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The fifty years war : the United States and the Soviet Union in world politics, 1941-1991 /

At last, following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, it is possible to view the events that have shaped all our lives as a defined period of history - The Fifty Years War. Richard Crockatt provides the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the global politics of the cold war. U...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crockatt, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: the fifty years war
  • The American and Soviet foreign policy traditions
  • The second world war and the struggle for peace, 1941-1946
  • "Two ways of life": the cold war in Europe, 1947-1953
  • Cold war: the far eastern dimension, 1945-1953
  • Peaceful coexistence and irreconcilable conflict, 1953-1964
  • The nuclear arms race, 1945-1963
  • The United States, the Soviet Union and the third world, 1953-1963
  • Detente in the making, 1965-1973
  • The Vietnam war and the superpower triangle
  • Detente under pressure, 1973-1981
  • Reaganism and the spectre of communism
  • Gorbachev and the new world disorder, 1985-1991
  • Conclusion.