1946 : the making of the modern world

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1946 : the making of the modern world

Victor Sebestyen

Pantheon Books, c2014

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-395) and index

Contents of Works

  • "I'm tired of babying the Soviets"
  • The American century
  • The Russians: "a tsarist people"
  • Stunde Null: zero hour
  • Austria forgets its past
  • The spy comes in from the cold
  • Austerity Britain
  • A performance at the Bolshoi
  • The declaration of Cold War
  • The abdication crisis
  • Rape and pillage
  • "Woe, woe to the Germans"
  • "Anywhere but home"
  • "This Chinese cesspit"
  • Iron Curtain
  • The fog of war
  • Sunset on the Raj
  • Refugees
  • Trials and errors
  • A Greek tragedy
  • She'erit Ha-Pleta: the surviving remnant
  • "A Jewish-Bolshevik plot": blood libels
  • The war against terror
  • "Listen world. This is crossroads"
  • The glory of France: "resistance in the heart"
  • Stalin's Turkish bluff
  • The bloodbath in Calcutta
  • "Half-nun, half-whore"
  • The return of the king
  • "Sand down a rat hole"
  • The general orders: democracy
  • The big freeze

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