LEADER 03221nam 22005533u 450 001 9910453695103321 005 20210108045946.0 010 $a0-19-156887-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001203618 035 $a(EBL)431395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001569194 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16220409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001569194 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14836077 035 $a(PQKB)10182866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431395 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001203618 100 $a20151123d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIron Curtain$b[electronic resource] $eFrom Stage to Cold War 210 $cOxford University Press, UK$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (507 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-923150-8 327 $aContents; 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) 327 $a12. 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 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aCold War 606 $aCold War 606 $aHistory - General$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aCold War. 615 0$aCold War 615 7$aHistory - General 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 676 $a909.825 700 $aWright$b Patrick$0166613 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453695103321 996 $aIron Curtain$91930507 997 $aUNINA