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Adam J. Stone is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University studying women’s transnational antinuclear and peace activism across the Cold War Eastern and Western blocs in the 1980s. His dissertation, “Women Citizen Activists and the End of the Cold War: Soviet Bloc and Western Transnational Connections, 1980–1989,” takes women’s activism as a primary lens of analysis to explore challenges to Cold War politics. It considers competing local, national, and international political constituencies to ask how and why women activists became pivotal actors in Cold War politics as they advocated for moving beyond the conflict among their countries. Utilizing archival research and oral-history interviews, his dissertation reevaluates the ending of the Cold War and challenges traditional conceptions of the conflict. His work has been supported by the University of Pittsburgh’s Summer Language Institute, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Wilson Center, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Fulbright Institute of International Education.
RCC Project: Women Citizen Activists and the End of the Cold War: Soviet and Western Transnational Connections, 1980–1989