Imposing, maintaining, and tearing open the Iron Curtain : the Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 / / edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (583 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.0009/045
• Soggetto topico: Cold War
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-; Europe, Eastern Relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Relations Europe, Eastern
• Altri autori: KramerMark SmetanaVít <1973->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Central Europe and the Onset of the Iron Curtain; Chapter One: Stalin, Soviet Policy, and the Establishment of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1949; Chapter Two: The United States and Eastern Europe, 1943-1948; Chapter Three: Concessions or Conviction? Czechoslovakia's Road to the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc; Chapter Four: Hungary's Role in the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1956; Chapter Five: Stalin, the Split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet-East European Efforts to Reassert Control, 1948-1953; Chapter Six: Austria, Germany, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 ; Chapter Seven: Neutrality for Germany or Stabilization of the Eastern Bloc? New Evidence on the Decision-Making Process of the Stalin NoteII: The German Question and Intra-Bloc Politics in the Post-Stalin Era; Chapter Eight: The Berlin Wall: Looking Back on the History of the Wall Twenty Years After Its Fall; Chapter Nine: The German Problem and Security in Europe: Hindrance or Catalyst on the Path to 1989-1990?; Chapter Ten: Germany and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990: The View from London; Chapter Eleven: The German Question as Seen from Paris ; Chapter Twelve: Cold War, Détente, and the Soviet Bloc: The Evolution of Intra-Bloc Foreign Policy Coordination, 1953-1975III: The Role of East-Central Europe in Ending the Cold War; Chapter Thirteen: Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the Revolutions of 1989: American Myths Versus the Primary Sources; Chapter Fourteen: Moscow and Eastern Europe, 1988-1989: A Policy of Optimism and Caution; Chapter Fifteen: The Fall of the Wall, Eastern Europe, and Gorbachev's Vision of Europe after the Cold War; Chapter Sixteen: Pulling the Rug: East-Central Europe and the Implosion of East Germany ; Chapter Seventeen: The Demise of the Soviet BlocIV: Long-Term Perspectives on the Cold War and Its End; Chapter Eighteen: Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War in Europe; Chapter Nineteen: Why Did the Cold War Last So Long?; Chapter Twenty: The End of Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence; Chapter Twenty-one: Conspicuous Connections, 1968 and 1989; Chapter Twenty-two: 1989 in Historical Perspective: The Problem of Legitimation; Chapter Twenty-three: November 1989: From a Velvet Opening of Regime Change to a Revolutionary Outcome ; Chapter Twenty-four: The End of the Cold War and the Transformation of Cold War History: A Tale of Two Conferences, 1988-1989About the Editors; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, provides an in-depth survey of the origins, consolidation, slow erosion, and abrupt demise of the Cold War divisions in Europe after World War II. The contributors to this volume examine how the Cold War kept the continent divided for nearly 45 years, but ultimately came to a largely peaceful end, contrary to expectations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imposing, maintaining, and tearing open the Iron Curtain
• ISBN: 1-4985-2051-0; 0-7391-8186-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790755103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series