World Civ-Cold War in East Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:51:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How Did Women Fare in China’s Communist Revolution? https://daniellazar.com/2017/11/25/how-did-women-fare-in-chinas-communist-revolution/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:46:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5780 While the Communist revolution brought women more job opportunities, it also made their interests subordinate to collective goals. Stopping at the household doorstep, Mao’s words and policies did little to alleviate women’s domestic burdens like housework and child care. And by inundating society with rhetoric blithely celebrating its achievements, the revolution deprived women of the … Continue reading How Did Women Fare in China’s Communist Revolution? →

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]]> The Vietnam War, as Seen by the Victor https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/the-vietnam-war-as-seen-by-the-victor/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:11:51 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5312 The event, known in the United States as the fall of Saigon and conjuring images of panicked Vietnamese trying to crowd onto helicopters to be evacuated, is celebrated as Reunification Day here in Hanoi. The holiday involves little explicit reflection on the country’s 15-year-plus conflict, in which North Vietnam and its supporters in the South … Continue reading The Vietnam War, as Seen by the Victor →

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]]> China, Communism, and Confuncianism https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/china-communism-and-confuncianism/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:54:39 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5298 In class I try to question the degree to which and the ways in which the Chinese Communist Revolution was indeed a revolutionary break from Chinese traditions. The Economist likewise questions this. Here is a short summary of the argument I’ve been making for years. 

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]]> Vietnam war photo essay from the Atlantic https://daniellazar.com/2015/04/05/vietnam-war-photo-essay-from-the-atlantic/ Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:51:50 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5208 check out this three-part series. Harrowing. Mind bending. 

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]]> Five Myths About the Cold War https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/five-myths-about-the-cold-war/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:03:16 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5013 Mark Kramer is director of Cold War Studies and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center. More than 20 years since the U.S.S.R. disappeared, Russia’s incursion into Ukraine is renewing old rivalries and sparking talk of a new Cold War, with former KGB officer Vladimir Putin serving as the West’s latest foil in Moscow. … Continue reading Five Myths About the Cold War →

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]]> How China's millennials talk about Tiananmen Square https://daniellazar.com/2014/06/25/how-chinas-millennials-talk-about-tiananmen-square/ Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:42:19 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4980 Twenty-five years after June 4, 1989, even China’s educated youth have only a foggy understanding of the incident, and they’re skittish about discussing it openly. Textbooks don’t mention the violence that left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead in the streets of Beijing. The Chinese Internet has been scrubbed of all but the official accounts. (The first … Continue reading How China's millennials talk about Tiananmen Square →

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]]> Red Guard Reunion: he class of 1967 still can’t criticize the icon https://daniellazar.com/2014/06/25/red-guard-reunion-he-class-of-1967-still-cant-criticize-the-icon/ Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:41:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4978 How had the class of 1967—a group of young people who came of age just as the Cultural Revolution was approaching its height—come to grips with their own role in this dark chapter in modern Chinese history?

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]]> The Vietnamese tribesmen who fought alongside American Special Forces https://daniellazar.com/2014/01/04/the-vietnamese-tribesmen-who-fought-alongside-american-special-forces/ Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:22:34 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4800 The indigenous Montagnards, recruited into service by the American Special Forces in Vietnam’s mountain highlands, defended villages against the Viet Cong and served as rapid response forces. The Special Forces and the Montagnards—each tough, versatile, and accustomed to living in wild conditions—formed an affinity for each other. In the testimony of many veterans, their working … Continue reading The Vietnamese tribesmen who fought alongside American Special Forces →

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]]> ATOMIC SECRETS, MISSING PERSONS AND GENERAL COLD WAR STRANGENESS https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/atomic-secrets-missing-persons-and-general-cold-war-strangeness/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:35:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4743 The Conelrad Blog is awesome…and disturbing

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]]> What We Learned From the Korean War https://daniellazar.com/2013/09/20/what-we-learned-from-the-korean-war/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 05:51:29 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4696 Is Korea still, as it was called then, the Forgotten War? Unfortunately it is. But it shouldn’t be. The objectives, the conduct, and the conclusion of that war are significant in too many ways. This anniversary provides an occasion to remember them, and to honor those who served in that war.

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