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The United States and the origins of the cold war, 1941-1947.

Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press, 1972.
Series: Contemporary American history series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date." -- New York Times Book Review.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 0231032897 9780231032896 0231083025 9780231083027
OCLC Number: 341037
Performer(s): ISBN 0-231-08302-5 Pbk: £1.75.
Description: ix, 396 p. 23 cm.
Contents: Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes --
The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World --
The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View, 1941-1944 --
Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan --
Repression versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany --
Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe --
Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan --
Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians --
The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World --
Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946 --
To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy --
Conclusion: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War --
Bibliography --
Index.
Series Title: Contemporary American history series.

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"[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date." -- New York Times Book Review.

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