| Description |
xxi, 286 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cold War International History Project series |
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Cold War International History Project series.
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| Contents |
1. The Origins -- 2. To Divide or Not to Divide -- 3. Making Peace at Geneva -- 4. From Support to Cooperation -- 5. Neither Peace nor War -- 6. If the Fractured Friendship Collapses -- 7. Crisis in Laos -- 8. Back to Geneva -- 9. A Disposition to War |
| Summary |
"Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict." |
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"The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt detente. Initially, the Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Paperback edition in 2000"-- T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Soviet Union.
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| SUBJECT |
Indochina http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065716 -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005791 -- Soviet Union.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312
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USSR -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125747 -- Indochina.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065716
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USSR -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1975.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125761
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| LC no. |
2002155618 |
| ISBN |
0804747121 alkaline paper |
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