Debating the Origins of the Cold War American and Russian Perspectives

Name: Debating the Origins of the Cold War American and Russian Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780847694082

ISBN-10: 0847694089

ISBN-13: 9780847694082

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ralph B. Levering, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, Earl C. Edmondson

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The authors of this study demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist and global vision of the post-World War II peace that most Americans believed in and the dictatorial, xenophobic and regional Soviet world view.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.11" wide x 9.05" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



The American Perspective




The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941



"Comment on the Results of the Decisions Made at the Yalta Conference"



George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram," February 1946



Secretary of State James Byrnes's Speech in Stuttgart on Germany's Future, September 6, 1946



Speech by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the Annual Convention of the American Legion in San Francisco, September 30, 1946



Henry A. Wallace's Speech in New York City, September 12, 1946



President Harry S. Truman's Speech to Congress, March 12, 1947


The Russian Perspective




Stalin to "Politburo Four" ([Vyacheslav] Molotov, [Lavrenti] Beria, [Anastas] Mikoyan, and [Georgy] Malenkov), Ciphered [Coded] Telegram, December 9, 1945



A Compilation of [Written] Comments on Draft Treaties Regarding Demilitarization and Disarmament of Germany and Japan Proposed by [U.S. Secretary of State James] Byrnes, June 8, 1946



The [Nikolai] Novikov Report ["Telegram"]



The Minister of State Security Appeals for Measures to Close Down British Propaganda in the U.S.S.R.



Instructions for the Soviet Delegation to the Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Paris, June 25, 1947



Record of I[osef] V[issarionivich] Stalin's Conversation with the Czechoslovak Government Delegation on the Issue of Their Position Regarding the Marshall Plan and the Prospects for Economic Cooperation with the U.S.S.R.



Record of the Meeting of Comrade I[osef] V[issarionivich] Stalin with the Secretary of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party [Maurice] Thorez



Report by L. P. Beria and I. V. Kurchatov to I. V. Stalin on Preliminary Data Received during the Atomic Bomb Test


Acknowledgments


Selected Readings


Index


About the Authors