Isbn: 9780199858484 - reconstructing the cold war: the early years, 1945-1958 (8 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: as new. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 320 pp. English text. Condition : as new. - General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was getting under way? How could Khrushchev's de-Stalinized domestic and foreign policies at first cause a warming of relations with China, and then lead to the loss of its most important strategic ally? What can explain Stalin's failure to ally with the leaders of the decolonizing world against imperialism and Khrushchev's enthusiastic embrace of these leaders as anti-imperialist at a time of the first detente of the Cold War? It would seem that only idiosyncratic explanations could be offered for these seemingly incoherent policy outcomes. Or, at best, they could be explained by the personalities of Stalin and Khrushchev as leaders. The latter, although plausible, is incorrect. In fact, the most Stalinist of Soviet leaders, the secret police chief and sociopath, Lavrentii Beria, was the most enthusiastic proponent of de-Stalinized foreign and domestic policies after Stalin's death in March 1953. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780199858484. Keywords : HISTORY, cold war.…

Zustand: Like New. The early years of the Cold War were marked by contradictions and conflict. The turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West. Societal constructivism provides the theoretical approach to make sense of this turbulent history. …

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Zustand: New. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552. . 2012. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.