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• The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years.

  Author:Gary HansonFrom:The Historian (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 1998557 words Brief article, Book ... The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 285. $30.00.) This book is a long-delayed sequel to the much-acclaimed Russia's Road to...

• The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity. The Stalin Years

  Author:D.W. SPRINGFrom:The English Historical Review (Vol. 114, Issue 455) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 1999513 words Book review Vojtech Mastny in The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity. The Stalin Years (New York/Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1996; pp. xi + 285. 25 [pounds sterling]) follows up his 1979 study of Russia and the origins of the Cold War with an...

• The Cold War Revisionists Kayoed

  Author:RICHARD C. RAACKFrom:World Affairs (Vol. 162, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 199915,944 words Biography Recent books on early Cold War history are discussed, with a focus on findings from documents newly available from former East Bloc archives. Books discussed include Vojtech Mastny's 'The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity:...

• The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years

  From:The Historian (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 1999188 words Brief article The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 285. $50.00.) Professor Vojtech Mastny of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,...

• Containing the offensive: the "chief of the cold war" and the Eisenhower administration's German policy

  Author:Valur IngimundarsonFrom:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 19978,147 words Article C.D. Jackson, chief of the Cold War under Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fought vigorously to destroy the Soviet bloc through clandestine US propaganda operations in Eastern Europe. However, Eisenhower rejected Jackson's...

• COLD WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY: NEW EVIDENCE BEHIND TRADITIONAL TYPOGRAPHIES

  Author:TIMOTHY J. WHITEFrom:International Social Science ReviewPeer-Reviewed

  Fall-Winter 20006,379 words Article For Americans and many in the world, the Cold War dominated international relations from 1945-1991. Only the nuclear balance of terror prevented this uneasy peace from becoming all out war, and few if any events could...

• The Stability of a Unipolar World

  Author:William C. WohlforthFrom:International Security (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 199915,102 words Article The article argues the end of the Cold War shifted the world political structure from a bipolar to a unipolar superpower status. Topics addressed include the stability of unipolarity, and the US' ability to remain the...

• "No more Potsdam!" Konrad Adenauer's nightmare and the basis of his international orientation

  Author:Jost DulfferFrom:German Politics and Society (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20078,945 words Article 1440LThe years of Adenauer's chancellorship 1949-1963 were an extremely violent and anxiety laden period in recent history. Adenauer himself tried to combine as basic aims Western integration and German unification, but the...

• On the expansion of the Czechoslovak economic relations with China after the establishment of the Chinese communist regime

  Author:Ales Skrivan, Jr.From:The Historian (Vol. 74, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20127,463 words Essay 1780LIN THE PERIOD between the world wars, Czechoslovak foreign trade on China in Czechoslovak was quite specific. Official Czechoslovakian statistics clearly indicated that China was not one of the country's most important...