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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture : Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s / Alpers, Benjamin Leontief. 2003.
Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books,
plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the
early years of the Cold War. During the early 1930s, most Americans' conception of dictatorship focused on the dictator. Whether viewed as
heroic or horrific, the dictator was represented as a figure of great, masculine power and effectiveness. As the Great Depression gripped
the United States, a few people--including conservative members of the press and some Hollywood filmmakers--even dared to suggest that
dictatorship might be the answer to America's social problems. In the late 1930s, American explanations of dictatorship shifted focus
from individual leaders to the movements that empowered them. Totalitarianism became the image against which a view of democracy
emphasizing tolerance and pluralism and disparaging mass movements developed. First used to describe dictatorships of both right and left,
the term 'totalitarianism' fell out of use upon the U.S. entry into World War II. With the war's end and the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet
alliance, however, concerns about totalitarianism lay the foundation for the emerging Cold War.
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War / Krige, John and Oreskes, Naomi. 2014.
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped
Cold War techno-scientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions.
These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology,
meteorology, and other fields. This volume examines science and technology in the context of the Cold War, considering whether the new
institutions and institutional arrangements that emerged globally constrained techno-scientific inquiry or offered greater opportunities for it.
The contributors find that whatever the particular science, and whatever the political system in which that science was operating,
the knowledge that was produced bore some relation to the goals of the nation-state. These goals varied from nation to nation; weapons research was
emphasized in the United States and the Soviet Union, for example, but in France and China scientific independence and self-reliance dominated.
The contributors also consider to what extent the changes to science and technology practices in this era were produced by the specific politics,
anxieties, and aspirations of the Cold War.
A cold War Turning Point : Nixon and China, 1969-1972 / Tudda, Chris. 2012.
In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao Zedong called the 'week that changed the world’.
Using recently declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point
reveals new details about the relationship forged by the Nixon administration and the Chinese government that dramatically altered the
trajectory of the Cold War. Between the years 1969 and 1972, Nixon's national security team actively fostered the U.S. rapprochement
with China. Tudda argues that Nixon, in bold opposition to the stance of his predecessors, recognized the mutual benefits of
repairing the Sino-U.S. relationship and was determined to establish a partnership with China. Nixon believed that America's relative
economic decline, its overextension abroad, and its desire to create a more realistic international framework aligned with China's fear
of Soviet military advancement and its eagerness to join the international marketplace. In a contested but calculated move, Nixon
gradually eased trade and travel restrictions to China. Mao responded in kind, albeit slowly, by releasing prisoners, inviting the U.S.
ping-pong team to Beijing, and secretly hosting Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prior to Nixon's momentous visit. Set in the larger
framework of international relations at the peak of the Vietnam War, A Cold War Turning Point is the first book to use the Nixon tapes
and Kissinger telephone conversations to illustrate the complexity of early Sino-U.S. relations. Tudda's thorough and illuminating research
provides a multi-archival examination of this critical moment in twentieth-century international relations.
Cold War on the Airwaves / Schlosser, Nicholas. 2015.
Founded as a counterweight to the Communist broadcasters in East Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) became one of the most successful public
information operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc. Cold War on the Airwaves examines the Berlin-based organization's history and influence on the
political worldview of the people--and government--on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Nicholas Schlosser draws on broadcast transcripts, internal memoranda,
listener letters, and surveys by the U.S. Information Agency to profile RIAS. Its mission: to undermine the German Democratic Republic with propaganda that,
ironically, gained in potency by obeying the rules of objective journalism. Throughout, Schlosser examines the friction inherent in such a contradictory
project and propaganda's role in shaping political culture. He also portrays how RIAS's primarily German staff influenced its outlook and how the organization
both competed against its rivals in the GDR and pushed communist officials to alter their methods in order to keep listeners. From the occupation of Berlin
through the airlift to the construction of the Berlin Wall, Cold War on the Airwaves offers an absorbing view of how public diplomacy played out at a
flashpoint of East-West tension
To Kill Nations : American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction / Kaplan, Edward. 2015.
Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation's strategic airpower and saw the Air Force
displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and
preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by
thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. The shift to
mutually assured destruction (MAD) via general nuclear exchange steadily took precedence in strategic thinking and budget allocations. Soon
American nuclear-armed airborne bomber fleets shaped for conventionally defined—if implausible, then impossible—victory were supplanted by
missile-based forces designed to survive and punish. The Air Force receded from the forefront of American security policy. Kaplan throws into
question both the inevitability and prefer-ability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional,
and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear
war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for
the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.
Innocent Weapons : The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War / Peacock, Margaret. 2014.
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In
this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt
to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad. Groups on either side of the Iron Curtain pushed visions of endangered, abandoned, and
segregated children to indict the enemy's state and its policies. Though the Cold War is often characterized as an ideological divide between the capitalist
West and the communist East, Peacock demonstrates a deep symmetry in how Soviet and American propagandists mobilized similar images to similar ends, despite
their differences. Based on extensive research spanning fourteen archives and three countries, Peacock tells a new story of the Cold War, seeing the conflict
not simply as a divide between East and West, but as a struggle between the producers of culture and their target audiences.
Hot Books in the Cold War : The West's CIA-funded Secret Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain / Reisch, Alfred A.. 2013.
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold
War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of
intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the
two key figures: S. S. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal
letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working
individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc
disintegrated. Walker, who initiated the idea of a “mailing project,” and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and
psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities
based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined,
and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed
and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare : Cold War Organizations Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe /Free Europe
Committee / Lynn, Katalin Kádár. 2013.
The essays in this book discuss the Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Baltic States national committees, which were formed to lead the
propaganda battle against the growth of world-wide communism, and which represented the U.S.-based exile leadership of those satellite nations. The
primary sources of this research were the archival records of the two radio divisions, acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University in
2000.
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies : The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War / Sbardellati, John. 2012.
Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry
to expose Hollywood's alleged subversion of 'the American Way' through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political
ideologies. FBI informants (their names still redacted today) reported to Hoover's G-men on screenplays and screenings of such films as Frank Capra's It's
a Wonderful Life (1946), noting that 'this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show that people who had money were mean and
despicable characters'. The FBI's anxiety over this film was not unique; it extended to a wide range of popular and critical successes, including The Grapes
of Wrath (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Crossfire (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954).In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati
provides a new consideration of Hollywood's history and the post-World War II Red Scare. In addition to governmental intrusion into the creative process,
he details the efforts of left-wing filmmakers to use the medium to bring social problems to light and the campaigns of their colleagues on the political
right, through such organizations as the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, to prevent dissemination of 'un-American' ideas
and beliefs. Sbardellati argues that the attack on Hollywood drew its motivation from a sincerely held fear that film content endangered national security
by fostering a culture that would be at best apathetic to the Cold War struggle at best, or, at its worst, conducive to communism at home. Those who took
part in Hollywood's Cold War struggle, whether on the left or right, shared one common trait: a belief that the movies could serve as engines for social
change. This strongly held assumption explains why the stakes were so high and, ultimately, why Hollywood became one of the most important ideological
battlegrounds of the Cold War.
US Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967 / Kalic, Sean N. 2012.
In the clash of ideologies represented by the Cold War, even the heavens were not immune to militarization. Satellites and space programs became
critical elements among the national security objectives of both the United States and the Soviet Union. According to US Presidents and the Militarization
of Space, 1946–1967, three American presidents in succession shared a fundamental objective of preserving space as a weapons-free frontier for the
benefit of all humanity. Between 1953 and 1967 Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson all saw nonaggressive military satellite development, as well as the
civilian space program, as means to favorably shape the international community's opinion of the scientific, technological, and military capabilities
of the United States. Sean N. Kalic's reinterpretation of the development of US space policy, based on documents declassified in the past decade, demonstrates
that a single vision for the appropriate uses of space characterized American strategies across parties and administrations during this period. Significantly,
Kalic's findings contradict the popular opinion that the United States sought to weaponize space and calls into question the traditional interpretation of the
space race as a simple action/reaction paradigm. Indeed, beyond serving as a symbol and ambassador of US technological capability, its satellite program
provided the United States with advanced, nonaggressive military intelligence-gathering platforms that proved critical in assessing the strategic
nuclear balance between the United States and the Soviet Union. It also aided the three administrations in countering the Soviet Union's increasing
international prestige after its series of space firsts, beginning with the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
Religion and the Cold War : A Global Perspective / Muehlenbeck, Philip E. 2012.
The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World
War II. Less clear is the role religious ideology played in the conflicts that defined the Cold War era. All too often, beliefs held sacred by
some became tools to motivate action or create friction. In Religion and the Cold War, Philip Muehlenbeck assembles an international team of specialists
to explore how religion informed the ideological and military clashes across the globe in the second half of the twentieth century. Students and scholars
will find in this volume a level of comprehensiveness rarely achieved in Cold War studies. Each chapter reveals that the power and influence of ideas
are just as important as military might in the struggles between superpowers and that few ideas, then as now, carry as much force as religious ideology.
As Muehlenbeck and his contributors demonstrate, no area of the world, and no religious tenet, was safe from the manipulations of a powerful set of players
focused solely on their own sphere of influence.
The Missile Next Door : The Minuteman in the American Heartland / Heefner, Gretchen. 2012.
In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all
political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs, a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the
military-industrial complex that still persists today.
Britain and America After World War II : Bilateral Relations and the Beginnings of the Cold War / Wevill, Richard. 2012.
The period immediately after World War II was a vital one for diplomatic relations and, with the Soviet Union emerging as a new
superpower. It was particularly important for Britain's relations with America. The subject has unsurprisingly already received much scholarly attention, but
this is the first book to focus on the role of the British Embassy in Washington during this period. According to Richard Wevill, the British Embassy formed an
essential part of the foreign policy-making process in London, and was pivotal in the fulfillment
of key British foreign, financial and imperial policy objectives. Through wide-ranging primary source material, Wevill has produced a detailed picture of the postwar
British agenda. Britain and America after World War II reveals for the first time the structures of power and hierarchies of information behind the
major decisions, the covert and factional relations with the US State Department and the frictions and agreements which were to shape the future of Britain -
including the concessions imposed by the Marshall Plan, the intricate relationship with President Truman, Britain's failed attempts to co-ordinate
America's policy towards the Middle East and the curtailment of atomic energy collaboration. This was a period of robust American diplomacy, led by
larger-than-life figures like General George Marshall, Dean Acheson and James F. Byrnes. In weaving British diplomacy into America's efforts to reshape the
postwar world, this book charts the beginnings of one of the twentieth century's most influential alliances. As such it will be a primary reference point for
students and scholars of Diplomacy, History, the Cold War, Politics and International Relations.
America's Cold War : The Politics of Insecurity / Craig, Campbell and Logevall, Fredrik. 2009.
In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. The United States dealt
effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American
leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle's continuation. Long after the USSR had been
effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of
repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.
The Use of Sports to Promote the American Way of Life During the Cold War : Cultural Propaganda, 1945-1963 / Crawford, Russ. 2008.
This work investigates the use of sport in the first two decades of the Cold War to resist Communism by strengthening the American Way of Life.
Each of the Cold War's key players used athletics as a means of advancing political ideologies. The book also evaluates the gains and losses of
minorities in this era.
The Mighty Wurlitzer : How the CIA Played America / Wilford, Hugh. 2008.
Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of
sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and
ultimate collapse in the 1960s.
Learning to Love the Bomb : Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War / Maloney, Sean M. 2007.
In Learning to Love the Bomb, Sean M. Maloney explores the controversial subject of Canada's acquisition of nuclear weapons during the
Cold War. Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents, it examines policy, strategy, operational, and technical matters and weaves
these seemingly disparate elements into a compelling story that finally unlocks several Cold War mysteries. For example, while U.S. military forces
during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis were focused on the Caribbean Sea and the southeastern United States, Canadian forces assumed responsibility for
defending the northern United States, with aircraft armed with nuclear depth charges flying patrols and guarding against missile attack by Soviet submarines.
This defensive strategy was a closely guarded secret because it conflicted with Canada's image as a peacekeeper and therefore a more passive member of NATO
than its ally to the south. It is revealed here for the first time. The place of nuclear weapons in Canadian history has, until now, been a highly secret and
misunderstood field subject to rumor, rhetoric, half-truths, and propaganda. Learning to Love the Bomb reveals the truth about Canada's role as a nuclear power.
British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War / Jenks, John. 2006.
This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War. Bribing
editors, blackballing unreliable journalists, creating instant media experts through provision of carefully edited inside information, and exploiting the
global media system to plant propaganda--disguised as news--around the world: these were all methods used by the British to try to convince the international
public of Soviet deceit and criminality and thus gain support for anti-Soviet policies at home and abroad. Britain's shaky international position heightened
the importance of propaganda. The Soviets and Americans were investing heavily in propaganda to win the hearts and minds of the world and substitute for
increasingly unthinkable nuclear war. The British exploited and enhanced their media power and propaganda expertise to keep up with the superpowers and preserve
their own global influence at a time when British economic, political and military power was sharply declining. This activity directly influenced domestic media
relations, as officials used British media to launder foreign-bound propaganda and to create the desired images of British public opinion for foreign audiences.
By the early 1950s censorship waned but covert propaganda had become addictive. The endless tension of the Cold War normalized what had previously been abnormal
state involvement in the media, and led it to use similar tools against Egyptian nationalists, Irish republicans and British leftists. Much more recently,
official manipulation of news about Iraq indicates that a behind-the-scenes examination of state propaganda's earlier days is highly relevant. John Jenks draws
heavily on recently declassified archival material for this book, especially files of the Foreign Office's anti-Communist Information Research Department (IRD)
propaganda agency, and the papers of key media organisations, journalists, politicians and officials. Readers will therefore gain a greater understanding of
the depth of the state's power with the media at a time when concerns about propaganda and media manipulation are once again at the fore.
The Star Wars Enigma : Behind the Scenes of the Cold War Race for Missile Defense / Hey, Nigel. 2006.
The year 1982 was a desperate time for the U.S. defense community. The United States had no effective system to protect itself completely from a Soviet attack
with nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the Soviet Union possessed in large quantity, and the doomsday philosophy of mutually assured
destruction seemed inescapable. But people in the Reagan administration, including Reagan himself, were not content with what they viewed as a morally
unacceptable status quo. Then Adm. James Watkins, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked, “Wouldn't it be better if we could develop a system that would
protect, rather than avenge, our people?” With that, the president's commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) became certain. Ultimately, SDI
reflected Western political idealism, a powerful ingredient in the struggle to finally conquer the terrors of the Cold War and to allay the threat of nuclear
holocaust. The Star Wars Enigma tells this dramatic story.
God Bless You Joe Stalin : The Man Who Saved Capitalism / Kaplan, Lewis E. 2006.
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The First Cold Warrior : Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism / Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. 2006.
From the first days of his unexpected presidency in April 1945 through the landmark NSC 68 of 1950, Harry Truman was central to the formation of America's
grand strategy during the Cold War and the subsequent remaking of U.S. foreign policy. Others are frequently associated with the terminology of and responses to the
perceived global Communist threat after the Second World War: Walter Lippmann popularized the term 'cold war' and George F. Kennan first used the word 'containment'
in a strategic sense. Although Kennan, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall have been seen as the most influential
architects of American Cold War foreign policy, The First Cold Warrior draws on archives and other primary sources to demonstrate that Harry Truman was the
key decision maker in the critical period between 1945 and 1950. In a significant reassessment of the thirty-third president and his political beliefs,
Elizabeth Edwards Spalding contends that it was Truman himself who defined and articulated the theoretical underpinnings of containment. His practical
leadership style was characterized by policies and institutions such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Berlin airlift, the Department of Defense,
and the National Security Council. Part of Truman's unique approach -- shaped by his religious faith and dedication to anti-communism -- was to emphasize the
importance of free peoples, democratic institutions, and sovereign nations. With these values, he fashioned a new liberal internationalism, distinct from both
Woodrow Wilson's progressive internationalism and Franklin D. Roosevelt's liberal pragmatism, which still shapes our politics. Truman deserves greater credit
for understanding the challenges of his time and for being America's first cold warrior. This reconsideration of Truman's overlooked statesmanship provides a
model for interpreting the international crises facing the United States in this new era of ideological conflict.
Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War / Cavell, Richard. 2004.
The essays in Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War present a Cold War different in many respects from the familiar one of anti-communist hysteria. In
Canada, the Cold War raised issues of national self-representation that went beyond international political tensions related to capitalistic versus communistic regimes.
If the discourse of the Cold War in Canada was anti-communist, it was also anti-American in many ways. Drawing on a number of disciplinary approaches and
examining what Michel Foucault called the discursive practices of the period, the contributors examine how, in the Cold War, the personal became the political
through the state's attempt to regulate sexuality - in pulp fiction, in film, and in public spaces. A major theme emerging from Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's
Cold War is that many issues associated with the Cold War in Canada actually preceded World War II and continue to haunt us today. This has become
particularly apparent after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, when politicians began employing the rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' and invoking issues of
border security, immigration and refugee quotas, and harmonization of policies.
The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind : The Early Cold War / Bogle, Lori Lyn. 2004.
The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American
youth. In Strategy for Survival, Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned itself the role of guardian and interpreter of national values and why
it sought to create “ideologically sound Americans capable of defeating communism and assuring the victory of democracy at home and abroad.” Bogle shows
that a tendency by some in the armed forces to diffuse their view of America's civil religion among the general population predated tension with the Soviet
Union. Bogle traces this trend from the Progressive Era though the early Cold War, when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations took seriously the battle of
ideologies of that era and formulated plans that promised not only to meet the armed forces manpower needs but also to prepare the American public morally and spiritually
for confrontation with the evils of communism. Both Truman's plan for Universal Military Training and Eisenhower's psychological warfare programs promoted an
evangelical democracy and sought to inculcate a secular civil-military religion in the general public. During the early 1960s, joint military-civilian
anticommunist conferences, organized by the authority of the Department of Defense, were exploited by ultra-conservative civilians advancing their own
political and religious agendas. Bogle's analysis suggests that cooperation among evangelicals, the military, and government was considered both necessary
and normal. The Boy Scouts pushed a narrow vision of American democracy, and Joe McCarthy's chauvinism was less an aberration than a particularly noxious
manifestation of a widespread attitude. To combat communism, American society and its armed forces embraced brainwashing—narrow moral education that attacked
everyone and everything not consonant with their view of the world and how it ought to be ordered. Exposure of this alliance ultimately dissolved it. However,
the cult of toughness and the blinkered view of reality that characterized the armed forces and American society during the Cold War are still valued by many,
and are thus still worthy of consideration.
The Cold War : A Very Short Introduction / McMahon, Robert J. 2003.
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The Making of the Cold War Enemy : Culture and Politics in the Military-intellectual Complex / Robin, Ron Theodore. 2003.
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists
to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies,
but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight,
Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous 'American' assumptions
about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come.
Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects,
negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking
and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity
ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted
the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis
of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.
The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Parry-Giles, Shawn J. 2002.
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Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union / Glazov, Jamie. 2002.
This details how the St Laurent government backed the shrewd calculations of the Department of External Affairs and emphasized the wisdom of the
containment-accommodation approach, an approach that, Glazov claims, would help win the Cold War thirty-five years later. Glazov shows that the
strategy of accommodation, the main difference between Canadian and American Soviet policy, was ultimately vindicated by the eventual ascendancy
of a liberal Soviet leader (Gorbachev). This led to increased East-West contact and Soviet liberalization, phenomena that led directly to the
West's victory in the Cold War. Glazov's new assessment of Western policies toward Khrushchev's Russia is critical to our understanding of
present-day Russia, since Gorbachev's democratization, which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, had its origins in the
Khrushchev thaw. Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union provides vital information to help answer the question of how the West should deal
with Russia, especially in the context of globalization - one of the most urgent issues facing Canada and the Western world.
The Superpowers : A Short History / Dukes, Paul. 2000.
The Superpowers traces the development of the USA and Russia (later USSR) from 1898 through to 2000, placing the Cold War, from inception to ending,
into the wider social, economic and political context. This is the first history of the two major participants and their relationship throughout the
twentieth century. The Superpowers: explores the intertwining history of the two powers chronologically and includes discussion of: • the
inheritance of the two great powers and their imperial background • World War One and the Russian Revolution • Capitalism and Socialism • World
War Two and its impact • the conflicts in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Afghanistan • Perestroika and the end of the USSR • the significance of the events of 1991 and
their legacy.
Th
e Cold War / Lightbody, Bradley. 1999.
The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyzes its eight major phases,
including: • the emergence of the Cold War• Coexistence and Detente• Glasnost in the late 1980s. Combining factual overview and background discussion of the
key issues such as the nuclear threat and who, if anyone, won the Cold War, with analysis of source material, students will find this a must-have in the
study of this major historical event.
The Iron Curtain : Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War / Harbutt, Fraser J. 1988.
It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase 'Iron Curtain'. This speech,
according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public
definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that
goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist
of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States,
Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played
a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world
wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of
biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing
Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman
administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently)
led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
The Cold War, 1945-1991 / Mason, John W. 1996.
Mason provides concise coverage of the entire Cold War, paying particular attention to the Soviet-American dimension. This pamphlet:• Analyzes
the origins of the conflict• Examines how the existence of nuclear weapons gives a unique character to the period• Discusses the involvement of other nations and
regions, particularly China• Explains how and why the Cold War ended• Draws on recent research of revisionist scholars.