To browse Academia. The Center is specialized in historical research in the Cold War era, focusing on the former Soviet Bloc. Since , the Center has uniqely organized an annual twoday English language international student conference on the history of the Cold War, with the participation of BA, MA and PhD students.
So far students pressented papers from 26 countries of the first seven conferences between and Our center proudly presents these excellent research results by motivated students and we hope that this volume will serve as encouragement and will contribute to the emergence of a new generati The book consists of twenty-four essays by leading scholars who survey the Cold War in East-Central Europe from beginning to end.
East-Central Europe was where the Cold War began in the mids, and it was also where the Cold War ended in Hence, even though research on the Cold War and its effects in other parts of the world-East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, Africa-has been extremely interesting and valuable, a better understanding of events in Europe is essential to understand why the Cold War began, why it lasted so long, and how it came to an end.
A good deal of high-quality scholarship on the Cold War in East-Central Europe has existed for many years, and the literature on this topic has burgeoned in the post-Cold War period.
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Even so, what makes Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open distinctive is not only the many years of detailed knowledge the contributors bring to bear but also their ability to draw extensively on newly declassified archival sources from the former Soviet bloc and from Western countries as well as recently published memoirs and interviews.
