In this book, Albert L. Weeks provides a lucid analysis of the Cold War as he dispels the myths that have made their way into contemporary historiography on the topic, while using the conflict as a lens through which to view contemporary crises, such as Russia’s recent intervention in Ukraine.
In this book, Albert L. Weeks provides a lucid analysis of the Cold War as he dispels the myths that have made their way into contemporary historiography on the topic, while using the conflict as a lens through which to view contemporary crises, such as Russia’s recent intervention in Ukraine.
Albert L. Weeks has been an expert on Soviet Russia for more than fifty years. Weeks has served as a journalist, policy analyst, and professor and is credited with coining the name Sputnik while working for Newsweek in 1957. His books include Stalin's Other War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Inhaltsangabe
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Introduction; Distorted Cold War Historiography CHAPTER 2 Cold War Basics Looming Cold War, 1943-1946Cold War CalendarA "New" Postwar Stalin?CHAPTER 3 Myth of Ideological Irrelevance Ideology and the Cold WarThe Realist ViewTraditionalist ViewSoviet Diplomatic "Warfare"CHAPTER 4 Fallacy of Stalin's "Defencist Security" Stalin's Empty ArgumentMoscow's Post-Soviet Attempts at UnitySoviet Doctrine of ExpansionFinlandUkraineOther Borderland CountriesSpecial Cases of the Baltic States and PolandExpansion if the Far EastAmerican ReactionPrewar, Wartime, Postwar Soviet ExpansionSoviet Expansion, 1940-1946Expansionism of 1939 to June 1941Resistance to Further ExpansionCHAPTER 5 Cold War Clash Over New Postwar World The Roosevelt Factor Stalin's "World" vs. Western ProjectionClashes Between "Civilizations"CHAPTER 6 Current Russian Texts on the Cold War Post-Soviet TextbooksOther Post-Soviet Books CHAPTER 7 Lessons for the "Next" Cold War China Cold War CaseAvoiding old WarsPreventive MeasuresHow "Marxist" Is China?Conclusions APPENDIX I OWI/War Department Handbook on USSR (1946) APPENDIX II Stalin's and Molotov's Electoral Speeches, February 1946 APPENDIX III Andrei A. Zhdanov on "Two-World Struggle"
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Introduction; Distorted Cold War Historiography CHAPTER 2 Cold War Basics Looming Cold War, 1943-1946Cold War CalendarA "New" Postwar Stalin?CHAPTER 3 Myth of Ideological Irrelevance Ideology and the Cold WarThe Realist ViewTraditionalist ViewSoviet Diplomatic "Warfare"CHAPTER 4 Fallacy of Stalin's "Defencist Security" Stalin's Empty ArgumentMoscow's Post-Soviet Attempts at UnitySoviet Doctrine of ExpansionFinlandUkraineOther Borderland CountriesSpecial Cases of the Baltic States and PolandExpansion if the Far EastAmerican ReactionPrewar, Wartime, Postwar Soviet ExpansionSoviet Expansion, 1940-1946Expansionism of 1939 to June 1941Resistance to Further ExpansionCHAPTER 5 Cold War Clash Over New Postwar World The Roosevelt Factor Stalin's "World" vs. Western ProjectionClashes Between "Civilizations"CHAPTER 6 Current Russian Texts on the Cold War Post-Soviet TextbooksOther Post-Soviet Books CHAPTER 7 Lessons for the "Next" Cold War China Cold War CaseAvoiding old WarsPreventive MeasuresHow "Marxist" Is China?Conclusions APPENDIX I OWI/War Department Handbook on USSR (1946) APPENDIX II Stalin's and Molotov's Electoral Speeches, February 1946 APPENDIX III Andrei A. Zhdanov on "Two-World Struggle"
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