Author: Bradley Lightbody
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415195268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyzes its eight major phases, including: * the emergence of the Cold War * Coexistence and Detente * Glasnost in the late 1980s. Combining factual overview and background discussion of the key issues such as the nuclear threat and who, if anyone, won the Cold War, with analysis of source material, students will find this a must-have in the study of this major historical event.
Author: Bradley Lightbody
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415195268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyzes its eight major phases, including: * the emergence of the Cold War * Coexistence and Detente * Glasnost in the late 1980s. Combining factual overview and background discussion of the key issues such as the nuclear threat and who, if anyone, won the Cold War, with analysis of source material, students will find this a must-have in the study of this major historical event.
Author: Gerhard Wettig
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742555426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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This intriguing book, based on recently accessible Soviet primary sources, is the first to explain the emergence of the Cold War and its development in Stalin's lifetime from the perspective of Soviet policy-making. It pays particular attention to the often-neglected "societal" dimension of Soviet foreign policy as a crucial element of the genesis and development of the Cold War. Gerhard Wettig provides readers with new insights into Stalin's willingness to initiate crisis with the West while still avoiding military conflict.
Author: Odd Arne Westad
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141979925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve. Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse.
Author: Joseph Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810853843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Covering an extensive period and much of the globe, this dictionary presents a year-by-year chronology and alphabetical entries on civilian and military leaders, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies.
Author: Norman A. Graebner
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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Author: Hans Louis Trefousse
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Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Walter Lippmann
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Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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A critique of the anonymous article "Sources of Soviet Conduct"--Introduction.
Author: Jian Chen
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist rev
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Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education
ISBN: 1349083445
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Czechoslovakia
Languages : en
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