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  1. Age of Extremes
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  2. American Power and the New Mandarins
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  3. The Anti-Empire Report #153
    Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
  4. Be inventive and patient
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Bulgarian investigative journalist and author Alexenia Dimitrova reveals how she uses Freedom of Information laws in several countries to uncover hidden secrets of the Cold War, how the imprisonment of her father spurred her on, and the rewards of patience.
  5. Berlin Blockade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  6. Burying the Typewriter
    Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
  7. Canada's Red Scare 1945-1957
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    A summary and examination of Canada's Red Scare, the name used to describe the paranoia and ideological insecurity that swept Canada in the years following the Second World War amidst widespread mistrust of the Soviet Union. Volume 61 of The Canadian Historical Association booklets.
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. CIA used Doctor Zhivago as a Literary Weapon during the Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA published Boris Pasternak's Nobel-winning novel to sow unrest among Soviets.
  10. The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
  11. The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
    For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
  12. Cold War Blues
    The Operation Dismantle Story

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  13. Cold War Canada
    The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957

    Resource Type: Book
    The authors reconstruct the secret and silent purges while tracing the spy scandals, the growth of security screenings and attacks on individuals.
  14. Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
    The Anti-Empire Report #145

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
  15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  16. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  18. 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  19. Exterminism and Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    15 articles on the issues of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war, the Cold War and the peace movemennts.
  20. The Fourth Branch
    How the CIA infiltrated student politics

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
  21. Gatekeepers
    Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  22. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
  23. How We Ended the Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
  24. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
  25. Imperialism, the Cold War and the Creation of Pakistan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The true intent of the partition was to detach Pakistan from India, create a militarily strategic foothold aimed at the Soviet Union and maintain control over the oil fields of the Middle East.
  26. In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.
  27. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  28. In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
    Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
  29. Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
  30. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  31. A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
  32. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
  33. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1962
    Special Supplement on the Berlin & German Question
  34. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1962
  35. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 4

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1962
  36. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 4

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1963
  37. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1963
  38. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1963
  39. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1964
  40. Our Generation
    Volume 13 Number 12

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  41. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  42. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  43. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  44. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  45. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  46. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
  47. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  48. The Press and the Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  49. Queering the Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A review of the book 'The Canadian War on Queers' and its examination of how homophobia, national security, and queerness unfolded in Canada during the Cold War.
  50. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
  51. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  52. SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959
    U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Power" targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
    Major cities in Soviet Bloc, including East Berlin, were high priorities in "Systematic Destruction" for atomic bombings. Plans to target people (“Population”) violated international legal norms.
  53. Secret and Sanctioned
    Covert Operations and the American Presidency

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Knott presents a study of U.S. clandestine operations extending back to the American Revolution, and similar to those of the Cold War.
  54. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  55. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  56. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  57. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  58. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  59. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  60. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  61. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  62. Spy Wars
    Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.
  63. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  64. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
  65. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
  66. We're facing a new Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
  67. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  68. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  69. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

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