The United States and the Origins of the Cold War

by Gaddis, John Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780231122399
• ISBN10: 023112239X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• 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 to the New Edition	ix
Preface	xiii
Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes	xv
The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World	1	(31)
The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View, 1941-1944	32	(31)
Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan	63	(32)
Repression versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany	95	(38)
Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe	133	(41)
Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan	174	(24)
Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians	198	(46)
The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World	244	(38)
Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946	282	(34)
To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy	316	(37)
Conclusion: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War	353	(10)
Bibliography	363	(20)
Index	383