In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. The geopolitical partition of Europe was no more.The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan-told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. The systemic and ideological confrontation between capitalism and communism had faded away. Or so we thought at the time, on the basis of a then-conventional understanding of what the Cold War had been, and what it had been about. An incremental rush of change sandwiched between the electoral triumph of Solidarnos´cín June 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 – and significantly pivoted on the 1990 reunification of Germany – left nobody in doubt that the Cold War had ended. In particular, we should aim at a broad cultural understanding of the Cold War, contextualise it in larger processes of historical change without confusing the two dimensions, and reassess relations between Europe and other Cold War contexts. Diversity is galvanising the field, but historians need to (re)define their object of inquiry and strive for at least a minimum of conceptual clarity. Some scholars ask for specificity and consistency while current centrifugal trends point to multiple approaches and centres of interest.
How is the Cold War understood in an expanding and diversifying historiographical field? Conceptual precision and specificity seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed different although interconnected conflicts and transformations. for their permission to use the Selective Bibliography on the Cold War Alliances, compiled by Anna Locher and Cristian Nünlist, available at: Please, send the list to: The Cold War History Research Center owes special thanks to the Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (formerly: on NATO and the Warsaw Pact) in Zurich–Washington D.C. The titles of non-English language entries should be translated into English in square brackets. Please, send us a list of your works in which books and articles/book chapters are separated and follow the format of our bibliography. So, if you are a Cold War history scholar in any country and would like us to incude all of your publications on the Cold War (published after 1989) in the second edition, we will gladly do that. An enlarged and updated edition will be completed in 2018.
While this first edition is still far from complete, it collects a huge number of books, articles and book chapters on the topic and it is the most extensive such bibliography so far, almost 600 pages in length. This bibliography attemts to present the publications on the history of the Cold War published after 1989, the beginning of the „archival revolution” in the former Soviet bloc countries.
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