The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings

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Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad
Cambridge University Press, Jan 26, 2012 - History
Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the evolution of the conflict from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. A team of leading scholars analyzes the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological and geopolitical factors that ended the Cold War and discusses the personalities and policies of key leaders such as Brezhnev, Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl and Deng Xiaoping. The authors show how events throughout the world shaped the evolution of Soviet-American relations and they explore the legacies of the superpower confrontation in a comparative and transnational perspective. Individual chapters examine how the Cold War affected and was affected by environmental issues, economic trends, patterns of consumption, human rights and non-governmental organizations. The volume represents the new international history at its best, emphasizing broad social, economic, demographic and strategic developments while keeping politics and human agency in focus.
 

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Contents

List of illustrations
Islamism the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion
The collapse of superpower détente 19751980
China and the Cold War after
The Cold War in Central America 19751991
The Cold War and southern Africa 19761990
BETH A FISCHER
The unification of Germany 19851991
DAVID REYNOLDS
The biosphere and the Cold
ROSEMARY FOOT
global migration public
Consumer capitalism and the end of the Cold
The restructuring of the international system after the Cold
Bibliographical essay
The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold

The collapse of the Soviet Union 19901991
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About the author (2012)

Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at the Department of History, University of Virginia. His previous publications include To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (2008, as co-editor), For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007, winner of the AHA George Louis Beer Prize) and A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Robert Ferrell Prize and the Herbert Hoover Book Award).

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA New Political Science Prize and the Akira Ireye Award), Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946–1950 (2003) and Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963 (1999, as editor).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
EditorsMelvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2012
ISBN1316025632, 9781316025635
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History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / World
Political Science / International Relations / General
  
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