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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.7304709045
EAN: 9780073534664
Edition: 10
ISBN: 0073534668
Label: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: November 20, 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Studio: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict--Chinese, Latin American, European, and Vietnamese. The text includes both engaging anecdotes and quotes from primary sources to support key points and exemplify policies, and recent scholarship and materials from openings of the U.S., Soviet, and Chinese archives.
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LaFebre first wrote this book in 1967, covering just 1945-46---the origins of the Cold War. In the next edition he expanded it to what is is today---a full length history up to the present time. It remains what it always has been -- a balanced, judicious account, full of the missed opportunities, misunderstandings, and occasional wrong choices on both sides. But this is no excuse or apologia for Soviet Communism by any means. It is true that it avoids the triumphalist "WE WON" tone is some recent ... Read More
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Overall a very efficient, analytic and even-handed overview of the Cold War's issues and origins. The anti-American bias perceived by other reviewers wasn't evident to me, particularly as the author takes a widely holistic approach to his subject. Political, economic, cultural and historical factors are considered, as are the personal predilections of key policy-makers on both sides. Motives and decisions are laid out within the qualitative context of their time, while consequences are relevantly tied ... Read More
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The USSR entered into a pact with Hitler, took half of Poland, attacked Finland and invaded the Baltic nations because of the United States, of course! If you didn't know that, or you disagree, you are not fashionably lefty and you will not like this book. This is what passes for history nowadays, a watered-down, slightly less tendentious view of the US and the West than Chomnsky's, but still with the same poison: blame the US first; blame the US always; defend/justify every tyranny, no matter how corrupt ... Read More
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I had to buy this book for a Cold War class during my masters program. It is a fairly thin book considering all that went on the Cold War but this is just meant to be a light survey of the Cold War years. To tell of the major events to people who may not be familiar with them. I did not think of it as having a very liberal bent to it like the previous reviewer. It is a little more liberal than other books out there but that is bound to happen. Just as there are more conservative leaning books written about ... Read More
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I wanted to check a beginner's book on cold war and was VERY disappointed. I don't understand why this book had so many editions, since it's very weak : narration is poor, overtly liberal, America is responsible for the cold war. The whole book looks as it's still in the 70s, with those laughable revisionnist ideas, old maps and cartoons.
One sentence sums up the spirit perfectly : "[The Berlin Wall] was mute and bloody testimony to the policy of both East and West which, since 1945, had preferred ... Read More
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