Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 200 páginas
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.
 

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The Atlantic Charter August 14 1941
63
Comment on the Results of the Decision Made at the Yalta Conference
65
George F Kennans Long Telgram February
67
Secretary of State James Byrnes Speech in Stuttgart on Germanys Future September 6
72
Speech by J Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Annual Convention of the American Legion in San Francisco September 3...
74
Henry A Wallaces Speech in New York City September 121946
76
President Harry S Trumans Speech to Congress March 12 1947
79
The Russian Perspective
83
The Minister of State Security Appeals for Measures to Close Down British Propaganda in the USSR
163
Instructions for the Soviet Delegation to the Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Paris June 25 1947
165
Record of Iosef VIssarionvich Stalins Conversation with the Czechoslovak Government Delegation on the Issue of Their Position Regarding the Mars...
167
Record of the Meeting of Comrade IOsef Vissarionivich Stalin with the Secretary of the Central Commitee of the French Communist Party Maurice T...
171
Report by LP Beria and IV Stalin on Preliminary Data Recieved during the Atomic Bomb Test
174
Acknowledgments
177
Selected Readings
181
Index
185

Stalin to Politburo Four Anastas Mikoyan and George Malenkov Ciphered Coded
153
A Compilation of Written Comments on Draft Treaties Regarding Demilitarization and Disarmament of Germany and Japan Proposed by US Secretar...
155
The Nikolai Novikov Report Telegram
158

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Ralph B. Levering teaches U.S. diplomatic history at Davidson College in North Carolina. Vladimir O. Pechatnov is chair of the Department of European and American Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Verena Botzenhart-Viehe teaches at the Hotchkiss school. C. Earl Edmondson is chair of the Department of History at Davidson College in North Carolina.

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