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America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002 / Walter laFeber.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFeber, Walter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- World politics--1989-.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 487 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Updated ninth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : McGraw-Hill, [2002]
- Summary:
- Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Burden of History (to 1941) 1
- Chapter 1 Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945) 8
- Chapter 2 Only Two Declarations of Cold War (1946) 32
- Chapter 3 Two Halves of the Same Walnut (1947-1948) 54
- Chapter 4 The "Different World" of NSC-68 (1948-1950) 80
- Chapter 5 Korea: The War for Both Asia and Europe (1950-1951) 104
- Chapter 6 New Issues, New Faces (1951-1953) 130
- Chapter 7 A Different Cold War (1953-1955) 150
- Chapter 8 East and West of Suez (1954-1957) 176
- Chapter 9 New Frontiers and Old Dilemmas (1957-1962) 202
- Chapter 10 Southeast Asia
- and Elsewhere (1962-1966) 232
- Chapter 11 A New Containment: The Rise and Fall of Detente (1966-1976) 266
- Chapter 12 From Cold War to Old War: Reagan and Gorbachev (1977-1989) 298
- Chapter 13 A New World Order
- Or the Age of Fragmentation? (1989-1993) 344
- Chapter 14 The Post-Cold War Era: Clinton, Yeltsin, and Back to a Bush (1993-2000) 370
- Chapter 15 The World Turned Upside Down (2001) 410.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2000. 9th ed. 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-458) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0072417587
- 0072849037
- OCLC:
- 50919746
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