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The Cold War after Stalin's death : a missed opportunity for peace? / edited by Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2006.
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xxxiv, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
D840 .C636 2006
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Cold War
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United States
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Foreign relations
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Soviet Union
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Soviet Union
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Foreign relations
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United States
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1945-1989
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Soviet Union
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1953-1975
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Larres, Klaus
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Osgood, Kenneth Alan, 1971-
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Harvard Cold War studies book series
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The Harvard Cold War studies book series
Summary note
"After Stalin's death in March 1953, the Cold War changed almost overnight. The Soviet Union embarked on a course of reconciliation and greater openness. However, despite an end to the Korean War and progress on many other outstanding East-West questions, the Western world remained mistrustful of Soviet motives and policies and Soviet leaders remained suspicious of Western intentions. Less than a decade after Stalin's death the Berlin Wall was erected and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear annihilation. Was this development unavoidable? Was an opportunity missed to overcome and terminate the Cold War? Was there a possibility for the creation of a more stable, less threatening, and less costly world in both human and material terms? It is only now, after the end of the Cold War and based on recently declassified western documents and revelations from once-closed archives in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, that new light can be shed on the nature of international Cold War policies in the years after Stalin's death. The essays in this book offer a historical understanding of this crucial period of the Cold War, assessing both the possibilities for change and the obstacles to detente. The book draws on the collective talents of an international group of scholars with a wide range of historical, geographical, and linguistic expertise. All of the essays are based on original research, many of them drawing from previously inaccessible archival documents from both the East and West. This book should be read by everyone interested in the final stage of the defining conflict that was the Cold War."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : International politics in the early post-Stalin era : a lost opportunity, a turning point, or more of the same? / Mark Kramer
The elusive détente : Stalin's successors and the West / Vojtech Masnry
The perils of coexistence : peace and propaganda in Eisenhower's foreign policy / Kenneth Osgood
A missed chance for peace? Opportunities for détente in Europe / Jerald A. Combs
Poisoned apples : John Foster Dulles and the "peace offensive" / Lloyd Gardner
Meanings of peace : the rhetorical Cold War after Stalin / Ira Chernus
Stalin's ghost : Cold War culture and U.S.-Soviet relations / Jeffrey Brooks
The road to Geneva 1955 : Churchill's summit diplomacy and Anglo-American tension after Stalin's death / Klaus Larres
Alliance politics after Stalin's death : Franco-American conflict in Europe and in Asia / Kathryn C. Statler
Coexistence and confrontation : Sino-Soviet relations after Stalin / Qiang Zhai
The new course : Soviet policy toward Germany and the uprising in the GDR / Hope M. Harrison
Cold War, détente, and the 1956 Hungarian revolution / Csaba Békés
The robust assertion of Austrianism : peaceful coexistence in Austria after Stalin's death / Günter Bischof
The lure of neutrality : Finland and the Cold War / Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Treacherous ground : Soviet-Japanese relations and the United States / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.
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ISBN
0742554511 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780742554511 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2006018721
OCLC
70062992
International Article Number
9780742554511
Other standard number
99816744626
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