The Origins of the Cold War

by Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780230535503
• ISBN10: 023053550X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a clear and lively account of how relations between Russia and America after World War Two fell into a Cold War. Assessing both the clash of ideas and personalities which brought about this confrontation the book highlights the emergences of a new mode of global politics. Looking at this conflict the book argues might help us to understand todays own troubled world.

Author Biography

CAROLINE KENNEDY-PIPE is Professor of International Relations, University of Sheffield, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Cold Wars: Themes and Trajectories	p. 12
Debating the Cold War: Historiographical Thoughts	p. 14
The Cold War and the New Wars on Terror: Three Resonances	p. 25
The Cold War as History	p. 27
The Importance of History to International Relations	p. 31
Casting Long Shadows: Revolution to War	p. 36
Russia and the Revolution	p. 37
Competing Visions after World War I	p. 43
Mixing Ideology and Power: The Geopolitics of Revolution and Counter-Revolution	p. 46
Reflections	p. 55
Wars and Empire	p. 57
The Impact of Operation 'Barbarossa'	p. 58
Roosevelt and Stalin: Another 'Brutal Friendship'?	p. 62
Spheres of Influence, Ideological and Political	p. 64
Shocks and Turning Points	p. 69
The Decay of the Grand Alliance	p. 73
'Bipolarity' and the Creation of the 'Cold War'	p. 77
Far From Hegemony? Uncertainties and Constraints in the Early Cold War	p. 80
The Marshall Plan	p. 81
The Soviet Response	p. 86
Berlin - the First Crisis	p. 89
The Origins of the Cold War: Beyond Europe	p. 90
The Enemies within	p. 92
'Police Action' in Korea	p. 94
An Era of Perpetual Crisis	p. 98
Reflections	p. 101
The Shape of the Cold War	p. 103
Mirror Images?	p. 104
Europe in the High Cold War	p. 107
Resistance and Repression	p. 113
China: the Personal and the Political	p. 119
Khrushchev and Nuclear Weapons	p. 121
The Tipping Point? The Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 126
Cold War Frameworks	p. 129
Reflections on the Origins of the Cold War	p. 132
Shapes	p. 132
The Cold War Crystallizes	p. 136
The End of the Beginning	p. 146
The Cold War Then and Now: Landscapes and Shadows	p. 151
The Importance of History	p. 151
Ideology	p. 154
Structures and Agents	p. 160
Modern Resonances	p. 164
A Wider View?	p. 167
Guide to Further Reading	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 189
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