Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War - Softcover

Taubman, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393301303 ISBN 13: 9780393301304

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983

Synopsis

“Succeeds in evoking some sobering parallels to the present decline of détente. . . . One of [Taubman’s] most important contributions, in fact, is his well-documented argument for regarding the Cold War not as the unique product of World War II and a paranoid Soviet dictator, but as the result of aims and tactics that persist to this day.” ―Robert Taylor, New Leader

How and why did the Cold War arise out of wartime entente? Here, in a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of détente that Stalin abandoned reluctantly only after the Western powers did. Stalin, seen here as cautious and even conservative, viewed America as hostile and devious. His détente was designed to undermine Western interests.

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From the Back Cover:

How and why did the Cold War arise out of wartime entente? Here, in a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of detente that Stalin abandoned reluctantly only after the Western powers did. Stalin, seen here as cautious and even conservative, viewed America as hostile and devious.

About the Author:

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0393301303
• ISBN 13: 9780393301304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304