The Cold War, which began sixty years ago next year with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine and the creation of the Cominform, shaped the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Its most intense phase came to an end in the early sixties, but, with the accompanying threat of nuclear barbarism, it continued to exercise a major influence until the "collapse of Communism" in 1989.
The London Socialist Historians Group is organising a one-day conference on the Cold War, to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU on Saturday 3rd February 2007.
We invite papers on economic, political, military, intellectual and cultural aspects of the Cold War and on questions such as what was the role of movements in the Eastern bloc in ending cold war? How was the Western left affected? What did the West win? What did the ex-Communist blocs gain or lose?
John G Walker
London Socialist Historians Group
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