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Autore |
Wright Patrick |
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Titolo |
Iron Curtain [[electronic resource] ] : From Stage to Cold War |
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Oxford University Press, UK, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (507 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cold War |
History - General |
History & Archaeology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Plates; List of Cartoons; Introduction: Paths Cross on the Jaroslaw Dabrowski; Part I. Carrying On in Missouri; 1. Bullet's Big Day; 2. In the Name of the Common People; 3. Prophecy and Hindsight; Part II. From Drury Lane to the Theatre of the West (1914-1918); 4. First Call; 5. Dividing Europe's Horizon; 6. The Belgian Variation; 7. In Defence of Otherness; Part III. Wrapping Red Russia (1917-1920); 8. First Delegation; 9. Not Just a Frontier; 10. Relocating the Allied Blockade; 11. Fact-Finding with Limousines; Part IV. The Broken International (1921-1927) |
12. The View from Locarno13. Snapshots from a Land of Contrasts; 14. Comrade Bukharin's Version; Part V. Stalin's Ring of Trust (1927-1939); 15. No End to the Potemkin Complex; 16. Friends against Famine; 17. Steeled Minds and the God that Failed; Part VI. Succession and Afterlife; 18. Sliding Back to Churchill; 19. After the Crossing; Afterword: Gone with the Berlin Wall?; Appendix I: Bach's Christmas Music in England and in Germany; Appendix II: The Refreshment Room at Narva; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The story of the most powerful political metaphor of the twentieth century: the 'Iron Curtain'. Opening with Churchill's use of the term in his legendary Fulton speech of 1946, this fascinating investigation shatters the conventional assumption that Churchill invented it and |
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