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Project news
The Warsaw Pact in the 1960s (8 June 2011)
Building on original archival research and our large online holdings, this new E-dossier by Laurien Crump of Utrecht University questions conventional wisdoms about the history of the Warsaw Pact.
India and the Soviet Bloc, 1971-1989
 (3 February 2011)
In his third collection on Indo-Soviet relations under Stalin, Andreas Hilger analyzes the close relations between India and the Soviet Bloc from the early 1970s to the end of the Cold War.

Spying on the West : Soviet-Bulgarian Scientific Intelligence Cooperation
(25 January 2011)
Adding to the PHP's compilation on intelligence issues, this new collection by long-time PHP-affiliate Jordan Baev details Soviet-Bulgarian collaboration on collecting scientific and technological intelligence.

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forthcoming Conference

Case Studies of the Cold War: A Course for Teachers and Lecturers in Europe
The University of Utrecht, in partner-ship with the Harry S. Truman Library and the PHP, and with support of Euroclio, will pilot an intensive five-day course for secondary school teachers, PhD Students and (junior) university lecturers. The course will take place from 18-22 April 2012, at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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

Poland and West Germany (8 September 2011)
Long-time PHP contributor Wanda Jarząbek is the author of the so far most detailed study of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany between 1966 and 1976. See also her recent PHP collection on Poland in the Warsaw Pact organization.
Nuclearizing Japan (12 August 2011)
According to new documentation from the US National Archives, the Eisenhower administration hoped to deploy nuclear weapons in Japan in the mid-1950s. See also the earlier revelations on actual deployments on Japanese islands.

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featured document

The Exchange of Information between Bulgarian and Soviet Intelligence Services
(18 May 2011)
 This document from the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior, outlines the type and ranks the value of the information exchanged between the KGB and the Bulgarian Secret Services between January and March of 1980.
recent analyses

Spying on the West : Soviet-Bulgarian Scientific Intelligence Cooperation
by Jordan Baev (21 January 2011)

GDR and Soviet-bloc policy towards India, 1971-1989
by Andreas Hilger (3 February 2011)

The Soviet Union's Partnership With India, Journal of Cold War Studies 12, no. 3 (2010): 50-90.
by Vojtech Mastny (12 October 2010)

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

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PHP in the news

Warsaw Pact Military Planning
Drawing on an interview with PHP affiliate Petr Lunák 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)

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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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