CONTENTS

          Preface

          List of Photographs

          List of Maps

          List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

          Chronology

          INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE PRELUDE: SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE WEST, 1917–1941

          War and Revolution

          A Contested Peace

          The Soviet Entry into World Politics

          The Dark Decade, 1931–1939

          The Aggressors Triumphant, 1939–1941

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER TWO THE GRAND ALLIANCE, 1941–1945

          Disparate Partners

          Turning the Tide While Tensions Mount

          Moving Apart

          Yalta

          The End of World War II

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER THREE COLD WAR, 1949–1952

          Two Rivals Emerge

          Nuremberg: The Final Collaboration

          The Rupture

          1947: The Division of Europe

          The World Outside Europe

          Prague and Berlin

          1949

          War in Korea

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER FOUR THE WIDENING CONFLICT, 1953–1963

          A Global Cold War

          Hungary

          Suez

          The Nuclear Question

          Building Europe

          Peaceful Coexistence?

          Cuba and Berlin

          Exit Kennedy and Khrushchev

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER FIVE THE SIXTIES

          The Cold War in Vietnam

          June 1967: The Arab-Israeli War

          Prague: August 1968

          1968: International Human Rights Year

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER SIX DÉTENTE, 1969–1975

          Reducing the Nuclear Threat

          Ostpolitik

          Ping-Pong Diplomacy

          Testing Détente, 1970–1974

                The Middle East

                South Asia

                Vietnam

                The October War in the Middle East

          Helsinki

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER SEVEN DÉTENTE COLLAPSES, 1975–1980

          Human Rights

          The Cold War in Africa

          SS-20 Missiles and SALT II

          The Middle East: 1979

          Solidarność

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER EIGHT THE SECOND COLD WAR, 1981–1985

          The Deterioration of US-Soviet Relations

                Martial Law in Poland

                Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

                The Downing of KAL 007

                “White Hot, Thoroughly White Hot,”

                Human Rights

          Central and South America

          Asia

          Africa

          The Middle East

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER NINE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, 1985–1991

          The Gorbachev Revolution in International Affairs

          1989: The Transformation of Eastern Europe

          1990: German Reunification

          1991: The Collapse of the Soviet Union

          Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER TEN AFTERMATH, 1992–2001

          The 1990s: A Global View

          Asia

          Africa

          The Middle East

          Latin America

          Europe

                The Wars in Yugoslavia

                The European Union

          The United States and 9/11

          Suggestions for Further Study

          CONCLUSION

          List of Individuals

          Bibliography

          Index