World Archives

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.

Ian Mortimer

This listing is of national and other archives round the world that have documents related to the Cold War period, it is not complete, there are many others. The ones listed here are some of those that have easy access via the Internet and that I find particularly useful.

As far as I am able to determine, all the links are safe, but you follow them at your own risk.