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Reform's Long Shadows

This new collection brings together translated archival documents that reveal how governments, parties, movements, and intellectuals around the world responded to Soviet perestroika and Chinese “reform and opening up” between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Spanning cases from Brazil, Hungary, both Koreas, Afghanistan, Iran, and Tanzania, the records highlight how socialist reform debates, ideological struggles, and shifting economic models in Moscow and Beijing reverberated across the Global South and beyond, inspiring emulation, provoking disillusionment, and reshaping visions of communism, anti‑communism, and postcolonial development.

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Reform's Long Shadows Event Poster

The documents come mostly from the 1950s, and from Russian archives.

Topics discussed include Stalin's economic opinions and his views on the situation in East Germany. The final items discuss Stalin's death and the fate of some of his ministers.

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