Title: America, Russia, and the cold war, 1945-1980 /
Authors: LaFeber, Walter.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Wiley,
Physical description: xiii, 334 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Open doors, iron curtain (1941-1945) -- Only two declarations of cold war (1946) -- Two halves of the same walnut (1947-1948) -- The different world of NCS-68 (1948-1950) -- Korea: the war for both Asia and Europe (1950-1951) -- New issues, new faces (1951-1953) -- A different cold war (1953-1955) -- East and West of Suez (1954-1957) -- New frontiers and old dilemmas (1957-1962) -- Southeast Asia, and elsewhere (1962-1966) -- A new containment (1966-1973) -- A new cold war (1973-1980)
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cold War.; Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.; United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.; World politics--1945-; World politics--1945-1989