Myths of the Cold War
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8969-6 (ISBN)
Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The “present interest” motivation in Weeks's analysis is gaining a clear understanding of the bi-polar, $4 trillion, nuclear-war-threatening standoff that lasted over 40 years after World War II until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Without such knowledge and understanding of this dangerous conflict, any future encounter of the cold-war type with another nation-state is liable to be construed in confusing ways just as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War was. The consequence of such misunderstanding in the historiographic sense as well as in policy-making at the highest level is that the populations of the contending powers will have distorted conceptions of the reasons for the confrontation. The result of this, in turn, is skewed tendentiousness that masks concrete, underlying causes of intense inter-state contention.
Practical benefits thus flow from an unprejudiced analysis of the past Cold War with Communist Russia. This understanding can help prevent a future conflict, such as one with Communist China, which some reputed sinologists are currently predicting, as well as one with post-Soviet Russia. Conversely, if a new cold war is imposed on the West, a clearer understanding of the post-World War II archetypical Cold War will be edifying.
Albert L. Weeks served in the U.S. Department of State as senior Soviet analyst during the Cold War and is the author of several books on international affairs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I Introduction; Distorted Cold War Historiography
CHAPTER 2 Cold War Basics
Looming Cold War, 1943-1946Cold War CalendarA "New" Postwar Stalin?CHAPTER 3 Myth of Ideological Irrelevance
Ideology and the Cold WarThe Realist ViewTraditionalist ViewSoviet Diplomatic "Warfare"CHAPTER 4 Fallacy of Stalin's "Defencist Security"
Stalin's Empty ArgumentMoscow's Post-Soviet Attempts at UnitySoviet Doctrine of ExpansionFinlandUkraineOther Borderland CountriesSpecial Cases of the Baltic States and PolandExpansion if the Far EastAmerican ReactionPrewar, Wartime, Postwar Soviet ExpansionSoviet Expansion, 1940-1946Expansionism of 1939 to June 1941Resistance to Further ExpansionCHAPTER 5 Cold War Clash Over New Postwar World
The Roosevelt Factor Stalin's "World" vs. Western ProjectionClashes Between "Civilizations"CHAPTER 6 Current Russian Texts on the Cold War
Post-Soviet TextbooksOther Post-Soviet Books
CHAPTER 7 Lessons for the "Next" Cold War
China Cold War CaseAvoiding old WarsPreventive MeasuresHow "Marxist" Is China?Conclusions APPENDIX I OWI/War Department Handbook on USSR (1946)
APPENDIX II Stalin's and Molotov's Electoral Speeches, February
1946
APPENDIX III Andrei A. Zhdanov on "Two-World Struggle"
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Maps |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-8969-7 / 0739189697 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-8969-6 / 9780739189696 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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