We Now Know : Rethinking Cold War History (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
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Was the Cold War inevitable? Was there an international communist conspiracy? Did Castro and Khrushchev beat Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis? After combing through a mass of declassified and previously unavailable documentation to reconsider the collision of the American and Soviet empires, Yale professor Gaddis replies in the affirmative. Given Josef Stalin's convictions, the Cold War was inescapable: it is the choices that each side made that prove fruitful for historical research, and not the mere fact of the war, as Gaddis neatly demonstrates. The American empire--Gaddis's term--prevailed because, he says, "democracy proved superior to autocracy in maintaining coalitions," and not necessarily because of any technological or economic advantage. Gaddis dispels several misconceptions and urges that students of Cold War history should foremost "retain the capacity to be surprised."
The New York Times Book Review, Priscilla Johnson McMillan
John Lewis Gaddis, the respected dean of cold war historians.... It seems fair to ask whether this book has come out too soon. True, something can be said for an established scholar's making an early attempt at synthesis, at relating what is already known to newly discovered materials. Still, a book that deals mainly with the Stalin and Khrushchev years might have been delayed ...
We Now Know : Rethinking Cold War History (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
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