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What is this Guide, anyway?
The main purpose of this Guide was to bring together on one site basic informations about the main actors of the Cold War - THE event of the second half of the 20th century. You should find information about people, states and their agencies and services. It also includes a timeline and an archive of interesting materials and papers.
The information in the main database was written mainly in 1997-8, and was not majorly reviewd since then. That is the main purpose of the next phase of the Guide reconstrucion going on right now (should be finished in summer 2002). In the first concept of the Guide the entries were written in the shortest possible way, making them just notices and abstracts of full entries in sources much more reliable and relevant than my project. But the quality of the database suffered even more by my linguistical knowledge, struggles with translations (sometimes re-translations), transcriptions from Russian to English and so on... Still much of these mistakes is still hidden inside the Guide, the vices of the past are only hard to erase.
I hope this site will provide you with the information you are looking for or give you the necessary clues to be able to do further searches. That is what I had in mind, when I began to build up the guide. I was lacking a source that would (more or less) be a guiding tool through the unbelievably vast sources about this topic on the Web. I sure realize, that this tiny Guide will never reach the informative value of specialized projects of historians and institutions but that is not the purpose.
My objective was to create something for those people who are just entering the world of the Web and the Cold War. It's easier to get an image of the whole problem here and then take your journey into the wild of the Web. But also for experienced users, I hope, this will be a source they will like to come back to as it is an interactive and quite informative source.
And if you just clicked your way down here from somewhere, please, take a look around. There is always something more you can learn and explore.
And of course I'll be very grateful for any impressions, hints and advices...
The Editor
Roman Studenic (1980), currently in the 4th year of psychology on the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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