During the Cold War, East Germany’s secret police deployed 90,000 spies and 100,000 informers to keep tabs on 6 million ...

A rigid policy of this sort may not only lead to East Germany's becoming an island of obsolete cold-war ideas within the current of European change; one day it will simply become too costly to keep a ...

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...

Drumbl, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, Virginia "Set very astutely in the larger context of the Cold War between the two superpower blocs, this is the first major study in ...

The painful lesson the world learned — or should have learned — from its experience with men like Hitler, Soviet leader ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town ... for a post-war "cold" war that would ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted Nikolai Patrushev, a Cold War warrior who crafted the Kremlin's national security ...

The following works are recommended as essential reading: A Brown, The Gorbachev Factor (1996); S Dockrill, The End of the Cold War Era (2005); R L Garthoff ... the crisis of Communism and the end of ...

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Despite the fact that Stalin had carved up and invaded Poland in 1939 alongside Hitler, the USSR allied itself ...

DONERT, CELIA 2016. From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights: Gender, Violence and International Law in the Women's International Democratic Federation Mission to North Korea, 1951.

Cold War movies aren't all serious ... The great Richard Burton stars as a British spy who is sent to East Germany as a double agent, to help spread misinformation through the Warsaw Pact countries.