Cold War

Subscription Resources

(Available to all Library users on-site. SOAS staff and students may access these off-site via institutional login).

Thematic

• Cambridge Histories Online
  Cross-search a wide range of volumes in the Cambridge Histories series for material relating to the Cold War
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1974-1996 (FBIS)
  The United States’ principal record of political and historical open-source material
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
  See how Cold War issues were debated in the UK Parliament (coverage from early 18th century onward)
• U.S. Intelligence on Asia
  A collection of declassified US intelligence documents from 1945-1991 on the activities of the American community in Asia during the Cold War era, with particular focus on China, North Korea and Vietnam, although other regions of Asia are covered.

Regional

• Confidential Print: Middle East (1839-1969)
  Foreign and Colonial Office files from the UK National Archives. Influence of “Cold War” politics in these regions
  
• Digital National Security Archive (Asia and the Middle East)
  Declassified United States government documents covering world events from 1945 to the present
• Times of India
  Digitised and searchable text (until 2003) of this English-language newspaper published in Mumbai for discussions and comment on Cold War issues

Web Resources (Other Libraries and Archives)

• National Archives (United Kingdom)
  This is part of their Schools education section and contains questions to consider about Cold War scenarios, original documents, case studies and worksheets. This could serve as a useful introduction to the topic.
• National Archives (United Kingdom) Media Player (Cold War)
  Listen to authors discussing their new books, archivists talking about contemporary Cold War documents plus political and historical discussion and video clips about Cold War topics across the globe
• National Archives (United States)
  Brings together information on relevant collections in the US National Archives, bibliographies and links to educational materials
• Cold War Studies Project (LSE)
  Contains some open-access content from their Cold War Studies journal
• British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War (1943-1953) (LSE)
  This collection was brought into being through collaboration between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. Documents relate primarily to Eastern Europe and post-war Germany. They can be browsed by year and topic, viewed and downloaded
• Cold War International History Project (Wilson Center)
  Themed blog-style postings on Cold War topics from a global perspective from the USA’s “key non-partisan policy forum”