The Cambridge History of the Cold War

by Leffler, Melvyn P.

• ISBN13: 9780521837194
• ISBN10: 0521837197
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period as well as examining how markets, ideas, and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomatic events, and strategic thinking. Chapters focus not only on the USA, the USSR, and Great Britain, but also on other critical regions such as Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and East Asia. They deal not only with the most influential statesmen of the era but also address the issues that mattered most to peoples around the globe: food, nutrition, and resource allocation; demography and consumption; ethnicity, race, and religion; science and technology; national autonomy, self-determination, and sovereignty. In so doing, the book illuminates how people worldwide shaped the evolution of the increasingly bipolar conflict, and, in turn, were ensnared by it.

Table of Contents

Preface to Volumes One, Two and Three

The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century

Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962

The world economy and the Cold War in the mid-twentieth century

The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945-1952

The Soviet Union and the world, 1944-1953

Britain and the Cold War

The division of Germany (1945-1949)

The Marshall Plan and the creation of the west

The Sovietization of eastern Europe, 1944-1953

The Cold War in the Balkans: from the Greek Civil War to Soviet-Yugoslav normalization

The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War

Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945-1960

The Korean War

US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy

Soviet foreign policy, 1953-1962

East-Central Europe from Stalin's death to the aftermath of the 1956 revolts

The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954-1962

Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962

Culture and the Cold War in Europe

Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States

Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics: the Soviet Union, 1945-62

Decolonization, the global south, and the Cold War, 1919-1962

Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945-1962

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