03221nam 22005533u 450 991045369510332120210108045946.00-19-156887-2(CKB)2550000001203618(EBL)431395(SSID)ssj0001569194(PQKBManifestationID)16220409(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001569194(PQKBWorkID)14836077(PQKB)10182866(MiAaPQ)EBC431395(EXLCZ)99255000000120361820151123d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrIron Curtain[electronic resource] From Stage to Cold WarOxford University Press, UK20071 online resource (507 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923150-8 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; ZThe 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 charts its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold War. - ;'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Cold WarCold WarHistory - GeneralHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCElectronic books.Cold War.Cold WarHistory - GeneralHistory & Archaeology909.825Wright Patrick166613AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910453695103321Iron Curtain1930507UNINA