A valuable encyclopedia on the Cold War - one of the few available
- containing a wealth of information not otherwise available in one
place. Kort (Social Science/Boston Univ.; The Soviet Colossus: A
History, 1984, etc.) deals in a short, 96-page introductory essay
with the origins and development of the Cold War, including the
reasons for the deterioration of relations between the US and the
Soviet Union in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War;
the impact on US domestic politics; why the Cold War expanded into
the Third World; detente and its decline; and what factors
ultimately ended it. Most useful is the discussion of the differing
interpretations of the struggle, a debate between the
traditionalists, who have argued that the problem lay in an
expansionist Soviet Union; the revisionists, who blamed US economic
expansionism, almost without regard to the Soviet dictatorship; and
the post-revisionists, who rejected this economic determinism and
the failure to take the Soviet threat into account, while not
neglecting the security concerns of the Soviet Union. Kort holds
that recent research in the Soviet archives strengthens the
traditionalist and post-revisionist views. The last three sections
of the volume are a collection of short biographies of the major
participants, a concise chronology, and a 140-page critical
bibliography of the subject, grouped by period and by topic, with
comments on the utility of particular texts for instructional
purposes. A very useful approach to the subject. (Kirkus Reviews)
The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and
the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century.
Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to
measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet,
post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics,
domestic policy, and popular culture. "The Columbia Guide to the
Cold War" is the first in a series of guides to American history
and culture that will offer a wealth of interpretive information in
different formats to students, scholars, and general readers alike.
This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues,
and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and
an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films,
novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes.
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