Cold War

Hoover's library materials encompass nearly 300,000 titles, with the total number of volumes well over half a million. These holdings include books, periodicals, newspapers, and other distinctive and rare publications that support research on war, revolution, and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our library materials related to the Cold War.

The Cold War: Examines the origins and political implications of the power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union since the end of World War II.

Cold War crucible : United States foreign policy and the conflict in Romania, 1943-1952: Covering the great power conflict that erupted in Romania at the end of World War II, this book uses recently declassified military intelligence records to focus on US policy toward Romania, as they sought to assert political influence and counter Soviet power in the region. 

Cold War Radio : the Russian broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: A concise look at the history of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and their impact on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. xv, 307 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Documenting communism : the Hoover project to microfilm and publish the Soviet archives: A memoir of the project to microfilm and publish ten million pages of Soviet Archives, bringing worldwide access to a Russian history that had been closed for nearly a century. xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Cold War casual: A collection of transcribed oral testimony and interviews translated from Russian into English and from English into Russian that delve into the effect of the events and the government propaganda of the Cold War era on regular citizens of countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 697 pages ; 26 cm

Cold War radio : the dangerous history of American broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989: This history of the stations in the Cold War era reveals the perils their staff faced from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania and other communist states. It recounts in detail the murder of writer Georgi Markov, the 1981 bombing of the stations by â Carlos the Jackal, â infiltration by KGB agent Oleg Tumanov and other events. x, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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