[Seminar Studies in History 01] • The Cold War 1949–2016 by McCauley, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations List of maps Foreword 1 Origins of the Cold War

The orthodox or traditional The revisionist The post-revisionist

2 Cold War: 1949–53

The People’s Republic of China The Korean War Eastern Europe Spies NSC-68 Germany Culture

3 To the brink and back: 1953–62

Lost opportunities Khrushchev takes over Khrushchev and China Eisenhower’s New Look The Geneva spirit Poland and Hungary in 1956 The Berlin crises The Cuban Missile Crisis Khrushchev goes Culture

4 The US and the Soviet Union in the Third World

The oil weapon The Soviets rediscover the Third World Bandung and the Non-aligned Movement US interventions in the Third World Iran Iran’s nuclear programme Syria Egypt Africa Latin America

5 The Sino-Soviet schism

The Moscow conference Nuclear weapons The great proletarian Cultural Revolution Conflict on the Ussuri

6 Cuba, Vietnam and Indonesia

Vietnam Indonesia

7 The war of cultures

Journalism, architecture and sport Religion

8 The Prague Spring 9 Détente: 1969–79

The Middle East Ostpolitik Disarmament The Helsinki Accord Nixon and China Africa Ethiopia and Somalia The end of détente Laos North Korea The challenge of Poland

10 The Islamic challenge: Iran and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

11 Cambodia-Kampuchea 12 Post-détente: 1979–85

Secret wars Soviet youth culture The Third World The Iran-Contra affair Andropov and Reagan: missed opportunities Oleg Gordievsky China The Iran-Iraq War

13 Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War

Gorbachev and Bush Gorbachev and Europe: our common home The home front Chernobyl The 19th Party Conference China Eastern Europe Poland Hungary The German Democratic Republic Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Romania Albania Yugoslavia Vietnam Gorbachev faces more challenges The Gulf War Syria Russia undermines the Union The last summit The attempted coup

14 The judgement

Why did the Cold War between the superpowers emerge in the years to 1953? 288 Why did the Cold War come to an end? The Chinese explanation Near misses Graphs

15 The post–Cold War world

Russia

The economy Foreign policy

Japan The US China

The crisis in the West Religion Women Overview BRICS China in Africa Chinese decision making

The Russian and American pivots to Asia

The South China Sea

North Korea Cuba Addendum