The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941 - 1991

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 12
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 14
List of abbreviations......Page 18
INTRODUCTION: THE FIFTY YEARS WAR......Page 26
THE AMERICAN AND SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY TRADITIONS......Page 38
INTRODUCTION......Page 60
THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE, 1941  1946......Page 62
\'TWO WAYS OF LIFE\': THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE, 1947  1953......Page 87
COLD WAR: THE FAR EASTERN DIMENSION, 1945  1953......Page 112
INTRODUCTION......Page 134
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AND IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT, 1953  1964......Page 137
THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE, 1945  1963......Page 161
THE UNITED STATES, THE SOVIET UNION AND THE THIRD WORLD, 1953  1963......Page 190
INTRODUCTION......Page 226
DTENTE IN THE MAKING, 1965  1973......Page 230
THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE SUPERPOWER TRIANGLE......Page 258
DTENTE UNDER PRESSURE, 1973  1981......Page 276
INTRODUCTION......Page 324
REAGANISM AND THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM......Page 328
GORBACHEV AND THE NEW WORLD DISORDER, 1985  1991......Page 361
CONCLUSION......Page 392
Notes......Page 402
Bibliographical note......Page 404
Bibliography......Page 407
Index......Page 422