Parallel History Project
The Parallel History Project (abbreviated PHP , more detailed Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security ) is a project and a collection of documents on the history of the Cold War , which came about through cooperation between historians of the history of Eastern and Western military alliances. The project was accompanied by its own conferences and, in addition to online documents, also publishes its own publications. The PHP is located at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The origin of the project was the increasing opening of archives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact for research in the 1990s. This allowed the comparison of previously secret documents and plans that developed parallel to one another along the time axis - hence the original project name Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact . So the project has nothing in common with " alternate history ". The first PHP workshop took place in 1999 in Graz . The project has been coordinated by the American historian Vojtech Mastny since it was founded .
Web links
- Parallel History Project on the ETH Zurich website
- Review of PHP by Stephanie Zloch on H-Soz-Kult (2005)
Individual evidence
- ^ The First PHP Workshop Held on October 1, 1999 in Graz, on the PHP website.