Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Books About the Cold War. These books are invaluable expressions of Cold War culture, says Daniel Johnson. Share. Resize. 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell Harcourt, Brace, 1949.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

These, though, were not explosives or incendiary weapons: they were books,” Duncan White writes in the opening of his book, “Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War.” “At ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan at the 1985 Geneva Summit. William Inboden argues that Reagan, not Gorbachev, was primarily responsible for ending the Cold War.

At the beginning of the Cold War, adults saw comic books as contributors to juvenile delinquency and bureaucrats saw them acting to subvert "American" values. This concern led to U.S. Senate ...

While researching his 1998 book "Acres of Skin" about medical experiments on inmates in Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Hornblum came across documentation about similar experiments conducted on ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.