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| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2000 Walter LaFeber, 2002 Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 Walter LaFeber, 1971 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 Walter LaFeber, 1967 During the American Civil War, Secretary of State William Seward predicted that Russia and the United States would confront one another on the plains of Eastern Asia--and they did in the 1890s. The rivalry of these two great nation-states heightened when the Russian Revolution added a different ideological dimension to the struggle. The Cold War is the result of that past--and the dilemmas of Soviet and American foreign policies today have a half-century of history behind them. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 examines the foreign policies of both countries in this historical setting. Professor LeFeber concentrates on two key periods in the Cold War--the first is the period from 1944-1946 when the situation intensified and the second is the mid-50s when it assumed a new shape. In the events of 1945 and 1946, he finds the background for Stalin's later moves in Germany and Korea as well as for the American policies which resulted in the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. In the mid-50s, both American and Russian foreign policies began to pivot away from their focus on Europe and became concerned with the newly-emerging nations. Professor LaFeber analyzes not only the policies of both the United States and Russia but also domestic sources for these policies. For the United States, he has used extensively the newly-opened papers of John Foster Dulles as well as the papers of Harry S. Truman, Bernard Baruch, William Clayton and others who were actively involved in U.S. policy decisions.--Dust jacket. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1984 Walter LaFeber, 1985 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996 Walter LaFeber, 1997 Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter; the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Behind the Throne Thomas J. McCormick, Walter LaFeber, 1993 Charles Conant, in the same era, profoundly affected America's economic relationship with Asia and Latin America. During the Wilson administration, Admiral William Caperton's views influenced foreign policy in the Caribbean and Latin America. Controlling J.P. Morgan's overseas investments, Thomas Lamont had direct access to and considerable influence upon every president in the 1920s and 1930s. Adolf Berle, advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, guided the United States' economic and security policies for the post-World War II era, preparing the way for both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Senator Gerald P. Nye championed United States isolationist policies in the early years of the cold war. Vandenberg later turned internationalist and used his position as ranking Republican on the Committee to promote President Truman's foreign policies in Congress. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Deadly Bet Walter LaFeber, 2005 Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Presidential term, and lost. Intent upon fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that American society could also endure a vast array of domestic reforms. The result was the turmoil of the 1968 presidential election--a crisis more severe than any since the Civil War. With thousands killed in Vietnam, hundreds dead in civil rights riots, televised chaos at the Democratic National Convention, and two major assassinations, Americans responded by voting for the law and order message of Richard Nixon. In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players--including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Lyndon Johnson--LaFeber argues that the domestic upheaval had more impact on the election than the war in Vietnam. Clear, concise, and engaging, this work sheds important light on the crucial year of 1968. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Clash Walter LaFeber, 1998 One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Photos. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Cold War John Lewis Gaddis, 2006-12-26 “Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe “Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York Times The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War Walter LaFeber, Tisch Distinguished University Professor and M U Noll Professor of History Emeritus Walter LaFeber, 1987 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Another Such Victory Arnold A. Offner, 2002 This book is a provocative and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward detente. Instead, he promoted an ideology and politics of Cold War confrontation that set the pattern for successor administrations. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Fifty Years War Richard Crockatt, 2002-01-08 This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War Curt Cardwell, 2011-06-13 NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Dictionary of the Social Sciences Craig Calhoun, 2002-05-02 Featuring over 1,800 concise definitions of key terms, the Dictionary of the Social Sciences is the most comprehensive, authoritative single-volume work of its kind. With coverage on the vocabularies of anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism, the Dictionary is an integrated, easy-to-use, A-to-Z reference tool. Designed for students and non-specialists, it examines classic and contemporary scholarship including basic terms, concepts, theories, schools of thought, methodologies, issues, and controversies. As a true dictionary, it also contains concise, jargon-free definitions that explain the rich, sometimes complex language of these increasingly visible fields. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations Christopher R. W. Dietrich, 2020-03-04 Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power. The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource: Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Panama Canal Walter LaFeber, 1990-03 Surveys relations between the United States and Panama since the nineteenth century, emphasizing events that have shaped recent treaty negotiations |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945 Brooke L. Blower, Andrew Preston, 2022-03-03 The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion, gender, and other factors shaped their worldviews. During the early twentieth century, accelerating forces of global interdependence presented Americans, like others, with a set of urgent challenges from managing borders, humanitarian crises, economic depression, and modern warfare to confronting the radical, new political movements of communism, fascism, and anticolonial nationalism. This volume will set the standard for new understandings of this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The New Empire Walter LaFeber, 1969 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Distant Friends Norman E. Saul, 1991 Drawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain, Saul reveals a wealth of new detail about contacts between the two countries between the American Revolutionary War and the purchase of Alaska in 1867. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: High Noon in the Cold War Max Frankel, 2004 An examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis analyzes the roles, objectives, and actions of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the October 1962 showdown between the U.S. and Soviet Union. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: In from the Cold Gilbert M. Joseph, Daniela Spenser, 2008-01-11 Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and drawing largely on U.S. government sources. Moreover, only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars engaged productively with Latin American historians who analyze how the international conflict transformed the region's political, social, and cultural life. Representing a collaboration among eleven North American, Latin American, and European historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, this volume attempts to facilitate such a cross-fertilization. In the process, In From the Cold shifts the focus of attention away from the bipolar conflict, the preoccupation of much of the so-called new Cold War history, in order to showcase research, discussion, and an array of new archival and oral sources centering on the grassroots, where conflicts actually brewed. The collection's contributors examine international and everyday contests over political power and cultural representation, focusing on communities and groups above and underground, on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned by Latin American and international governing elites, on the relations among states regionally, and, less frequently, on the dynamics between the two great superpowers themselves. In addition to charting new directions for research on the Latin American Cold War, In From the Cold seeks to contribute more generally to an understanding of the conflict in the global south. Contributors. Ariel C. Armony, Steven J. Bachelor, Thomas S. Blanton, Seth Fein, Piero Gleijeses, Gilbert M. Joseph, Victoria Langland, Carlota McAllister, Stephen Pitti, Daniela Spenser, Eric Zolov |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1992 Walter LaFeber, 1993 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Peace of Illusions Christopher Layne, 2006 In a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belief that U.S. foreign policy has been consistent in its aims for more than sixty years and that the current Bush administration clings to mid-twentieth-century tactics--to no good effect. What should the nation's grand strategy look like for the next several decades? The end of the cold war profoundly and permanently altered the international landscape, yet we have seen no parallel change in the aims and shape of U.S. foreign policy. The Peace of Illusions intervenes in the ongoing debate about American grand strategy and the costs and benefits of American empire. Layne urges the desirability of a strategy he calls offshore balancing: rather than wield power to dominate other states, the U.S. government should engage in diplomacy to balance large states against one another. The United States should intervene, Layne asserts, only when another state threatens, regionally or locally, to destroy the established balance. Drawing on extensive archival research, Layne traces the form and aims of U.S. foreign policy since 1940, examining alternatives foregone and identifying the strategic aims of different administrations. His offshore-balancing notion, if put into practice with the goal of extending the American Century, would be a sea change in current strategy. Layne has much to say about present-day governmental decision making, which he examines from the perspectives of both international relations theory and American diplomatic history. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Concord and Conflict Norman E. Saul, 1996 Between 1867 - the year of the Alaskan purchase - and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the two countries in surprisingly great numbers. Concord and Conflict provides the first comprehensive investigation of this highly transformational and fateful era in Russian-American relations. Excavating previously unmined Russian and American archives, Norman Saul illuminates these fifty significant - and open - years of association between the two countries. He explores the flow and fluctuation of economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural affairs; the personal and professional conflicts and scandals; and the evolution of each nation's perception of the other. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Under Stalin's Shadow Nikos Marantzidis, 2023-02-15 Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various Communist parties of Southeastern Europe, as Nikos Marantzidis shows that Communism's international institutions (Moscow Center, Comintern, Balkan Communist Federation, Cominform, and sister parties in the Balkans) were not merely external factors influencing orientation and policy choices. Based on research from published and unpublished archival documents located in Greece, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Balkan countries, Under Stalin's Shadow traces the KKE movement's interactions with fraternal parties in neighboring states and with their acknowledged supreme mentors in Stalin's Soviet Russia. Marantzidis reveals how, because the boundaries between the national and international in the Communist world were not clearly drawn, international institutions, geopolitical soviet interests, and sister parties' strategies shaped in fundamental ways the KKE's leadership, its character and decision making as a party, and the way of life of its followers over the years. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young, 2008-04-30 Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question why Vietnam? dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon, to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Friends Or Foes? Norman E. Saul, 2006 With Friends or Foes? Norman Saul continues his monumental multivolume magnum opus on U.S.-Russian relations over the course of 200 years. This fourth volume provides the first comprehensive study in any language of an era that shaped the rest of the century and captures the major changes in relations between two nations on the verge of becoming dominant global powers. Among other things, Saul examines the rationale for America's failure to recognize the Soviet government through the early 1930s, analyzing the impact of the Red Scare and the roles of the State Department, Russian migrs, religious groups, and key individuals—like Charles Evans Hughes, Robert Kelley, Herbert Hoover, Boris Skvirsky, Olga Kameneva, and Maxim Litvinov—on the policy process. In addition, he recalls the American Relief Administration's gigantic effort to help Russian peasants and garners new material from American business records on concession arrangements and commerce and on Soviet responses during the first Five Year Plan. He also records travelers' impressions, cultural exchange, and the role of academia in each country—particularly the contribution of Russian émigré scholars to American education and the contributions of American journalists in Russia. Saul also reveals the tendency on both sides to preserve an atmosphere of secrecy, conducting business behind closed doors and rarely on paper. His prodigious research in the Hoover Presidential Library, the Franklin Roosevelt Library, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University-incorporating overlooked Diplomat Post Records and featuring an interview with George Kennan on his diplomatic role—has yielded a wealth of new insights into what really happened during a period in the history of the relations between the two countries that remains mysterious and controversial. Breaking new ground in diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural history, Saul's book illuminates both the mutual fascination that briefly permitted peaceful coexistence (and eventual alliance) and the ideological battles that ultimately led to the Cold War. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War Vladislav Martinovich Zubok, Konstantin Pleshakov, 1996 Using recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a broad familiarity with Russian history and culture, two young Russian historians have written a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet shore. Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis. Zubok and Pleshakov's groundbreaking work reveals how Soviet statesmen conceived and conducted their rivalry with the West within the context of their own domestic and global concerns and aspirations. The authors persuasively demonstrate thatthe Soviet leaders did not seek a conflict with the United States, yet failed to prevent it or bring it to conclusion. They also document why and how Kremlin policy-makers, cautious and scheming as they were, triggered the gravest crises of the Cold War in Korea, Berlin, and Cuba. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Walter LaFeber, 1993-09-24 The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power--The American Century as it has become known--and examines the Imperial Presidency that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped other societies around the globe as well, by helping fuel--and in some cases directly causing--the great revolutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in Mexico, Russia, China, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Central America. The book, therefore, not only examines American history, but the history of many other areas that were dramatically affected by U.S. power as they entered the twentieth century. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States John Lewis Gaddis, 1990 From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, in an even-handed, non-ideological narrative. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The China Threat Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, 2014-03-04 Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold warÑthe moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower AdministrationÕs policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious, cutting edge research, this volume convincingly portrays EisenhowerÕs private belief that close relations between the United States and the PeopleÕs Republic of China were inevitable and that careful consideration of the PRC should constitute a critical part of American diplomacy. Tucker provocatively argues that the Eisenhower AdministrationÕs hostile rhetoric and tough actions toward China obscure the presidentÕs actual views. Behind the scenes, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, pursued a more nuanced approach, one better suited to ChinaÕs specific challenges and the stabilization of the global community. Tucker deftly explores the contradictions between Eisenhower and his advisorsÕ public and private positions. Her most powerful chapter centers on EisenhowerÕs recognition that rigid trade prohibitions would undermine the global postwar economic recovery and push China into a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Tucker finds EisenhowerÕs strategic thinking on Europe and his fear of toxic, anticommunist domestic politics constrained his leadership, making a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward China difficult if not impossible. Consequently, the president was unable to engage congress and the public effectively on China, ultimately failing to realize his own high standards as a leader. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: America, Russia, and the Cold War Walter LaFeber, 1972 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Devil We Knew H. W. Brands, 1994-10-20 In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could have fit inside a high-school gymnasium, and it was so heavily infiltrated that J. Edgar Hoover actually contemplated using his informers as a voting bloc to take over the party. Abroad, the preoccupation with communism drove the White House to help overthrow democratically elected governments in Guatemala and Iran, and replace them with dictatorships. But by then the Cold War had long since blinded Americans to the ironies of their battle against communism. In The Devil We Knew, Brands provides a witty, perceptive history of the American experience of the Cold War, from Truman's creation of the CIA to Ronald Reagan's creation of SDI. Brands has written a number of highly regarded works on America in the twentieth century; here he puts his experience to work in a volume of impeccable scholarship and exceptional verve. He turns a critical eye to the strategic conceptions (and misconceptions) that led a once-isolationist nation to pursue the war against communism to the most remote places on Earth. By the time Eisenhower left office, the United States was fighting communism by backing dictators from Iran to South Vietnam, from Latin America to the Middle East--while engaging in covert operations the world over. Brands offers no apologies for communist behavior, but he deftly illustrates the strained thinking that led Washington to commit gravely disproportionate resources (including tens of thousands of lives in Korea and Vietnam) to questionable causes. He keenly analyzes the changing policies of each administration, from Nixon's juggling (SALT talks with Moscow, new relations with Ccmmunist China, and bombing North Vietnam) to Carter's confusion to Reagan's laserrattling. Equally important is his incisive, often amusing look at how the anti-Soviet struggle was exploited by politicians, industrialists, and government agencies. He weaves in deft sketches of figures like Barry Goldwater and Henry Jackson (who won a Senate seat with the promise, Many plants will be converting from peace time to all-out defense production). We see John F. Kennedy deliver an eloquent speech in 1957 defending the rising forces of nationalism in Algeria and Vietnam; we also see him in the White House a few years later, ordering a massive increase in America's troop commitment to Saigon. The book ranges through the economics and psychology of the Cold War, demonstrating how the confrontation created its own constituencies in private industry and public life. In the end, Americans claimed victory in the Cold War, but Brands's account gives us reason to tone down the celebrations. Most perversely, he writes, the call to arms against communism caused American leaders to subvert the principles that constituted their country's best argument against communism. This far-reaching history makes clear that the Cold War was simultaneously far more, and far less, than we ever imagined at the time. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Confronting the American Dream Michel Gobat, 2005-12-27 Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, economic, and cultural forms to defend their own nationality against U.S. imposition and that the country’s wealthiest and most Americanized elites were transformed from leading supporters of U.S. imperial rule into some of its greatest opponents. Gobat focuses primarily on the reactions of the elites to Americanization, because the power and identity of these Nicaraguans were the most significantly affected by U.S. imperial rule. He describes their adoption of aspects of “the American way of life” in the mid–nineteenth century as strategic rather than wholesale. Chronicling the U.S. occupation of 1912–33, he argues that the anti-American turn of Nicaragua’s most Americanized oligarchs stemmed largely from the efforts of U.S. bankers, marines, and missionaries to spread their own version of the American dream. In part, the oligarchs’ reversal reflected their anguish over the 1920s rise of Protestantism, the “modern woman,” and other “vices of modernity” emanating from the United States. But it also responded to the unintended ways that U.S. modernization efforts enabled peasants to weaken landlord power. Gobat demonstrates that the U.S. occupation so profoundly affected Nicaragua that it helped engender the Sandino Rebellion of 1927–33, the Somoza dictatorship of 1936–79, and the Sandinista Revolution of 1979–90. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Cold War in South Florida Steve Hach, 2004 |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: US Foreign Policy Michael Cox, Doug Stokes, 2012-02-09 This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to US foreign policy. Bringing together a number of the world's leading experts, the text deals with the rise of America, US foreign policy during and after the Cold War, and the complex issues facing the US since September 11th. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Engaging the Evil Empire Simon Miles, 2020-10-15 In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities. The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan in particular opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, Miles clearly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly. As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. Engaging the Evil Empire covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. Miles's bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqués and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: The Gathering Storm Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, 2020 A new interpretation of the involvement of the United States in Chilean politics in the years of Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty-- |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Origins of the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler, 2005 This second edition brings the collection up to date, including the newest research from the Communist side of the Cold War and the most recent debates on culture, race and intelligence. |
| america russia and the cold war lafeber 1: Migration in the Time of Revolution Taomo Zhou, 2019-10-15 Migration in the Time of Revolution explores the complex relationship between China and Indonesia from 1945 to 1967, during a period when citizenship, identity, and political loyalty were in flux. Taomo Zhou examines the experiences of migrants, including youths seeking an ancestral homeland they had never seen and economic refugees whose skills were unwelcome in a socialist state. Zhou argues that these migrants played an active role in shaping the diplomatic relations between Beijing and Jakarta, rather than being passive subjects of historical forces. By using newly declassified documents and oral history interviews, Migration in the Time of Revolution demonstrates how the actions and decisions of ethnic Chinese migrants were crucial in the development of post-war relations between China and Indonesia. By integrating diplomatic history with migration studies, Taomo Zhou provides a nuanced understanding of how ordinary people's lives intersected with broader political processes in Asia, offering a fresh perspective on the Cold War's social dynamics. |
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Cold War, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, i967, 465 pp. 50 p. New York, Hill and Wang (published under the title, The Free World Colos- ... Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 (New York i967). American domestic determinants, economic and ideological, are examined in
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATONAL SYSTEM (2nd …
Week 1: The Evolution of the Cold War between the Superpowers 1950-1968 1. What contribution did nuclear weapons make to keeping the peace between East and West? ... Kolko, Gabriel, Vietnam: Anatomy of a War, 1986. LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1992, 7th edn., 1993. Lowe, Peter, ...
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The Collapse of the Western World: Acheson, Nitze, and the NSC …
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966 (New York, 1968), 90–91. ... and the Cold War (Stanford, CA, 1992), 355–60, especially 355, 359. The Collapse of the Western World : 751. argument was made by Zara Steiner, who said that NSC 68 was “the culmination
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was the cold war necessary? the revisionist challenge to …
America was losing the cold war either because the Russians had duped American leaders or because traitors had betrayed the United States. Liberal historians felt, however, that the right-wing wrongly assumed that American actions were decisive in shaping the postwar world when from the beginning the initiative in the cold war had been in Moscow.
Walter Lafeber America Russia And The Cold War - Walter LaFeber …
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 Walter LaFeber,1967 During the American Civil War, Secretary of State William Seward predicted that Russia and the United States would confront one another on the plains of Eastern Asia--and
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9 Jun 2022 · Extract 1: From W LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945–1996, published in 1997. In early 1946, the American economy at first declined, and unemployment rose, before some expansion began. US government experts worried that the improvement was temporary, as this improvement depended on the success of the American export trade.
Sarotte, Mary Elise. 2021. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and …
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 550. “In Victory – Magnanimity”. Winston Spencer Churchill There should be no second thoughts – Sarotte’s book is thoroughly researched, extremely well documented, rich in details, and thrillingly well
Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War ...
Mary Sarotte, Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021) xiii + 568 pp. Mary Sarotte’s key contribution in Not one inch is to redirect historiographical debates from the end of the Cold War to the post-Cold War period. As Sarotte comments, ‘Telling the unruly history of the
America Russia And The Cold War Lafeber , Walter LaFeber …
The Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 Walter LaFeber,1971 The China Threat Nancy Bernkopf Tucker,2014-03-04 Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold warÑthe moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define
Cold War Revisionism: A Practitioner's Perspective - JSTOR
the orthodox version of a Cold War in which an innocent America faced an ... 3- Walt LaFeber is the culprit, I am sure. 4. Quoted in Mason Drukman, Wayne Morse: A Political Biography (Portland, OR, 1997), 8. ... Parts of the dissertation evolved into "The Abortive American Loan to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War, 1943-1946," Journal of ...
US 20th Century Diplomatic History - Department of History
LaFeber, Walter. The American Age: American Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad. ... America, Russia, and the Cold War. Laurence, Paul Gordon. Power and Prejudice: the Politics and Diplomacy of Racial . Discrimination. McCormick, Thomas J. America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the . Cold War and After.
A New Historiography of the Origins of the Cold War
100 SOSHUM Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora [Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities] Volume 9, Number 2, 2019 p-ISSN. 2088-2262 e-ISSN. 2580-5622
The Korean War as International History
difficult to avoid.1 Although ultimately fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country, the Korean War included armed combatants representing at ... 1983), p. 805; and in Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1984, 5th ed. (New York, 1985), pp. 99-102. KOREAN WAR AS INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 293 forces ...
Mexico and the United States during the Cold War - JSTOR
during the Cold War, we must bear in mind an idea that permeated the United States following World War II: that the United States had become the "most powerful nation in the world, in economic, mili- . tary, and moral terms"(JIC 1946: 1). Although the claim of primacy in · moral terms has been challenged by analysts from a wide range of
BRITAIN'S KOREAN WAR: Cold War diplomacy, strategy and …
Lafeber, Walter, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945–1992 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993) Lamb, Richard, The Failure of the Eden Government (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987) Lowe, Peter ‘The Frustrations of Alliance: Britain, the United States and the Korean War 1950–51’, in James Cotton and Ian Neary (eds), The
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The rise of the cold war, argues LaFeber, was neither surprising nor remarkable; rather, the rapid decay of US-Soviet relations in 1945, visible in the uneasy wartime relationship, was rooted in pre
Guatemala as Cold War History
depicting the intervention as a background episode include Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1975, 3d ed. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976), pp. 159-61; and Joyce Kolko and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 700-701.
A New Historiography of the Origins of the Cold War - units.it
A New Historiography of the Origins of the Cold War Adewunmi J. Falode 1 ... By the end of World War II, Russia had an extra estimate of about 24 million people under its control because of the subjugation of Baltic states such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. ... (Lafeber, 2014, p. 116). Secretary of State Dean Acheson accused the Soviet ...
When the Cold War Did Not End: The Soviet Peace Offensive of …
1 OP #278: WHEN THE COLD WAR DID NOT END: THE SOVIET PEACE OFFENSIVE OF 1953 AND THE AMERICAN RESPONSE1 by Jeffrey Brooks The world devoted enormous sums in human energy, lives, and economic resources to the military-strategic competition that was the cold war. Each side invested billions in armaments that could have been spent
POLI 4043 American Foreign Policy - LSU
- Walter La Feber (2008) America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006, 10th ed. New York: McGraw Hill. (listed in the syllabus as LaFeber) In addition to this text, a number of book chapters, journal articles, and documents will also be ... ―Only Two Declarations of Cold War (1946)‖ LaFeber: Chapter 3. ―Two Halves of the Same Walnut (1947 ...
in the cold war period.1 First and foremost, this long …
1976, pp. 1-108 (henceforth Church Committee, History of the CIA). 5For a scholarly, moderately revisionist history of the cold war paying close attention to both Soviet and American policy, see Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1972, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1972).
Cold-War Revisionism: A Critique - JSTOR
Cold War, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, i967, 465 pp. 50 p. New York, Hill and Wang (published under the title, The Free World Colos- ... Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966 (New York i967). American domestic determinants, economic and ideological, are examined in
Cold War Revisionism: A Practitioner's Perspective - JSTOR
the orthodox version of a Cold War in which an innocent America faced an ... 3- Walt LaFeber is the culprit, I am sure. 4. Quoted in Mason Drukman, Wayne Morse: A Political Biography (Portland, OR, 1997), 8. ... Parts of the dissertation evolved into "The Abortive American Loan to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War, 1943-1946," Journal of ...
Grand strategies in the Cold War - Cambridge University Press
again during the Cold War, a struggle that went on longer than the Trojan, Persian, and Peloponnesian wars put together. The stakes, to be sure, were higher. The geographical scope of the competition was much wider. In its fundamental aspects, however, the …
Guatemala as Cold War History
depicting the intervention as a background episode include Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-1975, 3d ed. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976), pp. 159-61; and Joyce Kolko and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 700-701.
ARTICLES Confronting a “crisis in historical perspective”:Walter ...
years ofthe Cold War,as well as the undemocratic nature ofAmerican foreign policy-making.These were suppositions which,he argued,did not stand up to empirical scrutiny.21In 1997 Gaddis recycled these arguments by suggesting that,during the intervening years,a “new”approach to Cold War history had
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Specters of the Cold War in America ...
These chapters explore how American nationalism merged with the Cold War global imaginary of “benevolent supremacy,” and how this brand of Cold War Americanism was premised upon the recuperation of white masculinity through the representational incorporation of Cold War otherness into the metaphoric regime of marriage and the family.
The Post September 11 Debate over Empire, Globalization, and …
WALTER LAFEBER is a professor of government at Cornell University. He is the author of America, Russia, and the Cold War whose just-published 9th edition has a chapter explaining more fully the September 11 aftermath in U.S. foreign relations. Political Science Quarterly Volume 117 Number 1 2002 1
US and the Cold War in Latin America - Embry–Riddle …
US and the Cold War in Latin America. Thomas C. Field Jr. Summary and Keywords. The Cold War in Latin America had marked consequences for the region’s political and economic evolution. From the origins of US fears of Latin American Communism in the early 20th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, regional actors
America’s B-21 Raiders: Deterring and Assuring in the New Cold War
AMERICA’S B‑21 RAIDERS: DETERRING AND ASSURING IN THE NEW COLD WAR A prolific writer on defense‑related issues, Ms. Eaglen has been published in the popular press, including in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and War on the Rocks.She has also testified before
6. Referências bibliográficas - PUC-Rio
6. Referências bibliográficas ARON, Raymond. Paz e Guerra Entre as Nações. Brasília: Editora UnB, 2002. ART. Robert J.. A Defensible Defense: America´s Grand Strategy After the Cold
Book Analysis: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War…
THE COLD WAR, 1941-1947.-. Since the end of World War II, world public opinion has been actively concerned with the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. America's diplomatic relationship with the * Soviets is largely based on attitudes and beliefs born during the early cold war period. In a chronological format, this report
Displaying American Abundance Abroad: The Misinterpretation of …
scholarship that emerged at the end of the twentieth century, which relied heavily on the cold-war journalists’ portrayal of the American National Exhibition. As a result, these analyses show ... (Walter Lafeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1966 (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1967), 202.) 14Lester Louis Poehner, Jr., “The ...
T.J. Pempel Poli Sci 191-3 Junior Seminar - ResearchGate
LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War 1975-2002 (note this is the latest edition), McGraw Hill . Overholt, Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics, Cambridge UP . Yahuda,
THE RISE AND FALL OF COLD WAR REVISIONISM - JSTOR
13 Apr 2017 · the Cold War inevitable. Stalin, according to Williams, entertained no such global pretensions. His goals were limited to three major objectives: friendly governments on Russia's western borders, guarantees against a resurgent Germany, and securing the wherewithal to help reconstruct Russia's war-ravaged economy. On other matters he was ...
Walter F. LaFeber
Walter F. LaFeber was born in Walkerton, Indiana, on August 30, 1933, and he died in Ithaca, New York, on March 9, 2021. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Sandra Gould LaFeber, their ... Walt produced his second, America, Russia and the Cold War (1966). In it he wrote of the adverse effects of American imperialism at home: the
The Cold War Era - NCERT
The Cold War Era 3 clash made the whole world nervous, for it would have been no ordinary war. Eventually, to the world’s great relief, both sides decided to avoid war. The Soviet ships slowed down and turned back. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a high point of what came to be known as the Cold War. The Cold War referred to the competition,
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN …
Walter LaFeber argues that industrialization fueled centralization: Post-Civil War America remained a vast, unwieldy country of isolated, parochial commu-nities, but the federal government and a new corporate capitalism now had the power to invade these areas and integrate them into an industrializing, railway-linked nation-state.
Bill Nye Pressure Worksheet (2024) - netsec.csuci.edu
Bill Nye Pressure Worksheet Introduction Bill Nye Pressure Worksheet Book Review: Unveiling the Power of Words In a global driven by information and connectivity, the ability of words has become more evident
KEDftINING THE PAST - Oregon State University
Walter LaFeber is Noll Professor of History at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from Wisconsin in 1959. Author of the now classic America, Russia, and the Cold War, which has gone through several editions since it first appeared in 1966, LaFeber's most recent book is Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in CentralAmerica (1983).
COLD WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY FROM ALPHA HISTORY
Cold War has been closely studied by hundreds of historians. Histories of the period have reached different conclusions and formed different interpretations about the Cold War, why it occurred and how it developed and evolved. This page provides a brief survey of Cold War historiography and its three main schools of thought. The role of historians
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction - Archive.org
Contents Preface viii List of illustrations x List of maps xii 1 World War II and the destruction of the old order 1 2 The origins of the Cold War in Europe, 1945–50 16 3 Towards ‘Hot War’ in Asia, 1945–50 35 4 A global Cold War, 1950–8 56 5 From confrontation to detente, 1958–68 78 6 Cold wars at home 105 7 The rise and fall of superpower detente, 1968–79 122
Decolonization of a Special Type - JSTOR
and cultural history that transcend the totalizing effect that the 'Cold War period' as such has had.1 There is good reason for this position of renewal, perhaps argued most force- ... Hill and Wang, 1994); Walter LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006 (Boston: McGraw-Hill, [1967] 2008); Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign ...
