Date and Time: Sunday 19th April, 11am EDT, 4pm BST, 6pm Athens,
About this webinar
While one may debate when the Cold War started – with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine committing the US to intervene in countries to fight ‘communist subversion? With Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech at Westminster College, Fulton Missouri? With George Kenan’s ‘Long Telegram’ advising ‘containment’ of the Soviet Union? Or even with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki chiefly to intimidate the Soviet Union? – we are taking the opportunity of the 80th anniversary of the devastating Greek Civil War and Churchill’s speech to reflect on the reconstitution of imperialism in the critical years following the Second World War.
What were the stakes, in the Cold War generally and in the various hot conflicts with which it punctuated the decades that followed? How were former allies converted into enemies?How was the Atlantic Alliance constituted? What were the consequences, for Europe, the US, the Communist World and Third World?
Speakers
- Dimitrios Konstantakopoulos – journalist, writer, Editor of Defend Democracy Press
- Oleg Barabanov – Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club
- Richard Sakwa – former professor of Russian and European politics, University of Kent
- Ken Hammond – historian
- Keith Bennett – Co-editor of Friends of Socialist China
- Moderator: Radhika Desai, International Manifesto Group.
Organised by The International Manifesto Group
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