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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Title Page
Introduction
‘Then all hell broke loose’: The Greek Civil War (1944–9)
‘The Iron Curtain was in place’: The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia (1948)
‘There were no weapons, only arguments, ideas’: The Italian Election of 1948
‘We were suddenly shut off’: The Berlin Blockade (1948–9)
‘Then fear replaced pride’: The Fall of Shanghai (1949
‘The trap shut’: The Korean War (1950–3)
‘The world became a hostile place’: McCarthyism (1950–4)
‘When I saw the light, I had no idea what was happening’: The H-Bomb (1950s)
‘Now it was going to be different’: The East German Uprising (1953)
‘Democracy and freedom became a memory only’: The Iranian Coup (1953)
‘It was the beginning of freedom’: Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (1956)
‘We are not your comrades’: The Hungarian Revolution (1956)
‘They were leaving with only their suitcases, they lost everything’: The Congo Crisis (1960–1)
‘If one went, one couldn’t return’: The Berlin Wall (1961)
‘The world was going to end any time now’: The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
‘There was no future’: The Fall of Khrushchev and the Rise of Brezhnev (1964–82)
‘They could accuse you of anything’: The Outbreak of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–7)
‘They didn’t want to live in the dark any more’: The Prague Spring (1968)
‘I can’t wash that stain away’: America’s Vietnam War (1965–73)
‘Everything that you thought is not true any more’: The Coup in Chile (1973)
‘These were just ordinary men marching in the street’: The Fall of Saigon and the Aftermath of the Vietnam War (1975–9)
‘We fell into each other’s arms’: The Cold Peace and Ostpolitik (1969–79)
‘The country was left with no protection at all’: The Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
‘The newcomer holding a weapon is the enemy’: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979–89)
‘We came out victorious’: The Birth of Solidarity in Poland (1980)
‘A threat to our mutual humanity’: The Nuclear Arms Race and CND (1981–7)
‘Everyone wanted change’: Gorbachev’s Perestroika (1985–91)
‘They are not so different from us’: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification (1989–90)
‘The greatest value of mankind is their freedom’: The Baltic Republics Leave the Soviet Union (1988–91)
‘The last nail in the coffin’: The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)
Contributor Biographies
Picture Section
Further Reading: Contributors’ Publications
Further Reading
Index of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Copyright
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