The fifty years war : the United States and the Soviet Union in world politics, 1941-1991 / Richard Crockatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crockatt, Richard, author.

Crockatt R Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

United States.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-1993.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 417p. ) maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

50 years war

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking an impartial stance, the author presents a comprehensive history of the global politics of the Cold War, covering the goals and fears of each superpower.

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors. This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.

Contents:

Part I: Perspectives 1. Introduction: The Fifty Years' War 2. The American and Soviet Foreign Policy Part II: The Emergence of a Bipolar World 1941-1953 3. The Second World War and the Struggle for Peace 1941-1946 4. 'Two Ways of Life': The Cold War in Europe 1947-1953 5. Cold War: The Far Eastern Dimension, 1945-1950 Part III: Globalism and the Limits of Bipolarity 1953-1964 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Irreconcilable Conflict 7. The Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1963 8. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Third World Part IV: Detente and its Limits 1965-1981 9. Detente in the Making 1965-1973 10. The Vietnam War and the Superpower Triangle 11. Detente Under Pressure 1973-1981 Part V: Cold War V International Politics: The Denouement 1981-1991 12. Reaganism and the Spectre of Communism 13. Gorbachev and the New World Disorder Conclusion

Notes:

Originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-398) and index.

Contains:

50 years war.

ISBN:

1-134-77934-8

0-415-10471-8

9786610354788

1-280-35478-X

1-134-77935-6

0-203-28570-0

0-203-20626-6

9780203206263

OCLC:

123491949