The Cold War and Soviet insecurity
| Titel: | The Cold War and Soviet insecurity : the Stalin years / Vojtech Mastny |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1996 |
| Umfang: | XI, 285 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0195106164 ; 0195126599 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Introduction: The Cold War as History
- p. 3
- 1.
- Stalin's Quest for Soviet Security
- p. 11
- Defense of the Despotism
- p. 11
- The Making of an Empire
- p. 17
- The Unwanted Cold War
- p. 23
- 2.
- The Specter of Communism (September 1947-June 1948)
- p. 30
- The Birth of the Cominform
- p. 30
- The Balkan Trap
- p. 35
- The Stakes Increased
- p. 40
- 3.
- A Harvest of Blunders (June 1948-April 1949)
- p. 47
- The Berlin Fiasco
- p. 47
- The Dictator's Delusions
- p. 53
- Militarization of the Cold War
- p. 58
- 4.
- Retreat and Consolidation (April 1949-November 1949)
- p. 63
- Cutting the Losses
- p. 63
- The Trials of Past Errors
- p. 67
- No End to the Cold War
- p. 74
- 5.
- Resuming Advance (November 1949-June 1950)
- p. 80
- Real and Imaginary Subversion
- p. 80
- The Second Front in Asia
- p. 85
- The Design for Aggression
- p. 91
- 6.
- The Test of Strength (June 1950-January 1951)
- p. 98
- An Adventure Gone Wrong
- p. 98
- War Expanded
- p. 104
- At the Brink
- p. 110
- 7.
- On the Defensive (January 1951-March 1952)
- p. 116
- Eastern Europe under Siege
- p. 116
- The Inauspicious Negotiating
- p. 121
- "I Trust No One"
- p. 128
- 8.
- Fits and Starts (March 1952-November 1952)
- p. 134
- Stalin's German Illusion
- p. 134
- The Despot Loses His Grip
- p. 140
- Win the War at Home
- p. 145
- 9.
- The Dead End (November 1952-March 1953)
- p. 153
- The Nadir of Stalinism
- p. 153
- Stalin's Last Plot
- p. 158
- The Unopened Window of Opportunity
- p. 164
- 10.
- Coping with the Stalin Legacy (March-July 1953)
- p. 171
- The Prevailing Consensus
- p. 171
- Beriia and the German Crisis
- p. 178
- The Saving of the Soviet System
- p. 185
- Conclusion: The Soviet Threat in Retrospect
- p. 191
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- p. 199
- Notes
- p. 201
- Archival Sources
- p. 263
- Index
- p. 267
