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The Cold War A New History
ISBN: 9781594200625 | 1594200629
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Pub. Date: 12/29/2005
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In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: Stalin was at the height of his power; all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of the past; and Mao's forces had assumed control over the world's most populous country. Everywhere on the globe, colonialism left the West morally compromised. The story of the previous five decades, wh... MORE
| Prologue : the view forward | p. 1 |
| The return of fear | p. 5 |
| Deathboats and lifeboats | p. 48 |
| Command versus spontaneity | p. 83 |
| The emergence of autonomy | p. 119 |
| The recovery of equity | p. 156 |
| Actors | p. 195 |
| The triumph of hope | p. 237 |
| Epilogue : the view back | p. 259 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights R... MORE |
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History of Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982); The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987); We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997); The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002); and Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004).
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