Those of you who
aspire to be a faithful student of the cold war will be pleased to
hear about a fabulous online resource, the Journal of Intelligence
and Security, apparently published by Taylor Francis. The archive is
online and I think that by jumping through hoops one can get a
certain number of articles for free.
But even if you do
not read the journal articles themselves, they make available their
book reviews of the current literature and I have found that very
useful as a guide or index into subjects.
In particular they
review a new book that has resulted from the brief period when
certain archives of the Comintern of the former USSR were public.
One result of that openness is a collection of secret cables from
this organization, the Communist International, sometimes also known
as the Third International, which was the organization that worked
for Communist revolution in the world.
Our reviewer has
something amusing to say about revisionist history in the 1970s and
1980s when it was discovered to the horror of many in this country
that the accusation of Soviet control of the American Communist Party
and the work of various people such as Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs
was not merely right wing paranoid conspiracy theories but were based
in fact.
Here is an excerpt
from that review.
You can read the
full review here:
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