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America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002 / Walter laFeber.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
LaFeber, Walter.
Contributor:
LaFeber, Walter.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
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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