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A new look at the origins of the Cold War, based in part on the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: American Meets Russia, 1941-1961: A Case Study The Troubled Partnership: The Bear and the Eagle in World War II The Postwar Scene (1945-53): Cold War and Things The Eisenhower Years: Nothing Fundamental Has Changed Babylon Revisited Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

ROGER S. WHITCOMB is Professor of International Relations/Foreign Policy Studies and Director of International Studies at Kutztown University. A widely published specialist in Russian-American relations, his latest book is The American Approach to Foreign Affairs: An Uncertain Tradition (Praeger, 1998).

Reviews

"Professor Whitcomb makes a valuable contribution to a clearer understanding of the conduct of both Russia's and America's decision-makers during the Second World War and the years immediately thereafter....The central thesis of his book is a valuable one, namely, that the impasse was a product of mutual antagonisms, originating in misperceptions, misunderstandings, and mistrust of one another's motives."-From the Foreword by Ambassador A. Dobrynin Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United States of America