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For an understanding of the wider economic and political situation in Germany after the end of the First World War: documents that deal with the revolution of 1918/19, the Versailles …

and introduces himself laughingly: “Godfrey of the Iron Hand, Gentlemen!” He has an artificial right arm …

Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …

cultural, social, and dissident life behind the Iron Curtain. They consequently reported on a hugely … addition to in-depth coverage of life behind the Iron Curtain in a period of economic reform, space travel …

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

404522/ policy of cultural penetration of the Iron Curtain which we have been pursuing and which we …

The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …

the countries of Eastern Europe to draw back the Iron Curtain closed by Stalin and to open windows to …

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

with all European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain, as well as with the U.S., U.S.S.R., and …

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

contrary, the dictator continued to rule with an iron fist until his death in 1985, by which time Albania …

1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …

Ironically, the Prague Spring, which began as a sincere attempt to create a democratic form of socialism, convinced many …

the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron Curtain was anything but a foregone conclusion; indeed, from the perspective of the early postwar …

War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron Curtain was anything but a foregone conclusion; … was precisely the wrong message to send across the Iron Curtain, where people deserved their support. It … increasing flow of cultural traffic did move across the Iron Curtain – delegations, individuals, exhibitions … public, nor the impact of British culture behind the Iron Curtain. A 11 TNA: FO 371/111496, Minute by Brown … people’s minds; contemporaries on both sides of the Iron Curtain understood cultural exchange as a means …

A file of correspondence and reports concerning a country assessment paper for East Germany. The documents include drafts of the final report on the demography and geography of East Germany; …

Amongs the older generation, I have met several people who expressed strong Anglophilia (often, ironically, as a result …

place. The most important mineral resource is iron ore. Fairly small deposits of uranium, gold, silver … a c e . The most important mineral resource is iron o r e , and there is also important production of …