November 9, 2009

Tags: 1989, Cold War, Documents, foreign policy, Media

In this video, Russia Programs Director Svetlana Savranskaya discusses the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A new book from the National Security Archive, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe (forthcoming in 2010, Central European University Press), chronicles the role of peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 through documents collected from US, European, and Russian archives.

Read more about the peaceful end of the Cold War in Europe at www.nsarchive.org.

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The National Security Archive promotes the unearthing of evidence around past and current events relating to U.S. foreign, national security and human rights policies, recognizing the importance of usable history for scholars, journalists, politicians, public interest groups, and advocates for civil society.

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