The Origins of the Cold War
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Cold Wars: Themes and Trajectories -- Debating the Cold War: Historiographical Thoughts -- The Cold War and the New Wars on Terror: Three Resonances -- The Cold War as History -- The Importance of History to International Relations -- 2 Casting Long Shadows: Revolution to War -- Russia and the Revolution -- Competing Visions after World War I -- Mixing Ideology and Power: The Geopolitics of Revolution and Counter-Revolution -- Reflections -- 3 Wars and Empire -- The Impact of Operation 'Barbarossa' -- Roosevelt and Stalin: Another 'Brutal Friendship'? -- Spheres of Influence, Ideological and Political -- Shocks and Turning Points -- The Decay of the Grand Alliance -- 'Bipolarity' and the Creation of the 'Cold War' -- 4 Far From Hegemony? Uncertainties and Constraints in the Early Cold War -- The Marshall Plan -- The Soviet Response -- Berlin - the First Crisis -- The Origins of the Cold War: Beyond Europe -- The Enemies within -- 'Police Action' in Korea -- An Era of Perpetual Crisis -- Reflections -- 5 The Shape of the Cold War -- Mirror Images? -- Europe in the High Cold War -- Resistance and Repression -- China: the Personal and the Political -- Khrushchev and Nuclear Weapons -- The Tipping Point? The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Cold War Frameworks -- 6 Reflections on the Origins of the Cold War -- Shapes -- The Cold War Crystallizes -- The End of the Beginning -- 7 The Cold War Then and Now: Landscapes and Shadows -- The Importance of History -- Ideology -- Structures and Agents -- Modern Resonances -- A Wider View? -- Guide to Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.