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Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain - The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
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Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain - The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 (Hardcover)
Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
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The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in
1989. Notions of a "global Cold War" are useful in describing the
wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II,
but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in
Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in
Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized
in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the United States. The
fundamental division of Europe persisted for forty years, coming to
an end only when Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe dissolved.
Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold
War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989, edited by Mark Kramer and
Vit Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished
experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end,
with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron
curtain. The contributors take account of structural conditions
that helped generate the Cold War schism in Europe, but they also
ascribe agency to local actors as well as to the superpowers. The
chapters dealing with the end of the Cold War in Europe explain not
only why it ended but also why the events leading to that outcome
occurred almost entirely peacefully.
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