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Learn About Female Spies
- The 5 Most Badass Women in Spy History
- Smithsonian Magazine - The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies
- The CIA’s Female Spy Question
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Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, and the CIA
- The Washington Post - The CIA and 'Doctor Zhivago': Explore the cache of documents
- Svensson, G. (1960, Jun 01). Furor Over Nobel Prize Saved My Life--Pasternak: Death Frees Story Never Printed. Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963)
- Time Magazine cover and article on Boris Pasternak from December 15, 1958 from New York Public Library’s Digital Collection. Each page is a separate scan.
- Doctor Zhivago: How the CIA turned fiction into propaganda
- Political cartoon
- Inside the Making of Doctor Zhivago (the film)
The Cold War and Soviet Propaganda
- These Soviet propaganda posters once evoked heroism, pride and anxiety
- Cold War History
- The Cold War Experience
- When the United States and Soviet Union Fought It Out Over Fashion
- Dior models in the streets of Soviet Moscow, 1959
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Banned Books and Celebrating the Freedom to Read
AHML Celebrates Banned Books Week: George Orwell:
AHML Celebrates Banned Books Week: Judy Blume:
AHML Celebrates Banned Books Week: LGBTQ+