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Autore |
Haslam Jonathan |
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Russia's Cold War : from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall / / Jonathan Haslam |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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9786613096180 |
9781283096188 |
1283096188 |
9780300168532 |
0300168535 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (544 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cold War |
Soviet Union Foreign relations 1917-1945 |
Soviet Union Foreign relations 1945-1991 |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Underlying Antagonisms -- 2. Ideology Triumphant -- 3. Cominformity -- 4. On The Offensive in Asia -- 5. Thaw -- 6. Sudden Frost -- 7. Taking the World to the Brink -- 8. Détente -- 9. The Impact of Vietnam -- 10. Détente Fails -- 11. The Reagan Presidency -- 12. Down Comes The Wall -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity." The Soviet Union, he wrote, was "at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors." But as a leading historian of Soviet foreign policy, Jonathan Haslam, makes clear in this groundbreaking book, the epoch was anything but stable, with constant wars, near-wars, and political upheavals on both sides. Whereas the Western perspective on the Cold War has been well documented by journalists and historians, the Soviet |
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side has remained for the most part shrouded in secrecy-until now. Drawing on a vast range of recently released archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe, Russia's Cold War offers a thorough and fascinating analysis of East-West relations from 1917 to 1989.Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russia's Cold War fills a significant gap in our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry of the twentieth century. |
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