Welcome to the world where the Iron Curtain blocks out nearly all the light. Yep, it’s the Cold War, a high-stakes, ...

We expect they were even more rare in private hands behind the iron curtain, and [Thomas Scherrer] shows us a Soviet X1-7B combination oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer (he thinks, at least ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

Welcome to a new era of struggle, determination and conflict, as nations struggle to achieve independence and power. Superpowers rise from the ashes of old, with ideologies that shall determine ...

Vladimir Putin says he invaded Ukraine to push back NATO. Instead, Russia’s nearest western neighbors are closing ranks as a new Iron Curtain takes shape along a north-south front against Russian ...

Anneke Kim Sarnau (Bettina Herfurth)Christoph Bach (Stefan Herfurth)Hans Werner Meyer (Georg Stein)Hinnerk Schönemann (Thomas Schäfer)Valerie Koch (Karin Schäfer)Heinrich Schmieder (Frank ...

De Graaf, Jan 2019. European socialism between militant and parliamentary democracy: a pan-European debate, 1945–8. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, Vol. 26, Issue. 2, p. 331.

While all attention is on the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war, Moscow is securing key venues in Africa while Western nations withdraw or are forced out. Late on Thursday, Russian troops ...

This volume explores relations between socialist planned economies of Central and East European countries and capitalist market economies of neutral states in Europe dyring the Cold War. It focuses on ...

There was Pest fashion in the socialist system, a strange, mysterious grandmother, Klára Rotschild, who could hold a parlor in Paris in the 60s and 70s. There is a mystery today about the reason ...