Cold War A New History

Name: Cold War A New History
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ISBN: 9781594200625

ISBN-10: 1594200629

ISBN-13: 9781594200625

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Lewis Gaddis

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In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: Stalin was at the height of his power; all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of the past; and Mao's forces had assumed control over the world's most populous country. Everywhere on the globe, colonialism left the West morally compromised. The story of the previous five decades, which saw severe economic depression, two world wars, a nearly successful attempt to wipe out the Jews, and the invention of weapons capable of wiping…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 12/29/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Prologue : the view forward



The return of fear



Deathboats and lifeboats



Command versus spontaneity



The emergence of autonomy



The recovery of equity



Actors



The triumph of hope


Epilogue : the view back