The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947

by Gaddis, John Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780231032896
• ISBN10: 0231032897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1972-05-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces -- domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet intentions -- that influenced key decision makers in Washington, and in doing so seeks to analyze these determinants of policy in terms of their full diversity and relative significance.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes	p. xiii
The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World	p. 1
The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View, 1941-1944	p. 32
Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan	p. 63
Repression Versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany	p. 95
Security Versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe	p. 133
Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan	p. 174
Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians	p. 198
The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World	p. 244
Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946	p. 282
To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy	p. 316
Conclusion: The. United States and the Origins of the Cold War	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 363
Index	p. 383
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