Soviet history from their eyes
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Cold War International History Project (the oddly acronymed CWIHP, but check out the cool logo) has been publishing English translations of previously classified Warsaw Pact documents.
The project is in coordination with Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), and although the focus is on the relationship between the Warsaw Pact and Polish intelligence services, it’s to be undoubtedly of curiosity for anyone interested in the history of the wider post-Soviet region. There’s all sorts of really intriguing and enlightening material on the website, all revealing the Soviets’ perspective on a number of issues. For example…
- The origins of the Cold War
- The 1945-6 Iranian crisis
- The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The East German Uprising
- Sino-Soviet relations and their split
- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan*
Hopefully they’ll get some more specifically Central Asian material in there soon. (*Also check out their new paper, “The Blind Leading the Blind: Soviet Advisors, Counter-Insurgency, and Naiton-Building in Afghanistan”.)
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