Prague Spring – 50 years on
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union. In August 1968 tanks were sent in to crush it. Here are some resources to find out more: Newspaper coverage •New York Times •Guardian •Atlantic -photo essay •Radio Free Europe […]
Hungarian revolution, 1956
Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. 1956 Hungarian Revolution Collection maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Cold War International History Project is a fabulous site with many full text declassified […]
Prague Spring Digital Library
New from the collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library a brilliant new digital library offering free online access to primary source documents. They include include telegrams, memos, cables, and CIA communications addressing the invasion of Czechoslovakia, […]
Other useful Cold War websites
Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive. The site also has other relevant collections, including the End of the Cold War. All have full text materials for downloading. Also associated with it is the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) whose website […]
Recent Comments