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Project news

The Soviet Union and Indonesia During the First Postwar Decade (1 September 2009)
 In this latest addition to the growing PHP focus on the Global Cold War, Ragna Boden analyzes early contacts between Indonesian Communists and their Soviet counterparts and the subsequent establishment of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Jakarta. Her essay is accompanied by documentary evidence from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI).

India-Soviet Bloc relations: Bulgaria
(6 May 2009)
 Complementing recent PHP collections on Indo-Soviet relations, this e-documentary by Jordan Baev explores bilateral relations between Bulgaria and India. These records from the Diplomatic Archive (DA) of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bulgarian Central State Archive (TsDA) will be complemented by evidence from Romanian and Hungarian archives in the near future.
  • Indo-Soviet relations in the Nehru years (11 February 2009)
  • Indo-Soviet relations in the Khrushchev years (11 February 2009)

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Forthcoming Conference
Uncovering the Sources of Nuclear Behavior:
Historical Dimensions of Nuclear Proliferation
(15 July 2009)
The Center for Security Studies in association with the PHP will hold a major international conference on nuclear proliferation in a historical perspective. The conference will take place in Zurich on 18-20 June 2010. Submission Deadline Expired
Parallel history project

The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (the former Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact) focuses on the security dimensions of the Cold War and its implications for today's world, including prominently mutual threat perceptions, military planning, and the management of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Recently, the project has shifted its focus towards aspects of cooperative security and energy security... more

cold war news
The US Information Agency During the Cold War (16 November 2009)
 In an H-Diplo roundtable review, Cold War historians assess Nicholas Cull's recent publication on the US Information Agency.
Czechoslovak Communists Called for Opening of Borders (9 November 2009)
 Documents compiled by the National Security Archive chronicle negotiations between Czechs and East Germans during the 1989 refugee crisis at West Germany’s Prague embassy.
Second Fall of the Wall (9 November 2009)
 World leaders gathered in Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A highlight was the toppling of 1,000 giant foam dominoes along a stretch of where the Wall once stood.

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conferences

press releases

featured document
Report on Gandhi/ Kosygin Talks, October 1967 (6 May 2009)
During Indira Gandhi’s visit to Moscow in 1967, she and Aleksei Kosygin exchange views on major foreign policy questions, including the Vietnam, Kashmir and Arab-Israeli conflicts. Kosygin also informs Gandhi on the visit of the Pakistani president to the Soviet Union and argues in favor of direct negotiations between the two countries.
recent analyses

Soviet-Indonesian Relations in the First Postwar Decade (1945-1954)
by Ragna Boden (Sep 2009)

Indo-Soviet Relations in the Nehru Years
by Surjit Mansingh (Feb 2009)

The Soviet Union and India: the Years of Late Stalinism and the Khrushchev Era by Andreas Hilger (Sep 2008 / Feb 2009)

New Perspectives on the Origins of the CSCE
by Andreas Wenger and Vojtech Mastny

 
PHP AND RESEARCH

Ray C. Hendrickson on PHP Routledge volume as a "must read for NATO students"... (2009)
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Heiner Bröckermann et. al. on the PHP as the leading network of Cold War historians in Europe... (2007) more

more praise for the PHP's research

PHP in the news

Warsaw Pact Military Planning
Drawing on an interview with PHP affiliate Petr Luňák and PHP materials, an article in Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat reviews military planning during the Cold War. (9 April 2009)

"Operation Atom"
At the 50th anniversary of Khrushchev's Berlin ulitmatum, Christian Nuenlist revisits this dangerous moment in East-West relations. In particular, recent findings by PHP affiliate Matthias Uhl are discussed. (28 November 2008)

25 Years Since "Able Archer" 1983
Christian Nuenlist revisits NATO's Able Archer exercise and the war scare it triggered in Moscow in the Aargauer Zeitung. (12 November 2008)

Planning the Unthinkable: 1964 Warsaw Pact War Plan
NZZ article on the Warsaw Pact 1964 war plan incited letters to editor from Gerhard Wettig and PHP coordinator Vojtech Mastny. (27 September 2008)
Original long-version rejoinder by Vojtech Mastny.
(17 September 2008)

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"By far the most ambitious and integral project in the burgeoning field of cold war history has been the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact."

Robert Legvold, Columbia University
Foreign Affairs (2005)

„Das Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP) [ist] vor allem im europäischen Raum das führende Netzwerk von Historikern des Kalten Krieges geworden.“

Heiner Bröckermann, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 66:1 (2007)

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