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Myths of the Cold War
Amending Historiographic Distortions
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2014
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Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The “present interest” motivation in Weeks's analysis is gaining a clear understanding of the bi-polar, $4 trillion, nuclear-war-threatening standoff that lasted over 40 years after World War II until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Without such knowledge and understanding of this dangerous conflict, any future encounter of the cold-war type with another nation-state is liable to be construed in confusing ways just as the U.S.-Soviet Cold War was. The consequence of such misunderstanding in the historiographic sense as well as in policy-making at the highest level is that the populations of the contending powers will have distorted conceptions of the reasons for the confrontation. The result of this, in turn, is skewed tendentiousness that masks concrete, underlying causes of intense inter-state contention.
Practical benefits thus flow from an unprejudiced analysis of the past Cold War with Communist Russia. This understanding can help prevent a future conflict, such as one with Communist China, which some reputed sinologists are currently predicting, as well as one with post-Soviet Russia. Conversely, if a new cold war is imposed on the West, a clearer understanding of the post-World War II archetypical Cold War will be edifying.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8969-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8970-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
149
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Preface No access
Chapter One: Introduction: Distorted Cold War Historiography No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter Two: Cold War Basics No access Pages 19 - 32
Chapter Three: The Myth of “Ideological Irrelevance” No access Pages 33 - 54
Chapter Four: Fallacy of Stalin’s “Defencist” Security No access Pages 55 - 96
Chapter Five: Cold War Clash Over a Postwar World No access Pages 97 - 108
Chapter Six: Current Russian Texts on the Cold War No access Pages 109 - 116
Appendix I: Myths of the Cold War No access Pages 117 - 120
Appendix II: Molotov’s and Stalin’s Electoral Speeches No access Pages 121 - 126
Appendix III: Soviet Communist Party Secretary Andrei Zhdanov’s “Two-Camp” Cold War Speech, January 16, 1948 No access Pages 127 - 130
