Were the protests, riots and demonstrations that rocked the West during the 1960s instrumental in affecting dissent in the Soviet bloc at that time? Listen in to a debate on that subject, as featured on the weekly CNN program "Postscript" -- which accompanies the COLD WAR series.

CNN World Affairs Correspondent Ralph Begleiter, Russian historian Vladislav Zubok, American scholar Thomas Blanton and author Diane Solway consider the "dual dissent" that took place on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Solway has written extensively on the arts and the creative process for The New York Times, Elle and other publications. For her book, "Nureyev: His Life", she secured access to top secret Soviet files in the Communist Party and Russian State Military Archives. Solway's research led to those files being declassified. It also initiated the process that led to Nureyev's posthumous rehabilitation of his previous status as a state traitor.

Zubok is one of the leading historians of the Soviet side of the Cold War and the author of "Inside the Kremlin's Cold War." He has studied extensively in Soviet and American archives and has taught classes on the Cold War at Amherst College, Ohio University in Athens and Stamford University. In 1993, Zubok was employed by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, and since then has worked at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and is now a fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington.

Blanton is executive director for the National Security Archive in Washington. The NSA is a non-governmental research institute providing information from U.S. government and official archives for scholars, journalists, members of Congress, lobbyists and others. Their research teases out documents still classified to give a complete picture of what really happened.