Research Catalog

Title

America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 / Walter LaFeber.

Author

LaFeber, Walter.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

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Description

xix, 476 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Subject

• World politics > 1945-1989
• World politics > 1989-
• Cold War
• United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
• Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
• United States > Foreign relations > 1989-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreward -- Preface to the tenth edition -- Introduction: The burden of history (To 1941) -- 1. Open doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945) -- 2. Only two Declarations of Cold War (1946) -- 3. Two halves of the same walnut (1947-1948) -- 4. The "Different World" of NSC-68 (1948-1950) -- 5. Korea. The War for both Asia and Europe (1950-1951) -- 6. New issues, new faces (1951-1953) -- 7. A Different Cold War (1953-1955) -- 8. East and West of Suez (1954-1957) -- 9. New frontiers and old dilemmas (1957-1962) -- 10. Southest Asia--and elsewhere (1962-1966) -- 11. A New Containment: The rise and fall of detente (1966-1976) -- 12. From Cold War to Old War: Reagan and Gorbachev (1977-1989) -- 13. A new world order--Or the Age of Fragmentation? (1989-1993) -- 14. The post-Cold War Era: Clinton, Yeltsin, and back to a Bush (1993-2000) -- 15. The World turned upside down (2001-2006) -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780073534664 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0073534668 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006048225

OCLC

154215471

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library