Cold War
The nuclear-age ‘War of Nerves’ and ‘Red Shoes’ politics of dance
October 18, 2018The USSR may be long gone, but the devotion it poured into culture and the arts in still on view worldwide.
Read moreScholars mark milestones along past utopian roads to the future
April 27, 2018One had to smile with a certain sense of bemused indulgence at some tongue-twisting, mind-bending lecture titles that university folk like to devise.
Read moreGrowth and change for the Wende Museum of the Cold War
November 21, 2017Founded in 2002 and housed for the past 12 years in an out-of-the-way office park elsewhere in Culver City, where only a small percentage of its collections could be displayed, the Wende Museum has just moved...
Read moreAmerican-Russian analyst laments the new Cold War
April 29, 2016American-born Justin Lifflander, graduate of Cornell University, arrived in Russia (then the USSR) in 1987 as a driver-mechanic for the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
Read moreJulius and Ethel Rosenberg’s final day: June 19th, 1953
June 19, 2015At the height of the Cold War anti-communist hysteria, the lives of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were extinguished. On the anniversary of their executions, their granddaughter has a message.
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