Cold War

Here are entered works on the post World War II rivalry between western capitalist nations led by the United States and eastern communist nations led by the Soviet Union.

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• World politics -- 1945-1989

• Cold War -- Fiction
• Cold War -- Sources

• American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945-1989 (4 volumes; declassified redacted version, published 1995-1999), by Thomas R. Johnson
  • Book 1 (1945-1960): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 2 (1960-1972): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 3 (1972-1980): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 4 (1981-1989): PDF at nsa.gov
• Communism: The Ideology Fades, the Threat Remains (1990), by Americanism Educational League (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measures Short of War: The George F. Kennan Lectures at the National War College, 1946-47, by George F. Kennan, ed. by Giles D. Harlow and George C. Maerz (PDF files at ndu.edu)
• Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (c2008), ed. by Kiron K. Skinner (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• Missile Gap (2005), by Charles Stross (HTML with commentary at subterraneanpress.com)

• Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years, ed. by Woodrow J. Kuhns (HTML PDF files at cia.gov)
• At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, ed. by Benjamin B. Fischer (HTML and PDF files at cia.gov)
• On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961, ed. by Donald P. Steury (HTML and PDF at cia.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Khrushchev in New York: A Documentary Record of Nikita S. Khrushchev's Trip to New York, September 19th to October 13th, 1960 (New York: Crosscurrents Press, 1960), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (partial serial archives)

• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard (HTML and PDF with commentary at xenu-directory.net)
• Communist Methodology of Conquest (Miami: Dist. by Truth About Cuba Committee, ca. 1966), by Luis V. Manrara (page images at Miami)
• "Freedom is the Exception": Three Lectures on the Values of the Open Society (1965), by William C. Sullivan (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
• Party Building and Political Leadership (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster, Alex Bittelman, James W. Ford, and Charles Krumbein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at fcla.edu
• The Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and East Germany in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soviet, East German, and Cuban Involvement in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa: Report of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Will the "Titanic" Sink Again? (Miami: Truth About Cuba Committee, 1970), by Luis V. Manrara (page images at Miami)