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Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War

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Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

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Professor Lea Ypi reflects on her childhood years, which witnessed the final years of communism in Albania and the fraught transition to capitalist democracy. (Image by Getty Images)
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Living through the fall of communism

Christina Ezrahi shares the story of Nina Anisimova, a premier Soviet ballerina arrested for supposed counter-revolutionary activity. (Image by Getty Images)
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How a ballerina survived the Gulag

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Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

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Giles Milton reveals how the German capital became the frontline in a bitter diplomatic conflict between the western Allies and the Soviet Union in the wake of the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)
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The Cold War battle for Berlin

Anne Sebba explores the life of Ethel Rosenberg, who was executed for espionage in one of the most sensational and controversial episodes of the Cold War. (Image by Getty Images)
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The trials of Ethel Rosenberg

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Vladimir Lenin and his lust for power

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Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution

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The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know

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The cost of unity: Ian Kershaw on the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Why China has forgotten ‘Tank Man’? Remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations

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