CfP: From Below and In Between
From Below and In Between – Narrating and Practicing the Cold War in South East Europe 01-02.06.2017 HU Berlin Deadline: 05.02.2017 http://www.cemog.fu-berlin.de/ news/cfp-cold-war-south-east- europe.html Workshop Organizer: Janis Nalbadidacis (Chair for South East European History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Matthias Thaden (Chair for the History of Western Europe and Transatlantic Relations, Humboldt-Universität zu...
The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered
Laurien Crump The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955-1969 The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity...
Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc
PÁL GERMUSKA Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc Hungary and the Division of Labor in Military Production This book draws a subtle picture of Warsaw Pact economic and military cooperation by presenting a complete branch—the military industry—from the perspective of a smaller member-state, Hungary. It demonstrates that the military industry’s cooperation played a crucial role in the development of economic integration within...
Conventional Arms Control in Europe During the Cold War: New Insights From the Archives
June 16 2011, 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 4th Floor Conference Room Woodrow Wilson Center Visit www.CWIHP.org for more information and to RSVP. The strategic nuclear confrontation defined the military dimension of the Cold War, but the conventional military confrontation in Central Europe was an important dimension of the conflict which contributed substantially to the tensions between East and West. New archival materials have...