After the Cold War
Title | After the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Owen Keohane |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780674008649 |
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The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
Title | The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Kramer |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 645 |
Release | 2021-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 179363193X |
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe’s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other powers.
Cold War Europe
Title | Cold War Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Gilbert |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442219866 |
This compelling history of Europe’s Cold War follows the dramatic arc of the conflict that shaped the development of the continent and defined world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on European actors and events, Mark Gilbert traces the onset of the Cold War, the process of Stalinization in the Soviet bloc, and the difficulties of legitimation experienced by communist regimes in Hungary, Poland, and East Germany even after Stalin’s death. He also shows how Washington’s leadership and worldview was contested in Western Europe, especially by Great Britain and French president Charles de Gaulle. The book charts the growing weakness of the communist system in Eastern Europe and the economic and moral reasons for the system’s eventual collapse. It highlights the central role of European leaders in the process of détente and in the diplomatic endgame that concluded the Cold War in 1990. Rather than simply a strategic standoff between the superpowers, Gilbert argues, the Cold War was a social and ideological conflict that transformed Europe from Lisbon to Riga. Fast-paced and readable, this political, intellectual, and social history illuminates a conflict that continues to resonate today.
Russia and Europe After the Cold War
Title | Russia and Europe After the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Maurizio Massari |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Cold War |
ISBN |
Europe After the Cold War
Title | Europe After the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Wojciech Kostecki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN |
The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Stone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 2012-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199560986 |
The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the 35 chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, the The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by acknowledged experts, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
The Marshall Plan
Title | The Marshall Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Benn Steil |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 621 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0198757913 |
Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.