The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 1Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period as well as examining how markets, ideas, and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomatic events, and strategic thinking. Chapters focus not only on the USA, the USSR, and Great Britain, but also on other critical regions such as Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and East Asia. They deal not only with the most influential statesmen of the era but also address the issues that mattered most to peoples around the globe: food, nutrition, and resource allocation; demography and consumption; ethnicity, race, and religion; science and technology; national autonomy, self-determination, and sovereignty. In so doing, the book illuminates how people worldwide shaped the evolution of the increasingly bipolar conflict, and, in turn, were ensnared by it. |
Contents
Ideology and the origins of the Cold War 19171962 | 20 |
The world economy and the Cold War in the middle of | 44 |
The emergence of an American grand strategy 19451952 | 67 |
The Soviet Union and the world 19441953 | 90 |
Britain and the Cold War 19451955 | 112 |
The division of Germany 19451949 | 133 |
The Sovietization of Eastern Europe 19441953 | 175 |
The Cold War in the Balkans 19451956 | 198 |
Soviet foreign policy 19531962 | 312 |
East Central Europe 19531956 | 334 |
The SinoSoviet alliance and the Cold War in Asia 19541962 | 353 |
Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War 19451962 | 376 |
Culture and the Cold War in Europe | 398 |
the United States | 420 |
the Soviet Union | 442 |
Decolonization the global South and the Cold War 19191962 | 464 |
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