Cold War History
Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Major, Rana Mitter
February 20, 2004
This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting,...
Europe, Cold War and Coexistence, 1955-1965
1st Edition
Edited
By WILFRED LOTH
February 05, 2004
This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era'. It was a period marked by the struggle for a regulated co-existence in a world of blocs, an initial arrangement to find a temporary arrangement failed due to German desires to quickly overcome the status quo....
British and American Anti-communism Before the Cold War
1st Edition
By Markku Ruotsila
June 01, 2001
This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions....
Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Odd Arne Westad
September 01, 2000
Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it....