Broadside Books, 2014. — 384 p. The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman. In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short,...
New York: Routledge, 2002. — 363 p. In recent years the importance of Signals Intelligence (Sigint) has become more prominent, especially the capabilities of reading and deciphering diplomatic, military and commercial communications of other nations. This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War. Foreword List of Illustrations Introduction: The...
Routledge, 2017. — 255 p. In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the interconnections between the transfer of power and state...
Routledge, 1999. — 286 p. The 50th anniversary of India's independence on August 15, 1997, has focused attention on various aspects of the country's experience of independence, and a similar but less pronounced bout of soul-searching has afflicted Pakistan as well. This book examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s, the consequent...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 282 p. The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond. Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to the interplay of diplomacy, domestic politics,...
University of Missouri Press, 1981. — 270 p. Britain and the “Great Unwieldy Barge”: The Deterioration of Anglo-American Relations, 1944. Churchill and Roosevelt: The Transformation of American Policy. Truman and Churchill: The Reversal. Lepidus and the Lumbering Giant: Britain and the Origins of a New American Policy. The Rise of a Partnership. Shifting the Burden The United...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. — 352 p. The end of the Cold War has inspired a wave of exciting new scholarship about the central international struggle in the decades following World War II. Dissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have begun to investigate the crucial role that political culture played in shaping global...
New York: New Ceтегкн Publishers, 1962. — 410 p. The writings of no other American political analyst are more widely reprinted and quoted abroad than those of l)r. Aptheker. If for no other reason, the present massive work, which subjects to critical Marxist analysis our nation’s foreign policy during the crucial years since the end of World War , is an event of major...
New York: New Ceтегкн Publishers, 1962. — 410 p. The writings of no other American political analyst are more widely reprinted and quoted abroad than those of l)r. Aptheker. If for no other reason, the present massive work, which subjects to critical Marxist analysis our nation’s foreign policy during the crucial years since the end of World War , is an event of major...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 128 p. It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia...
Jefferson: McFarland, 2009. — 276 p. This volume examines the military strategy and issues that Egyptian war planners faced during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Of major interest is the relationship between the political and military leaders and how that affected the buildup and course of the conflict. Taking this as a starting place, the author concentrates on how Soviet military...
Routledge, 1999. — 293 p. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American and British security considerations toward the region evolved between 1947 and 1952 and the impact Turkey's pressure had on American and British security...
Routledge, 2010. — 246 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, 14).
This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. Contrary to popular belief, it shows that relations between East and West were based not only on confrontation and mutual distrust, but also on collaboration. The authors reveal that - despite...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 355 p. This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often influenced Soviet policies and society. The...
Bloomsbury Academic, 1998. — 272 p. This study provides a fresh assessment of the entire course of the Cold War, and is based on insights into the structure of postwar international politics revealed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing on newly released material and scholarly research from both the West and former communist states, it argues that the Cold War can only...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. — 306 p. Based on many formerly undisclosed intelligence and military documents, the secret protocols of discussions on the eve of the war, and interviews with relevant figures, The Watchman Fell Asleep is a compelling account of Israel's intelligence failure before the 1973 Arab attack known as the Yom Kippur War. The Hebrew...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 388 p. Military, social and economic historians have long appreciated the significance of the conflict in Korea in shaping the post-war world. The policy of containment was formed, China was established as an important military power, and the US increased its military expenditure fourfold as a result of a conflict which killed over 33,000 Americans. What...
I. B. Tauris, 2007. — 521 p. — ISBN: 978184511 393 3 At the height of the Cold War, the US sought to maintain power and influence in the Greater Middle East “ the region from Morocco to India –in the context of a growing threat from Russia and the decline of British imperialism.В This original and important study illuminates this tense period in international relations,...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 224 p. Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste in 1979 where the embers of the Habsburg Empire still burnt brightly. The second part moves to the darker, claustrophobic world of Vienna in 1985, where the atmosphere of the Cold War seemed to infiltrate every...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 264 p. The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American The post-war British effort to retain a place of prominence in deciding world affairs is a sad tale that Christopher Baxter ably tells in his...
Routledge, 1993. — 278 p. Robert Beck's study focuses principally on two related questions. First, how did the Reagan administration decide to launch the invasion of Grenada? And second, what role did international law play in that decision? The Grenada Invasion draws on extensive interviews and correspondence with key participants—and on the recently published memoirs of those...
Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1973. — 67 p.
An examination of the interactions of the United States and the USSR in the Middle East from the heating up of the War of Attrition to the explosion of the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War. The focus is on the changing nature of Soviet involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the pattern of U.S. reaction thereto. The author argues that if...
Cold War History Research Center, 2021. — 508 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part I 1945-1952 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. At the Cold War History Research...
Cold War History Research Center, 2021. — 508 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part I 1945-1952 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. At the Cold War History Research...
Cold War History Research Center, 2021. — 508 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part I 1945-1952 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. At the Cold War History Research...
Cold War History Research Center, 2021. — 508 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part I 1945-1952 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. At the Cold War History Research...
Cold War History Research Center, 2021. — 508 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part I 1945-1952 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. At the Cold War History Research...
Cold War History Research Center, 2022. — 878 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part II 1953-1968ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2022. — 878 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part II 1953-1968ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2022. — 878 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part II 1953-1968ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2022. — 878 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part II 1953-1968ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2022. — 878 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part II 1953-1968ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1945-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2018. — 513 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part III 1969-1980 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1969-1980. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2018. — 513 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part III 1969-1980 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1969-1980. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2018. — 513 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part III 1969-1980 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1969-1980. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2018. — 513 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part III 1969-1980 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1969-1980. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2018. — 513 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part III 1969-1980 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1969-1980. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2017. — 423 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part IV 1981-1987 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1981-1987. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2017. — 423 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part IV 1981-1987 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1981-1987. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2017. — 423 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part IV 1981-1987 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1981-1987. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2017. — 423 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part IV 1981-1987 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1981-1987. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2017. — 423 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part IV 1981-1987 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1981-1987. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 701 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part V 1988-1991 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1988-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 701 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part V 1988-1991 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1988-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 701 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part V 1988-1991 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1988-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 701 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part V 1988-1991 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1988-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 701 p. The History of the Soviet Bloc 1945-1991 - A Chronology Part V 1988-1991 ed. by Csaba Bekes is a most valuable reference handbook that contains succinct but at the same time sufficiently detailed information on all major events related to the countries of the Soviet Bloc for the period 1988-1991. The entries were compiled based...
Cold War History Research Center, 2019. — 1225 p. This bibliography attempts to present the publications on the history of the Cold War published after 1989, the beginning of the „archival revolution” in the former Soviet bloc countries. While this first edition is still far from complete, it collects a huge number of books, articles and book chapters on the topic and is the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. — 270 p. Selling the American Way U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War Laura A. Belmonte "Well researched and clearly written, Selling the American Way is a welcome addition to a fast-growing body of literature on propaganda and the 'cultural Cold War. Belmonte has produced an invaluable contribution that should be examined by everyone...
National University of Singapore Press, 2017. — 320 p. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defense policies toward Malaya and Singapore in light of the redefinition of Britain’s imperial role in Southeast Asia and the formation of new postcolonial states. Benvenuti sheds light on the impact of Britain on Australia’s political and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 317 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-511-50082-4 Between 1990 and 2003, I worked on and published an informal trilogy on the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe during the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries (I. Berend, 1996; 1998; 2003). Now I am going to present a volume on the exciting economic and social history of postcommunist...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 400 p. In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff measure America's cultural impact in Europe. He wanted to determine whether efforts to improve opinions of American culture were yielding good returns. Taking Stone's career as a point of departure and frequent return,...
Open Road Media, 2016. — 518 p. The landmark story of Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy: No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy. December 1989. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms. And the USSR was falling apart. But the peaceful end of the Cold War was far from assured,...
Praeger, 1986. — 241 p. Using both British and American archives, Richard Best offers a new insight into the immediate postwar years by focusing on Anglo-American cooperation rather than the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. Best demonstrates how Britain took the initiative in persuading the United States to share her concerns about the future of...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 290 p. The Affiliation Dilemma. Publicism, Inter-Party Politics and Non-Alignment. "Let My People Go". The Aliyah Tie With Moscow. The Eastern European Arena. Lubricating The Wheels Of Aliyah. Trade Agreements. Transit Trade. Trade With The Soviet Union. Political Cooperation. The Military Dimension. The Military and Economic Dimensions. From...
Indiana University Press, 2005. — 242 p. Jerusalem vs. the Vatican: Israel’s Church Diplomacy The Sense of Threat Emerges The Struggle for Jerusalem: The Papal Connection At the Gates of the Vatican Theology and Diplomacy Christians, Christianity, and the Land in Israeli Policy Missionary Activity Goat and Chicken Diplomacy: Israel and Its Christian Communities Israel and the...
Westview Press, 1986. — 287 p. The main thesis of this study is that a Small Power, such as Albania, with a potentially significant ideologogical, political, and strategic contribution to the competition between Great Powers, may be able to extract considerable concessions from a prospective Great Power ally, and manipulate the latter more effectively than vice versa.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 280 p. The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain type, and by exacerbating a...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 205 p. Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Great Britain. The European response to America's Vietnam policy provides a framework to assess this important chapter in recent...
Routledge, 2020. — 282 p. This book deals with the diplomatic triangle of Israel, the United States, and Egypt during the War of Attrition along the Suez Canal in 1969-1970. Considering the Egyptian president's political positions and outlooks on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the pan-Arab sphere, relations with the United States, the study reviews the internal disagreements...
Routledge, 2018. — 242 p. This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and often politically motivated, debates revolving around the role played by major "winners" and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 284 p. This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. The subject of this book is the policy of the two Germanies towards the talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) in Europe during the 1970s. Negotiations on...
Texas University Press, 2004. — 232 p. The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. In Strategy for Survival, Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned itself the role of guardian and interpreter of national values and why it sought to create...
Combat Studies Institute, 1957. — 181 p. Illustrations Tables The Land of the Morning Calm Concrete Actions A Continuous Nightmare Isolated Provocations What Went Right Appendix 1. The Second Korean Conflict- A Chronology of Key Events Appendix 2. U.S. Forces, Korea, Order of Battle, 1 January 1968 Appendix 3. Annex 1, Tactical Disposition of Korean People's Army Maneuver...
University Press of Kentucky, 1984. — 262 p. As World War II drew to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union began to maneuver for position in postwar Europe, in the first exploratory moves of what would soon become a worldwide contest for power and prestige. In Bulgaria, Michael Boll finds a unique vantage point for study of the processes of international politics...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 336 p. Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent...
Routledge, 2012. — 305 p. This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification. Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the role of the superpowers and on that of the US in particular. This edited volume seeks to re-direct the focus towards the role of European actors and the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. — 304 p. This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969). The first work on this subject to draw on previously inaccessible material from U.S. and French archives, the study offers a comprehensive analysis of Gaullist...
LSU Press, 2013. — 336 p. For over a quarter of a century, award-winning reporter Henry Bradsher chased stories as an Associated Press foreign correspondent. In this lively and engaging account, Bradsher relates a distinguished career that took him to the Himalayas, the jungles of Bhutan, Kremlin caviar receptions, China s Forbidden City, and the battlefields of Vietnam....
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 408 p. For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. — 780 р. — ISBN 978-1-324-03694-4 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran. We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That...
Routledge, 2019. — 248 p. This book focuses on the nature of the Soviet-East European relationship in the Gorbachev era and on the prospects for the adaptation of that relationship to changing conditions in today's world, examining trends and tendencies in Soviet-East European relations.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. — 272 p. How did the global Cold War influence American politics at home? For Might and Right traces the story of how Cold War defense spending remade participatory politics, producing a powerful and dynamic political coalition that reached across party lines. This “Cold War coalition” favored massive defense spending over social welfare...
Routledge, 2021. — 316 p. Recent events in Afghanistan and Poland, as well as the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress, have raised questions about the future direction of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Similarly, pressing issues such as the placement of long-range theater nuclear forces, burden sharing, and threats to the security of Europe from peripheral areas (for instance, the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 509 p. Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 328 p. During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York. Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 512 p. What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology. One prominent argument is that the United States simply bankrupted the Soviet Union, outspending the Soviets on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars") and forcing a reckoning. Archie Brown's latest work rejects any simple...
Routledge, 2022. — 261 p. This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 invitation to participate. While existing studies have...
Routledge, 2017. — 365 p. In 1946, William Bullitt, the first U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to France at the outbreak of the Second World War, and onetime close advisor to FDR, wrote the first book-length, comprehensive analysis of the emerging Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the war, as the book's new introduction by...
Routledge, 2013. — 239 p. Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. In the late 1940s, the US government stopped nearly all exports to the entire Sino-Soviet bloc in the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 304 p. The Mediterranean sea has been a key geopolitical territory in the global international relations of the twentieth century; of crucial importance to the US, the Middle East and in the history of the EU. As Cold War documents become declassified and these archives become accessible to western historians, this volume reassesses the secret war...
Basic Books, 1987. — 288 p. Foreword. The NATO Question in Context. NATO and American Foreign Policy. The Atlantic Alliance and the Global System. The Alliance's Evolving Problems. The Founding Cycle:NATO from 1948 to 1960. The Second Cycle: From Kennedy to Ford, 1961-1976. The Carter-Reagan Turnaround, 1977-1983. The Atlantic Alliance and the World Economy. America’s Budgetary...
Routledge, 2017. — 308 p. The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War. This volume argues that the confidential acquisition of geoscientific knowledge was paramount for states, not only to provide for their own energy needs, but also to buttress national economic and geostrategic interests and protect energy...
Routledge, 2015. — 414 p. This book, first published in 1997, provides a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars. The author examines the recurring deadlocks in terms of the motives and calculations of the various parties, and reveals how new incentives of pressures offered...
Routledge, 2015. — 434 p. This book, first published in 1997, focuses on the Anglo-American cooperation which began during the relatively uneventful years 1953 and 1954, and which led to a covert operation, code-named 'Alpha', which aimed - unsuccessfully - at convincing Egyptian and Israeli leaders to consider a settlement through secret negotiations. As with the other three...
Athabasca University Press, 2018. — 504 p. Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the American Federation of Labour–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to...
Athabasca University Press, 2018. — 504 p. During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) set a strong...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 136 p. Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it really does seem as if Dubcek has judged it right. Reforms in oppressive censorship...
Routledge, 1992. — 298 p. There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to war before 1945, and then examines how public opposition...
Lyons Press, 2022. — 182 p. It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 but also again in very different circumstances between 1951 and 1955, when Churchill was Prime Minister and...
Yale University Press, 1988. — 464 p. Looks at the influence of intellectuals who, although attracted to Communism, did not join the Communist Party and discusses the development of Communist regimes in China, Cuba, and North Vietnam. Introduction: The Future is There. Thinking of Russia. Conducted Tours. The Popular Front Era. The Pact and the War Revolution, Go East...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 310 p. On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning symbolic victory that transformed Arafat into an Arab hero and allowed...
Harper, 2018. — 640 p. A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the "Long Peace" actually was. In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 496 p. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days--but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war refused to return to Communist China, effectively hijacking the negotiations and thwarting the designs of world leaders at a pivotal moment in Cold War history. In The Hijacked...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 133 p. A fast-paced, compelling short history which moves between London, Washington and Cairo to tell the story of a crisis that brought down a prime minister and heralded the end of an empire. With a special afterward examining the parallels with the 2003 Iraq war. In 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal,...
Routledge, 2014. — 243 p. This book examines the NATO reports on the Soviet bloc's political and economic system, from 1951 to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of detente. As part of the wider history of Cold War Alliances, the detailed assessments of the NATO experts regarding the non-military aspects of Soviet power are a crucial...
Penguin Group, 2013. — 256 p. In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 280 p. With a unique international scope, this timely text traces the impact of the ongoing Cold War on the transformation of the field of Latin American studies in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. Drawing on unpublished documents, the book highlights how the new...
NUS Press, 2017. — 298 p. At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in...
Routledge, 1985. — 208 p. An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy. Politics and the Third World The Colonial State and its Demise The Third World State Managing the State Managing the Economy Managing the External Political...
Tempus, 2005. — 257 p. Four Minute Warning is the story of Britain’s Cold War, analysing the part Britain played in that chilling time. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. It was more than a struggle between two superpowers - it was a war of ideologies, the Capitalistic West and the Communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British...
The History Press, 2012. — 255 p. 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain's most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. Four Minute Warning is the story of Britain's Cold War, and it deals with all aspects of this chilling time when...
English Heritage, 2003 — 288 pages, ISBN: 1873592698, English, From 1947 the United States committed herself to the containment of communist expansion, through what became known as the Truman doctrine. From that date, until the early 1990s Britain and other Western powers became locked in a political game of bluff that became known as the Cold War. How fast memory fades . Only...
Routledge, 1989. — 325 p. Factors Influencing Security Policy. The U.S. Adaptation to the Post-War World. The FRG's Adaptation to the Post-War World. Deterrence and Defense. Burden-Bearing and Burden-Sharing. Alliance Roles and Responsibilities. Détente and Security. The United States and the FRG: Differences, Commonalities, Choices. Defense and Détente: The Path Before US.
University Press of Kentucky, 2022. — 216 p. Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the special relationship between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and American president Ronald...
Routledge, 1983. — 214 p. This book analyzes the military aid capabilities of communist donor nations (USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Northern Korea), their specific motivations for offering military aid, and the policies and guidelines that govern arms assistance, evaluating the general successes and failures of military aid programs.
Routledge, 2007. — 238 p. Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 221 p. Using recently released archive material, British Military Planning for the Defence of Germany, 1945-1950, reassesses Britain's strategy for the defence of Germany up to the outbreak of the Korean War. Convinced of the capabilities of strategic air power with atomic weapons, and convinced that the defence of the Middle East should be the first...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 299 p. — (History of Warfare 64). This book is intended to serve as an advanced course text for students studying the Cold War. The rearmament of both Germanies in the late 1940s-early 1950s was one of the defining moments of the Cold War. The question of rearming Germany became one of the most difficult questions faced by the Western Allies...
Random House, 2006 It is a collection of essays that trace the cold war from the ear confrontations between spy services in post-WW2 Austria through material gained from the former Soviet Union after the fall. Every essay covers its subject well, and each is entertaining to read.
Washington, D.C.: The American University Press, 1995. — 210 p. — ISBN-10: 1879383489; ISBN-13: 978-1879383487. How a Russian-speaking young American helped set up a radio station in Germany that won over unfriendly Soviet audiences to become a major player in the Cold War. In breezy, anecdotal style, focuses on the colorful Russian partners who helped in this success. Lessons...
London; New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1995. — 448 p. The Fifty Year's War is an insightful examination of the complex relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, placing it in its global context. Richard Crockatt breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 259 p. This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 272 p. In the decade between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires–France, Germany and the United Kingdom–receded, replaced by two new superpowers–the Soviet Union and the United States. Beyond Europe, a swath of new countries was created. This era also produced some of the most remarkable...
New York : HarperCollins, 1993. — 315 p. By denition, this unseen or secret war was unknown to the general public, although it occasionally broke into the headlines at times of scandal, such as the unmasking of 'Kim' Philby or the humbling of the CIA after Watergate. But there was more to it than scandal headlines, much more. There were unsung triumphs as well as hidden...
N. -Y. , 1975. 221 p. The current pessimism about democracy. The challenges confronting democratic government. Western Europe by Grozier. Are European democracies becoming ungovernable? Social, economic and cultural causes. The role and structure of political values. Conclusions: European vulnerability. The United States by Huntington. The viability and governability of...
Routledge, 2015. — 348 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe 24).
The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of...
McFarland, 2009. — 309 p. During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored news and commentary to people living in communist nations. As critical elements of the CIA's early covert activities against communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Munich-based stations drew a large audience despite efforts to jam the broadcasts and ban citizens from...
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. — 265 p. — ISBN-10: 078644410X; ISBN-13: 978-0786444106. From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom." They signed "Freedom Scrolls" and "Freedom Grams," attended Crusader meetings, marched in parades, launched leaflet-carrying balloons, and donated Truth Dollars in support of the American...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 362 p. In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II. Autumn of our Discontent chronicles the events that triggered the wholesale review of United States national security policies. The review led to the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 384 p. In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.Between 1969 and 1973, the...
University of Missouri Press, 2008. — 455 p. An American reporter of Russian heritage assigned to Soviet-era Moscow might seem to have an edge on his colleagues, but when he’s falsely accused of spying, any advantage quickly evaporates. As a young UPI correspondent in Moscow during the early 1960s, Nicholas Daniloff hoped to jump-start his career in his father’s homeland, but...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 304 p. Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Christopher Darnton's comparative study of the nature of conflict between Latin American states during the Cold War, provides a counterintuitive and shrewd explanation of why diplomacy does or doesn't work. Specifically, he develops a theory that shows how the "parochial...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 377 p. Presenting new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its global repercussions, and its role in modern history, this volume reveals "America's War" as an international event that reverberated worldwide. The essays address political, military, and diplomatic issues and the cultural and intellectual consequences of "Vietnam." They compare the...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974. — 436 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05217-4. A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War―the development of Soviet―American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945―is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the determination of the United States to obtain...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 259 p. This book describes how Cold War researchers used expert opinions to construct foreknowledge of geopolitical relevance. Focusing on the RAND Corporation, an American think tank with close relations to the armed forces, Dayé analyses the development of two techniques of prognosis, the Delphi technique and Political Gaming. Based on archival...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. — x, 270 p. — ISBN: 0226143376. The work describes the professional world of 30 American Foreign Service officers in the years 1933-1947. De Santis has relied extensively upon both private papers of these diplomats and personal interviews to reconstruct the psychological, intellectual, and social dimensions of the milieu in which...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. — 288 p. During the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 252 p. The Cold War was a period of intense geopolitical rivalry, in which diplomacy and international relations in Asia and the Middle East acquired huge global significance. In this study, Panagiotis Dimitrakis explores British policy towards SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation) and CENTO (Central Treaty Organisation). Designed in the 1950s to...
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. — 263 p. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and magazine articles appeared with...
University Press of America, 2010. — 328 p. In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's revolutionary ideology so...
Vintage, 2008. — 450 p. In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping...
E-book. — Warszawa: Magnum, 2013. — 408 s. — ISBN 9788363986131 Błyskotliwa opowieść o przełomowym okresie w dziejach XX wieku, od lutego do sierpnia 1945 roku, kiedy armie Hitlera znajdowały się w odwrocie, a z chaosu wojny wyłaniał się nowy kształt współczesnej Europy i świata. Jest to opowieść o grze i rywalizacji wielkich mocarstw, ale także o ludziach będących aktorami na...
Routledge, 2002. — 401 p. How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933? US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed...
2nd Edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 205 p. Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the events of 1991, and also expand coverage of key topics. Origins, 1917-1945...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 310 p. This book, based on recently declassified documents in Britain and the USA, is the first detailed account of Britain's East of Suez decision, which was taken by the Harold Wilson Government in 1967-1968. Contrary to received opinion, the author argues that the decision was not taken hastily as a result of the November 1967 devaluation. Nor is...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 405 p. Towards the end of the Cold War, the last great struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union marked the end of détente, and escalated into the most dangerous phase of the conflict since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Aaron Donaghy examines the complex history of America's largest peacetime military buildup, which was in turn...
Pergamon Press, 1980. — 251 p. The Basis of Soviet Military Thought. The Revolution in Soviet Military Affairs. The Soviet Study of Laws and Principles of Military Art. Forces and Primary Operational Concepts. Command and Control. Special Soviet Problems. Contemporary Issues of Soviet Military Strategy toward Europe. Conclusions and Issues for NATO.
New York: Little, Brown, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN-10: 1408710536; ISBN-13: 978-1408710531 1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to...
Ibidem Verlag, 2021. — 170 p. — ISBN13 9783838215549. — ISBN10 3838215540. At 11 o´clock in the evening of 20th August 1968, the armies of four Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, starting the “Operation Danube”. Literally overnight the Czechoslovak experiment with Alexander Dubček´s liberalization...
Routledge, 2001. — ix, 197 p. — ISBN: 0-203-13093-6. The Superpowers traces the development of the USA and Russia (later USSR) from 1898 through to 2000, placing the Cold War, from inception to ending, into the wider social, economic and political context. This is the first history of the two major participants and their relationship throughout the twentieth century. The...
Second edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 688 p. The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could be as important as outright...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 688 p. — (International Relations Since 1945: A History in Two Volumes). — ISBN 0582423988, 9780582423985. The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist...
Routledge, 2003. — 200 p. Central to US foreign policy, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) was launched by Ronald Reagan in 1983. While the Reagan administration failed to deploy the SDI system, it featured prominently in the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union. This insightful book examines SDI and the Reagan administration through an evaluation of the role of...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 352 p. In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture―and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 290 p. This book examines the formulation of British and American policy between 1945 and 1955 towards one of the most hated regimes of this century. The Franco question though apparently not of the first importance in the evolution of Cold War policy, nevertheless haunted British and American governments during this period. It posed a problem...
Heritage Foundation, 2014. — 262 p. The Cold War was a crucial conflict in American history. At stake was whether the world would be dominated by the forces of totalitarianism led by the Soviet Union, or inspired by the principles of economic and political freedom embodied in the United States. The Cold War established America as the leader of the free world and a global...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 639 p. This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 384 p. After the Second World War, Turkey and Egypt were among the most dynamic actors in the Middle East. Their 1950s foreign policies presented a puzzle, however: Turkey's Democrat Party pursued NATO membership and sponsored the pro-Western Baghdad Pact regionally, while Egypt's Free Officers promoted neutralism and pan-Arab alliances. This...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. — 297 p. A timely reassessment of modernization theory and its international impact; Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political development within the American foreign policy establishment. Purporting to explain the stages through which all nations pass on the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2016. — 365 p. — (Studies In Conflict Diplomacy Peace). At the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union―almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as democrats standing firm with their Western allies on...
Routledge, 2014. — 332 p. Ismail Fahmy was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Premier of Egypt, but resigned in protest against President Sadat s visit to Jerusalem in 1977. This book, published in 1983, presents the first portrait of Sadat from within the Arab ruling elite, and gives unique coverage of the crucial negotiations that took place between Arab leaders, which...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 376 p. In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits, and ordinary people came to understand the American or the Soviet "other." In Cold War Correspondents, Dina Fainberg examines how Soviet...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. — 264 p. Traditional interpretations of the 1950s have emphasized how American anti-communists deployed censorship and the blacklist to silence dissent, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yet as Andrew J. Falk demonstrates, those efforts at repression did not always succeed. Throughout the early years of the Cold War, a...
Routledge, 1989. — 451 p. Penetrates the externals of international relations to explain the strengths and weaknesses of the two superpowers and their allies. A good overall review of the countries that make up NATO and Warsaw Pact as well as non-aligned nations. The author provides a good analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the countries. It is very useful in that it...
Stackpole Books, 2022. — 1408 p. — ISBN 978-0-8117-7095-8 On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of war. For the next five years, from adjoining offices in the Pentagon, Marshall and Stimson headed the army machine that...
Routledge, 2019. — 264 p. As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies waged brazen but...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 225 p. Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the iron curtain shed light on the origins,...
Doubleday, 1961. — 540 p. This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict’s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east all the way up to 1960. These were the key years of the Cold War, when it seemed that the prospect of...
Doubleday, 1961. — 560 p. This book, first published in 1961, is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century, the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict’s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east all the way up to 1960. These were the key years of the Cold War, when it seemed that the prospect of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — 235 p. A comprehensive study of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. The author examines the historical events which led to its formation, its development as a global military machine, and focuses on both the political and the military aspects of the WTO and its international relations with non-WTO countries.
Routledge, 2010. — 231 p. This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions, expectations and apprehensions that would, eventually,...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 352 p. The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War. How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer...
Ed. by Walter Millis and E. S. Duffield. Intr. note by Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough C.H. — London: Cassel & Company Ltd., 1951. — 540 p. James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. His diaries from 1944 to March 1949 were serialised in the New...
University of California Press, 2015. — 554 р. — ISBN 978–0-520-28413-5 During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese...
University of California Press, 2015. — 942 р. — ISBN 978–0-520-28413-5 During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese...
St James Press, 2000. — 360 p. What caused the fall of the Roman empire? What did the second amendment to the U.S. constitution mean to the founding fathers? What was the role of black troops in the American Civil War? History in Dispute addresses these heavily debated questions by offering your students different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all...
St James Press, 1999. — 376 p. Almost as soon as WWII ended in 1945, the cold war began. Not only did it dominate international politics for nearly 50 years, but its impact was unprecedented. Never before had the nightly news covered an international conflict with the potential to annihilate whole civilizations. Anyone old enough to remember the fallout drills practiced by...
Presidio Press, 2004. — 224 p. One of the giants of American journalism now re-creates an unforgettable time–in which the whole world feared extinction. High Noon in the Cold War captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved the confrontation. Using his personal memories of...
London: Cassell & Co, 2001. — 227 p. The Origins of the Cold War. The Arms Race. Crisis Management. Vietnam. Détente. The Lessons of War. The End of the Cold War. The War that did not Happen.
Routledge, 2019. — 338 p. The architects of the Camp David process expected their efforts to become a broad and inclusive framework for peace in the Middle East. Dr. Friedlander's book demonstrates how domestic factors affecting policy decisions made in both Cairo and Jerusalem prevented Sadat and Begin from embracing a structure that would yield a more comprehensive...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 304 p. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution....
SFAH, 2001. — 160 p. Indhold. Indledning. DDR`s internationale position i 1950 erne. OsterOgerne. Rollbahn der Bonner Militaristen. Konklusion. Literatur.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. — 670 p. Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic "One Hell of a Gamble," bring to life head-to-head confrontations between Khrushchev and Presidents...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. — 420 p. Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play-by-play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not...
The Penguin Press, 2005. — 254 p. Dedication The return of fear Deathboats and lifeboats Command versus spontaneity The emergence of autonomy THe recovery of equity Actors THe triumph of hope Epilogue Notes Photograph credits Map sources
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0198780710; ISBN13: 978-0198780717. Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 352 p. How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answers to this and other vital questions about postwar diplomacy in his new book, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 320 p. The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend to unfocus the mind, writes John Gaddis. It can be a dangerous thing...
The Penguin Press, 2005. — 254 p. Gregory and Sklar, reading Yale history professor Gaddis's study of the American-Soviet standoff, give voice to their inner television announcer, their twin brands of masculine sonorousness verging on virile parody before settling comfortably on the side of familiar voice-over solidity. Gaddis's work unravels the tangled threads of the Cold...
ANU Press, 2022. — 362 p. One of the most contentious theatres of the global conflict between capitalism and communism was Southeast Asia. From the 1920s until the end of the Cold War, the region was racked by international and internal wars that claimed the lives of millions and fundamentally altered societies in the region for generations. Most of the 11 countries that...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 305 p. Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the United States' soft power practices. However, the so-called 'cultural dimension' of the Cold war was a much more multifaceted phenomenon. Little attention has been paid to European actors'...
Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2015. — 161 p. During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to analyzing intelligence. Soviet leaders were often not receptive to...
Brookings Institution Press, 1989. — 236 p. The Soviet response to the first edition of Reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects. Using new revelations—such as the fact that Moscow had twice as many troops in Cuba as the Kennedy administration believed—from key Soviet and Cuban Sources, Garthoff has revised...
Praeger, 1960. — 278 p. Книга известного американского военного аналитика рассказывает о Советской армии в 1953-1958 годах, описывает состояние и уровень оценки тогдашней боеспособности (по американским данным) различных родов войск советских вооруженных сил (сухопутной армии, флота, авиации, ядерных сил). Отдельные разделы книги описывают военно-политические аспекты...
M.E. Sharpe, 1999. — 335 p. This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.
Routledge, 2017. — 268 p. The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 contains a collection of articles that examine select issues between the end of the Suez Campaign in November 1956 and the Sinai II, or Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and Egypt in September 1975. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the struggle between the three superpowers – the UK, the United States...
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006. — 280 p. The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But now, fifty years later, the simplicity of this David and Goliath story should be revisited, according to Charles Gati's new...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 281 p. Drawing on newly released government papers, John Gearson assesses the development of Harold Macmillan's foreign policy during the Berlin Wall Crisis. Tracing the bitter alliance disputes of the crisis, Dr Gearson shows how Macmillan's attempts to chart an independent course, crucially undermined his standing with his European partners and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 230 p. This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments. It recounts the evolution of policy during the 1958 and 1961 Berlin crises...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 332 p. The history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down, E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned? In August 1959, with his second term nearing its...
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 338 p. — ISBN-10: 1469645246; ISBN-13: 978-1469645247. The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 200 p. In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the world close to the brink of nuclear war. Over two tense weeks, U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev managed to negotiate a peaceful resolution to what was nearly...
Louisiana State University Press, 1999. — 252 p. In this study, Jessica Gienow-Hecht challenges long-standing analyses of the Unites States' cultural imperialism that emphasize the determination of policy makers to export U.S. culture to spread capitalism and gain access to overseas markets and raw materials. She also contests scholars of reception theory who claim that foreign...
Routledge, 2019. — 323 p. Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections, it shows the significance of informal diplomacy in a...
Stanford University Press, 1968. — 352 p. In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe, United States forces had pushed beyond the agreed boundaries for the future zones of occupation, in some places by as much as 320 km (200 miles). The so-called line of contact between Soviet and U.S. forces at the end of hostilities, mostly lying eastward of the July 1945 - established inner...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 304 p. Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes our understanding of that conflict, casting it as a crucial arena of Cold War intrigue that has shaped the Middle East to this day. The authors, award-winning Israeli journalists and historians, have investigated newly available documents...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 400 p. Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak of the USSR's direct military involvement...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 320 p. Totalitarianism offers a penetrating chronicle of the central concept of our era--an era shaped by our conflict first with fascism and then with communism. Interweaving the story of intellectual debates with the international history of the twentieth century, Gleason traces the birth of the term to Italy in the first years of Mussolini's...
University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 672 p. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 312 p. During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment...
Ohio University Press, 2017. — 352 p. At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany led to disagreements both within the U.S. government and among members of the nascent NATO alliance.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 354 p. This book argues that postwar Britain's 'imperial over-extension' has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist threat and available resources. It was especially successful at adapting to meet the strategic and resource challenges from the Far East from 1947-54. There British and...
Routledge, 2010. — 200 p. This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation. Offering a detailed analysis of this fundamental shift that occurred during this period, as well as the interconnections of this process with the new industrial-technological...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. — 242 p. In the years immediately following World War II, the Soviet Union witnessed a revival of tight Stalinist controls. Werner G. Hahn here explores the politics behind the USSR's rejection of moderation and seeming willingness to collaborate with the West, in favor of cold-war militancy abroad and inflexible dogmatism at home. Basing...
Routledge, 2019. — 279 p. Ronald Reagan's term in office was punctuated by four significant employments of military force: the deployment of Marines to Lebanon; the intervention in Grenada; the air strikes against Libya; and the deployment of naval forces to the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of each of these military operations, critics questioned the constitutional basis for...
Faber and Faber, 2016. — 528 p. 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom. In response to these unprecedented challenges to their authority, those in power fought back, in a desperate bid to shore up their position....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1981. — 271 p. — ISBN10: 0333280563; ISBN13: 978-0333280560 — (Studies in Soviet History and Society) List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements The setting The Nature of International Technology Transfer Soviet Technological Performance The Influence of the Soviet Economic System on Technological Performance Appendix The Soviet import of Western...
Routledge, 2006. — 265 p. After World War II, many regional conflicts emerged in the Asia-Pacific, such as the divided Korean peninsula, the Cross-Taiwan Strait, the ‘Northern Territories’, (Southern Kuriles) Takeshima (Dokdo), Senkaku (Diaoyu) and the Spratly (Nansha) islands problems. These and other disputes, such as the Okinawa problem in relation to the US military...
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 375 p. Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean opposition...
Praeger, 1970. — 318 p. An Introduction to the Problem. Anti-Communism in the United States, 1917—1945. Contra Infideles: Establishment of the Government Employee Loyalty Program. War on Two Fronts: The Communist Issue in the Campaign of 1948. Talismans of the Opposition: Chiang Kai-shek and Alger Hiss. Enter Joseph R. McCarthy. Delusions of Security: The McCarran Act. The...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 170 p. This work examines the Iranian Crisis of 1946 and its active role in shaping the Cold War that followed. It is intended to serve as a case study of how the United States was able to successfully flex its short-lived atomic monopoly and achieve its international objectives in the early postwar era. This writing engages with the robust academic...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 348 p. The East-West struggle for supremacy from 1945 to 1989 shaped the lives of hundreds of millions and brought the world to the brink of disaster on several occasions. More than two decades on, the debate over its causes and dynamics is far from over. Drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research, prize-winning historian...
Routledge, 2021. — 241 р. This book, first published in 1983, examines weapons standardisation as one aspect of NATO’s efficiency. It analyses the economic arguments for weapons standardisation, the limitations of the analysis and the available evidence. A political economy or public choice approach is used, with its emphasis on policy developments in the political market place...
Lexington Books, 2001. — 315 p. This book presents the ups and downs of the Soviet-Turkish relations during World War II and immediately after it. Hasanli draws on declassified archive documents from the United States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to recreate a true picture of the time when the 'Turkish crisis' of the Cold War broke out. It explains why and how...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. — 423 p. For half a century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in conflict. But how and where did the Cold War begin? Jamil Hasanli answers these intriguing questions in At the Dawn of the Cold War. He argues that the intergenerational crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan (1945-1946) was the first event that brought the Soviet Union...
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2011. — 352 p. — (Inside Technology) - ISBN-10: 0262515784; ISBN-13: 978-0262515788 The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 320 p. Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried 1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards--and what that story...
Kent State University Press, 2008. — 264 р. There is no shortage of literature addressing the workings, influence, and importance of NATO and the Warsaw Pact individually or how the two blocs faced off during the decades of the Cold War. However, little has been written about the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both alliances during the Cold War or about how those...
Monthly Review Press, 2006. — 384 p. The Cold War and the New Imperialism is an account of global history since 1945, which brings massive changes in global politics, economics, and society together in a single narrative, illuminating and clarifying the dilemmas of the present. Written for the general reader, it draws together scholarly research from a wide range of sources...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN-10: 0226326780; ISBN-13: 978-0226326788. The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax,...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 304 p. Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War. The interaction between the main personalities on the British side - Attlee, Bevan, Morrison,...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 441 p. This book makes clear how, and why, after WWII American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a 'winning weapon,' an absolute advantage in negotiations with the USSR. Prologue. Hiroshima and after, the atomic bomb in diplomacy, 1945-1946. The Atomic curtain, domestic and international consequences of atomic energy, 1945-1947. Diplomacy...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 355 p. As European security structures are undergoing transformation in the 1990s it is crucial to examine their origins and rationale: NATO secured peace and facilitated economic and political co-operation, while also becoming the vehicle of national rivalry. This book examines why and how NATO came into existence, and what its strengths and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 289 p. Concepts associated with nuclear strategy often go beyond any 'objective' logic of deterrence. Nuclear weapons have special roles in different national belief-systems, myths surround them, they have catalysed tensions already existing in societies, become symbols of power or of past sins. This book delves into the conscious and subconscious...
Routledge, 2008. — 224 p. This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention. This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. It combines country-based chapters with more thematic...
4th Edition. — Editors. — Future Publishing, 2019. — 148 р. A conflict unlike any that had come before it, the Cold War’s battlegrounds were as much in the hearts and minds of citizens around the world as they were in the myriad combat zones that stretched from Vietnam to Cuba. In the History of War Book of the Cold War we explore the most fascinating events of this iconic...
Springer, 2016. — 109 p. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War. It details the extent to which mid-twentieth-century researchers and practitioners were able to communicate with their counterparts on the opposite side of the Iron Curtain. Drawing upon evidence from a range of...
Routledge, 2020. — 265 p. This collection of essays offers a fresh look at the 1970s, the crucial decade when the nuclear non-proliferation regime took shape. Exploring a broad array of newly declassified archival sources from different countries across the globe, and moving freely across methodological and national barriers, historians from Europe, North and South America,...
Routledge, 2021. — 184 p. This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century. Comprised of ten chapters from a diverse team of scholars from Europe, East Asia, and North America, this edited volume furthers the study of the Cold War in two ways. First, it underscores the global scope of the Cold...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 318 p. A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois discerned...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 316 p. General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was...
Monthly Review Press, 1969. — 248 p. A fascinating account of the extent of corporate domination of Federal and semiofficial policy commissions and advisory bodies during long time of the Cold War.
Humanix Books, 2022. — 389 р. — ISBN: 978-163006-224-8 Final Battle exposes the real threat that Democrats pose to freedom. The rise of socialism and critical race theory, coupled with threats to the Electoral College and Senate, an independent judiciary, and the integrity of the electoral system, now threaten to destroy the traditions that bring Americans together — the heart...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 560 p. The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 543 p. Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn’t fought. The reality, of course, is that many "hot" conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semi-conflict, that Jonathan M. House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 420 p. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy. The army designed, implemented, and administered the occupations of the defeated Axis powers Germany and Japan, as well as many other nations. Generals such as Lucius Clay in Germany, Douglas MacArthur in Japan,...
Praeger, 1969. — 250 p. Prefatory Note. Origins of the Rivalry. Struggle for Military Supremacy. Strategy and Arms Levels, 1945-1967. Arms Transfers and Arms Control. The Sixth Fleet and American Diplomacy. The Changing Military Balance. Military Elements in Regional Unrest. Economic Competition in the 1970s. Declining American Involvement. Soviet Trade and Aid Policies....
Praeger, 1981. — 256 p. A New Direction. A European Initiative: The Brussels Pact. Formulating the Treaty. Approving the Treaty. Implementing the Treaty. Final Implementation: The Assignment of Ground Troops.
Prentice-Hall, 1974. — 225 p. While seeking to prevent communist ideology from gaining further adherents in Europe, the United States also responded to challenges elsewhere. In China, Americans worried about the advances of Mao Zedong and his communist party. During World War II, the Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek and the communist forces waged a civil war even as...
Little, Brown and Company, 1998. — 456 p. This illustrated narrative history of Cold War, spanning the rise of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, is the companion the major 24-episode documentary airing on CNN, and around the world, beginning in the fall of 1998. 600 illustrations, 100 in color. 7 maps.
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 344 p. In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War. The European Society of Culture was composed of many of Western Europe's best-known intellectuals, including Theodor Adorno, Julien Benda, Albert Camus, Benedetto Croce, Andre Gide, J. B. Haldane, Karl Jaspers, Carl...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 250 p. This book provides a new interpretation of the economic dimension of the Cold War. It examines Anglo-American trade diplomacy towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The book, which is based on research in American and British archives, presents new evidence to suggest that Anglo-American relations in...
Crescent Publications, 1975. — 64 p. Building on past studies of terrorism and low-level conflict, this report attempts to describe how contemporary international terrorism, which the author regards as a new mode of conflict made possible by technological developments in the second half of the twentieth century, fits into the broader scheme of armed conflict in general. The...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 252 p. This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 252 p. This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises intelligence,...
University Press of New England, 2017. — 302 p. This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, Russian, and Yugoslav armies on the strategically vital front lines of the nascent Cold War....
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 331 p. From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 re-election campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics stops at the water's edge," but...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2018. — 114 p. Introduction: On Your Mark, Get Set Mounting Tensions The Space Race The Faces of the Cold War Negotiation and Innovation The Legacy of the Space Race Chronology Further Information About the Author
Foreword by Timothy Garton Ash. — Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2012. — 612 p. — ISBN-10: 6155225079; ISBN-13: 978-6155225079. The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have...
St. Martin’s Press, 1984. — 248 p. Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter superpower rivalry over the years. The distinct differences in the political systems of the two countries often prevented them from...
4th ed. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024. — 399 p. This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved. Coverage traces the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions before and...
Warszawa: MON, 1971. — 228 s. Układ Warszawski – jeden z symboli zimnej wojny, groźny przeciwnik NATO i zbrojny gwarant radzieckiej dominacji w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej narodził się w maju 1955 r. w Pałacu Namiestnikowskim w Warszawie.
South End Press, 1987. — 357 p. Provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack.
Routledge, 2014. — 464 p. This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars. The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vibrant in the field of international studies. Recent scholarship has added to our understanding of familiar Cold War events, such as the Korean War, the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 285 p. This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an 'entangling alliance' with ten European nations. The historic North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4, 1949, but the often-contentious...
Kent State University Press, 2013. — 216 p. Conventional wisdom has the Korean War putting the O in NATO. Prior to that time, from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, to the North Korean invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, the Treaty allies were just going through the motions of establishing an organization. Historian Lawrence Kaplan argues that...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 288 p. The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was one of the most important accomplishments of American diplomacy in countering the Soviet threat during the early days of the Cold War. Why and how such a reversal of a 150-year nonalignment policy by the United States was brought about, and how the goals of the treaty became...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 288 p. The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was one of the most important accomplishments of American diplomacy in countering the Soviet threat during the early days of the Cold War. Why and how such a reversal of a 150-year nonalignment policy by the United States was brought about, and how the goals of the treaty became...
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 232 p. A neglected war in the history of the United States, the Korean conflict played a key role in greatly expanding America's commitments worldwide and contributed to the U.S. decision to engage in direct military action in Vietnam fifteen years later. This up-to-date, readable analysis and ready-reference guide to the Korean War is designed to help...
Open Book Publishers, 2018. — 217 p. The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. Forged by influential individuals and impacting on global events including the Japanese Peace Treaty, the Korean War and the Suez...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 217 p. This study re-examines the relationship between Britain and the United States on the question of the Italian colonies from 1945 to 1952 and its contribution to the onset of the Cold War. New insights are provided into the Soviet and American initiatives and the British response on the first text of postwar great power cooperation at the London...
BBC books, 2017. — 921 p. — ISBN: 178594259X Accompanying a landmark BBC Radio 4 series, The Cold War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the tensions of the last century have shaped the modern world, and what it was like to live through them. The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe...
Moscow. 1946. — 14 p. "Stalin’s Feb. 9, 1946 great speech inaugurating the Five-Year Plan reiterated clearly his implacable hostility to the West. Kennan responded with his famous “Long Telegram” from Moscow (February 22), which for years to come served as a primer on Soviet behaviour for many in Washington. The Kremlin’s “neurotic view of world affairs,” he wrote, was the...
Beacon Press, 2009. — 329 p. During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological thrust, were, in fact, to gain control over access to oil and claim geographic and strategic advantage. In his new book, Rashid Khalidi, considered the...
Regina Books, 1993. — 316 p. Trends in Korean War Studies: A Review of the Literature. Civil War of a Sort: The International Origins of the Korean Conflict. U.S. Policy on the Eve of the Korean War: Abandonment or Safeguard? The Origins of the Korean War: Unanswered Questions. The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Korean War. The Korean War and Eastern Europe: Assistance...
University of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 344 p. Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a...
Just World Books, 2013. — 350 p. Israeli historian Yigal Kipnis delves deep into the Israeli and American archives and reveals in this book that the big October 1973 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could almost certainly have been avoided. Avoided, that is, if in the months preceding October 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was facing elections, had not...
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 328 p. Trust, but Verify uses trust—with its emotional and predictive aspects—to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The détente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lessened international tensions and...
Routledge, 2016. — 272 p. — (Cold War History). This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, Western Europe, and Japan, the Commission...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. — 432 p. Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948 reveals how during the first half of 1948, Truman and the two most important members of his cabinet, Marshall and Forrestal, systematically deceived Congress and the public into thinking that the U.S.S.R. was about to launch World War III with an invasion of Western Europe. As Professor Kofsky...
George Philip and Son Limied, 1952. — 350 p. Walter Jean Kolarz (26 April 1912 - 21 July 1962) was a British-based scholar of the communist world who wrote widely on ethnic and religious issues. Kolarz was born in Teplitz-Schonau, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied at Charles University in Prague, then moved to Berlin to work as a journalist. However, he...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 224 p. Representing the first comprehensive account of the public and cultural diplomacy campaigns carried out by the United States in Yugoslavia during the height of the Cold War, this book examines the political role of culture in US-Yugoslav bilateral relations and the fluid links between information and propaganda. Tito and his Party...
Routledge, 2019. — 325 p. For three years following Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, Egypt, with a massive infusion of weaponry from the Soviet Union, continued to do battle with Israel in what became known as the War of Attrition. The history of these years holds the key to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict today. In this book, David Korn offers a detailed insider's...
Springer, 2022. — 147 p. This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War. Conceived by western scientists dissenting from their own government’s position on nuclear weapons, the conferences brought...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 582 p. The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 684 p. — ISBN 978-150-3-6296-15 The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too dangerous to succeed; it needed arms control to prevent nuclear warfare. So, U.S. and Soviet leaders ventured into the unknown to devise guardrails for nuclear arms control and to treat...
Stanford University Press, 2021. — 640 p. The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too dangerous to succeed; it needed arms control to prevent nuclear warfare. So, U.S. and Soviet leaders ventured into the unknown to devise guardrails for nuclear arms control and to treat the Bomb differently...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 241 p. After World War II, Europe stood divided between two clearly defined and competing ideologies and systems of government. Within this context of confrontation and mutual hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, Rinna Kullaa provides a unique analysis of the attempts of two European states to successfully avoid absorption into the...
Historiska Media, 2012. — 310 s. Snart har det gått två årtionden sedan det kalla kriget upphörde. Berlinmurens dramatiska fall och Sovjetunionens kollaps markerar slutet på den period som efter andra världskriget kom att prägla senare hälften av 1900-talet. Det var en tid då skräcken för ett tredje världskrig hemsökte mänskligheten på ett sätt som nu nästan är bortglömt. Här...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 317 p. In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese....
Princeton University Press, 1980. — 485 p. Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain their independence from the Great Powers. Drawing on a wide variety of secondary sources, government documents, private papers, unpublished memoirs, and extensive interviews with key figures,...
McGraw-Hill, 1993. — 418 p. Using published material from both public and private sources, this concise text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. This edition includes a new final chapter which considers the Bush administration's foreign policy throughout its first term, the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, and the end of...
Routledge, 2021. — 224 p. The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations’ most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer space. The story begins in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year, the largest ever cooperative...
Cornell University Press, 1997. — 329 p. The United States and the Soviet Union missed numerous diplomatic opportunities to resolve differences and control the arms race because neither state trusted the other, according to Deborah Welch Larson. She shows that the goals of Soviet and U.S. leaders were frequently complementary, and an agreement should have been attainable. Lost...
Routledge, 2012. — 312 p. The origins and the key defining moments of the Cold War in Southeast Asia have been widely debated. This book focuses on an area that has received less attention, the impact and legacy of the Cold War on the various countries in the region, as well as on the region itself. The book contributes to the historiography of the Cold War in Southeast Asia by...
McGill-Queens University Press, 1995. — 295 p. Drawing on a wide range of recently declassified documents, Lee outlines the regional and international context of American diplomatic history towards Korea and Vietnam and analyses the relationship between containment, the bipolar international system, and European and American concepts of empire at the beginning of the era of...
2nd ed. — New York: Routledge, 2005. — XV, 352 p. — (Rewriting Histories). — ISBN: 0-415-34110-8; 0-203-02346-3
The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 569 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 588 p. Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars explain how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability developed into the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 620 p. This volume examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. Leading scholars analyze the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological, and geopolitical factors that shaped the policies that ended the Cold War, looking at the personalities and policies of Carter and...
Stanford University Press, 1992. — 712 p. The cold war is over. In the United States, the cold war shaped our political culture, our institutions, and our national priorities. But it also influenced the destinies of people everywhere. It divided Europe, split Germany, and engulfed the Third World. It led to a feverish arms race as massive sales of military equipment to poor...
New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. — 608 p. — ISBN-10: 0374531420; ISBN-13: 978-0374531423. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it...
New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. — 608 p. — ISBN-10: 0374531420; ISBN-13: 978-0374531423. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it...
Africana Publishing Company, 1988. — 495 p. Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid refers to the foreign relations of South Africa between 1948 and the early 1990s. South Africa introduced apartheid in 1948, as a systematic extension of pre-existing racial discrimination laws. Initially the regime implemented an offensive foreign policy trying to consolidate South...
Routledge, 2019. — 301 p. This volume focuses on the third Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Follow-Up Meeting which took place in Vienna from November 1986 to January 1989 against the background of dynamic developments in Eastern Europe.
University of Missouri Press, 2010. — 360 p. During the Cold War, the Soviets were quick to publicize any incident of racial hostility in the United States. Since violence by white Americans against minorities was the perfect foil to America’s claim to be defenders of freedom, news of these occurrences was exploited to full advantage by the Russians. But how did the Soviets...
Columbia University Press, 1993. — 372 p. American science was as much the victim as the beneficiary of the Cold War. What science may have gained in funding, prestige, and political clout, it lost in independence and integrity. As one prominent scientist put it, the military bought American science on the installment plan, with fateful consequences for intellectual freedom....
Routledge, 2009. — 382 p. Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant. This book examines the often surprising relations between Orthodox churches and political regimes. It provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics between Eastern Christianity and politics...
Routledge, 2017. — 222 p. On October 4, 1957 in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite. For the West, and especially the United States, it was a shattering blow to national morale and pride. It led to a deep-seated fear that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States in both technology and power and that even...
Routledge, 2017. — 243 p. This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Focusing on the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US, this book investigates how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world. Through the use of newly declassified Communist...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0547669194; ISBN13 978-0547669199. Thousands of Nazis — from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich — came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. They had little trouble getting in. With scant scrutiny, many gained entry on their own as self-styled war...
John Hopkins University Press, 2003. — 300 p. During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a variety of problem-solving techniques, technologies, and institutions. From systems analysis to reconnaissance satellites to think tanks, these innovations did not remain exclusive accessories of the...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 248 p. During the Cold War a number of high-ranking Soviet citizens spied for the CIA, providing the United States with valuable information while putting themselves and their families in great danger. In this book a seasoned CIA field operator and station chief looks at what drove these agents to betray their own country. Unlike many authors who...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 392 p. When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for standard-issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of building a fighting force for the...
Potomac Books, 2016. — 336 p. In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history—not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. — 256 p. As memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and novels to help us recall why an entire generation of Americans grew up ducking under school desks in air raid drills and stocking the...
Am 15. April 2005 präsentierte Internationales Institut für den Frieden das großartige Projekt „Moskauer Memorandum 1955: Signal für den Frieden in Europa. (Symposium an der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien). Die Wichtigkeit dieser Veranstaltung wurde durch die Anwesenheit von führenden in- und ausländischen Wissenschaftern, Diplomaten und Zeitzeugen unterstrichen. Die Thematik des...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 802 p. This book, which examines British disengagement in the Middle East during the Labour Government of 1945-1951, is in a large sense a comment on the British foreign response to Arab, Jewish, and Iranian nationalism. This is a far-reaching study of how Britain's postwar Labour government attempted to sustain a vision of Britain as a world...
Indiana University Press, 2022. — 325 p. Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an...
Routledge, 2013. — 280 p. Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe. Given the Cold War’s blurred definition – it has neither a widely accepted commencement date nor unanimous conclusion...
Routledge, 1997. — 302 p. The impressive Second Edition of this standard study incorporates important new evidence on the origins of the war from Chinese and Russian archives. It reveals that Stalin encouraged the attack on South Korea, but also confirms that the original initiative came from North Korea. Peter Lowe has also written an extended conclusion with a discussion of...
Motorbuch Verlag, 2013. — 240 S. Als sich der Kalte Krieg zwischen den Machtblöcken verfestigte, wurden die Forderungen nach einem umfassenden Zivilschutz in Westdeutschland drängender. Das führte zu einer zum Teil noch heute im Verborgenen existierenden Infrastruktur, zu Bunkern und Schutzbauten, über die nur wenig bekannt ist. Diese Dokumentation befasst sich umfassend mit...
Columbia University Press, 1980. — 434 p. American Historians and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1947. American Policies Toward Scandinavia 1945-1947. Neutrality Rejected. Socialism and Scandinavian Social Democrats. The Marshall Plan and Norway: A Case Study. The Origins of NATO. Scandinavia: Neutralism or Western Orientation? Scandinavia and a Western Military Arrangement in...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 700 p. What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of twentieth century? Standard narratives focus on Soviet–American rivalry as if the superpowers were the exclusive driving forces of the international system. Lorenz Lüthi offers a radically different account, restoring agency to regional powers in Asia, the Middle...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 398 p. A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War....
Routledge, 1992. — 205 р. In this book, Allen Lynch challenges the common wisdom that the revolutionary events in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the cold war. Instead, he argues that the cold war was actually resolved by the early 1970s, as evidenced by the tacit acceptance of a divided Germany and Europe. More recent events thus...
Global Academic Publishing, 2011. — 329 p. Central America was the final place where U.S. and Soviet proxy forces faced off against one another in armed conflict. In The Cold War s Last Battlefield, Edward A. Lynch blends his own first-hand experiences as a member of the Reagan Central America policy team with interviews of policy makers and exhaustive study of primary source...
Routledge, 2011. — 216 p. This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period. It combines a history of the UN with a broader account of east-west diplomacy during the Cold War and after. Norrie MacQueen begins by looking at the formation, structure and functions of the UN. Then, within a chronological framework, he assesses its...
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 21, 2008). 392 pages.
Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history.The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as it stole secrets from abroad and developed gadgets at...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05654-4 The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: William Appleman Williams The Cold War and Its Origins: D. F. Fleming Atomic Diplomacy: Gar Alperovitz The Free World Colossus: David Horowitz The Politics of War: Gabriel Kolko Yalta: Diane Shaver Clemens Architects of Illusion: Lloyd C. Gardner
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 344 p. The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China’s twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 344 p. In Sovereign Soldiers, historian Grant Madsen tells the story of military leaders who took on an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role during the occupation of Germany and Japan after World War II, applying a range of economic ideas whose impact would endure throughout the prosperous 1950s, including in the United States...
Croom Helm, 1978. — 208 p. Strategically placed on the global chess board, as well as controlling vast oil resources, the Middle East was one of the main theatres of Cold War. In the 1950s the Soviet Union had taken advantage of Arab Nationalists’ disillusion with British and French Imperialism, along with the emerging Arab-Israeli conflict, to establish relations with Egypt,...
Routledge, 2014. — 208 p. Strategically placed on the global chess board, as well as controlling vast oil resources, the Middle East was one of the main theatres of Cold War. In the 1950s the Soviet Union had taken advantage of Arab Nationalists’ disillusion with British and French Imperialism, along with the emerging Arab-Israeli conflict, to establish relations with Egypt,...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 432 p. A controversial look at Reagan's role in ending the Cold War- from the author of The New York Times bestseller Rise of the Vulcans. In his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on the hidden aspects of American foreign policy. Drawing on...
Lexington Books, 2020. — 198 p. In the second half of the twentieth century, strategic and economic conditions compelled the U.S. government to start running budget deficits on a permanent basis. A new role of global leadership in containing communism required a robust military establishment. The federal government overwhelmingly relied for general revenue on an income tax code...
Routledge, 2019. — 301 p. The contributors to this book offer an explanation of Soviet and U.S. policy in the Middle East by exploring how the superpowers define their goals in the region, the factors that both stimulate and constrain the United States and the Soviet Union in the implementation of their objectives, and how their mutual perceptions influence behavior.
Routledge, 2019. — 328 p. This is the first study to discuss in detail the implementation phase of policy decisions. Dr. Martel examines several related foreign policy decisions that contributed significantly to the coming of the Cold War: President Truman's order to cut back lend-lease to the USSR after the defeat of Germany, the termination of lend-lease to the USSR.
Routledge, 2006. — 310 p. This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective. Based on previously unknown archival evidence from both East and West, the twelve essays in the book focus on the...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 400 p. The end of World War II did not mean the arrival of peace. The major powers faced social upheaval at home, while anticolonial wars erupted around the world. American-Soviet relations grew chilly, but the meaning of the rivalry remained disputable.Cold War Crucible reveals the Korean War as the catalyst for a new postwar order. The...
Random House, 2005. — 400 p. In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: He was the point person for Reagan’s evolving policy of conciliation toward...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 312 p. The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration. How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union, become one of the most successful arms controllers of the Cold War? Drawing on newly opened Cold War archives, John D. Maurer...
East European Monographs, 1985. — 203 p. A critical evaluation of American and British foreign policies toward post-war Hungary and their relationship to the Sovietization of that country after World War II. Hungary and the Great Powers, 1918-1945. The Politics of Impotence: Anglo-American Recognition of the Hungarian Government. The Political Foundations of British and...
St. Martin's Press, 1993. — 235 p. Written in 1950, NSC 68 laid out the rationale for American Cold War strategy. This volume includes the complete text of NSC 68, followed by commentaries from former officials, specialists on American foreign policy, and American and foreign scholars. Ernest May's analytical essays discuss the many ways in which this historical document can be...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 442 p. An extremely useful and much needed survey. Over eleven chapters, authors from eight countries cover the complex history of migration from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1993. Following in the footsteps of Klaus Bade's Encyclopedia of European Migrations, the authors make extensive use of sources in national languages,...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, New York, USA, 2017. — 391 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-99900-8. Covering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 1949–2016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War. The conflict between these two superpowers...
Pearson Education Limited, 2003. — 193 p.
The Cold War is one of the most important and widely studied areas of history. Martin McCauley’s best-selling Seminar Study unravels the complex issues which gave rise to the Cold War and explains how it originated.
This new edition is revised, updated and expanded with new material on areas such as the KGB and spying, and the...
Berghahn Books, 2005. — 272 p. Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Marshall Plan as the form of public diplomacy of the United States in France after World War Two, offers a timely historical case study. Current debates about globalization and a possible...
Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2014. — 333 p. At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed to choose a new nation...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 244 p. The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring original essays by twelve...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 200 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War. But why did it last so long? And what impact did it have on the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Third World? Finally, how did it affect the broader history...
Fordham University Press, 2005. — 302 p. This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest and educator whom historians have called “the most important anticommunist in the country.” Edmund A. Walsh, as dean of Georgetown College and founder in 1919 of its School of Foreign Service, is one of the most influential Catholic figures of the 20th century. Soon after the...
Routledge, 2003. — 312 p. A multi-archival documentary history of British foreign policy towards Nasser's Egypt under the Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home and Wilson national governments. The primary focus of the study is an enquiry into the causes of the Anglo-Egyptian Cold War from 1952 to 1967.
Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 2013. — 362 p. In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called a small ball became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 248 p. This book is about the beginning of the end of the Cold War between 1980 and 1985. The key shift that allowed the Cold War to end was not one from conflict to cooperation but rather from covert to overt engagement, with both superpowers seeing engagement as a means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals.
Routledge, 2014. — 250 p. The idea of non-alignment and peaceful coexistence was not new when Yugoslavia hosted the Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned in September 1961. Freedom activists from the colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America had been discussing such issues for decades already, but this long-lasting context is usually forgotten in political and historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 308 p. This international history of the origins and nature of 'cold war' offers the first systematic examination of the complex relationship between the United States and Italy, and of American debates about warfare in the years between World War II and the Korean War. Kaeten Mistry reveals how the defeat of the Marxist left in the 1948...
Cornell University Press, 2009. — 248 p. Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. documents,...
Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2015. — 373 p. Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party in 1942. His move to academic life...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 272 p. Italy played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century. It was a junior partner in the strategic plans of NATO and warmly appreciated by some Arab countries for its regional approach. But Italian foreign policy towards the Middle East balanced between promoting dialogue, stability and...
Verso Books, 2015. — 288 p. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network—a dozen men and two women—sent to infiltrate those organizations. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War tells the...
London: Cassell, 2002. — 255 p. — (Cassell History of Warfare). Although the twentieth century is now best remembered for two world wars, in the future it may be at least equally well-known for its profusion of little wars against great opponents. The trend began long before mujahideen took up arms against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. From China and Vietnam to Palestine,...
Routledge, 2021. — 206 p. Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold War period. During the Cold War, war itself was changing, as was statecraft. Information emerged as the most valuable commodity, becoming the key component of societies across the...
Greenwood, 2000. — 256 p. A cooperative effort by a number of historians and political scientists, this essay collection focuses on the important connection between domestic affairs and foreign relations during the Cold War. The case studies treat phases of both the Soviet and American experiences and involve contributions by two Russian scholars, three Americans, a German, a...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 418 p. Most Americans consider détente -- the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union -- to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most...
Routledge, 2022. — 267 p. This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. Although the consequences of globalization have received ample attention in both academia and the public discourse, only limited attention has so far been given to the factors that instigated various waves of this process. This holds...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 230 p. Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons makes exhaustive use of newly-opened archive sources in a successful bid to offer an authoritative and compelling account of Anglo-American defence relations during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. This coherent and well-written survey presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis yet of...
Columbia University Press, 1977. — 448 p. Introduction: The Historian's Tasks and Responsibilities. The Roots of Cold War Doctrine: The Esoteric and the Exoteric. American Policy-Makers, Public Opinion, and the Outbreak of the Cold War, 1945-50. The United States and the Cold War: The Cold War Era in American History. Britain and the Cold War in the Far East, 1945-58. Soviet...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 181 S. Der Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion und das Verschwinden der DDR von der politischen Landkarte sind Ereignisse von welthistorischer Bedeutung. Sie veränderten nicht nur das System der internationalen Beziehungen und die nationalen politischen Ordnungen, sondern auch das Leben der „kleinen Leute“. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit war die...
Book Sales, 1981. — 477 p. Drawing on numerous, previously unexplored sources, this account of the Suez Canal crisis draws vivid portraits of the leaders involved--Eisenhower, Eden, Ben-Gurion, Mollet, Khrushchev, and Nasser--and analyzes its background and causes. Warriors at Suez reveals for the first time one of the most bizarre events in the history of American foreign...
Routledge, 2007. — 256 p. This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. Drawing on previously unseen documents and secret archive material, Kitty Newman demonstrates how the British Prime Minister acted to prevent the crisis sliding into a disastrous...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. — 269 p. — (Balkan Studies Library 22). Titoist Yugoslavia—the multiethnic state rising out of the chaos of World War II—is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state and, more specifically, the viability of a distinctly multiethnic nation-building project. Much scholarly literature has been devoted to...
Hollowbrook, 1992. — 323 p. The voyage into a better future must begin with a careful study of the past. The Soviet Union is no more, but others could readily take its place as Chief Enemy of the Republic. The Cold War is at a low ebb now, but the forces which created and sustained it are still commanding the dikes. If we wish to avoid another half a century of racing with...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 332 p. Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. — 568 p. First published in 1991 as The Turn, this is the gripping narrative history of the most important international development of our time—the passage of the United States and the Soviet Union from the Cold War to a new era. Don Oberdorfer makes the reader a privileged behind-the-scenes spectator as U.S. and Soviet leaders take each...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2011. — 288 s. Niniejsze opracowanie poświęcone jest międzynarodowym konfliktom zbrojnym po drugiej wojnie światowej. Oznacza to, że poza obszarem jego zainteresowań pozostają wojny domowe, zwalczanie lokalnych partyzantek, bunty przeciwko władzy, liczne zwłaszcza w latach pięćdziesiątych i sześćdziesiątych ubiegłego stulecia walki o niepodległośći zmianę...
Stanford University Press, 2002. — 654 p. This book is a provocative, forcefully argued, and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman’s profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that throughout his presidency, Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from...
Michigan State University Press, 2011. — 344 p. In spring of 1953, newly elected President Eisenhower sat down with his staff to discuss the state of American strategy in the cold war. America, he insisted, needed a new approach to an urgent situation. From this meeting emerged Eisenhower's teams of "bright young fellows," charged with developing competing policies, each of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 263 p. Drawing upon newly-released official and private papers, this book provides an intimate account of Anglo-American debates over one of the most grave and politically sensitive foreign-policy issues of the early 1960s. It examines the roles played by John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan in the test-ban negotiations between 1961 and 1963. It also...
Palgrave Macmillan | Springer, 2023. — 515 p. This book provides an advanced introduction to the Cold War, assessing its origins, development and conclusion as a dynamic interaction between superpower confrontation and complex regional and local situations. The evolution of the subject’s scholarly debate is discussed throughout and the contest situated alongside enduring...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 417 p. In the aftermath of World War II, American diplomats and policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping Communism at bay, and they confronted a divided Germany. While the United States' interest lay in stabilizing and forming an alliance with West Germany, what happened in the "other Germany" was also a matter of...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 416 p. In the aftermath of World War II, American diplomats and policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping Communism at bay, and they confronted a divided Germany. While the United States' interest lay in stabilizing and forming an alliance with West Germany, what happened in the "other Germany" was also a matter of...
Central European University Press, 2001. — 492 p. The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact, this collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of post-war European...
Routledge, 1985. — 319 p. The Cold War in Europe. Bevin and the Russians. Marshall Aid and Western Defence. The Cold War in the Middle East. British Paramountcy in the Middle East. The Middle East Command. The Cold War in South-East Asia The Recognition of Communist Korea and the Pacific The Cold War in Africa The Significance of South Africa Defence Policy and Global Strategy
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 363 p. Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful, but the hidden forts of the nuclear age have not been cataloged and studied in the same way until now. In Underground Structures of the Cold War, the author describes when and where these bunkers were built, and records what has become of them. This detailed account covers every sort of...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1979. — 223 p. Rubble: The World in 1945. Conflict: The Postwar International System. Spheres: The Quest for Influence, 1944-1950. Abundance: The “Fundamentals” of the United States. Toughness: The Tactics of Truman’s Diplomacy. Consent: American Public Opinion and Congress. Suspiciousness: Soviet Foreign Policy and Its Makers. Bipolarity: The World in...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. — 302 p. — ISBN-10: 0801817595; ISBN-13: 978-0801817595. The purpose of this book is to study the serious problem of reconstruction in the early Cold War, when the United States was the giant of the economic world, as President Harry S. Truman so aptly put it. Although economic foreign policy often lodged itself at the center...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2013. — 288 p. Following its creation in 1948, Israel was confronted with the challenge of establishing relations with key players in the Middle East, in the face of opposition from most of the Arab states. Patten explores the genesis and development of Israel's foreign relations with Iran, Turkey, and Ethiopia, known as the "Policy of the Periphery."...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 304 p. — (The New Cold War History). In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of...
Routledge, 2019. — 212 p. This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu’s Romania from 1969 to 1980. Drawing from multi-archival research from both US and Romanian sources, this is the first comprehensive analysis of differentiation and shows that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 250 p. Effie G.H. Pedaliu analyzes the British Labour government's contribution to the postwar reconstruction of Italy. The book focuses on five areas: the punishment of war criminality; the reconstruction of the Italian armed forces; the Italian elections of April 1948 and Italy's institutional role in western security arrangements and on European...
Routledge, 2019. — 264 p. Drawing on previously untapped documents, interviews with key actors, and his own experiences in the Department of State, Nathan Pelcovits takes a fresh look at the impact of UN intervention, as peacekeeper and peacemaker, on the Arab-Israeli conflict during the formative years between 1948 and 1960. He examines the reasons behind the UN assumption of...
Routledge, 2023. — 152 р. This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s. Trade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Ideology had become less important and a rapprochement between the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 440 p. As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the most influential in the literary world. Cousins's progressive, nonpartisan...
Casemate, 2013. — 232 p. As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what...
Columbia University Press, 1985. — 390 p. The Political Economy of Postwar America. Planning for the Peace: Bretton Woods, Postwar Relief, and Soviet-American Relations, 1944-1945. Cold War in the Soviet Sphere: American Policies in Eastern Europe, the Russian Loan, and Containment Doctrine, 1945-1947. Recovery and Crisis in Western Europe, 1945-47. Indecision in Germany,...
Wiley, 2006. — 412 p. "DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham sketch the personalities that created and coped with the crisis. They also show us how close we came to the edge without becoming...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 224 p. Iraq and Iran are the two most important states in the Gulf region, given their population size, military strength, and the potential threat they pose to other states in the region. This book enhances our understanding of the troubled relationship between Iran and Iraq, placing it in historical context, examining the rapid deterioration...
Potomac Books Inc., 2010. — 320 p. The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy. The reasons for the Cold War’s conclusion, and the timing of...
Sentinel HC, 2014. — 448 p. June 5, 1967. The nineteen-year-old state of Israel is surrounded by enemies who want nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped Egyptian Army has massed a thousand tanks on the nation’s southern border. Syrian heavy guns are shelling her from the north. To the east, Jordan and Iraq are moving mechanized brigades and fighter...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. — 286 p. This book is aimed at presenting fresh views, interpretations, and reinterpretations of some already researched issues relating to the Yugoslav foreign policy and international relations up to year 1991. Yugoslavia positioned itself as a communist state that was not under the heel of the Soviet diplomacy and policy and as such was perceived...
Bakı: Adiloğlu, 2007. — 560 səh. İkinci dünya müharibəsinin sonlarında pozulan SSRİ-Türkiyə münasibətləri 60-cı illərin əvvəllərindən necə normallaşdı? Buna hansı amillər təsir etdi? Münasibətlərdə ABŞ faktoru hansı yeri tuturdu? Kuba raket böhranı sovet-türk münasibətlərinə necə təsir etdi? SSRİ Türkiyə Kommunist Partiyasına və İraqın şimalında silahlı dəstələrdən birinə...
University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — 256 p. — (The New Cold War History). In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the...
Routledge, 1978. — 443 p. The causes of the October War in Israel can be traced to the political, economic, and strategic processes that occurred in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. The papers compiled in this book were presented in the aftermath of the October War at an international colloquium held at Tel Aviv University. The growth 'and power of Middle East...
Routledge, 2014. — 230 p. This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict. Following the model of older European neutrals, Austria and Finland sought to...
London: Routledge, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN-10: 0415724279; ISBN-13: 978-0415724272. This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides an...
Penguin Group, 2021. — 682 p. A deep dive into understanding India-China relations. Why did India and China go to war in 1962? What propelled Jawaharlal Nehru's 'vision' of China? Why is it necessary to understand the trans-Himalayan power play of India and China in the formative period of their nationhoods? The past shadows the present in this relationship and shapes current...
Scribner, 2012. — 460 p. The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Despite the Kennedy administration’s initial public insistence that the United States had nothing to do with the invasion, it soon became clear that the complex operation had been planned...
University Press of Mississippi, 2008. — 197 p. The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom...
Presidio Press, 2007. — 368 p. "The Cold War was a fight to the death," notes Thomas C. Reed, "fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons." With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense years...
N.-Y.: CEU Press, 2013. — 596 p.
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet...
The Carl Beck Papers, 1988. — 48 p. The precise function that Marxist-Leninist ideology serves in the formation and conduct of Soviet foreign policy remains a highly contentious question among Western scholars. In the first postwar year, however, few senior officials or Soviet specialists in the West doubted that Communist ideology served as the constitutive element of Soviet...
Year and place of publication unknown. — 2041 p. These printed materials were published in the period 1940-1946. Collection: Propaganda articles and materials (posters) from newspapers and magazines in the United States.
Penguin Books, 2001. — 928 p. Global change has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in the last half-century. The trajectory of change points in different directions, with the world growing at once more interconnected and more fragmented. Commerce and migrations, television and the World Wide Web suggest a story of growing interconnection, while at the same time the...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 257 p. It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified...
Clarity Press, 2022. — 370 p. Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to “trust, but verify” this successful and unique historic disarmament process. It demonstrates how two nations fundamentally at odds with one...
The History Press, 2000. — 208 p. The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the 20th century in an all-embracing ideological and military conflict between communism and democracy. This survey shows the Cold War as the consequence of the breakdown of the existing international system during the two world wars and a new great power alignment which...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 294 p. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. — 668 p. — ISBN 0-684-19427-9. The course of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union was marked by events in Europe, such as the jubilant fall of the Berlin Wall and the perilous proliferation of nuclear weapons. But the Cold War was also a contest for dominance in the vast and tumultuous Third World. Here, finally,...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. — 668 p. — ISBN 0-684-19427-9. The course of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union was marked by events in Europe, such as the jubilant fall of the Berlin Wall and the perilous proliferation of nuclear weapons. But the Cold War was also a contest for dominance in the vast and tumultuous Third World. Here, finally,...
Routledge, 2017. — 220 p. This title was first published in 2002. This work uses the concept of the "arms dynamic" to identify and assess the various factors which influenced arms acquisitions of Southeast Asian states during the second Cold War period from 1979 to 1989, providing an essential basis for understanding contemporary developments. The book provides a comprehensive...
Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 1996. — 279 p. List of Abbreviations The Eisenhower Administration, Presidential Power, and Nuclear Policy Soviet Missiles, Warning, and Perceptions of Vulnerability The Challenge to Massive Retaliation Defense Budgets and the Public Debate over the Missile Gap Strategic Force Planning during the Missile Gap Period Eisenhower and the Missile...
Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. This text considers the importance of various factors which influenced the policies of each hegemons country during the Cold War including strategic considerations, domestic politics and ideology.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 257 p. Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the British and American governments towards European integration in the early 1950s. The British, fearing an 'agonizing reappraisal' of the American defence commitment to Europe if the supranational EDC failed, went to...
London: Routledge, 2010. — 108 p. — ISBN 10: 0–203–86484–0; ISBN 13: 978–0–203–86484–5 Available for the first time in many years, Commonsense and Nuclear Warfare presents Russell's keen insights into the threat of nuclear conflict, and his argument that the only way to end this threat is to end war itself. Written at the height of the Cold War, this volume is crucial for...
Routledge, 2009. — 592 p. This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-1990. The peaceful unification of Germany in 1989-90 brought a dramatic end to the Cold War. This volume documents official British reactions to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 356 p. Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 374 p. 1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 360 p. Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical...
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 256 p. — ISBN-10: 0252039696; ISBN-13: 978-0252039690. Founded as a counterweight to the Communist broadcasters in East Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) became one of the most successful public information operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc. Cold War on the Airwaves examines the Berlin-based...
Facts on File, 1986. — 637 p. This unbiased, critical reference work provides both hard-to-find basic information and informed analysis plus commentary on the Soviet Union and the communist-ruled part of Europe. Library Journal--"No existing work brings together so great a range and quantity of information about this part of the world". Schopflin, a leading authority on Eastern...
Spellmount, 2011. — 160 p. The Berlin Airlift represents one of the most dramatic humanitarian efforts of the post-war era and was a strikingly successful example of British and American co-operation. The author commemorates the 'Blockade Breakers' of the Berlin Airlift and the impact they had on Allied-German relations.
Routledge, 1992. — 245 p. This book explores the strategies of the global movement to change American nuclear test ban policy at the End of the Cold War, and the sources and nature of the president George Bush administration's resistance to change.
Routledge, 2019. — 244 p. First published in 1997, this volume builds its discussion on a technological base along with policy implications, and constitutes a review of the current situation in international security created by the Cold War, and how the end of the Cold War is likely to change the situation. As the close of the Cold War created a multitude of changes in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 294 p. Political Warfare against the Kremlin provides a comparative study and holistic review of American and British propaganda policy toward the Soviet Union during the first fifteen years of the Cold War, ranging from the role senior policymakers played in setting propaganda policy to the West's radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 357 p. Traditionally seen as a master of domestic politics, Lyndon Johnson is frequently portrayed as inept in foreign relations, consumed by the war in Vietnam, and unable to provide vision or leadership for the Western alliance. In this persuasive revisionist history, Thomas Alan Schwartz takes issue with many of the popular and scholarly...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994. — 284 p. Describes the Reagan administration's covert campaign against the Soviet Union that increased stress on the Soviet economy. Victory tells the story of a secret U.S. strategy developed in the Reagan White House in early 1982 that hastened the demise of the Soviet Union. In this explosive book, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details...
Routledge, 2018. — 128 p. The purpose of this book, first published in 1982, is to analyse certain crucial aspects of the great power triangle in order to establish a more complete picture of the role of China in the superpower balance. These essays examine the key political, economic and military issues involved in the complex relations between the three great powers.
Metropolitan Books, 2007. — 674 p. Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in1967—a number-one bestseller in Hebrew—he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 304 p. As the Cold War took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a "monolithic" conspiratorial movement. The image of a "communist monolith" distilled the messy realities of international relations into a neat, comprehensible formula....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. — 464 р. — ISBN: 0393540812. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban...
Public Affairs, 2015. — 685 p. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachëv became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its...
NYU Press, 2011. — 244 p. Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless issues. To gain complete knowledge of an era, historians must investigate the religious context of what transpired, why it happened, and how. Yet too little is known about American Christianity’s foreign...
Routledge, 2017. — 428 p. China’s territorial disputes with India have been a matter of debate since 1950s. While China has amicably resolved boundary disputes with twelve out of its fourteen neighbouring countries, it is yet to resolve its boundary disputes with India and Bhutan as also its maritime disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea. This volume looks at the...
Sussex Academic Press, 2008. — 345 p. The Six Day War was the climax in the deterioration of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The downturn began in 1957 when Nasir began preaching the idea of Arab nationalism, while placing the Palestinian problem at its center. The decade between the Sinai War and Six Day War was marked by preparations on both sides for an all-out military...
Clarendon Press, 1997. —320 p. — ISBN 0-19-829099-3 In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Middle East became one of the major theatres of the Cold War as a result of its strategic importance and its oil resources. In this compelling new book leading scholars analyze, for the first time, the impact of the Cold War on the behavior of individual local actors at three...
Routledge, 2019. — 219 p. This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postcolony itself was shaped, epistemologically and materially, by...
London: Pluto Press, 2008. — 320 p. This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book focuses on states experiencing violent internal conflict and foreign intervention, that is...
Routledge, 2019. — 272 p. This book presents a study of the nature and origins of the dominant postwar approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted.
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 331 p. The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between Israel and her Arab neighbours; it introduced oil diplomacy as a new means of leverage in international politics; and it affected irreversibly the...
Profile Books, 2021. — 592 p. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures—not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the...
University of Alabama Press, 2010. — 305 p. In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which had been at the heart of World Wars One and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 536 p. After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's administration; for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2022. — 336 p. Discover a diplomacy mission like no other in Ice War Diplomat, the behind-the-scenes story of the historic 1972 Summit Series. Amid the tension of the Cold War, caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 217 p. Nato Enlargement During the Cold War analyzes the historical experience surrounding NATO enlargement. Features include the role and influence of external factors, the dynamics of intra-alliance debate, and a taxonomy of membership. Most important, however, is the conclusion that NATO expansion was never drawn solely by Cold War factors, giving...
Arcade, 2012. — 382 p. Have you ever thought about what really goes on behind the walls of the White House or the Pentagon? Particularly in times of political upheaval, it often seems that the government and the media work together to keep the voting public confused and distracted. In Warriors of Disinformation, Alvin A. Snyder, a former director of USIA’s Television and Film...
Routledge, 2021. — 316 p. This book, first published in 1986, examines the challenges the United States faced in maintaining a strong nuclear deterrence capability in the Far East without giving rise to political tensions among its allies. The Soviet aggression in the region, shown in the invasion of Afghanistan and the shooting down of a Korean airliner, demonstrated the need...
ABC-CLIO, Inc. 2008. — 3030 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85109-706-7. The Cold War was, simply put, the single most important event of the second half of the twentieth century. For the purposes of the encyclopedia we have included some background information on World War II, such as the Allied conferences. We have chosen to end the entries within the encyclopedia in 1991, with the breakup...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 785 р. Of course this was not what really happened. It was the storyline for NATO’s biennial ‘Wintex’ war game. In the 1989 scenario Germany became the theatre of a ‘limited nuclear war’, which meant instant obliteration for hundreds of thousands of Germans, and radioactive contamination across the historic heartland of Europe condemning millions...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. — 304 p. In the United States, the Cold War is often remembered as a two-power struggle. However, increasing globalization during that time meant nations across the world became involved in the conflict. During the Eisenhower administration, American officials struggled to respond to the dual threats of communism and nationalism as...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 275 p. Focusing on the character and personality of Menachem Begin, Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz offer a new look into the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s. Begin's role as a peace negotiator has often been marginalized, but this sympathetic and critical portrait restores him to the center of the diplomatic...
Springer, 2021. — 188 p. The book examines the rapprochement between Greece and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. ''Ostpolitik'', which translates to ‘‘Opening to the East’’ is used to describe the policy of conducting affairs with the Soviet Bloc. Using primary sources from Greece, Eastern European States, Cyprus, NATO, the United States, Germany and United Kingdom, this...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 359 p. Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to cooperation in Europe along the boundaries set by the Cold War. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 380 p. Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly shifting, at times...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 342 p. This book sheds fresh light on developments in British nuclear weapons policy between October 1964, when the Labour Party came back into power under Harold Wilson following a thirteen year absence, and June 1970 when the Conservative government of Edward Heath was elected.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 345 p. Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976.
Little, Brown and Company, 1988. — 368 p. In 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become America’s longest-lasting conflict. While history books claim without equivocation that the war lasted from 1950 to 1953, those who have actually served there know better. By closely analyzing US intelligence before June 25, 1950 (the war’s official start), and the actions of key...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 252 p. During the early years of the Cold War, England and the United States both found themselves reassessing their relationship with their former ally the Soviet Union, and the status of their own “special relationship” was far from certain. As Jeffrey P. Stone argues, maps from British and American news journals from this period became a valuable...
Basic Books, 2012. — 688 p. After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powers -- the Americans, the British, and a small band of allies -- were caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing armies, and civil wars that sprung from all sides....
Lexington Books, 2016. — 296 p. This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 301 p. Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 203 p. The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction and conclusion link each...
New York: Doubleday, 1974. — 514 p. This is the dramatic, fully-researched and definitive account of the war that almost destroyed Israel: the Yom Kippur War. Launched by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and his primary ally, Syria's President Hafiz al-Asad, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the sudden attack took the Israeli Defense Force totally by surprise....
ISEAS Publishing, 2022. — 252 p. The book, which was first published in 1996, examines Indonesia’s foreign policy under Suharto. It not only details Indonesia’s foreign policy behaviour vis-à-vis Indonesia’s neighbours and major powers, but also places it in the context of foreign policy analysis. Today, the book remains as the only full-length study on Indonesia’s foreign...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 245 p. This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics. It explores how the advancement of Soviet civil aircraft engineering during the 1950s technically triggered the globalization of the Cold War. The study also shows how the processes of technological...
Create space Independent, 2013. — 430 p. Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You...
Stanford University Press, 2006. — 368 p. Concentrating on the years 1953-1964, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The author’s principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the...
Routledge, 2017. — 304 p. This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979. The negotiations on the limitation of strategic arms, which were concluded in two agreements SALT I and SALT II (with only the first ratified), marked a major change in the history of arms control negotiations....
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 500 p. This detailed and original study throws new light on the evolution of British policy in Southeast Asia in the turbulent postwar period. Extensive archival research and insightful analysis of British policy demonstrate that Southeast Asia was perceived as a region consisting of mutually cooperating new states, rather than a fragmented...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 288 p. Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau—and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the...
Ankara, Mülkiyeliler Birliği Vakfı Yayınları, 2000. - 306p. Bu çalışma Prof. Dr. Oral Sander’in yönlendirmesiyle, bu alandaki eksikliği kapatma kaygısıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. Daha sonraki dönemleri ele alacak çalışmalar serisinin bir parçası olarak değerlendirilmelidir. SSCB ile Türkiye arasında 1964-1980 ve 1980-1991 yılları arasındaki ilişkileri değerlendiren akademik çalışma yok...
London: Routledge, 2023. — 167 p. This book explores Soviet–North Korean relations during the Cold War (1945–1991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and Korean), it reveals how the influence of the Soviets on Pyongyang diminished during the course of the Cold War, from overwhelming at the time of the foundation of North Korea to negligible at the...
Routledge Group, 2009. — 306 p. — (Routledge Companions). From the depths of the Cold War to the War on Terror, The Routledge Companion to Military Conflict since 1945 is an in-depth and comprehensive reference guide to the confrontations that have shaped the modern age.Covering the personalities, the wars and the ideas that have been central to military conflict in the last sixty...
The Progressive, November 1979, 39p. (анг. яз. )
Слабый голос прогрессивной общественности США в разгар холодной войны против гонки ядерного вооружения.
Atheneum Books, 1987. — 687 p. With the ending of the Second World War in 1945, there ended also the great alliance of nations that had defeated Germany and Japan. Within a year relationships between Russia and the West were being described in terms of The Cold War and The Iron Curtain. A former Soviet Foreign Minister was using the expression 'Armed Truce' to explain the best...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — 598 p. Against the sprawling backdrop of the Cold War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin, Thompson became an important...
London: Routledge, 1990. — 206 p. — ISBN 0-415-90248-7. The theory of social movements is certainly a most respectable scholarly field, but this book does not claim to belong to it. Its principal purpose is to highlight the origins, strategy, ideology, and dynamics of a new form of political activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: the grass-roots, unofficial,...
London: Routledge, 1990. — 206 p. — ISBN 0-415-90248-7. The theory of social movements is certainly a most respectable scholarly field, but this book does not claim to belong to it. Its principal purpose is to highlight the origins, strategy, ideology, and dynamics of a new form of political activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: the grass-roots, unofficial,...
Purdue University Press, 2020. — 294 p. Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists...
Princeton University Press, 1999. — 448 p. People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale, writes Marc Trachtenberg, but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on. America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003. — 256 p. Written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the work discusses the role European dependence on American support played in the history of European unification.
Routledge, 2020. — 254 p. Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and other parties that were all striving for mutual cooperation. During the Cold War, the CMEA served as a forum for discussions on common...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 348 p. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better...
Brill, 2021. — 259 p. — (New Perspectives on the Cold War 9). In Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 Natalia Tsvetkova offers an account of how professors and students restrained the Americanization or Sovietization of their national universities around the world during the Cold War. The Cold War, Cultural Diplomacy, and Universities. Europe:...
Harper, 2016. — 560 p. A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956—a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic leadership of President Dwight D. Eisenhower—which shaped...
Routledge, 1989. — 184 p. The author studies affirmative action efforts in four countries: two superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - and two non-superpowers - Canada and Hungary. Drawing on his knowledge of diverse societies, the author weighs the evidence to evaluate whether popular pressure for affirmative action is greater in the superpower than in the...
PN; First Edition, 1981. — 99 p. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed Forces. First...
2nd edition. — US Govt Printing Office, 1983. — 106 p. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed...
5th ed. — Superintendent of Documents, 1986. — 156 p. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed...
United States Government Printing; 9th edition, 1990. — 111 p. — ISBN-10 0160243009, ISBN-13 978-0160243004 Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the...
USGPO, 1988. — 175 p. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed Forces. First published in early...
Government Printing Office; Not Stated edition, 1989. — 159 p. — ISBN-10 999980263X, ISBN-13 9789999802635 Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the...
4th edition. — GPO, 1985. — 143 p. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the U.S. public to the significant military capabilities of the Soviet Armed Forces. First...
Routledge, 2017. — 410 p. Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. — 336 p. — ISBN-10: 0300069219; ISBN-13: 978-0300069211. From the 1950s to the aftermath of communist rule, two American-funded international broadcasting organizations - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty - engaged in a prolonged battle of ideas. With persistence, the Radios fought against the spread of communist ideology. This book is...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. — 352 p. — ISBN-10: 0300195524; ISBN-13: 978-0300195521. Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that proved crucial to building the first advanced weapons systems in the USSR....
New York: Routledge, 2008. — 1076 p. Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War – a conflict that stopped short to a full-blown war. Benefiting from the recent research of newly open archives, the Encyclopedia of the Cold War discusses how this state of...
Duke University Press, 1991. — 510 p. The monumental events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union must be understood, Jan Van Oudenaren argues, in the context of a process of East-West détente begun in 1953 in the aftermath of Stalin’s death. Van Oudenaren’s comprehensive and timely study examines the development of Soviet-Western détente from the death of Stalin to the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 325 p. Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War. Considering British and American propaganda within...
Routledge, 2019. — 398 p. This book examines the process by which government leaders perceive events and use information in making foreign policy decisions. In his case study of the Sino-Indian conflict, the author explores the attitudes that shaped India’s policy toward China and traces the network of misunderstandings that led to a war unwanted by both sides. Taking into...
Novi Sad: Arhipelag, 2008. — 558 s. Reč zahvalnosti. Uvod. Imperija slobode: Američka ideologija i intervencionizam. Imperija pravde: Sovjetska ideologija i intervencionizam. Revolucionari: Antikolonijalna politika i preobražaji. Stvaranje sveta: Sjedinjene Američke Države suočavaju se sa revolucijom. Kubanski i vijetnamski izazovi. Kriza dekolonizacije: Južna Afrika. Razvoj...
Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010. — 272 p. The relaxation of the Cold War Bloc tensions in the 1970s the so-called - détente process - was a watershed in the history of the Cold War. Recent research suggests that this process is far more significant than previously believed for understanding and explaining the developments that brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War in the...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 380 p. The Silent Guns of Two Octobers uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible—craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about. Ultimately the book...
Routledge, 2012. — 301 p. The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be...
Routledge, 1987. — 336 p. The product of research and investigation by a team of sixteen authors, Reagan versus the Sandinistas is the most comprehensive and current study to date of the Reagan administration's mounting campaign to reverse the Sandinista revolution. The authors thoroughly examine all major aspects of Reagan's "low-intensity war," from the U.S. government's...
Routledge, 2007. — 294 p. This book examines the impact of American perceptions of the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the key period of 1976-1985. That decade witnessed the decline of the US-Soviet détente and the resurgence of superpower confrontation, often called the ‘Second Cold War’. Among the factors contributing to this shift was the...
LSU Press, 2014. — 248 p. A groundbreaking new study of Anglo-American relations during the Cold War, Diplomacy at the Brink argues for a reevaluation of Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy toward allies and enemies alike. Contrary to his reputation as a level-headed moderate, the Eisenhower who emerges in David M. Watry's exhaustively researched book is a conservative...
Mona Vale: Get Smart Education, 2010. — 159 p. "Cold War 1945-1991" has been written with the New South Wales HSC Modern History Examination in mind. It strictly follows the outline of the HSC syllabus. However, the format, detail and historiography it contains make this book an ideal companion for students in other states and overseas who are studying the Cold War during this...
University of New Mexico Press, 1993. — 262 p. The Alliance in the Era of Bad Neighbors: 1945-1950. Attempting to Salvage the Alliance: 1950-1953. Cold Warriors and Coups d’état, 1953-1956 The Relationship in Transition, 1956—1957 Operation Pan America and the Origins of the Independent Foreign Policy, 1958—1961 Enemies in the Alliance, 1961—1964 Notes Glossary of Terms and...
Monografie, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005. — 484 p. The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key...
South End Press, 1978. — 276 p. Throughout the Apartheid Era, economic ties between the United States and South Africa played a prominent role in their relations with one another. From the 1950s to the 1980s, United States exports to, imports from, and direct investment in South Africa as a whole increased. South Africa was seen as an important trade partner because it provided...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 285 p. The Cold War was a unique international conflict partly because Josef Stalin sought socialist transformation of other countries rather than simply the traditional objectives. This intriguing book, based on recently accessible Soviet primary sources, is the first to explain the emergence of the Cold War and its development in...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 287 p. The period immediately after World War II was a vital one for diplomatic relations and, with the Soviet Union emerging as a new superpower, it was particularly important for Britain's relations with America. This is the first book to focus on the role of the British Embassy in Washington during this period. According to Richard Wevill, the British...
Routledge, 2014. — 210 p. The history of Britain after the Second World War is essentially the story of her loss of great power status. Writers discussing this decline often focus on those sources of power which are tangible and capable of measurement: the size of a country’s armed forces, her Gross Domestic Product, or her energy reserves. But there are other real sources of...
ABC-CLIO, 2013. — 252 p. Part of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain enables today's generations to understand what it was like for those living in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly the period from 1961 to 1989, the era during which these people—East Germans in particular—lived in the imposing shadow of the Berlin...
London: Routledge, 2021. — 154 p. — ISBN-10: 036774063X; ISBN-13: 978-0367740634. Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries. The author argues that those first...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — 234 p. A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War. Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile...
Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. — 588 p. The unprecedented influence of United States military governments in Germany and Japan makes this volume a fundamental contribution to several basic fields: history, political science, economics, archival administration, military studies, civil affairs, and international law and criminal justice. Papers and proceedings of a...
Brill, 2010. — 268 p. The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. — 530 p. — ISBN 0-395-24670-9 Prologue: The New Lore The Gr and Alliance The Breach: The Riga Axioms The Yalta Axioms: Roosevelt’s Grand Design The World Bully The Straight One-Two to the Jaw Peacemaking The Highest Common Denominator The A-I Priority Job The Gospel of National Security: Preparing for the War Just over the Horizon Casting...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 329 p. At the height of the Cold War, Soviet ideologues, policymakers, diplomats, and military officers perceived the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the future reserve of socialism, holding the key to victory over Western forces. The zero-sum nature of East-West global competition induced the United States to try to thwart Soviet...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 241 p. Vietnam POWs came home heroes, but twenty years earlier their predecessors returned from Korea to shame and suspicion. In the Korean War American prisoners were used in propaganda twice, first during the conflict, then at home. While in Chinese custody in North Korea, they were pressured to praise their treatment and criticize the...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 245 p. In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 208 p. The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is often described as the starting-point of the EEC/EU involvement in Western Balkan politics, as if no political relations had developed between the EEC and Yugoslavia during the Cold War era. Instead, this book shows that the origin of EEC-Yugoslav relations must be placed in the crucial...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 310 p. Revisiting the relationship between the USA and Germany following the Second World War, this book offers a new perspective and focuses on the influence of two organisations in accelerating West Germany’s integration into the Atlantic Alliance. Tracing the Atlantik-Brücke and the American Council on Germany’s (ACG) origins to the late 1940s and...
TAMU Press, 2002. — 315 p. The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history, constituting an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power. Xiaoming Zhang fills the gaps in the history of this conflict by basing...
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. — 275 p. Institutionalization of American Studies in the USSR and Academic Exchanges The United States in the Soviet Interpretation under Stalin: From Lev Zubok to Aleksei Efimov “Stalin’s Last Generation”: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and the Making of a Soviet Americanist after the World War II Khrushchev Thaw: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and the Discovery...
М.: Политидат, 1961. — 319 с. К читателям нашей книге. На индийской земле. Дорогой дружбы. Дели встречает гостя. Наша общая цель - мир. Пути индийской деревни. Дух Бхилаи. Калькутта вчера и сегодня. Визит в Бирму. Пять тысяч, сто и двенадцать лет. В дом к другу с открытой душой.
М.: Политидат, 1961. — 319 с. К читателям нашей книге. На индийской земле. Дорогой дружбы. Дели встречает гостя. Наша общая цель - мир. Пути индийской деревни. Дух Бхилаи. Калькутта вчера и сегодня. Визит в Бирму. Пять тысяч, сто и двенадцать лет. В дом к другу с открытой душой.
М.: Политидат, 1961. — 358 с. В первой книге наших записей мы рассказали о поездке главы Советского правительства Н. С. Хрущева в Индию и Бирму, о пути самостоятельного развития этих стран, сбросивших ярмо колониализма, о жизни и борьбе, думах и надеждах народов Азии. Вторая книга записей, которую открывает сейчас читатель, посвящена визиту Никиты Сергеевича Хрущева в Индонезию...
М.: Политидат, 1961. — 358 с. В первой книге наших записей мы рассказали о поездке главы Советского правительства Н. С. Хрущева в Индию и Бирму, о пути самостоятельного развития этих стран, сбросивших ярмо колониализма, о жизни и борьбе, думах и надеждах народов Азии. Вторая книга записей, которую открывает сейчас читатель, посвящена визиту Никиты Сергеевича Хрущева в Индонезию...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 272 с.: ил. — (Советский век). — ISBN: 978-5-00222-349-7. Эта книга посвящена самому напряженному противостоянию в мировой истории — Холодной войне, в которой Советский Союз действовал против Соединенных Штатов Америки, НАТО против Варшавского договора. Конфликты, переговоры, попытки сотрудничать, подписание исторических договоров — всё это были яркие вехи...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 272 с.: ил. — (Советский век). — ISBN: 978-5-00222-349-7. Эта книга посвящена самому напряженному противостоянию в мировой истории — Холодной войне, в которой Советский Союз действовал против Соединенных Штатов Америки, НАТО против Варшавского договора. Конфликты, переговоры, попытки сотрудничать, подписание исторических договоров — всё это были яркие вехи...
М.: Прогресс, 1987. - 310 с.
Перевод на язык малаялам.
Движение неприсоединения (ДН) - международная организация, которая объединяет страны, провозгласившие основой своего внешнеполитического курса неучастие в военно-политических блоках и группировках.
Начало развитию ДН как нового течения в системе международных отношений положила Бандунгская конференция 1955. С Лусакской...
М. : Молодая гвардия, 1987. - 205 с. В книге специального корреспондента «Литературной газеты», представляющей собою журналистское исследование событий, связанных с покушением на папу римского и арестом болгарского гражданина Сергея Антонова, разоблачается закулисная сторона этой тщательно спланированной провокации, прямое участие и заинтересованность в ней спецслужб США....
М.: Правда, 1983. — 304 с. Специальный корреспондент «Литературной газеты» Иона Андронов рассказывает в этой книге о деятельности ЦРУ в различных странах Европы, делится своими впечатлениями о пребывании в США, на Кипре, в Афганистане. Писатель и журналист Тимур Гайдар рассказывает об Афганистане — стране, которая отстаивает свою независимость в борьбе с контрреволюцией,...
М.: Весь Мир, 2018. — 337 с. Настоящая книга посвящена истории холодной войны, лидерами которой были две великие державы – США и СССР. После окончания войны, когда бывшие военные союзники стали лидерами биполярного мира, советско-американские отношения определяли развитие международных отношений. Между ними развернулось противоборство под непримиримыми идеологическими...
Монография. — Москва: Российское университетское издательство, 1995. — 253 с. — ISBN 5-87999-005-2. Едва ли не первая опубликованная в постсоветское время монография, в которой сделана внепропагандистская попытка объяснить обострение контфронтации между СССР и США после завершения Второй мировой войны в 1945 г. В фокусе внимания исследователей "холодной войны", сотрудников...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2023. — 440 с. — ISBN 978-5-00139-824-0. Американский журналист Винсент Бевинс обнаружил, что между 1945 и 1990 годами США тайно поощряли программы массовых убийств коммунистов, диссидентов и невооруженных гражданских лиц и что только благодаря чудовищным репрессиям им удалось скорректировать в выгодную для себя сторону вектор политического...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2023. — 440 с. — ISBN 978-5-00139-824-0. Американский журналист Винсент Бевинс обнаружил, что между 1945 и 1990 годами США тайно поощряли программы массовых убийств коммунистов, диссидентов и невооруженных гражданских лиц и что только благодаря чудовищным репрессиям им удалось скорректировать в выгодную для себя сторону вектор политического...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 328 с. В этом труде Бекеш делится десятилетиями своих исследований, чтобы дать всесторонний анализ международных отношений Венгрии с Советским блоком и Западом с момента окончания Второй мировой войны до распада Советского Союза в 1991 году. В отличие от многих исследований глобальной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 328 с. В этом труде Бекеш делится десятилетиями своих исследований, чтобы дать всесторонний анализ международных отношений Венгрии с Советским блоком и Западом с момента окончания Второй мировой войны до распада Советского Союза в 1991 году. В отличие от многих исследований глобальной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 328 с. В этом труде Бекеш делится десятилетиями своих исследований, чтобы дать всесторонний анализ международных отношений Венгрии с Советским блоком и Западом с момента окончания Второй мировой войны до распада Советского Союза в 1991 году. В отличие от многих исследований глобальной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 328 с. В этом труде Бекеш делится десятилетиями своих исследований, чтобы дать всесторонний анализ международных отношений Венгрии с Советским блоком и Западом с момента окончания Второй мировой войны до распада Советского Союза в 1991 году. В отличие от многих исследований глобальной...
Перевод с немецкого В. Мамонтова, Г. Пономарева и А. Семеновой. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1953. — 336 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя «Белая книга о милитаристском «общем» договоре» издана Ведомством информации Германской демократической республики в сентябре 1952 г. На основе документальных данных и высказываний печати различных стран в книге...
Перевод с немецкого В. Мамонтова, Г. Пономарева и А. Семеновой. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1953. — 336 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя «Белая книга о милитаристском «общем» договоре» издана Ведомством информации Германской демократической республики в сентябре 1952 г. На основе документальных данных и высказываний печати различных стран в книге...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 242 с. Это первое исследование этого периода, посвященное дипломатической и военной конфронтации и конфликтам. Термин «холодная война» с момента своего появления имел множество значений и интерпретаций и использовался для анализа всего - от комиксов до пронаталистской политики, от научной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 242 с. Это первое исследование этого периода, посвященное дипломатической и военной конфронтации и конфликтам. Термин «холодная война» с момента своего появления имел множество значений и интерпретаций и использовался для анализа всего - от комиксов до пронаталистской политики, от научной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 242 с. Это первое исследование этого периода, посвященное дипломатической и военной конфронтации и конфликтам. Термин «холодная война» с момента своего появления имел множество значений и интерпретаций и использовался для анализа всего - от комиксов до пронаталистской политики, от научной...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 242 с. Это первое исследование этого периода, посвященное дипломатической и военной конфронтации и конфликтам. Термин «холодная война» с момента своего появления имел множество значений и интерпретаций и использовался для анализа всего - от комиксов до пронаталистской политики, от научной...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1988. - 195 с.
Книга рассказывает об энергетической дипломатии Японии в 1970-е, 1980-е годы. Страна после пережитых нефтяных «шоков» стремилась диверсифицировать источники получения энергетического сырья, развивать атомную энергетику, что изменило ее политику во многих регионах мира. В этом контексте рассматривается позиция...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 400 с. Книга является очередным выпуском издания «Международные отношения в Азии и Северной Африке, 1945—1975 гг.». Она посвящена истории становления внешней политики стран Южной, Юго-Восточной Азии и Дальнего Востока в 1945—1955 гг. Основное внимание уделяется межазиатсиим отношениям, проблеме превращения стран Азии из объекта в субъект мировой политики....
М.: Госполитиздат, 1955. — 143 с. Коммюнике о первом заседании 11 мая 1955 г. Вступительная речь Ю. Циранкевича. Заявление Н. А. Булганина. Заявление Вильяма Широкого. Заявление Юзефа Циранкевича. Заявление Отто Гротеволя. Заявление Андраша Хегедюша. Коммюнике о заседании 12 мая. Заявление Мехмет Шеху. Заявление Георге Георгиу-Деж. Заявление Вылко Червенкова. Заявление Пын...
Изд. 2-е, перераб. и доп. — М.: ИНИОН, 1988. — Монография подготовлена Сектором изучения и критического анализа современного антикоммунизма Отдела социалистических стран ИНИОН АН СССР. От редакции. Введение. Краткий очерк истории советологии. Основные немарксистские концепции реального социализма. Партийное руководство социалистическим обществом в трактовке буржуазной...
М.: ИМЭМО АН СССР, 1983. — 221 с. Особенности внешнеполитического курса Пекина. Китай и тихоокеанском политика США. Китай но внешней политике Японии. "Китайский фактор" в политике Австралии.
Монография. — Москва: Госюриздат, 1949. — 798 с.
В настоящем томе собраны речи и выступления А. Я. Вышинского, произнесенные на третьей сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН в 1948 году, на шестой сессии Совета Министров Иностранных дел в 1949 году в Париже и на четвертой сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН в 1949 году.
Третья сессия Генеральной Ассамблеи Организации Объединенных...
М.: Госюриздат, 1949. — 504 с. В книге собраны важнейшие речи и выступления, произнесенные академиком А. Я. Вышинским на Парижской мирной конференции 1946 г., на первой сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН 1946 г., на второй сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН 1947 г., а также выступления на пресс-конференциях и митингах. Парижская мирная конференция 1946 года. О приглашении Албании...
М.: Госюриздат, 1952. — 504 с. В настоящей книге собраны речи, произнесенные А. Я. Вышинским на пятой сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи Организации Объединенных Наций в 1950 году и на Дунайской конференции в 1948 году. Пятая сессия Генеральной Ассамблеи Объединённых Наций. Открытие сессии. Выступление А. Я. Вышинского. Второе выступление. За мир и безопасность народов, против угрозы...
М.: Госюриздат, 1952. — 392 с. В настоящей книге помещены речи А. Я. Вышинского на шестой сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи Организации Объединенных Наций. О мерах против угрозы новой мировой войны и по укреплению мира и дружбы между народами. Речь на пленарном заседании Генеральной Ассамблеи 8 ноября 1951 г. О включении в повестку дня Генеральной Ассамблеи пункта о Германии. Речь...
Москва: Наука, 1966. 265 стр.
Данный очерк посвящён возникновению и развитию германской проблемы.
История послевоенных международных отношений неразрывно была связана с германской проблемой. Содержание этой проблемой уже за первые два десятилетия, впрочем, успело претерпеть ряд существенных изменений.
Во время второй мировой войны это была прежде всего проблема обеспечения...
Москва: Московская школа политических исследований, 2006. — 304 с. Предисловие К истории вопроса Нечаянный революционер Вашингтон и Будапешт перед взрывом Москва и Будапешт перед взрывом Восстание и поражение Восстание и непредрешенность поражения Эпилог: воспоминания - вытесненные и ожившие Благодарность Избранная библиография
М.: Политиздат, 1974. — 180 с. Автор книги, научный обозреватель «Комсомольской правды», рассказывает о том, как тает сегодня старый лед многолетней «холодной войны» благодаря претворению в жизнь Программы мира, провозглашенной на XXIV съезде нашей партии. Материалом для книги послужили автору его наблюдения во время поездки летом 1973 года по научным центрам США. Поездка была...
М.: Политиздат, 1978. — 599 с. От издательства. Выступление на XIX сессии Генеральной ассамблеи ООН. 7 декабря 1964 года. Выступление на XX сессии Генеральной ассамблеи ООН. 7 сентября 1965 года. Выступление на VII сессии Верховного Совета СССР шестого созыва. 9 декабря 1965 года. Речь на XXXIII съезде Коммунистической партии Советского Союза. 2 апреля 1966 года. Выступление на...
М.: Политиздат, 1984. — 735 с.: ил. Новая книга члена Политбюро ЦК КПСС, первого заместителя Председателя Совета Министров СССР, министра иностранных дел СССР А.А. Громыко "Ленинским курсом мира" является продолжением публикации его речей, выступлений, статей и других материалов, начатой изданием в 1978 году книги "Во имя торжества ленинской внешней политики".
Любительский перевод сообщества "Книжный импорт". Без выходных данных. — 208 с. Опираясь на недавно открытые архивы и воспоминания главных действующих лиц, Джон Льюис Гэддис объясняет не только то, что произошло, но и почему - от месяцев 1945 г., когда США и СССР перешли от союза к вражде, до едва предотвращенного Кубинского ракетного кризиса и маневров Никсона и Мао, Рейгана и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. Опираясь на недавно открытые архивы и воспоминания главных действующих лиц, Джон Льюис Гэддис объясняет не только то, что произошло, но и почему - от месяцев 1945 г., когда США и СССР перешли от союза к вражде, до едва предотвращенного Кубинского ракетного кризиса и маневров Никсона и Мао,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. Опираясь на недавно открытые архивы и воспоминания главных действующих лиц, Джон Льюис Гэддис объясняет не только то, что произошло, но и почему - от месяцев 1945 г., когда США и СССР перешли от союза к вражде, до едва предотвращенного Кубинского ракетного кризиса и маневров Никсона и Мао,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. Предисловие. Пролог. Взгляд вперед. Возвращение страха. Шлюпки смерти и спасательные шлюпки. Команда против спонтанности. Возникновение автономии. Восстановление капитала. Актеры. Торжество надежды. Эпилог. Вид сзади. Сообщество "Книжный импорт" переводит новые зарубежные книги в жанре...
Отв. ред. А. А. Куценков, А. И. Чичеров. — М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 288 с. — (Внешняя политика развивающихся стран). Монография подготовлена коллективом ученых СССР, ГДР, ПНР и ЧССР. В ней анализируются внутренние условия формирования внешней политики стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока, а также противоречивое воздействие на нее международных (региональных и...
Перевод с французского Б.С. Вайсмана и Д.И. Васильева. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 126 с. План Рапацкого - проект создания в Центральной Европе зоны, свободной от ядерного оружия и имеющей ограничения в части обычных вооружений. 14 февраля 1958 г. министр иностранных дел Польской Народной Республики А. Рапацкий по согласованию с СССР предложил развернутую...
Пер с исп. — М.: Прогресс, 1988. — 256 с. В книге освещён сравнительно малоизвестный аспект истории народов Латинской Америки и Карибского бассейна - никогда не прекращавшееся сопротивление угнетению, борьба против колониального статуса своих стран, против колониальных агрессий. В книге освещается непрестанный процесс сплочения латиноамериканских народов перед лицом имперских...
Мюнхен: ЦОПЭ, 1960. — 20 с. Хрущев путешествует. Первое совещание на высшем уровне в 1955 году в Женеве, второе в мае 1960 года в Париже. В промежутке — Индия, Лбндон, Нью-Йорк, опять страны Азии, Париж. Мир с напряженным вниманием следит за перемещениями коммунистического лидера. Удивляться тут нечему. Вопрос, основной вопрос нашего времени — быть войне или быть миру — во...
Науч. ред. А. А. Поршакова. Пер. с англ. Е. В. Нетесовой. — М. : Олма-Пресс, 2002. — 479 с. — ISBN 5-224-03357-8. Авторам книги, американским профессорам удалось убедительно доказать, что холодная война началась задолго до того, как в 1947 г. в администрации США заговорили о `сдерживании коммунизма`. Эта хорошо аргументированная идея еще раз подчеркивает цикличность характера...
Науч. ред. А. А. Поршакова. Пер. с англ. Е. В. Нетесовой. - М. : Олма-Пресс, 2002. — 479 с. — ISBN 5-224-03357-8 Авторам книги, американским профессорам удалось убедительно доказать, что холодная война началась задолго до того, как в 1947 г. в администрации США заговорили о `сдерживании коммунизма`. Эта хорошо аргументированная идея еще раз подчеркивает цикличность характера...
Доклад фонда «Историческая память». — М.: Издательский центр фонда «Историческая память», 2021. — 29 с. — ISBN 978-5-9990-0075-0 Центральное разведывательное управление США активно вербовало бывших членов латышского легиона СС, причастных к массовым убийствам мирных граждан Советского Союза на оккупированных территориях в годы Великой Отечественной войны, и затем использовало...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. -640 с. — (Архив). ISBN 5-224-04305-0 Холодная война, как главный феномен международных отношений второй половины XX в., ушла в прошлое. Однако в общественном сознании до сих пор сохранились многие стереотипы холодной войны, ее политические последствия продолжают сказываться и в современных условиях. Поэтому интерес к истории холодной войны не только не...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. — 642 с. — (Архив) — ISBN 5-224-04305-0. Холодная война, как главный феномен международных отношений второй половины XX в., ушла в прошлое. Однако в общественном сознании до сих пор сохранились многие стереотипы холодной войны, ее политические последствия продолжают сказываться и в современных условиях. Поэтому интерес к истории холодной войны не только не...
М.: Аквилон, 2016. — 320 с., с илл. — ISBN: 978-5-906578-19-8. На основе анализа рассекреченных документов российских архивов в монографии представлено новое прочтение несколько «забытой» современными историками темы Движения сторонников мира. Исследование сфокусировано на борьбе Движения сторонников мира против гонки ядерных вооружений в 1950-е – начале 1960-х годов. Особое...
М.: Правда, 1954. — 228 с. В течение трех месяцев, в которые происходило совещание министров иностранных дел в Женеве, специальные корреспонденты «Правды» Ю. Жуков, И. Плышевский и Г. Рассадин почти ежедневно сообщали в «Правду» о ходе совещания, о сути обсуждаемых вопросов, о переговорах между его участниками за пределами зала заседаний. В своих корреспонденциях они показывали...
Б.Г. Путилин, В.А. Золотарёв. — М.: ИНЭС, РУБИН, 2014. — 984 с. — (Военная история Российского государства). — ISBN: 978-5-93618-203-7. Мировая политика второй половины XX века определялась глобальной идеологической, геополитической и экономической конфронтацией между Советским союзом и его союзниками, с одной стороны, и США и их союзниками — с другой. Одной из главных...
Н.В. Илиевский. — М.: ИНЭС, РУБИН, 2014. — 584 с. — (Военная история Российского государства). — ISBN: 978-5-93618-204-4. Мировая политика второй половины XX века определялась глобальной идеологической, геополитической и экономической конфронтацией между Советским союзом и его союзниками, с одной стороны, и США и их союзниками — с другой. Одной из главных составляющих «холодной...
М.: Алгоритм, 2016. — 240 с. Война во Вьетнаме является одним из крупнейших военных столкновений XX столетия. Этот военный конфликт не только стал первой проигранной Соединенными Штатами Америки войной, оставившей неизгладимый след в истории государства, но и вошел в историю человечества как один из самых мрачных ее эпизодов. Вторая Индокитайская война — это самое масштабное...
М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 208 с. Книга Герхарда Каде состоит из двух частей. Первая — «История и назначение мифа о советской угрозе». Вторая часть — приложения — документы, подтверждающие выводы автора, подкрепляющие его глубокое и содержательное исследование. Г. Каде подробно останавливается на истории «холодной войны», развязанной империалистическими кругами.
Монография. — Киров: Научное издательство ВятГУ, 2018. — 616 с. — ISBN 978-5-98228-156-2. В монографии на основе материалов отечественных и зарубежных архивов, опубликованных документов и мемуарных свидетельств представлена системная картина эволюции американской и советской политики в отношении Греции с начала 1944 г. до окончания гражданской войны в августе 1949 г. в увязке с...
Доклад, представленный VII Конференции глав государств и правительств неприсоединившихся стран. — М.: Прогресс, 1983. — 255с. В работе Первого Секретаря ЦК Компартии Кубы, Председателя Государственного Совета и Совета Министров Республики Куба, одного из лидеров Движения неприсоединения дается глубокий и всесторонний анализ современного экономического и социального положения...
Перевод с французского В. Финка. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 208 с. Вступительная статья. Природа и условия американской экономической экспансии в течение последних 30 лет. Война и американский экономика. Война и относительный рост американской экономики. Американская экономическая экспансия как выражение загнивания капитализма. Мировое экономическое...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 208 с. Книга французского писателя Анри Клода «Кому нужна война» ставит своей задачей разоблачить правительство и финансистов США, стремящихся путем новой войны достичь мирового господства. В книге, которая дается в сокращенном переводе, в популярной форме освещается широкий круг экономических и политических проблем США; в ней...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 140 с. В работе исследуется политика пяти империалистических держав (США, Великобритании, Франции, ФРГ и Японии) в Африке в начале 70-х годов XX в. Авторы разоблачают легенду о бескорыстии и гуманности, которые якобы лежат в основе африканской политики этих держав. В статьях показано, что для современного этапа неоколониалистской экспансии характерно...
М.: Алгоритм, 2003. — 384 с. В холодной войне Запада и Востока особую, быть может, главную роль играли идеологические диверсии. Проводником их со стороны США являлась и радиостанция «Свобода». О специфике службы в империи лжи, как называют «Свободу», рассказывает ее кадровый сотрудник, с 1990 по 1995 г. — военный редактор русской службы радио «Свобода», автор и редактор...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2001. с.: ил. (Досье) Георгий Маркович Корниенко — Чрезвычайный и Полномочный посол, Заслуженный работник дипломатической службы Российской Федерации, Герой социалистического труда. На протяжении сорока лет службы во внешней политике ему пришлось быть участником важнейших событий международной жизни послевоенного периода. Вместе с тем он волею судьбы оказался...
Речь здесь идет о подготовленном анализе главного документа «холодной войны» – директивы Совета национальной безопасности США № 68 (СНБ 68), утвержденного президентом Трумэном в 1950 году. Текст этого анализа читатель найдет в главе 2 настоящего издания. Однако та лаконичность, которая предпочтительна для деловых бумаг, – не самая лучшая манера письма, когда идет речь о книге,...
Навчальний посібник. — Київ: Либідь, 2007. — 192 с. — ISBN: 978-966-06-0441-4. Міжнародні відносини та світова політика післявоєнного періоду представлені авторами в оригінальній формі — через узагальнення та систематизацію міжнародних подій, конфліктів, доктрин, угод. Побудований за хронологічним принципом, посібник дає змогу простежити розвиток найважливіших міжнародних подій...
Навчальний посібник. — Київ: Либідь, 2007. — 192 с. — ISBN: 978-966-06-0441-4. Міжнародні відносини та світова політика післявоєнного періоду представлені авторами в оригінальній формі — через узагальнення та систематизацію міжнародних подій, конфліктів, доктрин, угод. Побудований за хронологічним принципом, посібник дає змогу простежити розвиток найважливіших міжнародних подій...
М.: Родина, 2022. После разделения бывшей британской колонии Британской Индии в августе 1947 года между Индией и Пакистаном вспыхнул военный конфликт. Причина – спор о принадлежности Джамму и Кашмира, где преобладало мусульманское население, но правящая верхушка состояла из индусов. Махараджа Кашмира Хари Сингх решил заявить о независимости. 21 октября 1947 года началось...
Москва: Новости, 1994. — 336 с. Роман А.Дж.Куиннелла вскрывает тайные пружины "холодной войны" в Восточной Европе, важной составной частью которой являлась борьба спецслужб Ватикана и соцстран. В причудливую ткань сюжета включены действия реальных исторических лиц.
Издательство: Политиздат - 1964 г. - 233 с.
Книга польского публициста Юлиана Лидера удостоена первой премии Клуба публицистов-международников Польского союза журналистов, как лучшая книга на политическую тему. Прослеживая историю НАТО с момента ее зарождения, автор дает читателям ответы на вопросы об этапах развития агрессивного Североатлантического блока, его организации,...
М.: Русский фонд содействия образованию и науке, 2016. — 561 с.: ил. — (Холодная война). Mikhail Lipkin. The Soviet Union and Integration Processes in Europe: mid-1940 s — late 1960 s. Moscow: Russian Foundation for Education and Science, 2016. — 560 pp.: ills. (Book Series «Cold War») — ISBN: 978-5-91244-181-3 В книге показана история европейской интеграции и международных...
М.:. Международные отношения, 1966. — 136 с. После потери Соединенными Штатами так называемой «атомной монополии» американские милитаристы включают в сферу своей деятельности и космическое пространство, в ходе освоения которого они надеялись создать новое «тотальное оружие». Уверовав в свое техническое «превосходство», они считали, что именно Соединенные Штаты являются той...
М.:. Международные отношения, 1966. — 136 с. После потери Соединенными Штатами так называемой «атомной монополии» американские милитаристы включают в сферу своей деятельности и космическое пространство, в ходе освоения которого они надеялись создать новое «тотальное оружие». Уверовав в свое техническое «превосходство», они считали, что именно Соединенные Штаты являются той...
М.: Воениздат, 1963. — 143 с. В предлагаемой читателю книге рассказывается, как в Западной Германии с помощью империалистов США, Англии и Франции возродились капиталистические монополии, милитаризм и реваншизм. Показывается роль ФРГ в агрессивном Североатлантическом ’ блоке (НАТО), ее стремление к экономической, политической и военной экспансии в страны Западной Европы. На...
Перевод с английского А. Антошиной. — М.: Наука, 1988. — 149 с. — ISBN: 5-02-022408-1; ISBN 0-394-55850-2. «В течение семи лет, пока я находился на службе в качестве министра обороны при президентах Кеннеди и Джонсоне, как американское, так и советское понимание политического и военного значения распространения ядерного оружия эволюционировало медленно. В последующие тринадцать...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 149 с. — ISBN: 5-02-022408-1. «В течение семи лет, пока я находился на службе в качестве министра обороны при президентах Кеннеди и Джонсоне, как американское, так и советское понимание политического и военного значения распространения ядерного оружия эволюционировало медленно. В последующие тринадцать лет, будучи президентом Международного банка...
Підручник / В. А. Манжола, М. М. Білоусов, Л. Ф. Гайдуков та ін. — Київ: Либідь, 2003. — 560 с. ISBN: 966-06-0294-4 У підручнику аналізуються причини формування біполярної структури повоєнного світу, розгортання «холодної війни», розглядаються глобальні аспекти розрядки міжнародної напруженості. Висвітлюється розміток міжнародних відносин в основних регіонах світу — Європі,...
Підручник для студентів гуманітарних спеціальностей вищих закладів освіти. – К. .Либідь, 1999
Період, означений у назві цієї книги, починається з кінця другої світової війни. Закінчився він у 1979 p.: у цьому році СРСР увів свої війська в Афганістан, що поклало край нетривалій розрядці міжнародної напруженості. Загалом міжнародні відносини і зовнішня політика в 1945—70-х роках...
Перевод с английского А. А. Беркова, И. В. Боронос и И. Ф. Паисова. — М,: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1961. — 350 с. В книге американских прогрессивных авторов, написанной в боевой публицистической форме, дается экономическое и политическое обоснование необходимости всеобщего и полного разоружения. Авторы показывают, каким огромным бременем ложится гонка вооружений на...
Перевод с английского А. А. Беркова, И. В. Боронос и И. Ф. Паисова. — М,: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1961. — 350 с. В книге американских прогрессивных авторов, написанной в боевой публицистической форме, дается экономическое и политическое обоснование необходимости всеобщего и полного разоружения. Авторы показывают, каким огромным бременем ложится гонка вооружений на...
Приложение к бюллетеню «Новые книги за рубежом». — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1953. — 320 с.
В 1952 году в Нью-Йорке издательством «Топикэл бук» выпущена книга Карла Марзани «Мы можем быть друзьями».
Автор книги родился в Италии в рабочей семье, вместе с отцом бежал в США от преследований фашистского режима Муссолини. В США Карл Марзани подвергся преследованию за...
К.: Ліра-К, 2007. — 366 с. Навчальний посібник приділяє увагу проблемам міжнародних відносин 1945–1975 pp. Цей період в історії міжнародних відносин чи не найсуперечніший за всю історію людства. Період величезних змін у світі – розпаду світової колоніальної системи, що дало поштовх до виникнення великої кількості суверенних держав. Максимально стисло, у доступній формі автори...
Институт Экономики Академии Наук СССР. — Москва: Госпланиздат, 1949. — 600 с. Предисловие. Американский план экономического и политического закабаления Европы и борьба двух лагерей. А. Шапиро — «План Маршалла» — агрессивное орудие американского империализма. С. Вишнев — Американская экспансия под флагом «экономического восстановления Европы». И. Лемин — Английская экономика и...
Институт Экономики Академии Наук СССР. — Москва: Госпланиздат, 1949. — 600 с. Предисловие. Американский план экономического и политического закабаления Европы и борьба двух лагерей. А. Шапиро — «План Маршалла» — агрессивное орудие американского империализма. С. Вишнев — Американская экспансия под флагом «экономического восстановления Европы». И. Лемин — Английская экономика и...
Документальное повествование. — М.: Политиздат, 1985. — 335 с. В книге публициста, доктора исторических наук Л.И. Медведко на основе новейших документов и материалов, мемуаров зарубежных государственных и военных деятелей рассказывается о действии американо-израильского стратегического альянса, направленного против арабского освободительного движения. В ней прослеживаются...
М.: Воениздат, 1985. — 240 с. В книге полковника, доктора философских наук, профессора А. А. Миголатьева вскрываются социально-экономические корни агрессивной политики империализма, показывается опасность безудержной гонки вооружений, курса США и НАТО на подготовку войны. Разоблачаются идеологическая подготовка агрессивных войн, реакционная сущность антикоммунизма и...
М.: Секретариат СЭВ, 1974. — 119 с. Обзор «Совет Экономической Взаимопомощи: 25 лет» составлен на основе материалов отделов Секретариата СЭВ. В подготовке обзора принимала участие редакционная группа в составе: Л. Микуш (руководитель группы, заведующий отделом экономической информации; Л. Фицере (советник юридического отдела; Э. Гогоняцэ (руководитель группы отдела статистики);...
Берлин: Управление Политического Советника в Германии, 1947. — 215 с. В настоящий сборник включены все заявления и выступления тов. В. М. Молотова и тов. А. Я. Вышинского относительно Германии, сделанные ими на IV, Московской, Сессии Совета Министров Иностранных Дел и опубликованные в центральной советской прессе. Для удобства пользования сборником выступления и заявления тов....
М.: Политиздат, 1981. — 192 с. Документальные очерки журналиста-международника В. Молчанова разоблачают нацистских преступников, совершавших чудовищные злодеяния в годы второй мировой войны на временно оккупированной территории СССР и ныне проживающих в США, ФРГ, Канаде и других странах. Многих из них империалистическая реакция активно использует в работе антисоветских центров,...
М.: Политиздат, 1981. — 192 с. Документальные очерки журналиста-международника В. Молчанова разоблачают нацистских преступников, совершавших чудовищные злодеяния в годы второй мировой войны на временно оккупированной территории СССР и ныне проживающих в США, ФРГ, Канаде и других странах. Многих из них империалистическая реакция активно использует в работе антисоветских центров,...
Автор не указан. — 3-е изд. — М.: Воениздат, Прогресс, Агентство печати Новости; 1984. — 96 с.
Флагман советского противодействия информационной экспансии запада на последнем витке гонки вооружений. Третье издание книги охватывает период первого президентского срока Рональда Рейгана.
Автор не указан. — 4-е изд. — М.: Воениздат, Прогресс, Агентство печати Новости; 1987. — 112 с.
Флагман советского противодействия информационной экспансии запада на последнем витке гонки вооружений.
Автор: Творческий коллектив проектирования будущего (Проект «Малоэтажная планета»). — М. : Воениздат; Второе издание, 1982. — 96 с. Книга даст ясный и объективный ответ на вопрос, вынесенный в ее название: угрозу миру представляют практические действия США и реакционных сил других стран НАТО по наращиванию военных приготовлений, по дальнейшей эскалации гонки вооружений на...
М.: РГГУ, 2021. — 300 с. — ISBN 978-5-7281-3039-0 Коллективная монография посвящена дискуссионным, а также малоизученным страницам истории последнего этапа холодной войны. Вошедшие в нее главы, написанные известными российскими и американскими исследователями, отличает разнообразие методологических подходов и тематических приоритетов. На страницах книги представлены лидеры...
М.: РГГУ, 2021. — 300 с. — ISBN 978-5-7281-3039-0 Коллективная монография посвящена дискуссионным, а также малоизученным страницам истории последнего этапа холодной войны. Вошедшие в нее главы, написанные известными российскими и американскими исследователями, отличает разнообразие методологических подходов и тематических приоритетов. На страницах книги представлены лидеры...
Издательство: Прогресс, 1985 г. 312 стр. Весной 1968г. итальянский экономист, общественный деятель и бизнесмен, член руководства фирмы "Фиат" и вице-президент компании "Оливетти" Аурелио Печчеи разослал приглашение 30-ти видным европейским ученым и представителям делового мира для участия в обсуждении назревших проблем. 6-7 апреля того же года в Риме, в старой Национальной...
Без автора. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1959. — 135 с. Предисловие. Введение. Исторические корни политики западных держав в германском вопросе. Раскол Германии западными державами. Создание в Западной Германии государственно-политической основы возрождения милитаризма. Раскол Берлина западными державами. Создание в Западном Берлине очага беспокойства и плацдарма подрывной работы...
М.: Политиздат, 1975. — 47 с. — (Библиотечка "Интернационализм в действии"). В брошюре журналиста-международника на живом, фактическом материале раскрывается сущность социалистического содружества. Убедительно показывается почему каждая социалистическая страна заинтересована в прочной дружбе с другими братскими странами и каких успехов в этом отношении добилась мировая...
М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 131 с.
В книге вскрывается агрессивная сущность милитаризма, подвергаются критике буржуазные доктрины, призванные оправдать гонку вооружений с использованием политических и экономических аргументов. Показывается, что рост военных расходов капиталистических стран влечет за собой тяжелые экономические и социальные последствия, отвлекая...
Београд: Досије студио, 2013. — 448 с. Предговор. Изјаве захвалности. Увод. Изузетан леш. Изабраник судбине. Марксисти у Валдорфу. Деминформ демократије. Идеја је - крсташки рат. "Операција Конгрес". Бомбона. Cette Fete Americaine. Конзорцијум. Кампања за истину. Нови консензус. Часопис "Икс". Свити Вилији. Музика и истина, ma non troppo. Ренсомови момци. Јенки Дудл црта....
Монография. — М. : МГИМО-Университет, 2009. — 332 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9228-0552-0. Впервые выходящая на русском языке монография профессора японского Университета Хосэй Нобуо Симотомаи посвящена проблеме становления и развития политической системы КНДР с момента ее зарождения в 1945 г. вплоть до 1961 г., когда был подписан советско-северокорейский Договор о дружбе, сотрудничестве...
М.: Политиздат, 1981. — 239 с. В феврале 1979 года части китайской армии перешли границу Социалистической Республики Вьетнам Началась агрессия, развязанная Пекином против соседнего государства В результате ожесточенных боев вьетнамский народ изгнал захватчиков с территории СРВ. Автор книги журналист-международник В. H. Скворцов находился в течение всей войны на линии огня В...
М.: Наука, 1969. — 258 с. Еще памятна война, кровопролитнейшая, жесточайшая, а в центре Европы, в Западной Германии, разгорается и раздувается очаг новой войны. Вновь звучат реваншистские речи. Правительство Кизингера, подобно своим предшественникам, отказывается признать сложившиеся в результате войны государственные границы, не желает объявить недействительным мюнхенский...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2001. — ISBN 5-224-02459-5. В предлагаемой читателю книге анализируется и доходчиво излагается полная драматизма история послевоенных советско-американских военно-стратегических взаимоотношений. Благодаря высокому профессионализму автора, его личному участию в переговорах и владению словом, эта книга обрела жизненное звучание и читается с интересом. Оглавление....
М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2012. — 372 с. Данный сборник составлен по материалам докладов, прозвучавших на конференции по холодной войне, проведенной Русским Фондом Содействия Образованию и Науке по распоряжению Ученого совета Университета Дмитрия Пожарского. Эта конференция являлась первым шагом в инициированной Университетом Дмитрия Пожарского программе...
М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2012. — 372 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91244-067-0.
Данный сборник составлен по материалам докладов, прозвучавших на конференции по холодной войне, проведенной Русским Фондом Содействия Образованию и Науке по распоряжению Ученого совета Университета Дмитрия Пожарского. Эта конференция являлась первым шагом в инициированной Университетом...
М.: Международные отношения, 1982. — 194 с. Автор разбирает основные внешнеполитические концепции США, сыгравшие роль в возникновении «холодной войны», показывает борьбу, которая ведется в современной американской историографии по вопросам внешнеполитического курса США после окончания второй мировой войны. Разбирая взгляды крупнейших американских теоретиков послевоенного периода,...
София: Труд, 1999. — 266 с. Благодарности Въведение Най-могъщият в историята Вярната картина И Мека, и Ватикана Кранчетата на империята Мрежата Ток по мрежата Битката за „Солидарност" Въпросът наистина е сериозен Затягане на обръча Запъхтеният гигант Полети без отдих Скритите карти Въпреки съпротивата Стягане на възлите Крановете спират Финансов циклон Ударе далечни последствия...
Москва: Воениздат, 1961. — 192 с. Автор книги — в прошлом начальник штаба американской армии, а в настоящее время личный военный советник президента — подвергает критике стратегическую доктрину США, основанную на известной концепции «массированного ответного удара», и предлагает пересмотреть ее в свете современной международной обстановки и развития новых видов оружия....
Изд.: М.: Эксмо, Алгоритм, 2005. — 736 с. С точки зрения западного мира, Россия была хороша, сражаясь против Германии в фактическом одиночестве, защищая от нацистского варварства цивилизацию, но недостаточно привлекательна при обустройстве нового мира. В Восточной Европе американцы усмотрели опасность того, что они назвали советским экспансионизмом. Однако было ясно, что именно...
Изд.: М.: Эксмо, Алгоритм, 2005, стр. 393. С точки зрения западного мира, Россия была хороша, сражаясь против Германии в фактическом одиночестве, защищая от нацистского варварства цивилизацию, но недостаточно привлекательна при обустройстве нового мира. В Восточной Европе американцы усмотрели опасность того, что они назвали советским экспансионизмом. Однако было ясно, что...
М.: Политиздат, 1983. - 255 с. В книге, подготовленной группой ученых Института мировой экономики и международных отношений Академии наук СССР, рассматриваются сущность современного милитаризма и особенности его развития в главных империалистических странах. В ней приводятся высказывания классиков марксизма-ленинизма, политических деятелей о милитаризме, данные о колоссальных...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 200 с. Среди исторических проблем XX века одна из наиболее дебатируемых - "холодная война". Что это такое? Когда она началась? Каковы были ее движущие силы? Можно ли ее было предотвратить и почему это не удалось сделать? Эти вопросы широко обсуждаются советскими учеными и их западными коллегами. Ответы многочисленны и разнообразны, но вопросы остаются....
М.: Наука, 1991. — 202 с. — ISBN 5-02-009006-9 Среди исторических проблем XX века одна из наиболее дебатируемых - "холодная война". Что это такое? Когда она началась? Каковы были ее движущие силы? Можно ли ее было предотвратить и почему это не удалось сделать? Эти вопросы широко обсуждаются советскими учеными и их западными коллегами. Ответы многочисленны и разнообразны, но...
София: Ашур, 2017. — 420 с. Прелюдия: Съветска Русия и Западът, 1917-1941. Война и революция. — Един оспорван мир. — Съветите влизат в световната политика. — Мрачното десетилетие, 1931-1939. — Триумфиращите агресори, 1939-1941. Великият съюз, 1941-1945. Неравностойни партньори. — Вълната се преобръща, напрежението расте. — Придвижване по отделни писти. — Ялта. — Краят на...
Монография. — Ашур, 2017. — 420 с. Студената война продължава десетилетия , превръща се в нещо повече от биполярен конфликт между двете суперсили и има естествени последици за целия свят. Книгата се основава на най - нови изследвания и сведения в този сложен конфликт. В този нов достъпен и подробен неин прочит Карол Финк предлага свежи възгледи и модерни перспективи за ключови...
М.: ЮНИТИ-ДАНА: Закон и право, 2017. — 311 с. В предлагаемой вниманию читателей книге предпринята попытка комплексно и в логической последовательности исследовать эволюцию политики СССР на Ближнем Востоке с 1945 по 1991 г.
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1960. — 223 с. Предисловие. Правительство США — истинный виновник срыва Парижского совещания в верхах. Им не уйти от ответственности перед лицом истории! Из заявления Председателя Совета Министров СССР Н. С. Хрущева на пресс-конференции в Париже 18 мая 1960 года. Прекратить провокационные действия США! Обращение Советского Союза в Совет...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1960. — 223 с. Предисловие. Правительство США — истинный виновник срыва Парижского совещания в верхах. Им не уйти от ответственности перед лицом истории! Из заявления Председателя Совета Министров СССР Н. С. Хрущева на пресс-конференции в Париже 18 мая 1960 года. Прекратить провокационные действия США! Обращение Советского Союза в Совет...
М.: Государственное издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. — 44 с. Перевод статьи, вышедшей в американском издании и утверждающей, что ЯО СССР получит не ранее 1954 года. Включает предисловие, заканчивающееся словами: "Поживём - увидим".
М.: Астрель, Corpus, 2011. — 736 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-36946-9
Книга американского журналиста о неизвестных событиях холодной войны между СССР и США, работах по созданию бактериологического оружия и системы "Периметр"(Мёртвая Рука).
Для широкого круга читателей.
В документальном триллере "Мертвая рука", посвященном истории холодной войны 1970-80-годов, американский журналист...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: New York, A Divsion of Random House, Inc., 2010, 577 p. Первый полный отчет о том, как гонка вооружений Холодной войны наконец подошла к концу, эта захватывающая повествовательная история проливает новый свет на людей, которые боролись за то, чтобы положить конец этой эпохе массового убийства, и исследует наследие ядерного, химического и...
Пер. с англ. А. Ширикова. — М.: Астрель, Corpus, 2011. — 736 с. — (Corpus [politica]). — ISBN: 978-5-271-36946-9.
Автор “Мертвой руки” убедительно показывает, что победа Америки в холодной войне оказалась не настолько блистательной, как самодовольно считают многие из нас. В 1990-е, после прекращения гонки вооружений двух сверхдержав, началось другое соревнование. Распад...
М.: Политиздат, 1986. — 253 с. Эта книга - обзор опубликованных в американской печати статей о современных Соединенных Штатах. Кто и как правит США, что лежит в основе курса Вашингтона на международной арене, каково влияние религиозных организаций на политику администрации США, как живут американские трудящиеся, как проходили и что показали президентские выборы 1984 года - с этими...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2003. — 642 с. — ISBN: 5-224-04305-0 Холодная война, как главный феномен международных отношений второй половины XX в., ушла в прошлое. Однако в общественном сознании до сих пор сохранились многие стереотипы холодной войны, ее политические последствия продолжают сказываться и в современных условиях. Поэтому интерес к истории холодной войны не только не исчезает,...
М.: Политиздат, 1975. — 88 с. — (Актуальные вопросы международной жизни). В брошюре доктора юридических наук В. С. Шевцова рассматривается ряд актуальных политических международных проблем и новых явлений капиталистической интеграции, происходящих прежде всего в связи с образованием западноевропейского «Общего рынка». В работе приводятся данные о развитии интеграционных...
М.: Междунар. отношения, 1988. — 176 с. — ISBN: 5-7133-0114-1. В книге в популярной форме рассказывается об особенностях современного этапа развития сотрудничества между странами — членами СЭВ, о роли сотрудничества в решении экономических и социальных проблем. Читатель познакомится с основными направлениями перестройки механизма сотрудничества и социалистической экономической...
Учебное пособие к спецкурсу "История холодной войны" для студентов гуманит. фак. / Сарат. гос. ун-т им. Н.Г. Чернышевского. - Саратов, 2003. - 32 с. ISBN/ISSN: 5-292-03094-5 Холодная война - одно из важнейших явлений второй половины XX века. В данном пособии рассматриваются основные проблемы этого явления, его развитие, историография. Спецкурс "История холодной войны" в...
Москва: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1975. — 184 с. Аннотация из издания: В работе освещается сотрудничество между правящей верхушкой Ирана и сионистскими кругами Израиля в политической, экономической и военной областях в период 1947—1974 гг. и раскрывается реакционная сущность внешней политики Ирана на Ближнем Востоке во время арабо-израильского...
Сборник статей. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 215 с. Вступительная статья Г. Мирского. Мухаммед Аббас Сеид Ахмад, Доктрина Эйзенхауэра — новая агрессия. Перевод Ф. Сейфуль-Мулюкова. Абдар-Рахман аль-Хамиси и Фатхи Кямиль, «Нет, Эйзенхауэр!», Перевод Г. Шарбатова. Герберт Бэрч, Четвертая доктрина. Перевод В. Могутина. Георгес Ферранд, Королева Нефть правит....
Сборник статей. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 215 с. Вступительная статья Г. Мирского. Мухаммед Аббас Сеид Ахмад, Доктрина Эйзенхауэра — новая агрессия. Перевод Ф. Сейфуль-Мулюкова. Абдар-Рахман аль-Хамиси и Фатхи Кямиль, «Нет, Эйзенхауэр!», Перевод Г. Шарбатова. Герберт Бэрч, Четвертая доктрина. Перевод В. Могутина. Георгес Ферранд, Королева Нефть правит....
Wiley, 1976. — 293 p. The Definition. The Formation of Opinion. The Development of the Soviet Propaganda Apparatus: The Instruments. The Impregnation Propaganda of the Soviet Union. Soviet Operational Propaganda: The Themes. Means and Techniques of Soviet Propaganda. Conclusions.
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