The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947.
Series: Contemporary American history series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780231032896; 9780231083027
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Cold War; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: "[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date."--New York Times Book Review.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [363]-382.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, 1973.
Table of contents: title: The past as prologue : the American vision of the postwar world; title: The Soviet Union and world revolution : the American view, 1941-1944; title: Cooperating for victory : defeating Germany and Japan; title: Repression versus rehabilitation : the problem of Germany; title: Security versus self-determination : the problem of Eastern Europe; title: Economic relations : Lend-Lease and the Russian loan; title: Victory and transition : Harry S. Truman and the Russians; title: The impotence of omnipotence : American diplomacy, the atomic bomb, and the postwar world; title: Getting tough with Russia : the reorientation of American policy, 1946; title: To the Truman Doctrine : implementing the new policy; title: Conclusion : The United States and the origins of the Cold War