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  • Title: At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
    Author: Benjamin B. Fisher/Center for the Study of Intelligence
    Publication Date: 1999
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: "A compendium of newly declassified US intelligence documents covering the years 1989-1991.Some of the documents, especially those on military-strategic subjects, were only partially declassified, since they contain data from still-sensitive sources and methods." Documents are in PDF format.

  • Title: Cold War, Hegemony, Postmodernism: American Television
    Author: Schwoch, James
    Publication Date: 9/23
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 3732
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU 88.5FM
    Publication Date: 8/5/
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 187
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Multiple
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: James Clad - Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ken Jensen - Director of Research Studies at the United States Institute of Peace on how ethnic strife and tensions have filled the void that the Cold War left.

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 8/29
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 230
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: (topic 1)How computers can help children learn faster with author, Ray Easley. (topic 2) Reform in Cuba with Gillian Gund

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 5/21
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 90
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Dr. Susan Richards - Author of Epics of Everyday Life talks about life in the Soviet Union

  • Title: Derek McGinty Show
    Author: WAMU Radio
    Publication Date: 3/24
    Format: Audio
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au ac orig 620
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: John Hanes, co-author of The American Communist Movement Storming Heaven Itself , and Robin Hanell, professor at American University discuss different kinds of economies, including capitalism and communism.

  • Title: Dirty Secrets
    Author: New Day Film Library
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: F1466.E84D57 1998
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: Latin America
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Follows the efforts of Jennifer Harbury to find the truth about her husband Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, better known as Everardo, a Guatemalan peasant revolutionary in Unidad Revolucionaria Guatemalteca; Everardo "disappeared" after capture by Guatemalan government forces. Reveals involvement by the CIA and other American governmental bodies in this and related events.

  • Title: Fall of Soviet Communism
    Author: Churchill Media
    Publication Date: 1993
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK293.F35 1993
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Young people involved in the Soviet republics' struggle for independence give eyewitness accounts of the fall of Soviet communism and the rise of new, independent nations.

  • Title: Frontline: Ashes of the Cold War
    Publication Date: 5/4/
    Format: Film
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: Program 1363
    Subject: Business & Economics
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Economic consequences of the end of the Cold War. ** rough cut, no credits

  • Title: German Reunification: A Reference Guide and Commentary
    Author: Jonathan Osmond
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DD290.25.O85
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Western Europe
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Includes maps, chronology of events, tables of governments, election results, and economic indicators, treaties, speeches, and a bibliography.

  • Title: Lexis-Nexis Government Periodicals Index database
    Author: Lexis-Nexis, Inc.
    Format: Online
    Location: Network WWW
    Call No./URL/Item No.: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/usgpi
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Provides detailed subject and author indexing of approximately 170 magazines and newsletters published by U.S. government agencies.
    Subscription ONLY. Contact your library

  • Title: Media and Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Policy, The
    Author: Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
    Publication Date: 3/21
    Format: Print
    Location: Broadcast
    Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB pamphlet - 717
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Freedom Forum Media Studies Center Briefing Paper

  • Title: Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, 2nd. ed.
    Author: Stephen K. Batalden and Sandra L. Batalden
    Publication Date: 1997
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK17.B34 1997
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Chapters for 12 republics (excluding the Baltic States) with economic, political, cultural, social and religious backgrounds, maps, statistics, and issues analyses.

  • Title: Plague War
    Author: PBS Video
    Publication Date: 1998
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: UG447.8.P53 1998
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: United States
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Frontline presents new evidence culled from scientists, intelligence agencies, and policymakers to examine the threat biological weapons and warfare pose to world security and the responses the U.S. is frantically developing.

  • Title: Reinterpreting Russia : An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, 1991-1996
    Author: Steve D. Boilard
    Publication Date: 1997
    Format: Print
    Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK17.B65 1997
    Subject: Multiple Subjects
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Bibliography of books published about Russia since the break-up of the Soviet Union; author, title and subject indexes.

  • Title: Revolution in Eastern Europe
    Author: Churchill Films
    Publication Date: 1992
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DJK51.R48 1992
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: In 1989, the people of Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland triumphed over their imposed governments. Here are young people speaking openly about their troubled past and hopes for a more prosperous future.

  • Title: Russian Roulette
    Author: PBS Video
    Publication Date: 1999
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: UA770.R77 1999
    Subject: Military & Intelligence
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Investigates the security of the Russian nuclear arsenal, interviewing U.S. and Russian military commanders and scientists about the potential for catastrophe in the former Soviet Union.

  • Title: Taste of Freedom
    Author: Video Project
    Publication Date: 1990
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DK287.T37 1990
    Subject: Culture & Society
    GeographicArea: Soviet Union
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Covers six weeks of the lives of Sasha Politikovsky, a prominent TV journalist, and his family. While on assignment, Politikovsky visits Azerbaijan, Belarus and towns near Chernobyl, as glasnost and perestroika lift the lid of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.

  • Title: Why Vietnam?
    Author: Churchill Films
    Publication Date: 1986
    Format: Film
    Location: Nonprint Media
    Call No./URL/Item No.: DS558.W453 1986 pt. 1 and 2; DS558.W453 1986 guide pt. 1 and 2
    Subject: Politics
    GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
    TimePeriod: 1990s forward
    Description: Historians, veterans and journalists discuss the reasons behind U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the hard lessons learned in its aftermath.


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