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Tom Buchanan
Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford, and Director of Studies in History and Politics at OUDCE. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on British involvement in the Spanish Civil War, and of Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present (2nd edition 2012). He published East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925-1976 with Oxford University Press in 2012. His most recent book is Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Post-war Britain. He has published an article entitled “The Three Lives of Homage to Catalonia” in The Library, 3, 3 (2002).
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The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 symbolised the division of Europe along ideological lines for the next three decades. It was a rollercoaster ride that would end with the collapse of the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, and of the USSR itself.