Projects

9 January 2023

Where Cold War warriors talked to one another

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was a dialogue and negotiating forum during the Cold War. An international research project with Austrian involvement is now investigating the details of this process and what its significance came to be in the second half of the 1980s. Continue reading

Portrait

16 December 2022

The power of stories untold

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx has been studying the repercussions of the Second World War for decades. Unresolved traumas from the war still play out across generations to this day. The war in Ukraine has now imbued what is otherwise a historical perspective with great topicality. Once again, we see a generation of children of war […] Continue reading

Portrait

12 May 2022

A child of the Cold War

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

Kerstin S. Jobst, a specialist in Eastern European history at the University of Vienna, speaks about the impact of the Ukraine war on her research, about the background of the Russian invasion of its neighbour, about the origin of the deep-seated mistrust between East and West and about why this conflict represents a watershed in […] Continue reading

Projects

2 August 2021

The Cold War as a driver of civil aviation

The relationship between technology, globalisation and the Cold War was at the focus of a three-year research project. The historian Peter Svik was the first to address explicitly the question of how the competition between the two blocs became a driver of technology – and ultimately was also a contributing factor to globalisation. Continue reading

Projects

12 June 2017

When fashion violates (Soviet) standards

While strongly influenced by the West, the fashion history of the Soviet Union also reveals some home-grown developments. First and foremost, it reflects the opening and emancipation processes that paved the way for perestroika, as a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has shown. Continue reading “When fashion violates (Soviet) standards”

Projects

17 October 2016

Development policy during the Cold War

In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, historians from the University of Vienna explored the everyday life of development-aid staff at the time of the East-West confrontation, thereby making an essential contribution to the global history of development policy. Continue reading “Development policy during the Cold War”

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