Adam B. Ulam

Understanding the Cold War (eBook, PDF)

A Historian's Personal Reflections

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Produktbeschreibung

Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, all rich with anecdote and insight, and his thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic antidotes to simplistic explanations. Whether discussing the Kirov assassination or the Moscow Trials of the so-called Trotskyist Bloc, or the nationalist basis of disputes between China and Russia during the Vietnam War period, Ulam avoids the sensational and the speculative in favor of the the empirical and the evidentiary.

The core segments of the work review the Cold War from the belly of the Stalinist and later post-Stalinist communist system. And in a section entitled "The Beginning of the End," Ulam discusses the Gorbachev interregnum and the early years of the transition from communism to democracy. He well appreciates how the ease of the transition does not betoken a simple movement to the democratic camp. In contemplating the changing nature of the new political configuration, one could hardly have a better guide to clarity and authenticity than Adam Ulam.

Reviewing Understanding the Cold War, Stephen Kotkin, director of Princeton's Russian Studies Program, observed "...And whereas some celebrated analysts, such as John Maynard Keynes, had dismissed Marxism as 'illogical and dull,' Ulam highlighted the doctrine's intricacy and comprehensiveness, which, he argued, explained its attraction not just to peasants, but also to intellectuals."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351300759
• Artikelnr.: 49377117

Autorenporträt

Adam B. Ulam

Inhaltsangabe

One: Farewell to Poland
1: The Ulams' Lwów
2: The Last Summer
3: Pre-War Poland: An Assessment
Two: A Polish Youth in a New Land
4: The New Country
A New Life
5: War Years
6: A Fugitive Stays with Józef Ulam: George Volsky's Tale
7: Echoes of the Holocaust
Three: The Professor
8: Early Harvard Years
9: A Young Instructor
10: Implications of the Cold War
11: On Being an "Expert"
12: Lenin
13: Turbulent Foreign Relations
14: Vietnam
15: The Fall of the American University
16: The Tyrant's Shadow
17: Stalin
18: The Surprising 70s
19: Mystery Novels & The Kirov Affair
20: The Curse of the Bomb
21: Back to the Past with Revolutionary Fervor
22: The Communist World
23: Novel Uncertainties
24: Poland: A Determined and Non-Violent Resistance
25: Stan
26: Travels Abroad
27: Gorbachev and the Beginning of the End
28: To the Bialowiezha Forest
29: Russia Again
Four: Postlude
30: Other Thoughts and Memories
31: Ending
32: Adam and His Friends
33: Review of Adam Ulam's Professional Career
34: Notes on Lwów
35: A Letter from John Kenneth Galbraith

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One: Farewell to Poland; 1: The Ulams' Lwów; 2: The Last Summer; 3: Pre-War Poland: An Assessment; Two: A Polish Youth in a New Land; 4: The New Country; A New Life; 5: War Years; 6: A Fugitive Stays with Józef Ulam: George Volsky's Tale; 7: Echoes of the Holocaust; Three: The Professor; 8: Early Harvard Years; 9: A Young Instructor; 10: Implications of the Cold War; 11: On Being an "Expert"; 12: Lenin; 13: Turbulent Foreign Relations; 14: Vietnam; 15: The Fall of the American University; 16: The Tyrant's Shadow; 17: Stalin; 18: The Surprising 70s; 19: Mystery Novels & The Kirov Affair; 20: The Curse of the Bomb; 21: Back to the Past with Revolutionary Fervor; 22: The Communist World; 23: Novel Uncertainties; 24: Poland: A Determined and Non-Violent Resistance; 25: Stan; 26: Travels Abroad; 27: Gorbachev and the Beginning of the End; 28: To the Bialowiezha Forest; 29: Russia Again; Four: Postlude; 30: Other Thoughts and Memories; 31: Ending; 32: Adam and His Friends; 33: Review of Adam Ulam's Professional Career; 34: Notes on Lwów; 35: A Letter from John Kenneth Galbraith