America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-2006

by LaFeber, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780073534664
• ISBN10: 0073534668
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-20
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict--Chinese, Latin American, European, and Vietnamese. The text includes both engaging anecdotes and quotes from primary sources to support key points and exemplify policies, and recent scholarship and materials from openings of the U.S., Soviet, and Chinese archives.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface to the Tenth Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Maps	xvi
Introduction: The Burden of History (to 1941)	1	(7)
Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941--1945)	8	(26)
Only Two Declarations of Cold War (1946)	34	(22)
Two Halves of the Same Walnut (1947--1948)	56	(26)
The ``Different World'' of NSC-68 (1948--1950)	82	(24)
Korea: The War for Both Asia and Europe (1950--1951)	106	(26)
New Issues, New Faces (1951--1953)	132	(18)
A Different Cold War (1953--1955)	150	(26)
East and West of Suez (1954--1957)	176	(24)
New Frontiers and Old Dilemmas (1957--1962)	200	(30)
Southeast Asia---and Elsewhere (1962--1966)	230	(36)
A New Containment: The Rise and Fall of Detente (1966--1976)	266	(34)
From Cold War to Old War: Reagan and Gorbachev (1977--1989)	300	(48)
A New World Order---Or the Age of Fragmentation? (1989--1993)	348	(24)
The Post--Cold War Era of Fragmentation. Clinton, Yeltsin, and Back to a Bush (1993--9 / 11, 2001)	372	(28)
The World Turned Upside Down (2001--2006)	400	(51)
Bibliographical Note	451	(1)
Index	452