Ralph B. Levering, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe

Debating the Origins of the Cold War

American and Russian Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist, and global vision of the post-World War II peace that most Americans believed in and the dictatorial, xenophobic, and regional approach that characterized Soviet policies. The authors argue that repeated failures to find mutually acceptable solutions to concrete problems led to the rapid development of the Cold War, and they conclude that, given the respective concerns and perspectives of the time, both superpowers were largely justified in their courses of action. Supplemented by primary sources, including documents detailing Soviet espionage in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s and correspondence between Premier Josef Stalin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov during postwar meetings, this is the first book to give equal attention to the U.S. and Soviet policies and perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Debating Twentieth-Century America
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780847694082
• ISBN-10: 0847694089
• Artikelnr.: 21720122

Autorenporträt

By Ralph B. Levering; Vladimir O. Pechatnov; Verena Botzenhart-Viehe and Earl C. Edmondson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: The American Perspective Chapter 2 The Atlantic Charter,
August 14, 1941 Chapter 3 Comment on the Results of the Decisions Made at
the Yalta Conference Chapter 4 Secretary of State James Byrne's Speech in
Stuttgart on Germany's Future, September 6, 1946 Chapter 5 Speech by J.
Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigations, at the Annual
Convention of the American Legion in San Francisco, September 30, 1946
Chapter 6 George K. Kennan's Long Telegram, February 1946 Chapter 7 Henry
A. Wallace's Speech in New York City, September 12, 1946 Part 8 Part II:
The Russian Perspective Chapter 9 Stalin to Politburo Four (Vyacheslav
Molotov, Lavrenti Beria, Mikoyan, and Malenkov), Ciphered Telegram,
December 9, 1945 Chapter 10 A Compilation of [Written] Comments on Draft
Treaties Regarding Demilitarization and Disarmament of Germany and Japan
Proposed by [U.S. Secretary of State James] Byrnes Chapter 11 The Minister
of State Security Appeals for Measures to Close Down British Propaganda in
the U.S.S.R. Chapter 12 President Harry S. Truman's Speech to Congress,
March 12, 1947 Chapter 13 Instructions for the Soviet Delegation to the
Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Paris, June 25, 1947 Chapter 14 Record of
J[osef]. V[issarionivich]. Stalin's Conversation with the Czechoslovak
Government Delegation on the Issue of Their Position Regarding the Marshall
Plan and the Prospects for Economic Cooperation with the U.S.S.R. Chapter
15 Record of the Meeting of Comrade J[osef]. V[issarionivich]. Stalin with
the Secretary of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party
[Maurice] Thorez Chapter 16 Report by L. P. Beria and I. V. Kurchatov to J.
V. Stalin on Preliminary Data Received during the Atomic Bomb Test Chapter
17 The [Nikolai] Novikov Report [Telegram]