Through careful reading of reams of Anglophone materials culled from federal records, correspondence, newly declassified intelligence briefings, Wolfe unravels the distinctive meanings science took on within American political and elite at pains to distinguish West, symbolically substantially, from..…

Despite heavily armed sentries actively patrolling electrified fences, hundreds of East Germans took the opportunity to flee across the border to the West as the once-feared Hungarian communist guards failed to intervene. Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe quickly evaporated, and in January..…