/s, I assume? (you never know!) Having read a couple of Cold War histories, most recently Tony Judt's excellent Postwar, I learned that what's often missing fr

/s, I assume? (you never know!) Having read a couple of Cold War histories, most recently Tony Judt's excellent Postwar, I learned that what's often missing from American pop-level summaries is the work put in by the people behind the Iron Curtain to bring it down -- for examples, the Polish Catholics and union members, and the Czech dissidents such as Vaclav Havel. Generally American pop-level accounts like to emphasize American agency in what happened.