Cold War Research Group

New co-authored article by CWRG member @JanKoura on Czechoslovak intelligence, its main operations, organisational structure and links to other Eastern European services, including the KGB. 👇 #metrics-content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

CWRG co-organizes the lecture "From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back" by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), which will take place on 16 November 2022 at 10:00 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University ff.cuni.cz/2022/11/histor…

New article published by @JanKoura and @rawatersjr in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 👇🇨🇿 tandfonline.com/eprint/VUKYSNZ…

Thank you all for coming to our panel about Eastern European intelligence services and the Global South at @BASEES conference in Cambridge, and thanks @nat_telepneva, @JanKoura, @KseniaWes, @MikulasPesta for a fascinating discussion!

🕵️‍♂️ Málokdy se čte vědecká studie jako špionážní thriller. V případě práce @JanKoura @FF_CUNI @UniKarlova tomu tak je. Z nově odtajněných svazků #StB zjistil, že vlivný marocký politik Mehdi Ben #Barka spolupracoval s čs. rozvědkou! Píše @HZdrahalova 🎙️ ukforum.cz/rubriky/veda/8…

Invitation to the @USD_AV_CR seminar which will take place on 19 January 2022 at 16:00 online via the ZOOM platform. Vít Smetana and Jiří Ellinger will present the Prague chapter of the life of the American diplomat G. F. Kennan. 🇨🇿🇺🇸 @JanKoura will be one of the commentators.

@JanKoura and his interview for @LeDesk_ma about Mehdi Ben Barka's cooperation with the Czechoslovak secret service. ledesk.ma/grandangle/jan…

V deníku @guardian vyšel článek o marockém opozičním politikovi Mehdi Ben Barkovi a jeho spolupráci se Státní bezpečností. Text vychází z výzkumu dr. @JanKoura z Ústavu světových dějin FF UK. theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

✨Starting 2022 with a Call for Papers! Apply to share your research at the Cambridge World History Workshop this term 🌎🌍🌏

Happy New Year! Why not kick off 2022 by submitting a piece to Cold War History? As well as research articles perhaps considering writing for one of our new sections! 👇

This article in the @guardian is based on research by @jankoura that was published in Intelligence and National Security earlier this year. Link to the INS article here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

Article in @guardian based on @JanKoura paper published in @IntelNatSecJnl in 2020 👇🇲🇦🇨🇿1url.cz/MKTR0 theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

Our collectively written book on Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation, will be out with OUP in January 2022 @JamesAlexMark

#Czechoslovak history on the big screen alert! In "Occupation," you'll get a little bit of #PragueSpring, and a little bit of Czechoslovak state socialist memory culture, and who knows what else? Thanks to @ColdWarPod for passing this one along! cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/…

BOOM! 1/3 We won🥇 @lovieawards best 🎉Education & Science Podcast in Europe! 🎉 Incredibly humbled, stoked & optimistic as this #independentpodcast gets recognised! #bestineurope #Secretstruggleforcoldwardominance #historyjournalism #podcasting #storytelling #lovieawards

I am honoured by the invitation to deliver the 2022 R. K. Teetzel Lecture in Architecture at the Univ. of Toronto. Still working on it, but I think that I will talk about one West African architect and his use of comparison as a tool of decolonisation: 🔗uc.utoronto.ca/teetzel2022

Congrats to the Secret Struggle for Cold War Dominance Podcast! 🥳👏

Jan Koura participated as a round table commentator of the event NAVIGATING EASTERN EUROPE’S TRANSREGIONAL HISTORIES organised by GWZO.

Przemysław Gasztold's new article on Polish arms sales to Libya in the 1970s and 1980s.

Exciting news! 😄 Dr. Sean Fear will present during our next online panel. His work unravels 1960s' South-Vietnamese diplomacy and the fall of anti-communism. 📅 When: Thursday, Dec. 2nd, 16.00-17.30 CET For more info, check: coldwarresearchnetwork.nl/2021/09/27/the…