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Cold War

The oppressive shadows of the Berlin Wall: Anna Funder’s Stasiland

A courageous nod to God in a Soviet-era show-trial

A chance encounter with a great poet: Irina Ratushinskaya beaten but not lost

Cold war faith in Romania

Hanging by a thread: Michael Dobbs’ account of the Cuban Missile Crisis

A Czech protest song: the redemptive power of suffering

Cold War insanity: you really couldn’t make this up

Sacrifices on the Altar of Ambition: Agamemnon’s Daughter by Ismail Kadare

Vanishing in the digital age

Hiding the Tirana concrete jungle

TYPHOON – a new spy-novel that pulls no punches

ELF08 – the wariness of a post-communist mindset