America, Russia, and the cold war, 1945-1996

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America, Russia, and the cold war, 1945-1996

Walter LaFeber

(America in crisis)

McGraw-Hill, c1997

8th ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-386) and index

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Description

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter; the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - the burden of history (to 1941)
  • open doors, iron curtains (1941-1945)
  • only two declarations of Cold War (1946)
  • two halves of the same walnut (1947-48)
  • the different world of NSC-68 (1948-50)
  • Korea - the war for both Asia and Europe (1950-51)
  • new issues, new faces (1951-53)
  • a different Cold War (1953-55)
  • east and west of Suez (1954-57)
  • new frontiers and old dilemmas (1957-62)
  • Southeast Asia and elsewhere (1962-1966)
  • a new containment - the rise and fall of Detente (1966-76)
  • from Cold War to old war - Reagan and Gorbachev (1977-1989)
  • a new world order? (1989-).

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