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Origins

Series The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 1

Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-10
0521837197

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521837194

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521837194

Overview

This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period as well as examining how markets, ideas, and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomatic events, and strategic thinking. Chapters focus not only on the USA, the USSR, and Great Britain, but also on other critical regions such as Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and East Asia. They deal not only with the most influential statesmen of the era but also address the issues that mattered most to peoples around the globe: food, nutrition, and resource allocation; demography and consumption; ethnicity, race, and religion; science and technology; national autonomy, self-determination, and sovereignty. In so doing, the book illuminates how people worldwide shaped the evolution of the increasingly bipolar conflict, and, in turn, were ensnared by it.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century
by
Odd Arne Westad

Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917–1962
by
David C. Engerman

The world economy and the Cold War in the middle of the twentieth century
by
Charles S. Maier

The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945–1952
by
Melvyn P. Leffler

The Soviet Union and the world, 1944–1953
by
Vladimir O. Pechatnov

Britain and the Cold War, 1945–1955
by
Anne Deighton

The division of Germany, 1945–1949
by
Hans-Peter Schwarz

The Marshall Plan and the creation of the West
by
William I. Hitchcock

The Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1944–1953
by
Norman Naimark

The Cold War in the Balkans, 1945–1956
by
Svetozar Rajak

The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War
by
Niu Jun

Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945–1960
by
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

The Korean War
by
William Stueck

US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy
by
Robert J. Mcmahon

Soviet foreign policy, 1953–1962
by
Vojtech Mastny

East Central Europe, 1953–1956
by
Csaba Békés

The Sino-Soviet alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954–1962
by
Shu Guang Zhang

Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962
by
David Holloway

Culture and the Cold War in Europe
by
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht

Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States
by
Laura Mcenaney

Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics: the Soviet Union
by
David Priestland

Decolonization, the global South, and the Cold War, 1919–1962
by
Mark Philip Bradley

Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945–1962
by
David S. Painter

Bibliographical essay

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