| Description |
x, 255 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cold War history series |
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Cold War history series (Palgrave (Firm))
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: General Editor's Foreword vii -- List of Abbreviations ix -- Helsinki, 1 August 1975 1 -- 1 Between Neutralization and Bloc Formation 11 -- Stalin's note offensive 12 -- Beria and Churchill in the thaw 18 -- Step-by-step failure 24 -- 2 Deescalation of the Cold War 33 -- The spirit of Geneva 34 -- Disarmament and reunification 38 -- The Berlin ultimatum 47 -- From Camp David to Paris 52 -- 3 Khrushchev and Kennedy 57 -- The path to 13 August 58 -- Fragmentary dialog 63 -- The Cuban adventure 67 -- Hotline and test ban agreement 76 -- 4 Visions Along the Way 80 -- From Khrushchev to Brezhnev 80 -- Vietnam war and arms race 85 -- De Gaulle and the German question 89 -- The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine 95 -- 5 The Time of the Treaties 102 -- Brandt's path to Moscow 102 -- Berlin settlement and the SALT Treaty 110 -- D6tente in action 116 -- First setbacks 122 -- 6 The Decline of Detente 128 -- Jackson, Helsinki, and Angola 128 -- From Ford to Carter 133 -- The Vienna summit 139 -- -- -- -- Detente in Europe 145 -- The decision for Nachriistung 150 -- 7 Dark Times 157 -- Afghanistan 157 -- Carter's course change 160 -- Reagan and the peace movement 165 -- German-German dialog and the Polish crisis 172 -- The end of negotiations 179 -- 8 The End of the East-West Conflict 184 -- Difficult start 184 -- Gorbachev's offensive 188 -- Cooperation and perestroika 197 -- The dissolution of the Soviet bloc 204 -- Peace settlements 210 -- Balance: Fear and the Ways of Freedom 217 |
| Summary |
"The history of the Cold War is more than the history of a confrontation. There is also a need to look into why the Cold War did not become more heated, and how it was finally overcome. Wilfried Loth's book examines both these issues. It is a story of the containment of the Cold War, of detente, of the development of cooperative security, and of the changes in the Soviet bloc. It begins with the Soviet Stalin Notes of the spring of 1952, and ends with the signature of the START Treaty in July 1991. In between, there were many setbacks but over and over again there were also new initiatives that helped to overcome fear and pave the way for freedom." "The book offers much new information taken from Eastern and Western archives and for the first time draws a precise overall picture of how the Cold War was overcome."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Series editor: Saki Dockrill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
World politics -- 1945-1955.
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World politics -- 1989-
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Cold War.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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Detente.
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International relations.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045684
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
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USSR -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
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| LC no. |
2001036402 |
| ISBN |
0333971116 |
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0333794826 series |
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