The Cold War, Part I

Websites and Resources:

The CIA's Analyses of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991.

Documents Related to the Cold War, 1946-1951

Case Study: The German Question and the Cold War

The Soviet Perspective and intervention:

Vladislav Zubok and Constantine V. Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War (Harvard UP, 1996), 1-7

Jian Chen, Mao’s China and the Cold War (UNC Press, 2001), 17-49.

East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969, by Christian F. Ostermann
Cold War in Asia  - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution

 Mao on Sino-Soviet Relations: Two Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador - Odd Arne Westad   - Cold War in Asia  - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution
 
Soviet Reactions to the Sino-Soviet Border Rift, introduction and translations by Elizabeth Wishnick - Cold War in Asia  - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution
 
The Cold War in Asia: Khabarovsk Conference Held on Russian Far East, by David Wolff
Cold War in Asia  - Cold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution
 
The Emerging Disputes Between Beijing and Moscow: Ten Newly Available Chinese Documents, 1956-1958, introduction, translations, and annotations by Zhang Shu Guang and Chen JianCold War International History Project - Smithsonian Institution
 
The Soviet Foreign Ministry Appraisal of Sino-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Split - Mark Kramer   - Cold War International History Project- Smithsonian Institutite

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Soviet intervention: A History in documents

Uprising in East Germany, 1953 Shedding light on a major Cold War flashpoint 

The Chinese Civil War:

Chinese Civil War Overview US Military Academy at West Point

Chinese Civil War Map

Handbook for the Chinese Civil War  - Naval War College

Republican China - University of Maryland

People's Republic of China - University of Maryland

Deng Xiaoping and the Cold War  -  Cold War International History Project Bulletin 10 -  March 1998 - PDF

Videos:

The Cold War - CNN 12 Episodes,

Are We Winning Mommy? America in the Cold War (1986), 87 Min.

Post-war hopes, cold war fears, Segment from the television program: A Walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers, episode 12 (1983), 60 Min.

The atomic cafe [videorecording] / the Archives Project ; produced and directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty (2002) 88 Min.

Face to face with communism [videorecording] / U.S. Dept. of Defense.  published   Chicago, Ill. : International Historic Films, (1984) 26 Min.

Books and Articles:

What Kind of World did the US Want in 1945? How did that conflict with the Soviet Union?

Henry Luce, "The American Century," Life Magazine, 1941

Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, "American Capitalist Expansion," in Paterson and McMahon, eds., The Origins of the Cold War, 3rd Edition; pp. 14-22.

John Lewis Gaddis, "Soviet Unilateralism and the Origins of the Cold War," and Thomas Paterson, "An Exaggerated Threat and the rise of American Globalism," in Griffith and Baker, eds., Major Problems in American History Since 1945, (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2001); 96-118.

Melvyn Leffler, "America's National Security Policy: A Source of Cold War Tensions," in Paterson and McMahon, eds., The Origins of the Cold War, 3rd Edition; pp. 73-92.

Michael Hunt and Stephen Levine, "Revolutionary movements in Asia and the Cold War," in Melvyn Leffler and David S. Painter (eds.), Origins of the Cold War: An International History.

David Reynolds, "The European Dimension to the Cold War," in Melvyn Leffler and David S. Painter (eds.), Origins of the Cold War: An International History

Cold War Origins

Ambrose, Stephen, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, 4th rev. ed., NY, 1985.

 Gaddis, John, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, NY, 1997.

 Hixson, Walter, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961, NY, 1997.

 Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World they Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy, NY, 1986.

 Hogan, Michael, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, NY, 1998

 Kolko, Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954, NY, 1972.

 Leffler, Melvyn, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War, Stanford, 1991.

LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996, 8th ed., NY, 1997.

 McCormick, Thomas, America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War, Baltimore, 1989.

Offner, Arnold, Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953, Stanford, 2003

 Zubok, Vladislav Martinovich, and Konstantin Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev, Cambridge, MA, 1996.

 Chang, Gordon H., Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972, Stanford, 1990.

 Chen Jian, China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation, NY, 1994.

Chen Jian, Mao's China and the Cold War, Chapel Hill, 2001

 Schaller, Michael, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia, NY, 1985.

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