A Vatican Atlantic Alliance? Pius XII and the role of US papal diplomats in the Cold War
Time: Fri Nov 18, 2022, All Day Location: Rome Global Gateway At the end of World War II, as a result of cooperation between the Holy See and Washington in the containment of communism and the work of charity and assistance to the people of Europe, several priests and bishops from the United States took on roles of particular importance in the central and peripheral organs of papal diplomacy. These included Msgr. Walter S. Carroll of...
CfP: Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991
STUDYING REGIONS ALONG THE IRON CURTAIN APPROACHES TO NEW RESEARCH Workshop in Udine, Italy 9-12 March 2023 link >> Jointly organized by the University of Udine, Cold War Studies/Harvard University, and Friuli Storia This workshop will bring together scholars from various countries to discuss key issues pertaining to Cold War borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia (i.e., regions along the dividing line between East and West...
From Stalin to Mao
Elidor Mëhilli From Stalin to Mao Albania and the Socialist World Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe’s longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli’s unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of...
Bridging the Baltic Sea
LARS FREDRIK STÖCKER Bridging the Baltic Sea Networks of Resistance and Opposition during the Cold War Era Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly...
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
JENIFER PARKS Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators...
