The Cambridge History of the Cold War

by Leffler, Melvyn P.; Westad, Odd Arne

• ISBN13: 9781107602298
• ISBN10: 1107602297
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomacy and strategy after World War II. The chapters focus not only on the United States and the Soviet Union, but also on critical regions such as Europe, the Balkans and East Asia. The authors consider the most influential statesmen of the era and address issues that mattered to people around the globe: food, nutrition and resource allocation; ethnicity, race and religion; science and technology; national autonomy, self-determination and sovereignty. In so doing, they illuminate how people worldwide shaped the evolution of the increasingly bipolar conflict and, in turn, were ensnared by it.

Table of Contents

The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century Odd

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

The world economy and the Cold War in the middle of the twentieth century

The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945-1952

The Soviet Union and the world, 1944-1953

Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955

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, 1945-1956

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, 1953-1956

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

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

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

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