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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

Was the Cold War inevitable? Was there an international communist conspiracy? Did Castro and Khrushchev beat Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis? After combing through a mass of declassified and previously unavailable documentation to reconsider the collision of the American and Soviet empires, Yale professor Gaddis replies in the affirmative. Given Josef Stalin's convictions, the Cold War was inescapable: it is the choices that each side made that prove fruitful for historical research, and not the mere fact of the war, as Gaddis neatly demonstrates. The American empire--Gaddis's term--prevailed because, he says, "democracy proved superior to autocracy in maintaining coalitions," and not necessarily because of any technological or economic advantage. Gaddis dispels several misconceptions and urges that students of Cold War history should foremost "retain the capacity to be surprised."
Country USA
Brand Clarendon Press
Manufacturer Clarendon Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1998-07-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780198780717

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