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Dissidents & Protesters

The Western Peace Movements

  • Bess, M. D., ‘E. P. Thompson: The Historian as Activist’, American Historical Review, 98 (1993), 19-38.
  • Byrne, Paul, Social Movements in Britain (London: Routledge, 1997).
  • Carter, April, Liberal Democracy and its Critics (Malden, MA, 1998).
  • Kenny, Michael, The First New Left: British Intellectuals after Stalin (London, 1995).
  • Hinton, James, Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain (London, 1989).
  • Kodama, Katsuya and Unto Vesa (eds.), Towards a Comparative Analysis of Peace Movements (London, 1990).
  • Meier, A., ‘The peace movement - some questions concerning its social nature and structure’, International Sociology, 13 (1988), 77-87.
  • Nehring, Holger, Diverging perceptions of security: NATO and the protests against nuclear weapons', in Andreas Wenger, et al. (eds.), Transforming NATO in the Cold War: Challenges beyond Deterrence in the 1960s (London: Routledge, 2006).
  • Nehring, Holger 'National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957–1964', Contemporary European History 14, no. 4 (2005).
  • Nehring, Holger, 'Politics, Symbols and the Public Sphere: The Protests against Nuclear Weapons in Britain and West Germany, 1958-1963', Zeithistorische Forschungen 2, no. 2 (2005).
  • Nehring, Holger, 'The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957–64', Contemporary British History 19, no. 2 (2005).
  • Nehring, Holger, 'The Growth of Social Movements', in Paul Addison/Harriet Jones (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939–2000 (Oxford, 2005).
  • Roseneil, Sasha, Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham (Milton Keynes, 1995).
  • Taylor, Richard, Against the Bomb. The British Peace Movement, 1958-65 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988).
  • Wittner, Lawrence S., A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford, CA, 1993-2004), 3 vols.
  • Ziemann, Benjamin (ed.), Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA during the Cold War (Essen, 2007).


    • Dissidence in Eastern Europe

  • English, Robert D., Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (New York, 2000).
  • Evangelista, Matthew, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca, NY, 1999).
  • Gorbachev, Mikhail, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World (London, 1987).
  • Havel, Vaclav, Living in Truth: Twenty-two Essays (London, 1987).
  • Havemann, Robert, An Alienated Man (London, 1973).
  • Maier, Charles, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton, NJ, 1997).
  • Medvedev, R., On Socialist Democracy (New York, 1977).
  • Michnik, Adam, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (London, 1987).
  • Read, Christopher, The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System (London, 2001).
  • Sakharov, Andrei, Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (London, 1968).
  • Sakharov, Andrei, Memoirs (New York: Vintage, 1992).
  • Service, Robert, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (London, 1997).
  • Skilling, H. Gordon, Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia (London, 1981).
  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, Letter to Soviet Leaders (London, 1974).
  • Tismaneanu, Vladimir, In Search of Civil Society: Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Routledge, 1990).
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