Cold War History

A History of Detente, 1950-1991

By: W. Loth

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Hardcover | 20 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This book offers a major new interpretation of the Cold War and how its aftermath shaped the course of history. The history of the Cold War is more than the history of a confrontation. There is also a need to look into why the Cold War did not become more heated, and how it was finally overcome. Wilfried Loth's book examines both these issues. It is a story about the containment of the Cold War, of detente, of the development of cooperative security, and of the changes in the Soviet bloc. The book offers new information taken from Eastern and Western archives, and for the first time draws a precise and detailed overall picture of how the Cold War was overcome.

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'An extremely knowledgeable and fluently written account of international politics in the Cold War.' - Wolfgang Krieger, Das Historisch-Politische Buch

'...for the knowledgeable reader, it offers a first-rate history of the international relationship known as detente.' - Choice

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General Editor's Foreword	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Helsinki, 1 August 1975	p. 1
Between Neutralization and Bloc Formation	p. 11
Stalin's note offensive	p. 12
Beria and Churchill in the thaw	p. 18
Step-by-step failure	p. 24
Deescalation of the Cold War	p. 33
The spirit of Geneva	p. 34
Disarmament and reunification	p. 38
The Berlin ultimatum	p. 47
From Camp David to Paris	p. 52
Khrushchev and Kennedy	p. 57
The path to 13 August	p. 58
Fragmentary dialog	p. 63
The Cuban adventure	p. 67
Hotline and test ban agreement	p. 76
Visions Along the Way	p. 80
From Khrushchev to Brezhnev	p. 80
Vietnam war and arms race	p. 85
De Gaulle and the German question	p. 89
The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine	p. 95
The Time of the Treaties	p. 102
Brandt's path to Moscow	p. 102
Berlin settlement and the SALT Treaty	p. 110
Detente in action	p. 116
First setbacks	p. 122
The Decline of Detente	p. 128
Jackson, Helsinki, and Angola	p. 128
From Ford to Carter	p. 133
The Vienna summit	p. 139
Detente in Europe	p. 145
The decision for Nachrustung	p. 150
Dark Times	p. 157
Afghanistan	p. 157
Carter's course change	p. 160
Reagan and the peace movement	p. 165
German-German dialog and the Polish crisis	p. 172
The end of negotiations	p. 179
The End of the East-West Conflict	p. 184
Difficult start	p. 184
Gorbachev's offensive	p. 188
Cooperation and perestroika	p. 197
The dissolution of the Soviet bloc	p. 204
Peace settlements	p. 210
Balance: Fear and the Ways of Freedom	p. 217
Notes	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 250
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A History of Detente, 1950-1991

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