ABSTRACT
The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century.
In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could be as important as outright diplomacy, 'soft' power as influential as 'hard', and in which competing ideologies ruled the hearts as much as the heads of the leaders in power.
Dunbabin’s account is global in scope, taking into account the importance of players beyond the superpowers, and shedding light on the proxy conflicts such as those in Africa and the Middle East that, if not caused by the continuing stalemate between the great powers, were used as weapons within it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |75 pages
Overview
chapter |27 pages
The Cold War: an overview
chapter |46 pages
The strategic dimension of East–West competition
part |357 pages
East–West relations 1945–1991
chapter |63 pages
The start of the Cold War
chapter |57 pages
The nadir of the Cold War, 1948–1953
chapter |77 pages
The Khrushchev years – detentes, challenges, crises
chapter |46 pages
The Vietnam War and other proxy conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s
chapter |12 pages
Detente in Europe
chapter |25 pages
The United States, China and the World
chapter |38 pages
The rise and fall of detente in the 1960s and 1970s
chapter |37 pages
Tension and the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s
part |173 pages
Europe West and East, and the Sino–Soviet split
chapter |14 pages
Western Europe I: The political order
chapter |47 pages
Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA
chapter |27 pages
Western Europe III: The European Union
chapter |37 pages
Splits in the communist world
chapter |46 pages
Eastern Europe since 1957
part |32 pages
Conclusion