Although the U.S. and Soviet Union were technically at peace during the Cold War, the period was marked by heightened tensions as the countries raced to build their nuclear stockpiles.

Kunakhovich presents a richly detailed chronicle of the relations between political and cultural actors in the East German city of Leipzig and the Polish city of Krakow during the Cold War. He shows ...

The restrictions shown on this 1957 map are actually looser than those that had been in place just a few years earlier. A 1952 immigration law essentially barred visitors from communist countries ...