Introduction: Studying the Cold War
1: Origins, 1917-1945
2: The Iron Curtain
3: The Division of Germany
4: The Marshall Plan and NATO
5: The United States and Japan, 1945-1965
6: The Korean War and the Sino-Soviet Alliance
7: The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975
8: Communism in Eastern Europe and China
9: Technologies, Weapons, and the Arms Race
10: The Integration of Western Europe
11: Decolonization and the Cold War
12: Latin America and the Cold War
13: Cultures and Mindsets
14: Spies and Covert Operations
15: The Rise of Détente
16: The Fall of Détente
17: Challenges to the Cold War: The 1980s
18: The End of the Cold War
19: Cold War Legacies
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Index
A treasure trove of primary materials that paint an unforgettable portrait of the Cold War years
Jussi M. Hanhim�ki is Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History, London School of Economics
an excellent survey of the main contours of the conflict Vanessa Walker, Reviews in History an impressive array of primary materials designed to examine the Cold War as a 'global conflict' ... This book's strength is undoubtedly its offering of multiple perspectives, especially for well-established areas of Cold War history. Vanessa Walker, History in Focus The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts provides an excellent survey of the main contours of the conflict and offers new perspectives on now familiar stories of the Cold War. This book, with its focus on experiences rather than evaluation, is an ideal companion to a course on the Cold War era. It is also a valuable reference for those teaching this time period. Vanessa Walker, History in Focus (IHR) The publication of The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts is very timely indeed. This first rate book provides students of both the Cold War and the post-Cold War international system with a treasure trove of material condensed in a single, accessible volume. Andrew O'Neil, Australian Review of Public Affairs The collected documents convey a gritty and hard-edged atmosphere often lacking in other accounts of the Cold War... For anyone who doubts this, Hanhimaki and Westad demonstrate through their judicious selection of documents just how dangerous, nasty, and brutal the Cold War really was. Andrew O'Neil, Australian Review of Public Affairs The feast that the book, otherwise, provides must be acknowledged ... The work has no rivals in its field. A.G. Noorani, Frontline (India) A fascinating compilation of documents that illuminates diverse aspects of the Cold War and from multiple perspectives. This volume is essential reading for all students of the Cold War and should prove invaluable in teaching courses on the international history of the twentieth century. Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia This is a superbly-crafted collection, ideally suited to the teaching of Cold War international history in all its aspects. It deserves the most widespread classroom use. John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
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