Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. In this book, the author visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the US to find out how the era is being remembered. It provides a history of the Cold War, one that [...]
Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War I[...]