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03762aam a2200373 i 4500 001 266F1912A36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230114020400 008 130808s2014 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013027455 020 $a 0739181858 (cloth) 020 $a 9780739181850 (cloth) 035 $a (OCoLC)855507142 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a DJK50 $b .I46 2014 082 00 $a 947.0009/045 $2 23 245 00 $a Imposing, maintaining, and tearing open the Iron Curtain : $b the Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945-1989 / $c edited by Mark Kramer and ViÌt Smetana. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Lexington Books, $c [2014] 300 $a xviii, 563 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The Harvard Cold War studies book series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Central Europe and the onset of the Iron Curtain -- Stalin, Soviet policy, and the establishment of a communist bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1949 / Mark Kramer -- The United States and Eastern Europe, 1943-1948 / Michael F. Hopkins -- Concessions or conviction? Czechoslovakia's road to the Cold War and the Soviet bloc / ViÌt Smetana -- Hungary's role in the Soviet bloc, 1945-1956 / LaÌszloÌ Borhi -- Stalin, the split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet East European efforts to reassert control, 1948-1953 / Mark Kramer -- Austria, Germany, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Rolf Steininger -- Neutrality for Germany or stabilizing the Eastern Bloc? New evidence on the decision-making process of the Stalin note / Peter Ruggenthaler -- Part II. The German question and intra-bloc politics in the post-Stalin era -- The Berlin Wall: looking back on the history of the wall twenty years after its fall / Hope M. Harrison -- The German problem and security in Europe "Hindrance or catalyst on the path to 1989-1990" / Oliver Bange -- Germany and East-Central Europe, 1945-1990: the view from London / Anne Deighton -- The German question as seen from Paris / Georges-Henri Soutou -- Cold War, deÌtente and the Soviet bloc: the evolution of intra-bloc foreign policy coordination, 1953-1975 / Csaba BeÌkeÌs -- Part III. The role of East-Central Europe in ending the Cold War -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and the revolutions of 1989: U.S. myths versus the primary sources / Thomas Blanton -- Moscow and Eastern Europe 1988-1989: a policy of optimism and caution / Alex Pravda -- The opening of the wall, Eastern Europe, and Gorbachev's vision of Europe after the Cold War / Svetlana Savranskaya -- Pulling the rug: East-Central Europe and the implosion of East Germany / Bernd Schaefer -- The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer -- Part IV. Long-term perspectives on the Cold War and its end -- Nuclear weapons and the Cold War in Europe / David Holloway -- Why did the Cold War last so long? / Mark Kramer -- The end of the Cold War as a non-linear confluence / Richard Ned Lebow -- Conspicuous connections: 1968 and 1989 / Oldrich Tuma -- 1989 in historical perspective: the problem of legitimation / Silvio Pons -- The end of the Cold War and the transformation of Cold War history: a tale of two conferences, 1988-1989 / James G. Hershberg. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Politics and government $y 1945- 650 0 $a Cold War. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Relations $z Soviet Union. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Relations $z Europe, Eastern. 700 1 $a Kramer, Mark. 700 1 $a Smetana, ViÌt, $d 1973- 830 0 $a Harvard Cold War studies book series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020024252.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=266F1912A36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search