Imposing, maintaining, and tearing open the Iron Curtain : the Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989

Publication/Creation:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

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Book

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Full Title:

Imposing, maintaining, and tearing open the Iron Curtain : the Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 / edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana

Series Titles:

The Harvard Cold War studies book series
Harvard Cold War studies book series.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Kramer, Mark
Smetana, Vít, 1973-

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Cold War
Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1945-
Europe, Eastern--Relations--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Relations--Europe, Eastern

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Part I. Central Europe and the onset of the Iron Curtain -- Stalin, Soviet policy, and the establishment of a communist bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1949 / Mark Kramer -- The United States and Eastern Europe, 1943-1948 / Michael F. Hopkins -- Concessions or conviction? Czechoslovakia's road to the Cold War and the Soviet bloc / Vít Smetana -- Hungary's role in the Soviet bloc, 1945-1956 / László Borhi -- Stalin, the split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet East European efforts to reassert control, 1948-1953 / Mark Kramer -- Austria, Germany, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Rolf Steininger -- Neutrality for Germany or stabilizing the Eastern Bloc? New evidence on the decision-making process of the Stalin note / Peter Ruggenthaler -- Part II. The German question and intra-bloc politics in the post-Stalin era -- The Berlin Wall: looking back on the history of the wall twenty years after its fall / Hope M. Harrison --
The German problem and security in Europe "Hindrance or catalyst on the path to 1989-1990" / Oliver Bange -- Germany and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990: the view from London / Anne Deighton -- The German question as seen from Paris / Georges-Henri Soutou -- Cold War, détente and the Soviet bloc: the evolution of intra-bloc foreign policy coordination, 1953-1975 / Csaba Békés -- Part III. The role of East-Central Europe in ending the Cold War -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and the revolutions of 1989: U.S. myths versus the primary sources / Thomas Blanton -- Moscow and Eastern Europe 1988-1989: a policy of optimism and caution / Alex Pravda -- The opening of the wall, Eastern Europe, and Gorbachev's vision of Europe after the Cold War / Svetlana Savranskaya -- Pulling the rug: East-Central Europe and the implosion of East Germany / Bernd Schaefer -- The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer -- Part IV. Long-term perspectives on the Cold War and its end --
Nuclear weapons and the Cold War in Europe / David Holloway -- Why did the Cold War last so long? / Mark Kramer -- The end of the Cold War as a non-linear confluence / Richard Ned Lebow -- Conspicuous connections: 1968 and 1989 / Oldrich Tuma -- 1989 in historical perspective: the problem of legitimation / Silvio Pons -- The end of the Cold War and the transformation of Cold War history: a tale of two conferences, 1988-1989 / James G. Hershberg.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xviii, 563 pages ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990033790990302486

ISBN:

9780739181850 (cloth)
0739181858 (cloth)

OCLC Number:

855507142

Barcode:

010002720598