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    Communist Imperialism

    This Pepperdine College Cold War film documents Soviet territorial expansion between 1917 and 1962, and warns of the threat of international communism. Primarily focused on the increase of S…

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    Soviet Internal Propaganda

    This CIA film from 1985 details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the Soviet Union which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of Kremlin ru…

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    John Kleinheinz on Post-Soviet Union Russia

    The Hoover Institution’s John Kleinheinz talked about his experiences in post-Soviet Union Russia. He was in conversation with Stephen Kotkin. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intr…

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    Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev New Year's Day Messages

    President Ronald Reagan addressed the citizens of the Soviet Union about the nature of the American holiday season, the treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union and the possibil…

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    1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Intelligence

    The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum convened political and intelligence experts to revisit the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis on the 60th anniversary of the confrontation be…

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    1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Leadership

    The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum convened political and intelligence experts to revisit the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis on the 60th anniversary of the confrontation …

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    The Children and the Bear

    This animated anti-communist film tells the story of a bear, representing the Soviet Union. The bear eats children, who represent small communist nations, until some children band together t…

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    Memoirs

    Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talked about his book Memoirs. He talked about his career as a Communist Party leader and his contributions to the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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    Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

    This eight-minute portion of a half-hour film produced in 2013 by the National Churchill Museum tells the story of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s March 5, 1946 “Sinews of …

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    Solzhenitsyn and American Culture

    Jessica Wilson, scholar in residence at the University of Dallas, talked about the late Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his use of art to combat propaganda. This virtual event wa…

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    The Big Show in Bololand

    Author Bertrand Patenaude shared the story of a US famine relief mission to Bolshevik Russia in 1921 that saved millions of lives in his book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief E…

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    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space

    On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, securing a victory for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. A panel of scholars discussed the legacy of Mr…

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    Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs

    Nancy Thorndike Greenspan talked about her book, Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs, which looks at the life of the spy who gave the Soviets America’s plans for a plutonium bomb. The …

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    Moscow Strikes Back

    Originally a Soviet film on the World War II Battle of Moscow titled Rout of the German troops near Moscow, this English language version was widely distributed in American theaters. Narrate…

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    Churchill, Truman and the "Iron Curtain" Speech

    Author Candice Millard and Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Crosby Kemper III talked about Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech with Washington Post columnist Davi…

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    The U.S. Overseas Information Program

    This film produced at the height of the Cold War shows examples of Soviet anti-American propaganda, and outlines U.S. efforts to promote American values around the globe using radio, print, …

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    Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" Speech

    This is an audio recording of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s entire March 5, 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech, accompanied by still images and some brief motion picture segments…

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    American Women Visit the Soviet Union

    U.S. members of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom visit with Soviet women in Moscow and several other cities to promote peace and understanding in the midst of the Cold …

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    Reagan, Moscow and the 1980s Cold War

    Duke University History and Public Policy Professor Simon Miles participated in a discussion of his book, Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Co…

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    Midnight in Chernobyl

    Adam Higginbotham talked about his book, "Midnight in Chernobyl, about the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. This virtual event was part of Norwich University’s Military Writers' Symposium[

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