Lifting The Iron Curtain
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Lifting The Iron Curtain
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Author : Hubert R. Hudson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Lifting The Iron Curtain written by Hubert R. Hudson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Soviet Union categories.
Lifting The Iron Curtain
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Author : Christoph Werner
language : en
Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Lifting The Iron Curtain written by Christoph Werner and has been published by Tredition Gmbh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with categories.
Much has been written about socialism but very little about what it was like to live as an ordinary citizen under socialism in East Germany. With the fall of the Berlin Wall now 30 years past, the realities of that time have begun to fade. Some people have even become nostalgic, such as former Party functionaries and others who benefited from the communist rule. For the rest, however, it is important to bear witness to what it was really like to live in those times before the memories begin to vanish. The stories in this book are by their nature far from complete because memory is not linear but impressionistic. Still, the reader may find them of interest because they are the legacy of a lost socialist world.
Cultural Exchange And The Cold War
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Author : Yale Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Cultural Exchange And The Cold War written by Yale Richmond and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with History categories.
Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes&—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
Lifting The Iron Curtain
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Author : Christoph Werner
language : en
Publisher: tredition
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Lifting The Iron Curtain written by Christoph Werner and has been published by tredition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Fiction categories.
Much has been written about socialism but very little about what it was like to live as an ordinary citizen under socialism in East Germany. With the fall of the Berlin Wall now 30 years past, the realities of that time have begun to fade. Some people have even become nostalgic, such as former Party functionaries and others who benefited from the communist rule. For the rest, however, it is important to bear witness to what it was really like to live in those times before the memories begin to vanish. The stories in this book are by their nature far from complete because memory is not linear but impressionistic. Still, the reader may find them of interest because they are the legacy of a lost socialist world.
The Iron Curtain
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Author : Bruce L. Brager
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2004
The Iron Curtain written by Bruce L. Brager and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 categories.
Visiting Central Europe, in 1962, a visitor would not see a real "Iron Curtain." There was no huge piece of grim drapery splitting Europe between Communist dictatorships and democracies. The Iron Curtain represented the Central European part of the Cold War, the generally peaceful, but highly dangerous, forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The Iron Curtain symbolically represented the attempt to permanently, artificially, and arbitrarily split one part of Central Europe from the other. Although there was no real iron curtain, there was lots of steel in the form of barbed wire, ground radar, watchtowers, and machine guns in the hands of troops willing to use them. The boundary between democracy and totalitarianism was clear. This book tells the story of the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War it so vividly represented, from the start of World War II to its end with the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Book jacket.
The Iron Curtain
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Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988-10-13
The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-10-13 with History categories.
It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
Chained Generations
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Author : Luminitza Sava
language : en
Publisher: Airleaf
Release Date : 2005-08
Chained Generations written by Luminitza Sava and has been published by Airleaf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with categories.
This book is a family saga, covering three generations in Russia, their loves and sacrifices, over a period that starts in the pre-revolutionary days and ends during Nikita Khrushchev's political thaw, which lifted the Iron Curtain. The story and the characters are based on real facts and events, as they were related to the authors by their parents and relatives, who lived them.
Daily Life Behind The Iron Curtain
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Author : Jim Willis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-01-24
Daily Life Behind The Iron Curtain written by Jim Willis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with History categories.
This compelling book describes how everyday people courageously survived under repressive Communist regimes until the voices and actions of rebellious individuals resulted in the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe. Part of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain enables today's generations to understand what it was like for those living in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly the period from 1961 to 1989, the era during which these people-East Germans in particular-lived in the imposing shadow of the Berlin Wall. An introductory chapter discusses the Russian Revolution, the end of World War II, and the establishment of the Socialist state, clarifying the reasons for the construction of the Berlin Wall. Many historical anecdotes bring these past experiences to life, covering all aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, including separation of families and the effects on family life, diet, rationing, media, clothing and trends, strict travel restrictions, defection attempts, and the evolving political climate. The final chapter describes Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall and the slow assimilation of East into West, and examines Europe after Communism.
Iron Curtain
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Author : Anne Applebaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Iron Curtain
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Author : Anne Applebaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.