Table of Contents

ChronologyWho's WhoGlossaryMapsList of platesPART ONE: ANALYSIS
1. Introduction: The Problem
2. The Cold War In Perspective
3. Cold War I: 1949 1953
4. To The Brink And Back: 1953 1969
5. Detente: 1969 1979
6. Cold War Ii: 1979 1985
7. New Political Thinking And The End Of The Cold War: 1985 1991
8.The Judgement
PART TWO: DOCUMENTS
FURTHER READINGREFERENCES

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Following on from McCauley's bestselling Origins of the Cold War, this book looks at the years from 1949 to 1991.

About the Author

Martin McCauley is former Senior lecturer in Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. An extremely accomplished author, he has written three other Seminar Studies volumes: The Khruschev Era, Russia, America and the Cold War and Stalin and Stalinism and two trade history books for Longman History: Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia and Afghanistan and Central Asia.