Recent Scholarship
Cold War
Belevtseva, S. N., “Povorot ot konfrontatsii k sotrudnichestvu v sovetsko-amerikanskikh ontosheniiakh v period vtorogo prezidentstva R. Reigana: Motivy i tseli storon” (Turning from confrontation to cooperation in Soviet-American relations during President Ronald Reagan’s second administration), Vestnik Istorii i Filosofii Kurskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta (Kursk) (no. 1, 2008), 39–50. In Russian.
Blazich, Frank A., Jr., “Accelerated Action: The North Carolina Civil Defense Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis, October–December 1962,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (Jan. 2009), 59–93.
Carbone, Valeria Lourdes, “Cuando la Guerra Fría llegóa América Latina” (When the Cold War arrived in Latin America), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 275–96. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Glazunova, E. N., “Programma ‘Chetvertogo punkta’ G. Trumena i nachalo ‘kholodnoi voiny’ na periferii bipoliarnoi sistemy” (Harry Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ program and the beginning of the Cold War on the periphery of the bipolar system), Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Series: History (Moscow) (no. 2, 2008), 39–55. In Russian.
Goldman, Zachary K., “Ties That Bind: John F. Kennedy and the Foundations of the American-Israeli Alliance,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Feb. 2009), 23–58.
Kinchy, Abby J., “African Americans in the Atomic Age: Postwar Perspectives on Race and the Bomb, 1945–1967,” Technology and Culture, 50 (April 2009), 291–315.
Krukones, James H., “The Unspooling of Artkino: Soviet Film Distribution in America, 1940–1975,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (March 2009), 91–112.
Moor, Angela, “Operation Hospitality: Las Vegas and Civil Defense, 1951–1959,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Winter 2008), 292–310.
Nuenlist, Christian, “Die westliche Allianz und Chruscevs Aussenpolitik im Jahre 1955” (The western alliance and Khrushchev’s foreign policy in 1955), in Der Warschauer Pakt: Von der Gründung bis zum Zusammenbruch 1955 bis 1991 (The Warsaw Pact: From its founding to its collapse, 1955–1991), ed. Torsten Diedrich, Winifred Heinenmann, and Christian F. Ostermann, 9–26. (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2009. 376 pp. €34.90, isbn 978-3-861-53504-1.) In German.
Pozzi, Pablo, “Estados Unidos y los orígenes de la Guerra Fría” (United States and the origins of the Cold War), in Invasiones Bárbaras en la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Barbaric invasions in the contemporary history of the United States of America), Pablo Pozzi, 265–73. (Buenos Aires: Maipue Editorial, 2009. 364 pp. $46.00, isbn 978-9-879-49349-6.) In Spanish.
Pribilsky, Jason, “Development and the ‘Indian Problem’ in the Cold War Andes: Indigenismo, Science, and Modernization in the Making of the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos,” Diplomatic History, 33 (June 2009), 405–26.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan, “Moscow versus Los Angeles: The Nixon White House Wages Cold War in the Olympic Selection Process,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Feb. 2009), 135–57.
Stoneman, Timothy, “A Bold New Vision: The voa Radio Ring Plan and Global Broadcasting in the Early Cold War,” Technology and Culture, 50 (April 2009), 316–44.
Benson, Etienne Samuel, “The Wired Wilderness: Electronic Surveillance and Environmental Values in Wildlife Biology” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).
Dunne, Matthew W., “A Cold War State of Mind: Cultural Constructions of Brainwashing in the 1950s” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3318310.
Franklin, Morris Emory, III, “Do Not Attempt to Adjust the Picture: The Cold War Crisis of Liberal Democracy and Science Fiction Television” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3318512.
Gurman, Hannah, “The Dissent Papers: The Voice of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317556.
Hunter, Robert E., “Fingers on the Button: American Atomic Policy in Mainstream Film, Radio, and Television, 1945–1960” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3316734.
Costello, Matthew J., Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America. (New York: Continuum, 2009. viii, 293 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-8264-2997-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8264-2998-8.)
Crawford, Russ, The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life during the Cold War: Cultural Propaganda, 1945–1963. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. xx, 314 pp. $119.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5074-5.)
Diedrich, Torsten, Winifred Heinenmann, and Christian F. Ostermann, eds., Der Warschauer Pakt: Von der Gründung bis zum Zusammenbruch 1955 bis 1991 (The Warsaw Pact: From its founding to its collapse, 1955–1991). (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2009. 376 pp. €34.90, isbn 978-3-861-53504-1.) In German.
Teigrob, Robert, Warming Up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States’ Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 312 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-802-09923-5.)
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