tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30235772269312459612011-10-29T18:25:43.833+03:00What is new in Russian and East European Studies? What are the latest groundbreaking studies on Cold War? Which archives are open in Moscow right now? This blog introduces researchers' experiences and thoughts from the field.Pianoreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023577226931245961.post-85173481669258922902010-10-28T14:35:00.005+03:002010-10-28T14:51:22.599+03:00

New Cold War Research workshop in Helsinki 1-2.11.2010 Venue: Aleksanteri Institute (The Finnish Centre of Russian and Eastern European Studies), University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 33, 2nd floor meeting roomOrganizers: NORCENCOWAR network and Competition is Socialist Society project and Aleksanteri Institute Cold War Research Group The purpose of this workshop

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The latest outcome of the KIC project, the volumen Reassessing Cold War Europe is now published. The book is edited by Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy and it includes 11 articles, which address East-West interaction during the Cold War from economic, political, scientific and cultural aspects.Quoting the Routledge website the book:presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the

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CFP via H-Russia:Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern Block against a Capitalist West. We acknowledge the important consequences of this global competition, of the arms race, and of international diplomacy and détente, but we seek to bring together scholars who contribute new analytical

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The final outcome of the KIC project, an edited volume Reassessing Cold War Europe, is now in press and will be available later this year.According to the book description at the Routledge website:"This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. Contrary to popular belief, it shows that relations between East and West were based not only on

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The 9th Aleksanteri Conference, Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, will take place in Helsinki on October 29th-31st. Over 300 registered participants from all over the world will attend the discussions about the effects of the Cold War in the lives of individuals, the transfer of technology and ideas through the Iron Curtain and the traces of the Cold War still present in our days.

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A new book on the Khrushchev era has come out. Soviet State and Society under Nikita Khrushchev is edited by Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith and published by Routledge.The book "examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. It highlights the fact that many of the reform

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The Call for Papers of the Annual Aleksanteri Conference 2009 is now published and available at the conference website http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009/. Themes of the conference Interactions across Boundaries. Cultural, economic and political exchanges, contacts and cooperation; know-how and technology transfers.Behind the Scenes and Beyond the State. Individuals

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Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the final episode of the destruction of the Socialist system in Eastern Europe. The anniversary provides us a remarkable reason to look back at the Cold War era and to re-assess it from today’s perspectives. The ninth Aleksanteri Conference in 2009 will focus on the Cold War and its consequences. Nearly two decades

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International History seminar at the department of Social Science History in the University of Helsinki offers a forum for discussion on international history. Programme Autumn 2008:Monday 29.9. Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki): "Finland's Western Front: The Economics and Politics of Finland's Western Integration during the Cold War" Monday 20.10. Aappo Kähönen (University of Helsinki

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Ollin klubi seminar series, at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere, deals with transatlantic relations.Programme Autumn 2008:Wed 29 October 2008Tuomas Forsberg: "European Anti-Americanism: What is it, how do we study it, does it exist (in Finland) and does it matter?"Wed 19 November 2008Petri Hakkarainen"When Harmel met Davignon: NATO, European Political Cooperation

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Egle Rindzeviciute succesfully defended her doctoral thesis in Culture Studies at Linköping University 29 August 2008.Her book, "Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II" (Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences 437; Södertörn doctoral dissertations 31; ISBN 978-91-7393-879-2; ISBN 978-91-89315-92-1; ISSN 0282-9800; ISSN 1652-7399 ), is

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An exhibition on Cold War design will be opened next autumn in London. The exhibition 'Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70' will demonstrate, with more than 300 exhibits, how 'the atmosphere of mutual paranoia affected graphic and artistic design' during the contradictory era of nuclear weapons and technological optimism.‘Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70’The Victoria and Albert MuseumSeptember 25 to

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An international conference on Cold War history titled Conflict and Community: Transatlantic Relations in the Long Twentieth Century will be organised at the University of Tampere, Finland on 12 - 14 May 2008. See the CFP here.

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The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) is now accepting proposals for its upcoming conference:East-Central Europe in the Cold War, 1945-198916-18 October 2008, Warsaw, PolandSee CFP

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CIA releases unclassified documents every year and publishes several items on internet. One of the most interesting items for a Russian/Soviet/East European historian is probably the publication CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947-1991. You may find the library main page here.

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The Department of history of the Warwick unitersity offers MA programme in Cold War studies focusing mainly on social and cultural aspects of the conflict. Check the programme's bibliography on various themes here.

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The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP, the former Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact), led by Vojtech Mastny.The project concentrates on NATO and Warsaw Pact activities and on security policy, and furthermore on the high politics of the Cold War.Check out: the Collections, and the quite substantial Bibliography.http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/index.cfm

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This blog serves as an informal information channel of the KIC-project and its individual members. We write about current events in the field of Cold War Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies - from conferences, seminars and recent publications to everyday experiences in the archives of various countries.

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