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/24/2020
  

  Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy Has Left Us All Vulnerable to COVID-19

  by Teal Arcadi and Casey Eilbert

  Decades of deriding bureaucrats and cuts have undermined government capacity to serve us when we need it most.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/20/2020
  

  It Doesn’t Have to Be a War

  by Tim Barker

  The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/2020
  

  President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from COVID-19

  by Peter A. Shulman

  Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/23/2020
  

  Why Congress Passed the Defense Production Act in 1950

  The Cold War-era law went into effect during a time when President Truman felt the nation was unprepared.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/3/2020
  

  Critics of Bernie Sanders’s trip to the Soviet Union are distorting it

  by Yana Skorobogatov, Yakov Feygin and Artemy M. Kalinovsky

  Historians Yana Skorobogatov and Yakov Feygin and Eastern European scholar Artemy M. Kalinovsky contextualize Sanders' opinions on the Soviet Union.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Cold War New and Old: Architectural Exchanges Beyond the West

  by Łukasz Stanek

  Until today, many urban landscapes in West Africa bear witness to how local authorities and professionals drew on Soviet prefabrication technology, Hungarian and Polish planning methods, Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern Europe.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/20
  

  We’re Still Living in Stalin’s World

  by Diana Preston

  At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, the Soviet leader got everything he wanted — and shaped global politics for decades.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/13/20
  

  'Broken Arrow': When the First U.S. Atomic Bomb Went Missing

  Since the demolition crew’s report was top secret, no word emerged about the whereabouts of the missing atomic bomb. Were there clues in the wreckage that the bomb had in fact been released prior to impact?

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• 1/12/20
  

  Why The West Is Losing The Fight For Democracy

  by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

  We once had trouble imagining a future that is not essentially democratic and capitalist. That is not the way we think today. Most of us now have trouble imagining a future, even in the West, that remains securely democratic and liberal.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/5/20
  

  Why policymakers must act to preserve information freedom at home and abroad

  by Diana Lemberg

  A Cold War dichotomy pitting capitalism and democracy versus state control misreads history.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Divisions Mark 30th Anniversary of the Opening of the Brandenburg Gate—Symbol of German Reunification

  by Jennifer Redmann

  Through its historic association with the surrounding region of Brandenburg, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate serves as a reminder that in 2019, the German population remains politically and economically divided, even as Germany celebrates three decades as a united entity. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/15/19
  

  Exposed as Stasi Spy, a Newspaper Owner Tries to Reclaim His Story

  “I’m not an Easterner who has to apologize. I’m not an Easterner who needs to grovel,” he said in an interview at his newspaper’s offices.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Amidst the Rubble: Hope Harrison on the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  by Paige Morse

  Historian Hope Harrison discusses how we should remember the Berlin Wall and why its history is so important.

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• 12/8/19
  

  NATO's First Post-Wall Summit 30 Years Later

  by Stephan Kieninger

  Debates over NATO’s purpose are not new. The alliance has always managed to adapt in times of challenges.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Russian Victories in the Post-Cold War Era

  by Albert M. Camarillo

  Putin’s Russia is winning battles to destabilize the U.S. that former USSR leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev had tried but failed.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Overcoming Cold War Narratives: Remembering the Progressive Politics of Louis Adamic

  by John P. Enyeart

  The reemergence of progressive politics today, and its links to antifascism, has a long history.

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• SOURCE: US News
  11/7/2019
  

  The Bunkers that Came in From the Cold

  by Catherin Shaer

  “The German Publics Growing worries over global tensions – in part tied to Trump’s policies – are stirring a revived interest in Cold War artifacts”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Battle Between NBC and CBS To Be the First To Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

  by Mike Conway

  In the summer of 1962, the two networks were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 9, 2019
  

  ‘The day the wall came down’: How The Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall 30 years ago

  by Robert McCartney

  Thirty years ago, East German officials abruptly announced it would open its border, ending 28 years of separation between East and West Berlin. This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning.