The History of the Cold war: A Comparative Perspective

 

Overview

COLD WAR HISTORIOGRAPHY

McCauley, "Set the Scene"

Traditionalists:

[George F. Kennan] Mr. X., "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Foreign Affairs 12 (1947), 566-582.

C. Ben Wright, "Mr. `X' and Containment" Slavic Review, 35 March 1976), 1-31.

Hans J. Morgenthau, In Defense of the National Interest (New York: Knopf, 1951),

Louis J. Halle, The Cold War as History (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), and

Vojtech Mastny's, Russia 's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941-1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979)

and

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

 

Revisionists:

William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: Delta, 1962--First Published 1959).

Walter LaFeber, America , Russia , and the Cold War, 1945-1966 (New York: Wiley, 1967).

Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 ( New York : Harper & Row, 1972

Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth (New York: Knopf, 1995)

Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965).

 

Anti-Revisionists

 

 

Post-Revisionists:

John Lewis Gaddis in "The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War," Diplomatic History 7 (Summer 1983),

 

 

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