Archiv für März 2016

Musical Cultural Exchanges in the Age of Detente: Cultural Fixation, Trust, and the Permeability of Culture

The 1970s era of detente represented a critical period in cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The 1960s set in motion socially liberalizing forces to which Soviet authorities were forced to respond. The Brezhn…

When Ideology Takes Precedence over Historical Understanding: The Role of the ‚Right‘ in the Spanish Interwar Crisis

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/425?rss=1

The Armed Neutrality Paradox: Sweden and Switzerland in US Cold War Armaments Policy

This article presents the first comparative study of US policy towards two European neutrals, Sweden and Switzerland, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this period, Sweden and Switzerland were integrated into the Western security regime throug…

The Reversal of the Passfield White Paper, 1930-1: A Reassessment

British mandated Palestine has attracted scholarly attention for its role in the development of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Some aspects of the time period, however, remain somewhat overlooked, and one prominent example is the reversal of …

The Group of 7 and International Terrorism: The Snowball Effect That Never Materialized

The article looks at the Group of 7 (G7) efforts to fight international terrorism in the 1970s and early 1980s. It examines the G7 statement against hijacking, the Bonn Declaration of 1978, and assesses how the G7 dealt with it after the adoption of t…

Jenny Leigh Smith, Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/442?rss=1

Palestinian Collaboration with the British: The Peace Bands and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-9

This article examines an aspect of British counter-insurgency in Palestine in the 1930s during the Arab revolt there against British colonial rule and Jewish settlement: the pro-British, anti-rebel Palestinian militia ‘peace bands’, associ…

The Spanish Second Republic and Political Violence

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/430?rss=1

The Vatican, Nazi-Fascism, and the Making of Transnational Anti-communism in the 1930s

Given the recent scholarly interest in the history of anti-communism, it is surprising that relatively little has been written on the ambitious transnational anti-communist campaign launched by the Vatican in the early 1930s. Drawing on new archival m…

Tobias Rupprecht, Soviet Internationalism after Stalin. Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold War

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/2/446?rss=1