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He Knew People: A Private Citizen Was a Powerful Political Player

A man whose career success happened when he left an official diplomatic activity.

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Was the “Cold War” Actually a War?

The constant threat of a nuclear strike from either side was something people lived with every day…

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Did Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern People Love War?

Ancient, Medieval, and early modern people saw war as a means to an end. In general, they saw war as something they have to do to obtain something else, because there is no other, better option.

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Communist Cell in Hollywood

Soviet agents were able to move freely around the USA during the mid-to-later 1930s, a historian claims. From the Great Depression through World War II, the American Communist Party tried to take control of the motion picture industry.

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A Secret Conversation On Cuban-Sponsored Guerilla Warfare in Transit Through Prague

In 1967 Aldo Flores, a member of the PCB Central Committee, participated as a Bolivian CP delegate to the SED Congress in Berlin and then visited the USSR. He wanted to use his transit through Prague to inform the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia of recent events in Bolivia…

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