This collection includes numerous materials from revolutionary struggles across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East that arose during the post-WWII period of decolonization and later during the Cold War. With the formation of the UN in 1945 came a pledge to support and develop self-government for oppressed (colonized) peoples. Self-determination defined many of the political struggles throughout the Cold War, whether against entrenched European colonial powers, or oppressive neo-colonial regimes backed by the West.This collection contains a large array of materials from national liberation movements across the African continent, as well as from political struggles in Iran, Oman,Yemen, Ireland, China, Portugal, Italy, and the Philippines.