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Forgotten heroes: Study gives voice to China's nationalist WWII veterans

04 Nov 2021

As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, new research gives voice to the country's still controversial nationalist (KMT)...

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Russian Poster 38

Totalitarianism, violence and the silent majority

06 Mar 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥â€˜horrifying genius’ of Soviet totalitarianism and its ability to control and quell protest will be examined tonight by Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 Feb 2013

̽»¨Ö±²¥new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again...

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American toys for American boys and girls

Cold War PR - spinning the ideological battlefront

07 Dec 2011

̽»¨Ö±²¥persuasive powers of Cold War PR, until now little recognised or discussed, was the subject of a three-day conference at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥.

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