TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Hugh
TI  - Armed truce: the beginnings of the cold war, 1945-46 
SN  - 068911740X :
AV  - D843 .T419 1987
U1  - 909.82/4 19
PY  - 1987///, c1986
CY  - New York
PB  - Atheneum
KW  - World politics
KW  - 1945-1955
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Peace
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [574]-642; 1: Despotism and ideology -- Stalin's "election" -- National Sovietism -- The Vozhd -- Homo staliens -- Russia in 1946 -- Stalin's international policy -- 2: The west -- The coming of entangling alliances -- The new Americans: Truman, Leahy, Byrnes -- The new Americans II: officials, friends, cronies -- The legacy of Roosevelt -- Anglo-Saxon relations -- 3: Disputed lands -- Far away countries: eastern Europe; Poland and Czechoslovakia -- Nations of the Danube: Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria -- Heirs of the Turkish empire: Yugoslavia and Albania -- Baltic harbours: Finland, the Baltic states, East Prussia -- The heart of Europe: Germany and Austria -- Gardens of the west: France, Italy and Spain -- The "northern tier": Greece, Turkey and Persia -- The east: China, Japan, Korea and Indo-China -- 4: A professor's dream -- The "Manhattan project" -- The Soviet weapon; and first steps in "atomic diplomacy" -- 5: World's apart -- The road to Fulton: Kennan's telegram -- Fulton and Churchill -- Denouement in Persia -- "Patience and firmness"; or, "strength without ostentation" -- Conclusion to the armed truce
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