The Cold War 1949-2016 (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Martin McCauley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
List of maps
Foreword
1 Origins of the Cold War
The orthodox or traditional
The revisionist
The post-revisionist
2 Cold War: 1949–53
The People’s Republic of China
The Korean War
Eastern Europe
Spies
NSC-68
Germany
Culture
3 To the brink and back: 1953–62
Lost opportunities
Khrushchev takes over
Khrushchev and China
Eisenhower’s New Look
The Geneva spirit
Poland and Hungary in 1956
The Berlin crises
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev goes
Culture
4 The US and the Soviet Union in the Third World
The oil weapon
The Soviets rediscover the Third World
Bandung and the Non-aligned Movement
US interventions in the Third World
Iran
Iran’s nuclear programme
Syria
Egypt
Africa
Latin America
5 The Sino-Soviet schism
The Moscow conference
Nuclear weapons
The great proletarian Cultural Revolution
Conflict on the Ussuri
6 Cuba, Vietnam and Indonesia
Vietnam
Indonesia
7 The war of cultures
Journalism, architecture and sport
Religion
8 The Prague Spring
9 Détente: 1969–79
The Middle East
Ostpolitik
Disarmament
The Helsinki Accord
Nixon and China
Africa
Ethiopia and Somalia
The end of détente
Laos
North Korea
The challenge of Poland
10 The Islamic challenge: Iran and Afghanistan
Afghanistan
11 Cambodia-Kampuchea
12 Post-détente: 1979–85
Secret wars
Soviet youth culture
The Third World
The Iran-Contra affair
Andropov and Reagan: missed opportunities
Oleg Gordievsky
China
The Iran-Iraq War
13 Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
Gorbachev and Bush
Gorbachev and Europe: our common home
The home front
Chernobyl
The 19th Party Conference
China
Eastern Europe
Poland
Hungary
The German Democratic Republic
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania
Yugoslavia
Vietnam
Gorbachev faces more challenges
The Gulf War
Syria
Russia undermines the Union
The last summit
The attempted coup
14 The judgement
Why did the Cold War between the superpowers emerge in the years to 1953?
Why did the Cold War come to an end?
The Chinese explanation
Near misses
Graphs
15 The post–Cold War world
Russia
The economy
Foreign policy
Japan
The US
China
The crisis in the West
Religion
Women
Overview
BRICS
China in Africa
Chinese decision making
The Russian and American pivots to Asia
The South China Sea
North Korea
Cuba
Addendum
Further reading
References
Index