Now trialling: Cold War Eastern Europe, Module I: 1953-1960
Ends: Friday 13th April 2018

Provides full-text searchable access to over six thousand primary source files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office, sourced entirely from The National Archives, U.K. series FO 371.

Highlights of Cold War Eastern Europe, Module I: 1953-1960:

• A unique and comprehensive, English-language history of post-Stalinist Eastern Europe
• Files cover every aspect of political, economic, cultural, social and dissident life behind the ‘Iron Curtain’
• Countries covered: Albania, Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Berlin, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
• Key events covered include: Balkan Pact (1953), Death of Stalin, East German Uprising (1953), Foundation of the Warsaw Pact, Geneva Summit (1955), 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’, Poznan Revolt, Hungarian Revolution, Polish October, Berlin crisis and the Sino-Soviet split
• Enables comparative study of trends across Eastern Europe, or in-depth analysis of individual countries
• Will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of East European and Soviet history, 20th Century International Relations, Cold War history, the history and culture of individual states within Eastern Europe, Slavic Studies and Communist societies

Includes: Introductory Essays, Timeline, Communist States Fact File and Foreign Office Fact File.

To help you use the resource, video tutorials are available online here.

Please note: The My Archive and the Document and Citation Download functions are not available on this trial edition of Cold War Eastern Europe, Module I: 1953-1960. Documents can be viewed using the image viewer function.