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Two-player Cold War tug-of-war (2005).

The Cold War duel in cards, one card able to lose you the game.

A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.

Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.

A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.

Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.