Russia's Cold War : from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall /
The phrase 'Cold War' was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: 'We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.' The Soviet Union, he wrote, was 'at o...
| Основен автор: | Haslam, Jonathan. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2011.
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Съдържание:
- Underlying antagonisms
- Ideology triumphant
- Cominformity
- On the offensive in Asia
- Thaw
- Sudden frost
- Taking the world to the brink
- Détente
- The impact of Vietnam
- Détente fails
- The Reagan presidency
- Down comes the wall.